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. ; •• ' ' >■" u : ;v -\ ■ ■ TERMS, $1. Per Annnm. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XU. NO. 15 VIENNA. GA.. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER T, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. l A HAPPY MAH. We know p. truly happy man And ol him we must tell; ill* laughter sounds as pleasant As a boarder’s dinner tell, lie never says an angry word, 1 He always wears a smile And everybody loves him i For the goodness of his style. lie’s always brave and cheerful And is never looking blue, lie doesn't growl and grumble Hike some other people do, He doesn’t fry to run the world Upon a better plan, He takes things as he finds ’em As a happy person can. Aitbongh he is’nt wealthy. Ho don't worry for a oent; in poverty or riches He is equally content; He looks you squarely fn the eyes And firmly grasps your hand— And any act of meanness He can never understand. i IIe’g'never heard complaining And is “nervous” not at all j He's always glad to seo you And you like to have him call; > The birds are ever singing In his hoart forever light And puaceful aro his slumbers When he lays him down o’ night. in business he's successful For he’s always making friends ; Ilis home it is the sweetest And Us comfort never ends, His wife can't help but love him And his children do the same, Ills neighbors all respect him And are proud to spread his fame. The reason of his happiness (Which anyone can share) Wo think it right to mention For the sako of being fair ; This simple man is happier Than any kings or queens Because ho has tho courage To live within his means. —H. C. Bodge, in Chicago Sun. ■ MALVmFLETCflER. BY EMMA A. OPFER. HICH of yon boys is going after the now teacher ?” said Ephraim Olds. It was nn ex tremely informal meeting of tho West Cary school board, held in Ephraim Olds’s barn for con venience. The sons of two of the dl l' e c t o r s had dropped in. “Yes, one of yon boys has got to go,” Marcus Loring appended. ’‘Your dads are too old to be driving over the country after scbool-ma’ams.” “Where is she?” Wade Loring in quired, lazily. Wade, had “clerked it” in a larger down, and wore better clothes than any fellow in West Cary, and held a very complacent opinion of himself. “Lives down to Trenton,” his father responded. “And what does she look like?” Wade demanded. He was smokiDg a cigarette. “If she’s good-looking, you know, I might think of it.” “Pease hired her,” said Mr. Olds, . “and he’s the only one that’s seen her. ” Mr. Pease was looking at Wade Loring with shrewd eyes, which twinkled a little. “Wal,” he said, drily, “she ain’t much to look at. A leetle too tall in the first place, and kind o’ big-j’inted —yes, kind o’ bony. Don’t know as 1 can tell jest how she looks; I didn’t look at her no inore’n I could help. She ain’t no beauty. Beckon she’s nigh on to forty. Malvina Fletcher’s her name. ” “Ex-cuso me,” said Wade Loring, wilh a laugh. “You’ll have to con vey mv deep regrets to Malvina Fletcher, Burt, my boy.” lint Burt Olds followed him out of the barn, looking anxious. Ho stood in some awe of Wade—of his self-con fident air, his dressiness, his popu larity with the girls. “If one of us has got to go, Wade, you’d do me an immense favor”— he began. “I can’t do it, my boy,” said Wade, decisively. ‘ ‘Drive fourteen miles and fourteen miles back again with an old frump? That isn’t me!” “It will use up a day about,” Burt insisted, “and I’m so busy with my onions I can’t spare a day. If mv crop’B going to amount to anything, it’s got to be attended to right along. I know you aren’t busy just now—” “Have a cigarette?” said Wade. “Ho? Well, I can’t do it, Burt. Sorry, you know, but really I couldn’t.” And he sauntered away. Burt’s father joined him later in his faithfully-tended onion field, where Burt was pulling weeds. “Wade won't go, will he?” he said. “Wal, I’d go if I could, Burt, but I don’t know what a twenty-eight-mile drive would do to my rheumatism. 1 can’t stand riding lately, somehow.” “I’ll go, father,” Burt said cheer fully. He was a quiet, modest young fel low, who tried to do the right thing, and was not ashamed of having it seen that he tried to. He raised his handsome blue eyes and smiled at his regretful parent. “You’re a good boy, Burt,” said his father, warmly with bright, dark eyes and a vivid col oring, tripped out of the house, and shook hands with him in the friendliest way. “I was all ready, yon see,” she said ; and her quick smile made two distinct dimples. “Good-by, Tom!” She hugged and kissed a fourteen-year-old boy, who had brought out a big sat chel. “Good-by, mamma!” another warm embrace. “I’m coming home next Saturday on the morning train, and I’ll get back somehow. I’ll write to you before then. Good-by 1” Burt took the satchel, a.nd followed the affectionate family group down the walk. He felt dazed. He did not know exactly what he was doing. When the blooming young lady kissed her relatives yet again at the gate, he shook hands with them both, confusedly. Then he blushed; but the young lady looked pleased. A light wind lifted the soft locks of her pretty hair, as they drove away. Burt hardly dared look at her. He did not find his voice till he had turned the first corner. “So you are Miss Fletcher—Malvina Fletcher?” he said, abruptly. The new teacher turned her bright eyes upon him. “Who did you think I was?” she de manded. “Nobody—I—nobody, ” Burt falt ered. ‘Thank you!” Miss Fletcher cried, laughing; and Burt laughed. He was half afraid of this briglii young creature, with her charming prettiness and hecr lively ways; and yet, he felt oddly at ease with her, she was so cheerful and so friendly. He did not know how ho did it, but, commencing stammeringly, he told her of the little joke which Mr. Pease