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“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips FaH Where They May.”
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XII. NO. 13
VIENNA. GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
ITherever yon are fhls time of year,
0, my lost love, who was fal3e as fair.
When the cry of the whippoorwill falls on
your ear,
And the mown hay scents the air,
l know you must think of the night westoo J
Under the syacnmore tree alone.
While our veins ran riot with life's warm
flood,
And my heart made its passion known—
l'oti must think how I called you my love
mv own,
Wherever you are,
Wherever you are on nights like this,
Likesweet in your gall, or like gallin your
wine,
nnual at the Chandler farm. The
deacon still offered his accustomed
prayer, only there was no Tom to
make fan of him, for since that
night Tom Chandler had not been
seen. Deacon Chandler was still wait
ing for his opportunity and still won
dering, too, how a chance so earnestly
desired wns so long withheld. Others
all about him were doing great things
toward building up the kingdom, yet,
search and wait as he would, nothing
ever came in his way.
So the time went on for eight or ten
years, until one day Deacon Chandler
awoke suddenly to the fact that his . . T ,,
wife was slowly dying. His lore for ; f ost common rn New Jersey, and least
i Irequent in \ lrginia.
turned out right, but the chances for
that had been so few and for another
and more painful one so many that he
could only thank God that he had
taken into his own hands the most
successful woifcing out of Deacon
Chandler’fi opportunity.—New York
Mercury.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
There are electrij railways in New
Zealand.
Doctor E. M. Hale, the elimotolo'
gist, states that Bright’s disease is
his wife was one of the things that no
Tou must taste that elinglng and tender kiss, one doubted, and when he noticed how
T’—t first mad kiss of mine,
frequent in \ trginia.
Experiments made at a cancer ho-
How timid ^jou were, and how fond yon I to her at once in an unusually anxious
i way.
IIow you trembled and clung 'twixt your
Jove and fright
IViien you heard a bird in the sycamore stir,
And I gathered you olose and tight!
God! but it must all haunt you to-night,
Wherever you are.
Wherever you are, you must recall
How the young moon rose a3 I held you
there—
How I watched a star from midsky fall,
And my wish took the form of a prayer.
“Whatoveryou ask will come true,"
dou said, with that smile that ensuared all
pale and thin she had become he spoke j P ital in New York have convinced the
’ physicians that the virus of erysipelas
injected into cancerous tumors causes
them to disappear.
In the museum at Cambridge. Eng-
I land, is the skeleton and staffed skin
of an adult hybrid between a lion and
J a tigress. This, with several distinct
: litters by different parents, was born
| in the same menagerie.
“Is there anything I can do for you,
wife?” he asked.
“No—I don’t know as there is.”
‘ ‘Is there anything you want ?”
Her eyes filled with tears.
“Shall I tell yon?”she whispered.
“Yes—do.”
“I want my boy. I w ant Tom to
come back to me. He was my first
born, and I cannot forget how I loved
him when he was a baby in my arms.
Yes, and when he grew to be a boy I
And yet you were speaking a lie, you knew— ! ^ ovc ‘^ him still, and my love could have
And I never shall pray again. ! saved him. But you—you were so
You must think of the wrong you did me I c °ld with him. Conscious
Sadly and firmly she told him then It appears that the camel doe.s a
the whole pitiful story. ; good deal of harm in Egypt, by eating
the trees as they are growing up.
Already the massive Cairo camel is i
type distinct from other camels, sur
passing all in its cumbrous, massive
proportions.
Wherever you are.
-Ella W. Wilcox, in Frank Leslie's Monthly.
HIS OPPORTUNITY.
BS LOUIS LANZK.
Some investigations carried out by
Doctor Alexander A. Houston, of Ed
inburgh, respecting the nnmber of
of your own virtue, you could not bacteria in the soil at different depths
pity his infirmity and bear with him, ! from the surface go to prove that the
as I would have done. No, hear me j micro-organisms become less and less
out,’ as he would have spoken. “You abundant as the depth from the sur-
have always prayed—prayed to the | f ace increases
Lord for some opportunity to do some I Extensive draught will cftU8e the
great good, and when it was here in j gnail to elose its d ° 0 to nt the
your own son, you neglected it. Yon j ev rfttion o{ itB bodily moisture and
prayers since he
was converted .and j
began to pray in
the little wooden I
HERE was one sen-i might have been more gentle; you , - _
teuce that Deacon ! might have led him out of his evil ways, * r,V . , RS - , • 0 an , ... s are s
Chandler had never but you would not, and all these years ?essed of astonishing vitality, regain-
omitted from liis my heart has been aching for a sight ln g activity after-having been frozen
/ ,, , , 8 „ ° ] in solid blocks of ice, and enduring a
or mr son—my eldest born. . ,, . . , ,■ , .
, , , . , I degree of heat for weeks which daily
I lie words came sharp and fast now 1 ■ - J
and ended in a smothered sob.
The deacon was surprised. Never
church ou the hill, before had his wife questioned his wis-
Tt wns this: “Send dom or censured him for what he did.
But the mother love so strong in her
had welled up and filled her heart to
overflowing, and she must be heard.
