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The Democrat.
fUBLLSHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C. MQOPE.
CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA
Entered at the poetoflee at CrawfordviUe,
Reorgia, u aaeond-r-lau mail matter.
A ciril engineer Las been looking
Niogaru Falla over, and his conelusion
e that it ia good for 3,000,000 years.
That’a long enough for any one per¬
formance to laa^ and the people of that
generation cun hunt for something
else.
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'I he Rothschilds have ret used to float
the proposed new Russian loan, This
fact has more weiyht than all the
rumors of w ar tho correspondents tna 7
cable from Europe. If the I. iropenn
Powers could not get themselves any
further into debt, the New Vork lele
gram declares that disarmament would
soon be a necessity.
A burglar who went through a St.
Louis house, generously r;freshed liirn
ielf ou the premises at the conclusion
• f his labors. Thn consequence was
that sleep overtook him and he woke up
only to find himself in the clutches of
a policeman. The New York Tribune
thinks it may probably occur to him
now that eternal vigils nee, especially
in his lino of practical effort, is tho
price of liberty.
Thc destruction of human life by our
railways is attaining truly alarming
proportions, According to the esti
inuto of the Interstate Commerce Com
inissiortors tho mortality from this c iiise
in a single year is as high as 50'.).'!,
while tor tho same period tho number
of per ons injured in railroad accidents
reaches 27, 8!)8. Of course, a great
proportion of both classes is made up
of railway employe!.
For many years tho Rothschilds had
n curious way of providing a birthday
present for all female children born to
them at their eomiug of age. As soon
ns the child was horn six jicarls wore
put aside for it of tho value of $2500.
■Phis wfts repeated at every successive
■t. ii A i ni d |' | |uj ho arm of _tvrcnty-ona |
mi fditiinaie fcuug lady was proseuti'T
with all the pearl* thus collected in tho
shape of it necklace.
According to the Boston Traiix'i’ipt,
there are tribes of pour whites in Now
England who are today just where
their ancestors were iti the colony times,
so far as mental anil material progress
is concerned, They have Inherited
idleness, ignorance and vice,'and show
no disposition to work or rise, Those
people constitute a distinct caste, and
their neighbors hold very Ittlie c > nt
iminication with them. Tx ot lung is
known of their origin.
The German* have been tho pioneers
in telmitific forestry. With a total
foiost area of only 3-1 3-16,000 acres,
of which 11,231,0;);) belong to tho
state, the Gerin.au empire now has no
Ic-s than nine schools of forestry, nnd
during the three years ending with
1888 it published 1*7 books on the
various branches of the subject. There
are also ten periodicals devoted to
forestry, and a general association of
foresters with annual meetings, and ten
local societies.
The Atlanti ' has bent in a very bad
humor for the last three months.
Nearly all the voyages ,>f European
steamers to the westward during that
tints have been troubled by tremendous
teas and by constant storm, nnd fog :a
places where none is usually met with.
But the opinion is confirmed by all thi*
bad weather that the modern steamers
are practically proof a Blast thc worst
that tho Atlantic Ocean can do; they
havo only collisions with other steamers,
or with ice, to fear.
The destruction of trees ail over our
country iu order to supply one year's
demand for timber is s moly enormous.
Last year in N vv V rk city alone
1 600,000,000 feet of lumber was con
•umed. There is no room for doubt, s.avt
the N vv York -V. ,-.t, that th* destructioi
of the forests less *us the water supp y
•n the summer, causes floods in th<
spriug and loath to other disaster*.
Scientists arc of the opinion that tin
frvque , w ith which oycl ones and ter
undoes visit sections of the country
now in which they were ormerlv
almost unknown is largely due to the
reduction in the area of lorest land.
Whethe r this :s the else .-r not the o\
por.cnee cf Europe an i Asia demon¬
strates Ivy od prrad ViSatU'O that thc
lo>» of the forests is a very serious tu
jury to _____ >n.
Tun Irish Land bill, which will be intro¬
duced in Parliament by thc British Govern
merit, provide* for State aide*! emigration, Land
and abolishes the Land Court ) and
Commissi one) v
THE DEMOCRAT CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA.