had conceived and successfully carried through. “How funny!” Malvina Fletchei cried. “And how cute of him! I be lieve I shall like him. I thought I should when I saw him. I believe I can manage him, you know—make him furnish new things for the school room, and raise my wages a dollar a week," she declared, merrily, her dim ples twinkling. “I know you can !” Burt responded, with warmth—Burt, the bashful, the self-distrustful. “You’ll have him at your mercy, too, for you’ll board there. They always board tlie teaeh- ers. We live just round the corner from the Peases’s,” he added, more timorously. ‘I am glad you do,” Malvina re joined, frankly, and without blushing. “I’ve a tennis court,” said Burt—, “if you play?” ; “Oh, yes—badly!” j / Malvina laughed. : “I am glad you do. We’ll 1 have some games. I’m busy just now, but my onions will be oil my bands before long, and then- I’il beat you some games if I can.” Onions! How far away and uninter esting they seemed! Tho color in her cheeks was like that of a rose, and her eyes sparkled with quick sympathy and’ girlish enjoy ment. Tho sun was waning when they drove into West Cary. Burt had stopped and bought cara mels and bananas, and the half-emptied bags reposed in a companionable way between them. Malvina had taken her hat off, for it was warm, and her flower-like face shone forth in all its sweetness. Therefore, when Wade Loring came driving down the street in his new buggy, and met Burt and the new teacher face to face, he almost dropped his lines. He stared; his jaw dropped; he grew red and redder. Bewilderment was depicted on his face—disappoint ment, indignation. And Burt—he could not help it—as he drove on, laughed. The new teacher went home at the end of the first successful week of her labors in the West Cary school, bui she did not go by train Saturday morn ing. She went in Burt Olds’s phae ton, Friday night, after school, and li^ drove back for her Sunday after noon. It was by no means the only time she made a trip home in the same way ; nor did Burt “hitch up” only on Fri days and Sundays. It became a matter of common knowledge that Burt Olds took the new teacher driving quite often on moonlight nights, and that they played checkers in Mr. Pease’s parlor when they did not go driving, and did other significant things. Malvina often wrote io hermother; but a portion of a letter written early in the winter, when her second term in West Cary was half done, was the most interesting of all her loving let' ters: THE STATE LEGISLATURE. Georgia’s Law Makers Assemble at tie Capitol. Routine of the Honse and Senate Brief ly Reported. “1 can t wait till Friday night to teH you. mamma—we are engaged. Yes, engaged, ami I am the happiest girl in Dyke Count; or the State. I never could have loved acv body but Burt, and I am so glad ho love! me. There is nobody like him in all th( world. -Mr. iVado Loriug hasn’t stoppec bothering me for a minute—well, you knou what I mean : he has kept on asking me tc go out with him when he know I didn’t want to, and last night I told him it was no use, and he knew what I meant; he knew I must be engaged to dear Burf. Burt thinks I like him best because I didn’t meet Hr. Lorinc first. Mamma, you know better, don’t you: •Twill tell you everything Friday." He says we must be married in the spring. Oh, mamma! “Make some caramel cake for supper Fri day night, won't you? Burt like3 it so much. Your loving “Malvina.’’ —Saturday Night. The Burning Mountain. In Johnson County, Wyoming, there is what is called the Burning Menu- The West Cary school was to begin j tain. It is an immense coal bank, the next Monday. At two o'clock, on that has been on firs ever since the Saturday afternoon, Burt drove up a first white man visited that country, shady street in Teuton village, and ; There are many traditions among the hitched his horse before an inviting 1 Indians as to the origin of the fire, little house painted in dull green, with a pretty porch, and a little bed of foliage-plants, and a hammock. A handsome, middle-aged woman answered his ring. “Yes, this is Mr. Fletcher's,” she said. “I come from West Cary,” Burt ex plained. but all point to its great antiquity, and it is possible that this bank has been burning for 200 or 300 years. The country around presents s singularly barren appearance, which is not the least improved by the looks j of the mountain itself. In places hers i and there reefs of coal crop out, and a 1 Irish wind fans the fire to a furiout ‘ ‘All, yes! Malvina has been expect- 1 blaze. Elsewhere the fire is mainly iag yon, ” the lady answered, smiling, underground and indicated only by “Will yon take this porch chair while < the heat of the surface and the in- youwait? It is cooler here. ” ( numerable jets of smoke and tongues “Malvina’s her husband’s sister, I of flame that appear through the cracks suppose,” Burt thought, and whistled ! in the baked earth. It is dangerous softly while he waited. ; to go about the place, for not only are He had but five minutesto wait, and j there frequent cavings of the surface, then t strange thing occurred, : but the gases which arise from the A slender young girl, with chestnut : burning coal are extremely deleterious, hair citimped around her delicate face, j —New York Journal THE IIOCSE. Mo-VDay, Oct. 30—The house was called to order at nine o’clock Monday morning by Speaker Atkinson, who was in liis seat for the first time since the session opened. In calling the body to order he made a brief address. After prayer and roll call the journal of aturday was read and approved. Under a call of the counties for the introduction of new matter a large number of Dew bills were introduced. The urgent deficiency appropriation bill, returned from the senate with' amendments, was sent to conference. On ifiotion of