Strauge as it may seem, his prayers . Her words had their effect, too, for year’s growth may, therefore, number
hod never been answered. The sea- Deacon Chandler saw, as he had never 60 > 000 - There is no instance of simi-
sons rolled around with their aceus- j seen before this, his mistake and the lar fruitfulness in any other plant
tinned regularity and brought increase | hypocrisy of the fervent prayer he had
to his flock and plenty to his store- j so often breathed out to His Heavenly
Irmses, and as yet nothing unusual had Father when he was an unmerciful—
happened. Still the worthy man nay, even cruel parent. How he had
to Thy servant, oh,
Lord, some great
opportunity for doing good.”
crisps vegetation.
The common purslane, which grows
anywhere as a weed, produces more
seeds than any other plant. One seed
pod, by actual count, has 3000 seeds,
and as a plant will sometimes have
twenty pods, the seeds from a single
prayed on until “Deacon Chandler
opportunity” had come to be almost a
byword with not a few of the younger
members of the congregation. And
when he arose at each meeting, and
with bowed head uttered the familiar
petition, his eldest son, Tom, away in
t he back part of tho room, was mim
icking his father, to the intense amuse
ment of a few unruly hoys who were
his companions.
Tam Chandler was a bad boy. There
was no denying that. Tom’s mother
was the last one to admit it, but even
she was forced to own sorrowfully that
“Thomas was a little wild.” Deacon
Chandler in his own family laid down
the strictest rules, and they were fear
fully followed by all except the eldest.
Tom was incorrigible. He chafed un
der the home restraint, and his natu
ral wildness found vent in various
petty misdemeanors, which soon won
for him a bad name in his native vil
lage. In vain his mother besought
him to mend his ways; in vain his
father placed him under closer re
straint and visited upon him more dire
penalties. It was no avail.
One night Deacon Chandler entered
his home with a stern look on his face
that boded no good for whoever the
culprit might be. His wife looked up
from her sewing as he entered.
“Where’s Tom?" he said shortly.
“1 don’t know,” was the reply.
“Why—is anything the matter?”
Before he could reply the door
opened again and the subject of their
conversation came in. He was a tall,
well-built boy of eighteen, but his 1
prayed for an opportunity of doing
good, and when it came let it pass—
nay, threw it away willfully. He was a
man of few words, aud- those he spoke
now carried healing balm to the heart
of the woman who had so loved her
wayward bov.
‘ ‘I have been wrong, wife. Can yon
forgive me?”
“Oh, freely!” she answered him.
He read in her wistful eyes the un
spoken wish and answered it.
“I will find our boy and bring him
home,” he said.
“And no matter how sinful he is or
how he has fallen you will bring him
home to his mother?”
“I will. ” And she wns satisfied.
To those who wish to learn all things
are plain, and Deacon Chandler traced
his son, by constant effort, to a small
Western city. Of the fact that he was
there he became convinced, but could
learn nothing more. A week found
him standing in a railway station of
the city of C., inquiring of the by
standers if they knew Thomas Chan
dler.
“Know Thomas Chandler? Waal, I
reckon I do, ” drawled one loafer who
was warming himself in the sun.
“Canyon tell me where I can find
him?” asked the deacon.
“Waal, I kinder reckon about this
time er day he's ter be found over to
the Senter House. ”
Having learned where the Senter
•House was, Deacon Chandler walked
slowly up the main street of the well-
kept western city. How should he
find Tom? He inferred, from the
youthful face was already marked with j manner of the man with whom he had
the lines of dissipation and in his | j ns j talked, that his son was still the
handsome brown eyes there was a dare- i w ii d young man he had turned from
den! expression that spoke volumes to j borne so many weary years ago. But
it did not matter. He had promised
one who understood it.
“Well, sir?” was Deacon Chandler’s
greeting.
“Well?” came in insolent tones from
the boy, who remained standing.
“You nre found out.”
The stern notes of the father rang
iu the mother’s ear like a deathknelL
“You may as well confess.”
‘ ‘There is no need if you have found
me out,” replied the boy defiantly.
“Perhaps you would like me to tell.
Are you proud that you nnd your gang
have been detected stealing fruit from
Mr. Dean's orchard, and that unless I
settle you will be arrested? Cau you
offer any excuse for removing the gates
from half a dozen houses in town and
making a bonfire of them in my
orchard lot?”
growing in thi: country.
The Bible fixes the creation of life
in successive periods, the oreatioo ot
the higher order of animals in the last
period, aud immediately before the
appearance of man. According to
Moses, the order in which living things
appeared was: Plants, fishes, fowl,
land animals and man. Science, from
a study of fossils in the rock founda
tions, has independently arrived at
the same conclusions.
Telephonemeter is the new word
naming an instrument to register the
time of each conversation at the tele
phone from the time of ringing up the
exchange to the ringing-off signal.
Such a system would reduce rentals of
telephones to a scale according to the
service, instead of a fixed charge to a
business firm or occasional user alike.
The instrument has been constructed
at the invitation of the German tele
phone department and is to control
the duration of telephone conversa
tions and to total the time.
Space for a fort on a hill near Lon
don is being cleared of tree stumps by
au electric root grubber or stump
puller. The dynamo for supplying
the current is aboat two miles from
the hill. The current is taken by over
head wires on telegraph poles to the
motor on the grubber carriage. By
means of belting and suitable gearing
the motor drives a capstan upon which
are coiled a few turns of wire rope. A
heavy chain is attached to the tree
roots, and as the rope exerts its force
the roots come up quietly one after
the other.
IVhat Every Man is Worth.