A HUGE LIGHTHOUSE
The Mighty Structure to be
Built Off Cape Hatteras.
It May Save Many Vessels and
LHves from Destruction.
B.ds vv.ll O' .; JIlUC i in the office of
the Lighthouse Board at. Washington
for the erection of a lighthouse on the
Outer Diamond Shoal, off Capa II it*
term, N. C. The total cost of the
struct n c is liiititel by act of Congress
to $500,000. The Diamond .Shoals,
Which lie southeasterly off Cape Hit
tcran, have* always henti dreaded by
mariners as the mast expose 1 and dan
geroui locality on the entire Atlantic
const, and a large number of vessels
have beon wrecked there annually, in
volving enormous losses of life and
property. A lighthouse on the outer
shoal would have undoubtedly savei
many of these ve.-scls, as the neared
light on Cape Hatteras is invisible in
bad weather. Alight has never been
erected on this shoal before on account
of the extraordinary engineering diffi
in the way. and the work now
contemplated will be the greatest
undertaking in the lino of lighthouse
builling in the world. There are but
two lighthouses in the world that can
be at nl! compared with it. Those are
the Rothemrid Light at the mouth of
the Wesor Ji ver, Holland, in the North
Sea, and the Fourteen- Foot Light at
the mouth of the Delaware 15iy. Tile
tower is to be 150 feet high from low
water in irk to the light in the lantern.
It will have to be of great strength to
withstand tho action of the sea, and
will have to rest on solid rock beneath
the ever-shifting sands of the shoal.
To obtain this solid foundation and get
the structure to such a height that the
first rough weather will not destroy it
utterly is tho great problem that tho
builders will have to solve.
The Lighthouse Board doc# not spoc
ify what method shall bo adopted, but
it is generally understood that an im¬
mense caisson, 80 or 100 feet in diam¬
eter, with a hollow iron cylinder pro¬
jecting from its centre, will bo built at
the most convenient port, This wilt
resemble a gigantic iron pan turned
upside down, with a tub) ruuaO' - from
-1* c ■T» w .’ r hi-. cafasc I will
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bo towed out to the site, iwAAg lifted
on the way over a bar whore tlicio is
Ixit eight feet of water at high tulc.
When it is finally at tho stta it will Be
sunk rapidly until its cutting^ Igcs rest
on the sands of tho about. 'ftien the
work of excavation will bo txsfnn and
carrie 1 on as fast as tho most modern
appliances will admit. As the sand be
noath the caisson is excavated an 1 car
rieil up through tho tuba the sharp
odgos will sink lower until finally bed
rock is reached. When nil the edges
rest firmly on the reek the entire ciii
• m and tube will be titled with con
eretc to a height of thirty feet above
the sea level, converting it into a solid
block or column of stone almost as
thin as a granite monolith. Tho action
of the seas and tiro constant scouring
of tile sail I might so m wear away the
iron shell, but the concrete will be
praetiealiy indestructible, It w ill be
protected, however, by a rip-rap pack¬
ing of giunite hluckj weighing not
less than two Ill IS each. Above this
g olid structure will rise an iron and
steel tower div.deil into tea stories,
includ tig thi watch-room and the
lantern.
After getting the caisson toweJ out
to its final resting*place tho contractors
will have to work night an i day, with¬
out a moment’s intermission, until it
rests on its foundation ami the eonereto
is tilled in, for, if a storm should arise
Indore this work was done, < very thing
would he destroyed. At the Uothersand
light, which was built on this principle,
the first ca.s*on \v:u thin destroyed and
the contractor was financially ruined by
thc loss. In this lighthouse tho first
floor will be devoted to stores; the sec*
olid to the fog-s gna I machinery; the
thud floor will be a tuc-pro >f store
house for oil for tho •amps. The next
fon floors will contain the living ronns
for the keejHv* and his a distants. The
eighth floor wilt bo tho -crvicc room,
and above it will rise tho watch-room
and tho lantern. /h f. » re Fua.
Hymn Writing.