Mr. Dingley, a resolu tion was passed changing the system of receiving bids for government sup plies for the executive department so as to cause them to be received simul taneously. Bills for a third reading were then sailed up and the following were acted upon: To authorize the payment of any back salary due a man at his death to his wife and children. Passed. To incorporate the town of Auburn. Recommitted. To pro vide for the dismissal of certain cases in the superior court. To amend act providing for an outfiit for the Med ical Institute of Georgia. Passed. To allow guaranty companies to become surety on tho bond of the treasurer of Chatham county. Recommitted. Speak er Atkinson assigned the new house members to different committees. At noon the election of Judges took place. The two houses convened in joint ses sion for the purpose of electing a number of judges and one solicitor- general. There was a contest in only one circuit, the Flint, in which Judge John J. Hunt the present incumbent was opposed by Hon. J. H. Cotton, of Thomaston. When the vote was an nounced, however, Judge Hunt had received 140 and Mr. Cotton only 57, When the Pataula circuit was called Judge Griggs was nominated by Sen ator Clarence Wilson,and as there was no opposition, he was unanimously elected. Mr. H. C. Sheffield, who is now filling the solicitor’s place in the Pataula district, was elected without opposition. Judge C. L. Bartlett was elected to tho judgeship of the Macon circuit. Then came the Atlanta circuit and Judge J. H. Lumpkin was unanimously elected. The joint ses sion was then dissolved. Tuesday, Oct. 31.—After prayer roll call and reading of the journal, a number of new bills were read and committed. The house spent most of the morning in wrestling with the bill of Senator Smith, of the 40th, to pro hibit the employment on any locorno tive engine of firemen who cannot read and write. On motion of Allen of Upson, the bill was taken np for a third reading, it having passed the senate. The bill had hardly been read before Hurst, of Walton, secured the floor and spoke briefly against if, moving in conclusion that bill be in definitely postponed. Other speeches were mado pro and con. The hour of 11 o’clock, the time set for the ad dress of Hon. J. L. M. Curry on edu cation having arrived, consideration of the bill was here suspended. After tlie address of Dr. Curry the bill was again taken up. On a call of the house the bill was lost by a vote of 50 to 90. An important resolution was introduced by Mr. Mershon, of Glynn. The resolution recites the stoppage of business in bis county on account of yel low fever and then provides that the people bo releived from all state and county taxes for the year 1893. .Wednesday, Nov. 1.—The special order for Wednesday was the consider ation of the bill introduced by Wilson of Ware providing for submittin amendment to the constitution for ratification at the next general elec tion, increasing the number of supreme court judges from three to fivo mem bers. Mr. Wilson led off in favor of his bill. Turner, of Putnam, favored the passage of flic bill, ns did also Major Bacon, of Bibb, who said this bill did not involve any party ques tion, but that all the people of Geor gia were interested in it. Major Bacon’s speech was a strong and forci ble presentation of the case and it was evident before he had proceeded far that he had impressed the honso with the full importance of the bill. At the conclusion of bis speech, the bill was read again and a vote bad, which resulted in 126 ayes and 21 nays. All of the third party members, except Hall of Warren, voted against the bill. Stiles, the colored member, voted for the bill. Sims, of Brooks, introduced a bill to amend the constitution so as to reduce the homestead from §1,600 to §300. Referred to the judiciary committee. The bill of Mr. West, of Hancock,proposing to purchase school books for public schools, to be used by pnjiils free, was reported upon ad versely by the committee on educa tion. Mr. Neill, of Fulton, introduced a bill to amend the city charter of At lanta, so that taxes shall be collected semi-annually instead of annually. The i^ammittee appointed to examine the books of the state treasurer at the last session of the legislature, submitted their report. The report showed the treasurer’s books, accounts and money was all there and safe. A large num ber of other new bills were introdneed and referred, and the house adjourned until Thursday. Thursday, Nov. 2.—After prayer, roll call and reading of the journal in the house Thursday several new bills were introduced. The special order for the day was the consideration of the bill of Mr. Bacon, of Bibb, to is sue certain bonds to retire some old bonds. The bill is entitled an act to authorize the governor and the treasurer to issue bonds for the purpose of paying off and retiring certain of the past due bonds of the state, known as Con vention bonds, issued by Charles J. Jenkins, governor, and certain past due bonds of the state issued by Charles J. McDonald, governor. Quite a lengthy discussion was indulged in. A motion was made by Mr. Fleming, of Richmond, to appoint a committee of five to investigate this question and to report back in ten days whether the bonds are to be paid or not. Mr. Ta tum, of Dade, offered as an amendment to Mr. Fleming’s motion that the leg islative committee should consist of eleven members instead of five. Mr. Fleming’s motion to appoint a com mittee of five, amended by Mr. Tatum to make the committee eleven, was then adopted almost unanimously and the bond fight was ended for the day. After tho bond bill was disposed of a number of new measures were intro duced by unanimous consent. Two of the bills were in behalf of tlie farmers. One was to exempt from levy and sale, except for taxes, any meat, corn, fod der, cotton seed, farm .jnules, horses and farm implements furnished by any landlord to a cropper on his place. The other was a bill to exempt from taxation all farm products as long as they were in the hands of the producer, but as soon as it passes from his hands it shall be subject to taxa tion. Another was a bill to change the name of the State lunatic asylum to the Georgia state hospital. The house then adjourned till Friday. IN THE SEMITE. Monday^ Oct. 30.