An interesting exhibit at the Na
tional Museum shows the physical in
gredients which go to make up the
average man, weighing 154 pounds,
says the American Analyist. A large
glass jar holds the ninety-six pounds
the mother—aud then was not here his of water which his body contains. In
opportunity? He would see that he i other receptacles are three pounds ol
grasped it now and would save liis son : white of egg, a little less than ten
at any cost. ; pounds of pure glue—without which
His meditations were-eut short by ! it would be impossible to keep body
' 1 and soul together—434 pounds of fat,
8r pounds of phosphate of lime, one
pound of carbonate of lime, three
ounces of sugar and starch, seven
ounces of flouride of calcium, six
ounces of phosphate of magnesia and
TRANSPORTING TREASURE,
HOW SILVER AND GOLD ARE SENT
FROM POINT TO POINT.
ver handled between Washington anj
New York or Baltimore or Pittsburg.
From St. Louis or Colorado the ex
press company would receive $4 for
! every SI000 handled. If Congress
Single Shipments of Millions—Pre- j should attempt to put the 90,000,000
WIND AND WAVE.
cautions Taken In Handling Large
Amounts—Cost of Transportation.
'HEN the financial strin-
w
silver dollars now in the treasury
Sunni Carolina.
vaults into circulation by shipping
them through the country the express
, , , 1 company would receive at least §90,
geney began to be ***; J Q00 for handling them. A year ago,
ous v et e reeeip s o j w ] ien theTres-oUrvDepartment shipped
the express company winch £20,000,000 in gold from San Fran-
handles the Governments treasure in | cisco ^ York, - t won]d have had
transit fell oft rapidly. Now the tnisi- .
ness has nicked nn a little because the ! to 1 >B - V thd ex P re3 * company §60,320
ness nas picked up a little, because tne foJ . the haal at cont ract rates. But
Treasury Department is hurrying out . Sftn Franei8co is ont3ide the contraet
Natrona 1 bank notes to be put into j territ of the United States Express
circulation so as to relieve as much as r , __ , ,, ... ■
•x x g n imi Company, and the Treanurv Depart
possible tne scarcity of small bills. ; ' ’ ,, ; . j ,
mi • xt i- , , , • • i ment sent the gold as “registered
Xhis National bank currency is “in- ! , ,
i , ,, v mail at a cost oi a Jittle less than
complete when it leaves the Treasury $2500
Department, for it lacks the signatures i v L , . . , •
of the President and Cashier of the The bl «» est 9Q1 i >melu
bank which is to issue it. Nevertheless
it is classed with the completed cur
rency issued by the Government, and
if the express company should lose any
of it in transit it would have to make
good the loss, just as though it had
lost coin or silver certificates. The
banks pay the same rate for the ship
ment of this currency as they would
for National bank notes. As custom-
currency
handled by the United States Express
Company for the Government was
815,000,090 shipped from Washington
to New York four years ago. It was
in hills of large denomination aud
they were packed in two small boxes,
j For this haul the express company re-
I ceived §2250. The largest gold ship
I ment handled at one time was $7,000,-
000 taken from Philadelphia to New
ers of Uncle Sam, though, thev pay a £ ork “ bttle ?. lore , thal ‘ »/ear ago.
small rate for handling the money. In j J T ”'
some eases it is less than one-fifth of j P r ^ s company received $3501.
gold was stored m two safes which
,, , 7 were sent in a special ear under heavy
the express company would pav. , ^ 7 , ,
The contract for handling the money E T er { effort maile to kee ^
shipped hr the Government east of j tko ° f sh, P“ ent . 14 , seore . 4 ,
T,, V • , ,, i t- -x i x- fear of train robberv is always in tho
Utah is held by the United Express . . „
n -ci m t»i ii i. • minds oi the officials of the express
Company. E. T. Platt, who is a son
of ex-Senator Patt, of New York (the
President of the company), is in charge
of the company’s Government service.
He has charge of it ever since the
United States Company took the con
tract away from the Adams Express
Company more than fonr years ago.
The Adams Company received twenty-
five cents a §1000, while the United
States Company receives only fifteen
cents a §1000 in most of the Territory
which it covers. This rate is for cur.
rency. That is what the Treasnry De
partment ships in the greatest quantity.
eonqjauy. The shipment of these large
amounts is what makes the contract of
the express company profitable. They
bring the aggregate of money handled
by the express company up to fully
§200,000,000 a year. The United
States Express Company has not lost
anything on its contract with the Gov
ernment yet. But eternal vigilance is
the price of its security.—Washington
Star.
WISE WORDS.
The rate for silver and gold is much ; The real wise man never makes the
higher. | same mistake twice.
For this fifteeen cents the express I The justice that a wicked mau never
company guarantees the safe delivery ! wants is the justice he deserves,
of the §1000 at the point of destina- j 1{ a womau is ever me rciless it is
* 10n ’ <• Y n™ UrSC ’ 0I \ ? , sm ” e skl P‘ I when she gets a mouse in a trail,
ment of §1000 we would lose money,
the gilded sign directly in front of
his eyes and he saw in large letters Sen
ter House. He was almost ashamed to
ask this gentlemenlv fellow about his
erring son, but he did.
“Iam a stranger here, sir, ” he be
gan. “Can you tell me where I can
fiud Thomas Chandler?”
“Yes, sir,” answered the brisk clerk.