Except for the joo.l one cut do, thoi c
is but little satisfaction to le gained
from writing a well-known hymn, As
a rale, hymns are not high-priced com¬
modities in the literary market, the roy¬
alties ate sma i. ar.il the author’s name
is gcnorniiy i i sight even if the
by mu aebiev world—wide fame. As
an cJtamp'c. I n iCS ion whether there
wp a liuntin* i per»oas t iv wh know
that tho &trh -V of -Tat ■t It e-and
Hvc* s 1 m Ji a an o .scare Iiknci
.. i t not V- i ths* greatc»t lux
f th* uuaii
mm ns ka.-w the hymn;
how many ever thins of Dr. 8. F.U-
more Bennett, its aged author? The
hymn has brought him almost no reve¬
nue, and ev;n less facne. Mrs. Annie
Sherwood Hawks is another instance,
livin = 5a a inter: ° r *7 York
town, coirp'flle l to reiort to uer pen
for a living yet who hai not ting her
world- famous hymn, ' I Need Thee
lively H'.u Profetsor Gilm-rc of the
Uuiv.rsity of Rochester, rarely r>
r ivs c.edit as the author of his well
known lines, 'Flo Leadeth Me. M
Fanny Crosby, she of hundreds o*
hymui that are sung every Sunday by
thou-ands of lips, liver in a side-street
in New Yoik city almost forgotten.
Although blind and helpless, she is
bapj|y jn thc rrM(fion wh ich fills her
rnind and sou'. There seems something
in there cited c irer that ir not alto
getlrer right—this entire forgetfu ness
by a busy world of those who have
m ide our sweetest songs. And so I
say there is but little encouragement
in the writing of by in is. Not only is
the author poorly paid for the work,
then almost entirely forgotten, but the
additional stigm i is < ffered of having
the hymn embodied into hundreds of
collections without a cent of revenue ac
cruin „ lo thc author . Thc fm all pit
tgnce g - ven (o the author when t h e
hymn is f.nt published, is ofttimes the
only remuneration.
An Immense Palace.
Hyderabad is thc capital city of the
Hindoo province of the same name,
which is rule! over 1)7 a powerful Ma¬
hometan Prince, the N z im of the Dec
can. The Province covers an area ol
uear ! y 100.000 square miles, and con
tains a population of some 12,010,000
persons of various creels and castes,
The city of 11/derabad stands on the
south bmk of the Musi river, in thc
midst of a highly picturesque country
overspread with granite hills and iso¬
lated rocks. In fact, it is fortified s<
strongly by a barrier of rocks and t
barrier of jungle, that the Mahrattas,
although they more than once attacked
the city, never succeeded in compelling
it to capitulate.
Thc palaces and mosques, together
with the buildings of the British resi¬
dency, give the city an appearance of
much grandeur, but, cs is often the case
in the East, many of the streets are nar¬
row and irregular, and the houses mean
and dirty.
Tho Palnco of N / an is an immense
building, Tit mil o.l the line’ Street
called ‘‘The Chauk. " It covers 1-15 of
the whole space within the city walls.
The adjacent buildings are very hand¬
some, finer than those of the Shah’s Pal¬
ace at Teheran, though somewhat in tho
same style of architecture.
Seme TOO ) persons habitually reside
in the J’.ilace. Tiie Nizam receives his
visitor! in a ban is nnu pavilion, richly
furnished, anil i 1 imiiiutod by five im
niMiso chandeliers.
j„ j) 1( , magnificent pil.rce of Sir Silar
Jung tfecic is an apartment called thc
film i Khun a. >r China Room. The
ceil ing , l u j wa q s are entirely covered
china dts’. ics id ever- - size and color
an l an infinite variety of rtre crockery
and bric-a-brac.
Killed tty Her Gloves.