—The house had amended the senate resolution to elect the judges on Tuesday, by inserting Monday at 12 m. After several short speeches in the senate Monday morn ing, pro and eon, a vote was taken, re sulting in a tie. The president voted aye and the amendment was agreed to. Mr. McAfee got through two bills, one making it a penalty to ride or drive faster than a walk over any public bridge over Little or Etowah rivers in Cherokee county, the other to appoint a school board for the town of Canton. A bill by Mr. Hurley to repeal the act creating a board of county commission ers for Pulaski county, wan passed. Just now a great deal of speculation is indulged in as to the fate of the ciga rette bill that has just, passed the house. The cigarette bill was read the first time in the senate, and was refer red to the judiciary committee. A few more bills were then introduced, among them a bill to make it unlaw ful for any person or persons, by him self or agent, or any other manner whatever to negotiate for the selling or furnishing, or to make any contract or agreement to sell or furnish spirit- ous or malt or intoxicating liquors in any county or conDties in the state, when the sale of such liquor is prohibited by law, high lieeuso or otherwise, and pnuishing the same as a misdemeanor. Mr. Smith, of the njneteeuth, introduced a resolution setting forth the alleged ir- regnlaritiesin the election returns from Lincoln connty, whereby Mr. Ho gan was seated in the honse and Mr. Reese in the senate. He wants the sec retary of state to open the returns from Lincoln county and send to the committee on elections the votes by precincts to see if the third party can didate, Mr. Ramsey, is not entitled to Mr. Reese’s seat. At 12 o’clock the senate repaired to the house to ballot for judges and solicitors. Tuesday, Oct. 31.—The senate had but little business before it Tuesday. Mr. Persons, of Talbot county, intro duced a bill to do away with the vast army of men who are excused from jury duty. His bill limits the exemp tions to officers of courts iu the seve ral counties. Mr. Edwards wants the state to make the City Bank of Cov ington a state depositor;-, and with that end in view introduced a bill amending the law so as to allow tho governor to designate that bank as one of the depositories. In executive ses sion the senate confirmed the following appointees of Governor Northen: John T. Allen, judge county court, Baldwin county; B. P. Bailey, judge connty court, Butts county; W. F. Brown, judge city court. Carroll county; E. Herrman, judge county court, Dodge county; H. V. Whipple, judge county court, Dooly county; G. W. Warren, judge county court, Jefferson county; E.W. Beck, judge city court, Spalding county; O. M. Colbert, judge city court, Taylor county; W. S. Thomas, solicitor county court, Dooly county; J. K. Kinman, solicitor county court, Jefferson connty; Ben A. Way, solic itor county court, Liberty county; T. W. Oliver, Jr., solicitor county court, Screven county; J. A. Laing, solictor county court, Terrell county; A. S. Morgan, solicitor county eourt, Warren connty; D. M. Clarke, solici tor county eourt, Wayne county; H. C. Kittles, judge county court, Screv en county; Walter M. Clements, to- licititor county court, Dodge connty ; T. L. Holton, judge county court, Wil cox county; D. B. Nicholson, solicitor connty court, Wilcox county; H. P. Lumpkin, judge county court, Walker county. When the doors of the senate were opened that body adjourned to the hall of the house of representa tives to listen to the address of Hon. J. L. M. Curry. Wednesday, Nov. 1.—In the senate, Wednesday, after prayer by the chap lain and roll call, there being a quo rum present, the journal was read. A message from the house recommended that the bill to empower the mayor and city council of Milledgeville tc issue licenses for the sale of liquor do not pass, and likewise the bill to reg ulate tho sale of liquors in Wilkes county. The reports were both adopted and both bills were lost. The ligarette bill from the house created a little ripple in the senate. Finally, when it came up for tlie third reading, tne cieDate grew warm. The bill, however, was recommitted. A number of measures were taken up on second reading. There was quite a discussion on the resolution by Senator Smith, of the Nineteenth district, to take from the table the Ramsey-Reese contested election ease. Rut the final outcome of the matter was that the bill was not taken from the table, and as a consequence, Sena tor Reese remains the representative from his district. There were a num ber of bills and resolutions that fol lowed in rapid succession. Then came the introduction of new bills, a large number being read, and referred. The act to incorporate the village of Hay- nie, Floyd connty (close by the speck led hen’s nest) was read and passed. After a little more routine work the senate adjourned. Thursday, Nov. 2.—When the sen ate met Thursday morning they adopt ed the resolution from the house re citing the fact that the Augusta expo sition had invited President Cleveland and his cabinet to visit the exposition, and urged that the president accept. A few new bills were introduced and tLe following were passed; The hill providing tbat hereafter all hangings shall be in private; to amend the laws regulating the record of deeds.