Then lie turned to a boy who stood
near nnd said, “Go and find Mr.
Chandlex-. ”
The bov sped away on his errand
and Deacon Chandler waited. Then
Mrs. Chandler looked hurriedly up [ie heard steps, a man's surprised
at her son. voice called, “Father,” and he
“Oh, Tom, it isn't so? Say it isn't j looked up and saw his son. But where
said Mr. Platt, talking about the Gov
ernment service a few days ago. “Even
in handling large quantities of money
there is so small a margin of profit
that a single big robbery would wipe
out all that we could make under our
contract in years. Up to this time wo
have lost only §8000. Part of this
went in a robbery of a part of the con
tents of two packages out West aud
the remainder in the robbery of a sack
not far from Washington. In both
cases the work of the robber was so
earefully concealed that the packages
were accepted by the Treasury De
partment, which gave us a clean re
ceipt for them in each case. Of course
we made good the loss when the pack
ages were opened and the money was
missed.”
Small packages of money are
shipped in bags. Large quantities of
money going between big terminal
points are put in stationary safes,
which are bolted to the floors of the
express cars. These safes are usually
not opened, from one end of the route
to the other. No one can open them,
because the handle is taken from the
door when the car starts on its jour
ney, and with this handle goes the
dial of the combination lock. Expert
safe robbers have means of getting
into combination locks; and of course
it would be possible, by collusion, for
the messenger to learn the combina
tion and so be able to open the safe in
transit. But a locked safe, without a
dial or a handle, is a puzzle which
has baffled safe robbers up to this j
time.
Most of Uncle Sam’s money is
shipped in stationary safes. Nothing
has ever been lost in shipments from
the Treasury Department or any of
its branches. The losses are nsuallv
The greatest trouble is easier to bear
than the know., guilt of one sin.
How we all admire the widom of
those who come to us for advice.
If happiness in this life is vour ob
ject, don’t try too hard to get rich.
There is such a thing as trying to
live on blessings and starving to death.
When a mail decides to say good bye
to his sin, one look at the cross kills it.
Bad men do right only because they
have to; good men, because they love
to.
No man wants to he a saint until
he finds out what it means to be a sin
ner.
The man who rides a hobby is al
ways complaining that the world is too
slow.
The lean pig is the one that squeals
the most. Let the faultfinder make a
note.
People who blow their own horns
seldom furnish good music for other
folks.
People who have to make a long
reach to pick up the cross find it
heavy.
It is hard for some men to believe
that a sin can be black as long as it
pays well.
A self-made man spoilo his work
every time he opens his mouth to
praise himself.
There are spots on the sun, and yet
some people expect a twelve-year-old
| boy to be perfect.
| Some people never find oat that
. there is joy in giving, because they do
i not- give enough.—-Ram’s Horn.
Nineteen People Drowned—The Storm
at other Points.
The Electrical Horsewhip.
A wily horse trainer some time ago
from packages of mutilated currency provided the jockey who was riding
sent in for redemption. ; his horse, fora valuable eup, with a
Gold cannot be handled like cur- | complete electrical outfit for supply-
rency because of its great weight. At. mg current to a pair of electrical spurs,
the time that so much gold was going
a little ordinary table salt. Divided
up into his primary chemical elements
the same man is found to contain
ninety-seven pounds of oxygen—
enough to take up, under ordinary at
mospheric pressure, the space of a
room ten feet long, ten feet wide and
ten feet high. His body also holds
fifteen pounds of hydrogen, which,un
der the same conditions, would occupy
somewhat more than two such rooms
row of bottles contain the other ele
ments going to make up the man.
These are fonr ounces of chlorine. 31
ounces of flourine, eight ounces of
phosphorus, 3i ounces of brimstone,
21 ounces of sodium, 21 ounces of po
tassium, 1-10 of an ounce of iron, two
so. she implored. was the sinful, dissipated mau he had j as that described. To these must be
But he was silent. Then the deacon ; thought to see? Here was a well- ! added three pounds and thirteen
continued : dressed and prosperous-looking man, | ounces of nitrogen. The carbon in
“1 shall settle to save your brothers holding out his hand to him and bid- ! the corpus of the individual referred
aud sisters from disgrace, !jut from ding him welcome. And it was Tom. | to is represented by a foot cube oi
this night you are no son of mine. I That was the funny part of it. | coal. It ought to be a diamond of the
disown you. ‘'Come, lather, and he lead the old same size, because the stone is pure
A slight pallor spread over the boy’s man away to a private parlor and ; carbon, but the National Museum has
face as he opened his lips to reply. closed the door. “Don’t yon know not such a one in its possession. A
“All right, father. If you had dealt me, father? I would know you any
more gently with me I might have where.”
been a different boy now. I own that “Yes—but it’s so strange,” gasped
I took the apples and helped to burn the old mau.
the gates. But there, "he burst out- Tom laughed good natnredly.
suddenly, “what does it matter? I “Oh, you mean that I am not what
won't stay to disgrace the family any you expected to find? Well, hnrdlv,
longer. I’ve been ready to go for judging from early indications; but, ounces of magnesium aud three pounds
some time.” And he glanced around father—I must say it”—and the man's : and thirteen ounces of calcium. ~ Cal-
the^comfortable room contemptuously, eyes grew moist—“all that I am I cinni, at present market rates, is
owe to mother. ’ j worth §300 an ounce, so that the
“God bless her, Tom. ’ heartily re- j amount of it contained in one human
sponded his father. Then after a pause, j body has a money value of §18,300.
