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Cataula Chat*
Miss Mattie Thompson hasreturn
ed from her trip to LaGrange.
Rev. Howard Key and family, from
Cuthbert are in our midst guests of
Judge J.J. W. Biggers.
Mr. Willian Slaton and brother
have returned from Florida, having
spent the past six months in the
land of flowers.
Mr mt . Jimmie Timmie Kimbrough JvimDrougn returned rtiurnetl
from Oxford last week where he has
been attending college the past term,
His many friends are glad to see his
pleasant face with us again.
The convict force that came from
Carrollton created quite a sensation
in our town Friday as they passed
through en route for the new railroad
below Columbus.
We are sorry to note that Rev.
Howard Key was called to the sick
ted of his mother, who resides in Ox¬
ford. We learn her illness is quite
serious.
Crops are suffering for rain just
now and farmers are anxiously watch¬
ing the clouds for a good season.
Though notwithstanding the dry
weather, cotton and corn both look
well, and if seasonable our out look
is flattering for a bountiful harvest.
Mrs. T. J. Thomaston has the fin
est garden we have seen this season.
She has supplied several families in
our town with vegetables, and still
have them bountifully. Her garden
is suffering for rain; besides the in¬
sects are making sad havoc of the
cabbage, cucumber and squash.
We attended the barbecue at your
city Saturday and enjoyed the day
meeting with so many faces that we
have not seen for a long time. We
think all honor is due to the citizens
ol Hamilton for so much kindness
and hospitality shown to the vast
crowd on that day. There was plen¬
ty to feed all present, and it any left
without dinner it was their own fault,
for it was there in abundance. It
was certainly a gala day with the
young folks, widows and widowers
and I think they would all join me in
saying it was a day long to be re
membered and never to be forgot
ten.
SHILOH ACADEMY.
Mr. Editor:— The closing exer
cises of Prof. J. C. Ellis’ school in
Shiloh on Friday, the 22nd first, de
serves some mention in your paper,
and we will make an effort to give
you the facts. The examination was
conducted in the morning before a
-Urge audience. The pupils acquitted
themselves creditably, in fact showed
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considering the short time that
ihey had been under their present
tructor.
Prof. Ellis seems to have a tact in
. . . . . , laying well ,, the ,
imparting instruction,
foundation and leading the pupil to
do ... his thinking. . . Hi _ T looks
own not
only to the mental but to the moral
training of those committed to his
care, and he has justly gained the es
teem and confidence of the people,
After the examination a recess was
taken, . , during j • which t • i the i
peop.e were
invited to a table well laden with
.
viands, rich and substantial, doing
‘ to the hospital,ty of Shiloh and
the sunounding country. At 3
o’clock Rev. W. A. Farley of Hamil
ton, delivered , r , an address , . appiopiate .
to the occasion, full of good advice
and j va.uable , . It .
suggestions. was
well recieved by the audience.
n »Ve , come now to . speak 1 of r .1 the ex
hibition, to which the pupils, patrons
and the public looked forward with
pleasure and anxiety. The large
crowd ... already on the ground , was
greatly increased before the hour ar
rived for the exeicises. 1 he house
was indeed packed, so much so that
there could not be found comfortable
standing room, and numbers were
compelled to remain out side.
The exhibition was opened with a
song in which the whole school took
part, after which Prof Ellis came
forward and made a short and timely
address, chiefly calling attention to
the importance and necessity of giv¬
ing to our boys and girls the
tages of a good liberal education, that
would fit them for the full and prop¬
er discharge of their duties in the var¬
ious relations of life, after which
came the speeches, dialogues, compo¬
sitions, and performances usual on
such occasions. We will not burden
your paper with the mention of
names and of the part each une act¬
ed, something uninteresting to the
geneiai reader. Suffice it to say the
whole programme was well gathered
up and well executed from the begin¬
ning to the end. The music, in
charge of Miss May Candler, was
in good ha»ds. She is known as a
skillful perlormer, and that part of
the programme was highly commend-*
ed. She was assisted by the gentle¬
men composing the Shiloh band, who
did their part well and added greatly
to the enjoyment of the occasion.