—The bill provides if a deed is executed out of the state it must be attested by a commissioner for the state of Georgia, together with the certificate of the officer who appointed the commission er; the bill to amend section 4371 of the code in relation to seduction—the bill requires the seducer, if the parties marry) to give a §500 bond to live with the woman five years and to support any children born to them; the bill to repeal the act providing for a board of commissioners for Heard county ; to incorporate the village of Warm Springs. House bill to authorize at torneys and agents to swear to the best “of their knowledge and belief” on money demands which they are seek ing to collect. The senate adjourned until 10 o’clock Friday. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Affairs of Goyenmt aM Ronfim of \k House M Senate Discussed. CURIOUS AFRICAN WEIGHTS. How Gold Is Weighed Iu the Dark Continent. Money used by natives in Occidental Soudan consists of small univalve white she!la called cauries, derived from the Maldives and Laquedives islands, and also from Zanzibar. For several centuries past, ships have brought to the mouth of the Niger or to the Guinea coast, ns far as Liberia, entire cargoes of ! these shells, the value of which runs ! from 12 cents to 40 cents per thousand, acoording to the part of Africa. Caurics are only used in countries where gold is scarce. In the whole area between Kong, Bondouka and the sea, eauries arc not used; natives settle their purchases with gold dust or nuggets. To weigh the gold they use as cur rency, they employ small copper scales. Weights are extremely varied in shapes and sizes. Most of them are in brass. The weights exhibiting human figures, animals, tools, ludicrous scenes, etc., as reproduced here are modeled with wax and cast in brass through tho cire perdue process. Africaus may have learned this process from Europeans who visited their country; but their art ex hibits a naive character thoroughly sui generis. These black artists have evi dently reproduced what they saw or imagined, and they have done it in a style of their own; their works are peculiarly humorous and fancifuL Each native, who has a pair of scales, has also special weights which ho alone understands how to use. He knows, for instance, that a giraffe weighs one or two mitknls of gold; that such a weight in the shape of a bird represents i or i mitkal of gold, etc. There are no uniform sets of weights; consequently each native is obliged to have his own series. When the purchaser has weighed the gold he must give for certain merchandise, the vendor weighs it in his turn to see whether it is correct. The unity of weight in the whole Sou dan, is the barifiri, which corresponds to eighteen grammes. Each barifiri is worth fourteen mitkals. Admitting tho value of gold in Europe to be three ?rsnc3 per gramme, we find that a barifiri is equal to fifty-four francs’ worth of gold, and a mitkal thirteen francs, fifty -centimes. . Each mitkal is divided into twenty-seven banans (the banan is a bomboy seed); each banan is worth fifty centimes. A mitkal of gold n ay also be weighed with fifty-four grains of vegetal coral; these tiny grains, red like coral with a black spot, are the fruit of a kind ol convolvulus. There are special weights to weigh one-half mitkal, one-third or two-thirds mitkal. The smallest weight is called pouassaba; it is formed of one and a half grains of rice not decorticat ed. Gold powder is carried in quills stopped up with a wooden cork wrapped in a piece or linen.—[The Jewelers' Cir cular. Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo ple and Their General Welfare. Repairing an Ocean Cable.—It has always been a matter of speculation and wonder to most people as to how a marine cable once broken in midocean is ever got together again, says a writer in the New Orleans Times-Democrat. The explanation is this: First, it must be known that the cable practically rests everywhere on the bottom of the sea. Of course there are places where sudden deep places coming between shallow ones will cause the cable to make a span as over a ravine or gully. Iu other places ‘ , ae ocean is so deep that the cable find's its specific gravity somewhere in midwater, so to speak. In that case it rests quite as firmly as if it were on solid ground. When a break occurs the first step, of course, is to accurately locate its position. A conductor such as a cable offers a certain amount of ob struction or “resistance” to the passage of an electric current. Apparatus has been devised for the measuring of the “resistance.” The unit of resistance is called an ohm. The resistance of tho average cable is, roughly speaking, three ohms per nautical mile. * Resis - ance practically ceases at the points where the conductors make considerable contact with the water. Therefore, if when measuring to looate a break it be found that the measuring apparatus in dicates a resistance of 900 ohms the position of the fault will be known to be 300 miles from shore. With this information the cap tain of the repairing ship is able to determine by his charts of the course of the cable, the latitude and longitude of the spot where the break occurred, and can proceed with certainty to effect the repair. When the approximate neighborhood of the track is reached a grapnel is dropped overboard and -the vessel steams slowly in a course at right angles to the run of the cable. On the deck of the ship there is a machine called a dynometer, which, a3 its name? im plies, is used to measure resistance. The rope securing the grapnel passes undei this. If the dynometer records a steady increase of strain it indicates that the grapnel has caught the cable. Ir, on the other hand, tho resistance varies from nothing to tons and from tons to