“Can you forgive me. my son, for my Few of our lellow citizens realize that
harshness?” they are worth so much intrinsieaHy.
‘There is no more for me to for-
you make him so much trouble. Ask give than you,” returned his son. “I
him to forgive you. I am sure he will have lived all these years to learn, and
if you will only try to be a better I think I may safely say now that I am
boy. ” an honest m»n. This house is mine—
“Never! ’ sternly interrupted the and, God willing, I moan in the future building, on South Front street, has a
deacon. “He is no son of mine, and to be au honor and not a disgrace to curiosity—a lock of hair that has
my house is no longer his home. Go! the old home.” grown to several times the lensrth it
Do yon hear?’ Bo, niter all, Deacon Chandler’s : was when severed from the head. It
“You need not tell me twice,” re- opportunity was a wasted one, for now was sent to her by a friend two years
turned the boy. “Good-bye, mother, there was no need of any effort on his ago, and was then only about l i inches
I’m going,” and befoie they realized part in his son’s ease, The opportun- 1 long. Since then it has grown con
it the eldest son had passed out of ity had come to him in his son’s youth ' stantly and is now over a foot long. It
home life forever. and he had neglected it. i is in vigorous growth and has a ljv$
After that life went pa about esj As it happened, everythin* had i look,—Nowbern (N, C.) Journal,
abroad a couple of months ago the
Treasury Department was shipping
about a million dollars in gold every
day from Washington to New York.
This gold weighed two tons to the
million. One of the portable safes,
holding about §200,000 in gold, w eighs,
when filled, 1500 pounds. These safes
were locked and sealed at the Treasury
Department. The portable safes have
The current was found to be an infin
itely more potent stimulus to the speed
of the horse than till simple steel
spur, and the horse won. A protest
was entered and tho jockey wa3 dis
qualified and the race forfeited on the
somewhat inconsistent ground of cru
elty. It seems doubtful whether such
an objection cau be brought against
the latest form of the horsewhip,
which is constructed so as to give a
When he finished speaking
mother’s hand was laid on his arm and
a mother's voice, pitiful in its sorrow,
said:
“Don’t go, Tom. Your father don't
mean it. He is very angry beeanse
Shorn Hair Keeps ou Growing.
Mrs. S. E. Credle, the clever keeper
of the boarding-house in the Howard
key locks. A strip of iron slips over 1 sli ” ht electric shock to the animal,
the key hole, and is fastened in place j The handle, which is made of cellu-
once with a piece of string, and once | contains a small induction coil
with a piece of wire. A lead seal is battery, the circuit being closed
used on the wire, and a green wax seal means of a spring push. The ex
on the string. ! tremity of the whip consists of two
rp . . ., , , , small copper- plates insulated from
To get at the key hole a messenger , eHch oth ™ ettc £ of which Ls provided
or a robber would have to break the , wjth ft tiny int xhe lat J are con _
seals or cut the string and the wire. . . i, A . A . • 1 ,
*jTj_ _ a* x ii x ii ° e , i i nected to the induct ion coil bv means
JLne tact that the sate has been f i « « • , . 7 *. *
. 3 u i . * . of a couple of fine insulated vires. As
tampered with would be plainly evi- ; V • • ^ T . - ,
, f, . , Y,. a means of surprising a sluggisn animal
dent to the next person handling it. . . ■ ,. x i , . i x .j
m, - . Al r.r.rx i. l- into doing his best work without the
The safe, with its §200,000 worth oi infliction of phvsical pain the electri-
gold, having been sealed, is boated ^ horsewhi ^ wdll bv U nv tehai , e a
with a fall and tackle into a “cage ^ g i adue k-New York fornmer-
express wagon—that is, a wagon with : ■ , ,7
wire sides. Anything that occurred | * ,
in the wagon would be plainly visible ! . _ . p
to persons passing on the street, and: ‘ augerous apei.
as the trips are made in broad day- i A German genius was very much dis
light there is no possibility of the j appointed lately when he applied for a
messenger in the wagon tampering ! patent on an invention of his to have
with his charge. Besides the messen- • the patent refused, and the mannfac-
ger who sits on the safe with a shot- | tore and sale of Lis invention forbid-
gun in his hand and a brace of re- I den. It is a paper so prepared that
volvers in his belt, there are two men ; any writing on it, made with any known
on the front of the wagoB, also fully j sort of ink, can be easilv and quickly
armed. The man in the wagon has r ■ erased by the simple application of a
shotgun of Belgian make, breech I moist sponge. The paper was made of
loading, the barrel sawed off so that j the ordinary ingrediettc, with, the ad
it can be used at elose action. The i dition of asbestos and parchment glne.
express company owns fifty of these j The paper pulp, after rolling, was im
Special dispatches from Georgetown,
S. C., state that the West Indian cy
clone left destruction in its path at
that place. At 2 o’clock on the morn
ing of the 13th the wind was blowing
sixty miles an hour and the tide cam e
all over the water front. At 10 o’clock
it was harder, the tide reaching a
height of ten inches above the mark of
the hurricane of August 27th. The
whole water front was from one
to fonr feet under water and thousands
of dollars worth of merchandise
was damaged. The schooner Prosper
ity was blown ashore on South island
and will be a total loss. Tho Clyde
steamer Creaton rode out the storm at
anchor at North island. The islanders
suffered greatly and at Magnolia beach
thirteen whites and six colored per
sons are known to have been drowned.