The school under the manage
ment of Prof Ellis, assisted by Mr.
Boyd McCrorey, has prospered, and
the outlook is decidedly encouraging
for a still greater degree of prosperity.
The large and commodious academy
just erected, when completed, will be
an ornament to the place, and should
make the pride of those who so gen
eiously contributed and worked for
its erection.
The movement which promises
p OI q of the people of this whole sec
tion. We have every reason to be
lieve it will M. T. J.
Paper Manufacture and IU Methods.
_ The Chinese _ supposed _ have
are to been
the Inventors of paper They used rice
straw or rags of cotton or linen for making
their paper stock. Modern nations fol
lowed their example, but made few im
Pavements on the ancient process until
within the last forty years Since then
every decade has witnessed great advances
in this industry New methods, processes
and machinery have been devised, new
materials brought into use. and new and
multifarious forms of the manufactured
product now enter into the economies of
modern life Rags are gathered in all
parts loads of the world and brought by ship
to the United States, but they are
no longer the chief raw material. Paper
fibers - obtain^ Jube
f
mail y grasses and reeds, and from the
wood of cypress, pine, poplar, spruce.
hemlock, basswood, sycamore and other
trees Now great mills prepare the liber
st <> ck for paper manufacturers, who buy
it by the toh, in bulk, and then work It
into whatever shapes their business re
quires As it costs far less to carry
chemicals to the forests than it would to
transport the logs, wood pulp establish
meuts are generally located near sources
The c ^j e f chemicals are lime, potash,
soda ash, and caustic soda. These alkalies,
dissolved in water to make tho cooking
liquids, have been employed In tho huge
wooden tanks, In which, because tem
( n g i 1Ga t, it was necessary to continue the
cooking from two to throe days The
progress of Invention has recently made it
possible to greatly reduco the demand time re
quired for this pur} l >ose Tho for
paper in all forms or old and new uses is
unlimited, and is daily increasing In
no part of the globe is there a greater
variety of vegetable fibers than In the
south, whose cane brakes, swamps, for
ests and cotton fields can furnish lucx
haustible quantities for all time. The
cotton plantations alono could probably
supply every cheaply pulp mill in American and handled, with
a material gathered
and containing a long, strong, beautiful
.
flow*.—Baltimore Journal of Commerce
A Great Opportunity Dost.
Mr Little has strong opinions not fa
vorablo to tho current idea of tho wealth,
strength and prowess of China and her
value as an ally, and considers that
are only remotely potential lie thinks
the Chinese possess “a much less highly
developed organization 5 than do the Cau
casian races-* finds their religion
in •‘propitiatingevil spirits,"and Christian that they
‘‘can hardly appreciate tho
Ideal.” On tho other hand, they have
“many virtues.” and, although the social
system is undermined throughout by pec
ulation and deceit, ‘from the armies
which only exist in tho commander in
chiefs wardrobe and the public granaries the
containing only chaff, down to pres
cuts not intended for acceptance and the
proclamations never meant to bo ob
served,” so that the empire admit, is a sham,
yet still he is forced to on reflec
tion and in fairness, that such Is the per
sistent industry of the Chinese “that with
highly gi ted rulers to guide and rule
them, they may yet be a great people. ”
As Illustrations of their readiness to
obey ho points to the edict of Kublai
Khan, which directed that the cemeteries
should be plowed up, an edict obeyed and
only revoked two centuries ago, and to
tho Manchu orders which abolished the
flowing robes and Imposed the the dynasty pigtail.
The first emperor of present
ordered the tribes of Yunan, “on and pain of
death, to learn Pekingese,” was
obeyed Mr Little things that had wo,
when masters of Peking, “had the cour
age to usurp the dragon throne, and had
we issued an edict prohibiting thence
forth the mutilation of children’s feet,
the command would have been afterward obeyed,
sullenly, perhaps, at first, but
thankfully." That, undoubtedly, would
have been an immense social reform, lib¬
erating from torture and China.—Ixmdon physical de
formity the womeu of
Spectator.