nothing again, it is known that the grapr.el is only engaging rocks or other projections of an uneven bottom. It is frequently necessary to drag over such a ground several times before the cable can be se cured. Wonderful Malleability of Gold. —Gold is so very tenacious that a piece of it drawn into a wire less than the one- twentieth of an inch in diameter will sus tain a weight of 500 pounds. The sur face of any given quantity of the metal may be extended by tbe hammer 310,181 times, and each single grain may bs divided into 2,000,000 visible pails. The thickness of a piece of gold when extended by the hammer until its sur face is 310,184 times its original area is not more than the 566,020th of an inch! Eight ounces of this wonderful metal would gild or plate a wire of sufficient length to extend entirely around the John Bonner, a Georgia farmer, who died tho other day at the age of 87 years, was the father ol twenty-three children, all by .one mother, and as they grew up and married all cettled on farms adjoio- Lwr hit own. The passage of the repeal bill by the senate Monday had the effect of low ering the price of bar silver in London and New Y'ork. The prices are the lowest at which silver has been quoted. It has been driven so low that the act ual bullion value in a dollar is only about 52 cents. The impression prevails that the judiciary committee of the senate will take no,action on the nomination of Mr. Hornblower nominated to be as sociate justice of the supreme court, and that it will, therefore go over un til the regular session in December, providing, of course, the senate ad journs. Sialeiueiit of Silver. Senator Sherman has received from Secretary Carlisle a reply to his letter concerning the seigniorage now in the treasury. The treasurer says that of the treasury notes issued on the Sher man act §52,395,840 have upon the demand of the holder been redeem ed iu gold and $2,224,192 in silver dol lars. The secretary’s letter shows that seigniorage carried under the Sherman act amounts to §6,976,098. Since July, 1891, 8,794,810 silver dollars have been coined and there has been no coinage of silver dollars since May, 1893, ex cept $200 in proof pieces. The silver bullion on hand October 1st has amounted to 137,666,257 fine ounces, costing $124,561,428. With the prob able purchase of October Mr. Carlisle thinks there will be 139,466,257 ounces of silver bullion in the treasury on November 1st, tlie cost of which will be §125,888,929, and the coinage value §180,320,008, giving a seigniorage of §54,431,080. I lie State Hank T.»x. The Springer resolution calling up on the treasury department for infor mation about state banks which was recommitted to the committee on bank ing and currency Monday, was under consideration by that committee Tues day morning. It failed, however, to oat. The statement was made by a number of members who advocated the resolution, that in voting for that they did not mean for it to be infer red that they were against the repeal of the state bank tax. They are in favor of it and simply want informa tion upon the subject. If Mr. Cleve land will advocate the repeal of this tax in his message, it will be adopted by congress without much difficulty, but in the event that Mr. Cleveland is silent oa this subject, then there will be just such another fight as there was over the Sherman repeal bill. How ever, it is hoped by all tlie southern men and believed by many that Mr. Cleveland will advocate the passage of such a bill. Tho Story of ilie Bill. Silver purchases by the government ceased Wednesday. The purpose for which Mr. Cleveland called congress in exlraordiuary session was accomp lished at 4 :25 o’clock in the afternoon, when he affixed his signature to the bill to repeal unconditionally tlie pur chasing clause of the Sherman law. The struggle in the house was short. Only twenty-seven men could be rallied for the last stand by the silver leaders. The final vole on concurring in the senate amendments stood 103 for con currence and 94 against. When the original bill passed the house, August 28th,the vote stood 201 to 100,so that, althongh the total vote of Wednesday was smaller, the proportion was prac tically the same. The final vote was taken at 2 :50 o’clock p. m. The bill was engrossed imraediately.and twenty minutes later, at 3 :10 o’clock, the for mal announcement was made to the senate that its amendment had been agreed to by the house. The hill was hurriedly enrolled by Chairman Pear- sou, from the committee on enrolled bills, and, at 3:30 o’clock, was pre sented to Speaker Crisp for his signa ture. A fleet-footed messenger carried it to the senate, where it was signed two minutes later by Vice President Stev enson. Chairman Pearson, with the bill under his arm, entered a carriage waiting for him on the plaza in front of the capitol and drove rapidly to the white house. The president had been kept duly advised of the progress of events. Indeed, he manifested 6omuch interest in the vote in the house that,at his request, a duplicate of the names of those who had voted for and against the concurrence was made soon after the roll call was completed, and this list was lying on his desk when Mr. Pearson arrived with the bill. Secre tary Carlisle, Attorney General Olney and Private Secretary Thurber were present. After felicitating with each other for a few moments over the "victory that had been achiev ed, the president took up the en grossed copy of tho bill and read it aloud. Th-en picking up a quill pen, he affixed his autograph at 4:25 o’clock. And thus, sixty-five days, four hours nu.l twenty-five minutes after the extraordinary session con vened tfi£ remedy of the financial dis tress whicu Mr. Cleveland demanded in his message was applied. The analy sis of the vote shows that 124 demo crats, 68 