Tho tide there rose four feet in ten
minutes and the waves swept the
houses from their foundations and the
inmates to their death. Two men and
a little girl are the only ones saved
from a total of twenty-two. They got
on top of a small building and drifted
to the mainland.
AT WILMINGTON.
A Wilmington, N. C., special says:
The oldest inhabitant was forced to
admit that the terrific outburst of
wind and wave that swept through the
city surpassed any storm in his day
or generation. Friday night was
stormy. There were fitful showers
and violent gusts of wind tlict fore
tokened the furious gale Hut followed
early Saturday morning, and that in
creased as the day wore on until the
climax of the big blow was reached,
near midday.
The tide was the highest known even
in the memory of the oldest eesident,
beng sixteen inches above the high-
water mark registered and recorded in
1853, which had surpassed all previous
known records, it is believed, sineo
the deluge. Many business houses
and dwellings were flooded, and ship
ping sustained heavy damages. No
lives are reported lost. The total loss
the immediate section is about
§150,000.
The storm seemed to have spent its
force before it reached Savannah, Ga,
The city bore its usnal appearance
Friday morning, scarcely a tree or a
sign being out of place. The indica
tions before the storm reached the
city were that it would be fai more- se
vere than it was, as the wind at Titus
ville,Fla., on Wednesday, was fifty
six miles an hour and the swell on Ty-
bee bar was the heaviest that has been
seen in years. But outside of a fifty
mile an hour blow, which lasted for
some ten or twelve hours, nothing of
moment has happened as a -result of
the cyclone.
A STORM AT CHICAGO.
Dispatches from Chicago are to the
effect that the entire chain of lakes was
swept by a northwest gale whose se
venty has not been excelled for ten
years. That there a large loss of life
now seems certain, but it may be many
days before it is known just how many
sailors perished. Sixteen vessels
wrecked thus far reported. The gale
in the immediate vicinity of Chicago
was not so severe as further down the
lakes where the gale is said to have
blown frem fifty to seventy miles an
hour. The only loss of life definitely
reported as yet is that on the yacht
Enterprise. It is almost certain that
her crew were drowned.
IN NEW YORK.
In the vicinity of New York City
and along the coasts of Ohio, a good
deal of damage was done and some
vessels were wrecked but so far
heard, no lives were lost. Advices
from Buffalo state that the wind blew
there at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
Considerable damage was dono and
several yachts are ashore. -As far as
learned no lives have been lost.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Dun & Co.
HONORING CARDINAL GIBBONS
The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Episco
pacy Celebrated at Baltimore.
The grandest ceremonial of the
Catholic church that prelates, priests
and laymen have ever engaged in or
witnessed in this country took place
Wednesday in and about the cathedral
in Baltimore. The occasion was the
celebration of the twenty-fifth anni
versary of the elevation to the episco
pate of his eminence James Cardinal
Gibbons.
All of the archbishops in this coun
try, with perhaps a single exception,
and this particular archbishop had
written that he would be present;
nearly the entire court of bishops,
many monsignors and priests from far
beyond the province of Baltimore
were present to do honor to the jiri-
mate.
Every seat in the cathedral was fill
ed long before the services began,
i Solemn pontifical mass was celebrated
with all the elaborateness demanded
j by the ritual aud liturgy. Rev. Dr.
Rooker, vice rector of the American
college at Rome, read in the course of
I the service a congratulatory letter of
the holy father to Cardinal Gibbons.
Archbishop Corrigan preached the
j sermon.
At the conclusion of mass the arch
bishops, bishops, mbnsignors and dis-
: tinguished priests entered coaches and
were driven to the seminary of St. Sul-
spice, where a grand banquet was giv
en honor of the cardinal and his as-
j sociates of the episcopate.
Frost Cuts Off Late Cotton.
A Birmingham, Ala., special of
Tuesday says: It is estimated that
the frost which fell Sunday night and
killed late cotton will cut off the al-
Keport of Trade for the
Past Week.
R. G. Dun k Co.s weekly review
says the country has been waiting.
While the uncertainty has i revailed
men have not known what to do with
safety and so have done as little as
they could. Industries cannot always
wait, and in them an arrest of im
provement generally means some reac
tion. Merchants who have obligations
to meet cannot always wait, and for
some there has come misfortune. The
speculators and traders wait because
they have no substantial basis for a
jndgment
The volume of business transacted
increases some, because the long
er people go without clothing or
food aud other necessaries, the more
certain their demand is to revive.
Government crop reports have not
helped speculation, because they are
not in harmony with prevailing judg
ments. Wheat has weakened 1 l-4e,
though the government report would
indicate a yield of 39!,000,000 bush
els, so small as to warrant higher
prices. Western receipts for the week
have been 0,054,648 bushels against
9,361,979 last year, while Atlantic
exports have fallen off 621,961 bush
els against 1,909,123 last year.