Italian counts have gone out of Qp>nion as
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Curious and Uuiquo Decorations.
A lady riding in an elovated train re¬
cently of was hand attracted carried by tho by singular lady
beauty a her sulo bag Curiosity the
si tting by beforo long, and she overran!.’ remarked
reserve
upon the beauty of tho bag
“It was made from tho skin of a rat¬
tlesnake,” said the pwnor. calmly.
“IIow wonderfully pretty it is!” ex¬
claimed tho admirer, leaning forward t:>
examino it more carefully Tho owner
looked pleased and surprised
“You aro the very first person," she
said, “to whom I have told what it is that
has not shrunk from it, saying, *1 don’t
see how you can carry itP This was ono
of Barnum’s big rattlesnakes A friend
of mine is employed this in tho circus mon
agerio, and when reptilo died ho gavo
mo tho skin. I have a i small rng made of
it, besides this bag. and it is bordered
with the skin of a leopard that also be¬
longed to Barnum I havo tho skins of
sevoral of Barnum’s dead animals and
they make beautiful articles. That of n
giraffe mado into a robe bordered with
tiger fur is elephant greatly admired. dio I urn I long¬ have
ing for an to now, for
a chair that will be fine when it is u
holstered with tho mouso colored hide,
is a great advantage to have such unique
decorutlons that uo ono could imitate
them."—Now York Cor Chicago Herald.
Physiological of Ma»f>ug«.
In a discussiou of this subject by Brit
lsh physicians of eminence, Dr Symons
Eccles declared, as tho results of his own
experiments combination of on tho healthy various persons, from man a
massage the
Ipulations, Improved, that the tho texture of skin
was genoral sense of locality in
creased, the body temperature
was raised and the free surface tempera
ture of a part under massage became
higher than that of the rest of tho body,
while abdominal massago" tho decreased tho
surface tomperaturo of extremities;
a course of massage of ono month’s dura¬
tion increased the oody weight, the appe¬
tite, muscular strength and ability to
sleep Dr and Rlayfair work expressed well. his opinion
it as
that massage is only ono agont, along with
overfeeding and freedom from previous
surroundings, In tho treatment of p ro¬
found cases of nervous debility or mail il u
trition, tho exact character of which is
not as yet thoroughly understood, somoof
tho cases which were commonly accounted
as incurable and were a curse to their
families could, lie thought, be cured by
these means. —New York Tribune
Diphtheria from Poultry.
In Skiutos, ono of tho Grecian Isles,
there has been no caso of diphtheria for
over thirty years until the summer of
1884. when a child died of tho disease,
and in tho course of fivo months there
wero over 100 cases, with thirty 4.000. six
deaths, In a community of about
Careful investigations of tho origin of tho
epidemic resulted in tracing it to a flock
of infected turkeys received from Salon
ica. and which on examination showed
unmistakable evidence of tho diphtheria
process Dr. Paulinia, the reporter (Bul¬
letin Medical), concluded from this ex¬
perience that the diphtheria of tho ord¬
inary barn yard fowls was similar In its
course and symptoms to the diseaso oc¬
curring in man. and that it could bo car¬
ried from tbo ono to the other, sometimes
through the medium of tho air.—Chicago
News.
A Circassian In Hattie Array.
Were war to embody itself in a human
shape. It could find no better incarnation
than the tierce, tiger like beauty of tho
Circassian in his battle array, with his
shining helmet and ringing mail, his saber
clanking at his side, shoulder aud his long moun¬
tain rifle on ids But even in
his more peaceful dress of embroidered
white tunic and sheepskin cap. loose black
velvet trousers, and sash of crimson silk,
there is something barbaric and warlike
about his whole apjK*aranco which harmon¬
izes only too well with the flash of bis
eagle eye and the stern compression of
his mustached lips You can sco at a
glance that war and peril aud bloodshed
are this man’s natural element, and that,
when tamed and civilized, he will lose n*»t
only his native pietureaqueness. but even
the very mainspring of his existence.—
David Ker In The Cosmopolitan.