republicans and one populist (Mr. Cannon of California) voted for concurrence, and 70 democrats, 15 re publicans and 9 populists against the motion. WORLD’S FAIR CLOSES. But the Last Day was One of Gloom and Sadness- A Chicago special says: The world’s fair ha3 ended. Monday evening was to have been one of gaiety and daz zling. brilliancy, but the death of Mayor Harrison changed ail that. The meeting at festival hall during the aft ernoon was brief. The audience was detained just long enough to hear an earnest prayer by the Rev. Mr. Bar- rows, a few explanatory remarks re garding the change of program by President Palmer, the reading of an appropriate speech by President Hig- inbotham and the resolutions of sym pathy conceruing Carter H. Harrison’s untimely end. The fair was declared closed by Thomas W. Palmer, president of the national commission in the following words: “It was intended to close this fair simultaneously with the sound of the gavel, the firing of artillery and the lowering of the flag. All that has been changed by tho sad circumstances which bring us together now. I an nounce that when the sun sets the closing will be marked only by a salute and the hauling down of the flag. When that takes place, I declare, in obedience to the act of congress, the exposition is officially closed.” Before giving the benediction Rev. Mr. Barrows announced that he had been quested by the committee to read tlie speech President Higinbo- tham had written the day prior to Mr. Harrison’s demise. THE TREASURER’S FIGURES. When Chairman Peck, of the finance committee of the world’s fair, figured up with Treasurer Seeberger Monday he found the exposition had just §2,515,000 in bank and in the souvenir coin fund. Estimating the receipts at §150,000 more than the cost of admin istration for the day, the balance on hand at midnight, October 30th, was nearly §2,750,000. Of this sum nearly §1,000,000 is souvenir coins counted at their face value of 50 cents each. The to tal revenue from concessions for the six months was in the neighborhood of §3,750,000, from which deductions were allowed, amounting to about §250,000 for improvements paid by the concessionaries. Receipts from ad missions and from minor Sources ag gregate about §10,500,000, not includ ing salvage. Altogether the treasury has received over §14,000,000 since the 1st day of May from gate receipts, concessions and incidental sources of revenue. Against the income from all sources, including §4,500,000 of bonds and §5,- 500 000 of stocks, there has been a charge of §19,000,000 for construction, and the operating expenses have been about §7,000,000. Up to and includ ing the closing day the stockholders have a prospect of between 15 and 20 per cent on their subscriptions. Whether the dividend will be paid in tbe end depends upon tlie cost of the removal of the buildings and closing up the affairs of the corporation. THE PAID ATTENDANCE. The total paid attendance at the world’s fair from the opening day and including tho last day waB 21,453,910, divided as follows: Mav, 1,050,037; June, 2,675,113: July, 2,760,263; Au gust, 3,515,493; September, 4,658,992. October, 6,799,192. The total admis sions on passes, including employes of all kinds, exhibitors, concessionaries, etc., has been 5,593,813. Monday’s admissions reached a total of 242,752, of which 208,173 paid. A BIG MUSEUM Wherein Many Interesting Things of the Fair will he Preserved. A Chicago dispatch of Friday says: One million dollars in cold money will be given by Marshall Fields to the museum, which is to be the outcome of the World’s fair. Mr. Fields names conditions which will be easily com plied with. They aro simply that §500,000 more he subscribe and tbat the stockholders of tho World’s Co lumbian exposition subscribedj to the fund $2,000,000 of their holdings, which represent an investment of §5,000,000, Irat they are worth much less. The biggest stockholders never ex pected to realize anything on their in vestment and they have already ex pressed a willingness to turn over all the stock they have. The trustees of the museum have no doubt that a majority of the 5,000,000 of world’s fair stock will be turned over to them, as also the §500,000 to he raised be fore Mr. Field’s magnificent offering is secured. One hundred thousand dol lars of it has been unconditionally subscribed by George M. Pullman. The balance, it is said, will be raised in a few days. OLD BOB WHITE. Row the hiljs are turning ,el!ow anl tho brown Is on the com : There’s a melody that’s mellow in the music of the horn, And tbe sasafras is blazing and the sumach all aglow Where the old bell cow is grazing oa the lows down below, And the pea vines gladly rustle where tha soft winds are at play. And the young quail chirp and hustle, grow ing plumper every day; And that cunning old suborner in the bushes to the right, Verohed upon the low fence corner, whistles “Old JV>b White!” Get your ammunition ready, now, nnd lim ber up your gun, Train the young dogs io be steady so as n'-t to spoil the fuu, For the time is swiitly coming and October* nearly here Whon we’ll set the woods ahumming wit!) the music far and near. And we’ll All each hunting jacket with th« spoil our prowess yields As we raise a merry racket in tho forests and the fields, For the challenge is temptation as they alt there out of sight, All around the big plantation whistling “Old Bob White —•IT. 31. Folsom, In Atlanta Journal. PITH AND POINT. WORLD’S FAIR EXHIBITS Funeral of Gounod. The state funeral of M. Gounod was held at Paris Friday. The body was conveyed to the Church of Madalaine. An immense crowd filled the Plaee de la Madalaine and the streets and bou levards in the vicinity. The interior of the church was hung with black drapery, dotted with stars and trim med with heavy fringe. Similar