Corn has advanced 1 1-4 cents,
pork products being unchanged,
but either would be much stronger if
men put full confidence in official es
timates. Oil has risen 1 cent and cof
fee is unchanged. Cotton stands just
where it did a year ago, in spite of a
report which some interpreted con
clusive proof of a yield far below that
of last year, but the enormns stock of
old cotton in sight here and abroad
would explain great hesitation in
the market, if official estimates were
accredited. Cotton goods show a gen
eral improvement in tone, though
weak in spots. The demand for woolen
goods is not a third of the usual mag
nitude, and sales of wool at the three
chief markets for the last week were
2,500,452 pounds against 7,099,600
last year.
The situation is a strange one which
perplexes the ablest dealers, and
though in dress goods a good demand
appears, the uncertainty as to men’s
goods, knit goods and carpets is as
great as if mouths had not elapsed,
with extraordinary narrow distribution
of products. Outside of New York
boot and shoe manufactories aro but
poorly employed and eastern ship
ments for the week were 34 per cent
below last year’s, but bright spots ap
pear in women’s shoes nnd in rubber
goods.
The failures for the past week num
ber 349 in the United States against
189 last year, and forty-two in Canada
against twenty-six last year. Eighteen
failures were in magnitude exceeding
§100,000 and eighty-four were over
§5,000 each, but less than §100,000.
The aggregate of liabilities in failures
the first week in October was only
§3,491,292, though the number was
large. The past week the liabilities
have apparently been increased.
TWO MEN.
One was a kiuc. ami a wide domain
He ruled as his sires hail done
A B v>den hovel, a lied of puic-
Eelonged to tne other one. .
The king was ill au 1 the world was sad—*
But the monarch languished, the monarch
died,
The beggar was sick unto death, bur ho had
No one to watch at liis low bedside.
Then under the minster tho king was laid,
While o'er tlim the marbles were piled ;
But a shallow grave in the fields was madc>
By careless hands, for Poverty's ohild.
But now there are those who profoundly de
clare,
If you opened the tomb and the grave,
You could not distinguish, whatever you.'
The dust of tho king an l the slave.
—Charles Noble Gregory.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
IS DR. GRAVES DEAD?
A Story Published in Denver That the
Authorities were Outwitted.
The Denver Itlews, in its Thursday's
issue, published a sensational article
to the effect that Dr. Graves,
the famous poisoner, who was sup
posed to have suicided in jail, is not
dead. It is maintained that a pine
log occupied tho coffin instead of a
body. The story is that Charles N.
Chandler, a wealthy citizen of
Thompson Center, Conn., arrived
in Denver Tuesday in company
with Stephen Morse, of the same town,
which is Dr. Grave’s old home and
where the body is supposed to have
been buried. These gentlemen told
the bote! proprietor where they stop
ped that Dr. Graves was not dead,
that the casket was opened at the
grave in Thompson Center, against
the protests of the widow, and found
to coutuin a pine log instead of a dead
body, and that the supposed dead
doctor is now enjoyiDg his liberty in
a foreign country.
A WRECKED BARK.
The Crew Rescued and Hie Wreck
Burned.
The steamship Saginaw, from Asna,
arrived at New York Thursday morn
ing and made the following report:
October 15th, latitude 29:20, longi
tude 72 :45, spoke German bark Ceres,
laden with cement, 77 days from Lon
don for Savannah, partly dismantled,
with six feet of water in her hold and
the crew unable to keep her free.
Took off Captain Herch, his wife and
crew of ten men. The captain reports
encountering a hurricane October
10th, during which he lost his main
and mizzen topmast;;, sprung the fore
mast head, stove the bulwarks, decks,
etc., and sprung a leak. The crew
were unable to free her. On leaving
the bark they set her on fire, fore and
aft, and when last seen she was burn
ing fiercely and was probably totally
destroyed.
AFTER THE HIGHBINDERS.
shotguns, and each messenger has one | mersed for a short time (from six to
in his car. j twenty-five seconds, according to the
When a wagon reaches the railroad thickness of the paper to be prepared ready short crop fully ten per cent
station the safe is lifted again by means from it; in concentrated sulphuric acid in the counties in north and middle
of the fall and tackle and put aboard I at twenty degrees, diluted with te-i to Alabama. The crop was already
the car. There is not much risk in I fifteen per cent of water. It was then twenty per cent short before frost
handling gold, because it weighs so j pressed between glass rollers, passed came,
much that a robber would have a pretty ■ successfully through water, ammonia
hard time getting away with it. But solution and a second time through
though the risk is not so great as in ! water, strongly pressed between rollers
handling currency, the express com- and dried on felt rollers, £.nd finally on
polished and heated metal rollers. The
finished article is said to be precisely
like ordinary paper. Its sale has been
prohibited on account of the misuse ta
pany receives fifty cents on §1000 for
transporting gold. Silver, which
weighs so much more than gold in pro
portion to its value, is still more ex-
pe&OTO in hauling. The express con* which it css he put,
A Whole Train C/ew Killed.
An accident to the Pennsylvania
limited at Wellsville, Ohio, Tuesday
morning, at 6:15 o’clock, resulted in
the death of the entire engine crew
and fatal injuries to three men who
occupied the baggage aud express car.
The limited ran into a freight train,
which was crossing tho main track.
A Big Scheme ou Foot to Send Them
-- Back lo China.
A San Francisco special says: The
Chinese Six Companies now appear to
be eager to take advantage of the
Geary act before the McCreary bill
becomes a law. The Six Companies
are anxious to get rid of the highbind
ers and worst criminal element among
the Chinese in San Francisco. To this
end the Six Companies are aiding the
police to arrest, convict and deport
highbinders. Tuesday sixty-two Chi
nese were arrested by the police as
vagrants. The agents of the Six Com
panies and police detectives inspected
the whole crowd at the city prison.