Rare!,’, it may be thought, hat a more
singular case of acci len al death been
rec tided than that which recently threw
a much-esteemed family residing in the
environs of Si. Petersburg into mourn*
ing. A young lady in perfect health,
and with tho brightest of futures before
her, was among the guests invited to a
hall, and, her toilet completed, she
drew on a pair of Ions* loves, reaching
above the elbows, 8 avealy lial f an
hour afterwards she fe t considerable
irritation and V tin in her arms and
hands, to wh eh, however, for the mo*
men! taken up with the pleasures of
the evening- she paid but little atte -
lion. On returning hozno her suftormg
increased, and the following day her
ha uls and arms bee»me covered with
sores, which wore attributed by the doe
tor called in to blood poisoning, A
week la’er the poor girl died, after se
vere suffering, and despite the efforts
made to save her. The fatal gloves have
been handed over for analysis, the con
jecture being tint the animat with the
skin <»f which they were mad ' was in
some way or other discascil, and that
j the skin used lial been imperfectly
cleansed. In any case, if this conj e
ture prove correct, measuic; will doubt
ess be taken to ascertain, if jiossible.
whethcr other g ores, similarly contain
iua’.cd, arena sue.—/. ■ tJ •-* SUmJard.
Tar amt Feathers.
The application of a coat of tar and
feat'ners to offensive persons, is mid to
l’ i> .r do L on. O re t his statute cr
as ted that any robber found voyaging
with thc C.u«der “shall b^ th-*;
shared, then boiling tar poured upe:
h.s head, and a cushion of feather
shook over it.” T- culprit was pc
ashore the first place t . vessel t ucue 1.
The earliest record of suea punish xen:
IS llbC.
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PIANOS O <3 e
• • • » ORGANS
Reliable Makes. Many Styles. New
and Second-Hand.
LOW PRICES. EAST TERRIS. L0N6 TIME
pVERY Cr years, new shaped instrument on trial, guaranteed and if not for fiv»
ted, as rep re
sen can be returned at our expense. With ear*
Piano we give free a fine plush-top stool, silk
anbroidered cover, piano instructor and six piece
of music. With each Organ we give free a goes
eep-covered stool an d instructor.
H FREIGHT PAIDp
ft e agree to assume all freight on Pianos and
Organs. from Those who want quick delivery , orcin
us. Th* mail and freight facilities of Atlanta
before tre perfect. purchasing, No matter what others offer, write us
be saved. and see how easily money can
PIANOS $180 OO to $1,800 OC
ORGANS $ 48 00 to $ 760 (X
Special Offers.
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all :ase, 7J5 octave;, three unisons, overstrung (OljS basi
improvements. The best low* nil
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D O ULf Clough & Warren, live octaves, largt
U. OC ft, case, satin walnut, very handsome
two Better sets of reeds, five stops. Is Mouse- Proof,
thari other organs sold at $7~>.00. ^ C CJl ft
Beats the world. We offer it for only $ J .U
“A ten-year eld girt can hty an organ or piarH
from from Phillips de Crew, Atlanta , f.v , as secure
tunut.”—Christian imposition as Worker. the most expert musician in the
If you want or think of buying a Piano
»r Organ, by no mean* purchase until you
have secured prices and terms from
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Home Council.
We take pleasure in calling the atten¬
tion of mothers to a home cure for all
diseases of the Stomach and Bowels, a
medicine so long needed to carry children
safely through the critical stage ot Teeth
ing.
PITTS’ CARMINATIVE
Is an incalculable blessing to mother and
child It is an instant relief to colic of
infants, a diseases with which infants
suffer se much the first four months ol
their life- It gives sweet rest to the sick
and fretful child. It strengthens and
builds up the weak gives appetite and
flesh to tiie puny, corrects, drain from tin
bowels, cures Diarrhoea and Dvsenteiy.
A panacea for only. the children Try ona
bottle. It costs
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A BOTTLE,
Sold by Hammck. Lucas & Co.,
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Physicians endorse P. P. P. hr a Rp'idrulld combination,
and prescribe it with i sreat Ratisiaction for tho cures of
alt forms and staces of lTliaarv, Secondary atul Tcrtl
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Clothing,
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S8^** To close out entire stock to go
into other business.
I MEAN W1IAT I SAY.
And yon will miss it if you do not
come early and get the cream of the
BAEGA 1 XS.
Casper Myers
CRAWFORDVILLE.
Goodséjthe lest!