em blems of mourning draped the portico. For the Southeastern Exposition at Angusta, Ga. A Chicago special of Wednesday says: Quite a large number of the American exhibitors and not a few of the foreign ers have determined that instead of go ing to California at this time with their goods they will send them to the South eastern Exposition, which opens at Au gusta November 14th. The time between this and the opening is very short and it will take the liveliest kind of work on the part of both the exposition peo ple and the exhibitors to make it. The Augusta exposition especially commends itself to exhibitors because it is in a thickly settled portion of the country and is far enough removed from Chicago for it to be presumed that no great per cent of the popula tion visited the world’s fair. The cli mate and the comparatively easy means of transportation have also had a great influence in securing exhibits. Prendergast in Court. Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison, was arraigned in Judge Horton’s court at - . Chicago Thursday. The court room Over the poTtico was a_shield of silver was crowded and“ when the prisoner bearing the initials, “C. G.” A SMALL COY’S FUN. Jimmy—Why don’t you come over here and skate ? The ica is a heap slicker. Tommy-^Thay’|-more Inn here. If 1 was to break through here l’-d likely drown, au’ over there the water ain’t • footed “eo.—flnfliauapoHs Journal, was led in by the jailer, the spectators jumped to their feet. The action ter rified Prendergast and with blanched face he crouched close to the officers. When his indictment was read, Pren dergast responded nervously “not guilty.” The judge announced that the case would be continued to give Prendergast an opportunity to secure counsel and the assassin was led trem bling back to his cell, Fireproof—Ruins. Pigheaded—A drum. A tea set—The Chinese. Fixed stars—The American flagd. It seems to take a good deal of high wind to blow down a bad law.—Truth. There is one good thing about the apple of the eye. You don't often see one that is green.—Truth. It is certainly unlucky to have thir teen at table when there is only dinner enough for twelve.—Life. The chef makes no pretensions as e sharpshooter, but he can hold his ows at the range. —Elmira Gazette. A tow-path mule while practicing His merry little pranks. Exclaimed, “I’m getting ready for A ran upon tho banks. - ’ —Washington Star. “How are you? Just thought I’d drop in awhile to kill time.” “Well, we don’t want any of our time killed.” —Boston Globe. “It’s a funny thing about getting a picture took,” said Tommy. “The newer the picture is the older I look.” —Indianapolis Journal. Irate Father—“I’m going to put n check to your extravagance, sir !” Im pudent Son—“All right! Give me th< check.”—New York Herald. Wills of millionaires remind us If in our graves we’d bo content, Wo should, dying, leave behind us Not so much as one blamed cent. —Buffalo Courier. “Shake! old fellow,” said the pillow to the sword, who had been relating some thrilling experiences in battle. “I know what it is to be in a fight.”— Puck. It is said that the alligator is about to become extinct in this country. Let ps pray that he will take the guild of jawsmiths with him.—Seattle Tele graph. “Did he spend lots of money on hei piusic?” “Oh, yes; he must have, for phe doesn’t play anything that sounds the least bit like a tune.”—Chicago Herald. The poets all of autumn—squall, But what delights our eyes Is. not the country in the fall, But the country on the rise. —Atlanta Constitution. • "This,” said the frightened young jnan, who had encountered some West ern road agents, “is positively my las! appearance on any stage.”—Washing ton Star. Mistress (who is about to engage a cook)—“Now, are you sure you have had experience?” Cook—“Oh, yeF, mum; I’ve been in ’undreds of places.” —Tit Bits. ihe’s home at last and her heart is gay ; ; She opens her wardrobe, alack ! alack! Jhe finds that while she has been away The moths have devoured her sealskin sacqne. —Boston Courier. Hostess—“Oh, I think some people ire so disagreeable. Don’t you hate oeople who can sing and won’t?” Old Grouchy—“No, not so much as I do those who can’t sing and will!”—Life. An eminent physician says it is often dangerous to lie on the right ride. It is also unnecessary. Any po litical speaker or writer knows the wrong side needs the lying, if any.— Buffalo Courier. Mrs. Kindle—“I presume yon have rather a hard time of it?” Tramp “Yes, mum; but every cloud has,A" silver lining, mum. I’m not worried to death by autograph hunters.”— New Y'ork Weekly. “Look here, young man,” said the medical practitioner. “If you ride a wheel so much yon’ll get ‘kyphosis bi- jylistaruin. ’ ” “On this wheel?’ “Yes, sir.” “Well,” replied the wheelman, “if I do, one of us will have to get off and walk. ’’-Washing- son Star. , Days That Must Drag. ' The longest day of the year at Spits bergen is three and one-half months. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22, without intermission. At Tornea, Finland, June 21 is twenty-two hours long, and Christmas has less than three hours of daylight. At St. Petersburg the long est day is nineteen hours and the short est is five hours. At London the long est day is sixteen and one-half hours, at Montreal it is sixteen hours and at New York it is about fifteen hours.— New York Sun. American Males the Tallest. The English professional classes, who head the list as the tallest of adult males, attain the average height of five feet nine and one-quarter inches. Next on the list comes the American males, and a minute fraction behind them jome the English of all classes. Most European Nations average for the adult male five feet six inches, bui the Aus trians, Spanish and Portuguese just fall short of this standard, --.London ML J