Fifteen of the culprits were released,
as they were found to be hard-working
Chinese. The remaining forty-seven
will be arrested under the Geary law
and an attempt made to deport them.
Democratic Negroes Issnc an Address.
The executive committee of the negro
national league has issued an address
urging the workingmen in New York,
Massachusetts, Virginia, Iowa and
Ohio to snpport the democratic ticket
in those states. The address attributes
the prevailing distress to the Sherman
law und the McKinley tariff and the
extravagance of the Reed oongress.
A good all-around man—The man
in the moon.
Penury is very often the unexpected
wages of the pen.--Pack.
Prosperous barbers are even shaving
checks now.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
For a spin on the road the proper
thing, of course, is a “top” buggy.—
Boston Courier.
A mau who is iu society and wauts
to keep in must be continually going
out. —Statesman.
Money may lie tight, but there’s no
reason for its getting paralyzed.—
Philadelphia Times.
All men are born equal—but soim
are born more equal to the emergency.
—World's Fair Puck.
The fellow who doesn't think nt all
usually sets up for a free thinker.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Silence is golden, but you have never
realized how golden until you have to
buy it.—Atchison Globe.
While vacation always begins with
a V it always ends with a scarcity of
them.—Baltimore American.
Some of theso banks are carrying
the early closing movement altogether
too far.—Baltimore American.
This is the season of the year in
which you can get what you do not
want real cheap. —Texas Siftings.
When a parliamentary division ends
!n a free fight both the eyes and noso
ire apt to have it.—Lowell Courier.
If you want to make sure your ad-
riee will be taken have it engraved ou
vour umbrella handle.—Troy Press.
If it could only be put up iu bottles
“general humidity” would make a fair
brand of glue.—Philadelphia Record.
Experience is a teacher rr.-v
And one whom none may sm»'J;
Sometimes she works with manners fair,
But mostly takes a club.
—Detroit Free Press.
The alligator grows as long as he
ives. And he sometimes lives as long
is ten or twelve feet.—Chicago Dis
patch.
“A well-earned rest,” said Fogg
when he was given the particulars of
iitixby’s cremation.—Boston Tran
script.
Johnnie—“Papa, are despots hap
py?” Pappa—“I don’t know. Ask
the hired girl.”—Kate Field’s Wash
ington.
Of course the report of the serious
illness of Queen Victoria is not true.
Her health is pledged too frequently.
—Boston Herald.
Proctor—“Well, it’s only a step
from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
Lenox—“Ah, if it were only a step
back again.”—Vogue.
The Eton jacket is one of the most
ibsurd-looking things iu the world—
before a pretty girl puts it on.—Shoe
and Leather Reporter.
The Baltimore police were paid iu
silver dollars last week. And yet silver
dollars for coppers is not a good ex
change.—Boston Globe.
Landlady—“Let me help you to the
Saratoga chips.” Mrs. Newboarder—
“No; I’ll try the toothpicks. They
seem to be of softer wood, I think.”
Ada—“Why does Clara speak of
George as ‘her intended?’ Are they
engaged?” Alice—“No; but she in
tends they shall be. ”—Brooklyn Life.
I dreamt I dwelt ia marble balls ;
I felt at ease, with life content,
Till fancy brought the landlord’s calls ;
He came, alas, to get the rent.
—Buffalo Courier.
Bridget—“There’s a man at the gate
with pigs’ feet, mum.” Mistress—
“Gracious, Bridget, send him around
to the dimo museum.”—New York
Recorder.
Beloved—“Papa says he sees no
reason why we shouldn’t be married.” <
Lover (ecstatically)—“Then he wasn’t
pinched in that last deal after all. ”—
Detroit Tribune.
“If there is any more of this oscu-
latory conviviality,” said the little
Boston girl at the children’s party,
much shocked, “I shall withdraw.”
—Chicago Tribune.
A lady reader wants to know if we
believe in cures by “layiug on hands.”
We do, madame, we do most fer
vently. But a slipper or pine shingle
is better. —Galveston News.
Policeman (to hand-organ man) —
“Have you a license to play? If not,
you must accompany me.” Signor
Monkania—“Witha pleasure; wiiat
will you sing?”—New York News.
We go to sleep these pleasant nights
Fanned by the cooling breeze ;
Along toward morning we wake up
Aud sneeze, and sneeze, and sneeze.
—Kansas City Journal.
Mae—“That Miss Jumper is dread
fully masculine in her ways.” “What
does she do?” Mae—“Oh, I’ve seen
her get off the car before it stopped,
without falling.”—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
How does the idea of a ‘corn ban
quet’ strike you, anyhow ?” inquired
the goose, coldly sarcastic. “A corn
banquet tills the bill,” clucked the old
hen, pecking away with all her might.
—Chicago Tribune.
•s
To Clean Engravings.
When steel engravings and prints
have become spotted and discolored,
this treatment restores them: Pour
some clear water into a basin big
enough to hold tho engravings
smoothly. Put some chloride of !ime
in a muslin bag and immerse it in the
water until quite a strong solution is
made. Then take it out and immerse ■
the engraving or print. Let it remain
until clean, then rinse in weak vinegaj
tad water. —New York World.