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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
In Paris, France, a t»g company has a
monopoly of the funerals. This com¬
pany handles 50,000 bodies yearly.
General Boulanger seems, according to
the Chicago Herald, to have won the
greatest victory’ ever recorded in politics.
The United States, with over 00,000,
000 population, has 5000 students ol
theology, while Germany, with 45,000,
000, has 7000.
The United States Court at Mont
gomcry, Ala., holds that cotton-future
contracts are not gambling transactions,
but valid trades.
The mild winter of 1888-9 has not
proved an unalloyed blessing. Eight
•>eigh manufacturers in and about New
York State have failed.
In some parts of the West they define
a White Cap as an immoral and good
for-nothing man who takes upon him¬
self the duty of punishing all other im¬
moral and good-for nothing men.
Last year fifteen Chinamen were
married in Queensland—one to a native
of the colony, one to a Victorian native,
two to Scotch womrn, three to Irish
women and eight to English women.
Says the New Orleans Timen-Democrat:
<( In the present state of our coast de¬
fences a foreign force would find but
little difficulty in entering any of our
great ports or landing on any eligible
part of our coast.”
The Corean Kingdom bachelor is not
spoken of us a man but a “person.” He
becomes a man only when he marries.
Such a rule in the United States would
promote marriage, declares the N
York Graphic, failure or no failure.
Philadelphia Inquirer believes that it
the plan of instructing pupils in the af¬
fairs of the day with the aid of the daily
newspapers were moro goncrally prac¬
ticed, we should have fewer juvenile
pedagogues and more bright scholars.
A correspondent of the London Time 1
says that the word “teetotal” had its
origin through a stuttering temperance
orator, who urged on his hearers that
nothing less than “te-tc-tc-total” absti¬
nence would satisfy temperance reform
■ers. Some one at once adopted “teeto
tal” as a suitable word, and it sprang
into general use.
y A singular exhibition has just beet
held at Meningcn, Germany. It consist¬
ed of 250 newspapers containing articles
upon the death of the Emperor William
I., representing no fewer than fifty-four
languages, among which, of course, all
the European, with their dialects, were
represented; while Bengali, Hindi, Uuz
zurati, Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian
may also be fourd.
An old fellow iu a AVisconsin town
who has been running a private bank for
some years was recently requested to
publish some sort of a statement. So
lie posted the following on the door of
his bank: “Noti e This ’ere bank lias
got $.50,000 behind her. She don’t owe
nobody a red cent. Good paper dis¬
counted as heretofore, and nobody pro¬
poses to cut sticks for Mexico or Cana¬
da.” There was no run on that bank.
According to the report of Adjutant
General Drum the organized militia
force of the United States consists of
100,500 men, of whom 8007 arecommis
lioncd officers. But back of this force
stand 8,104,028 available men subject to
organization in case of war. This
showing, the New York 1 Cor'd thinks,
ought to cause foreign nations to thiuk
twice before knocking the chip off our
broad shoulder.
There will be an important congress of
the Scotch-lrish race in Columbia,Tenn.,
on the 8th of next May. Distinguished
orators and scholars of that race will
read papers commemorating the deeds of
the Scotch-Iri*h. Co umbia was chosen
as ttie place of meeting because it is cen¬
tral in location, and was the home of
two famous Scotch-Irishmen, Andrew
Jackson and James !v. Polk. The date
chosen is the most delightful season of
the year iu that latitude, aud every
effort will be made to insure the comfort
and promote the pleasure of those who
attend. The congress will be a revela¬
tion to many people, in that it will show
how numerous and influential the Scotch
lrish in this country ar«.
THE DRUM.
Oh, the drum!
There is some
Intonation in thy
Monotony of utterance that strikes
dumb,
As we hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere,
Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the ear!
There’s a part
Of the art
Of thy music-throbbing heart,
That thrills a something in us that awakens
witli a start,
And in rhyme
With the chime
And exactitude of time,
Goes marching on to glory of the melody
sublime.
And the guest
Of the breast
That thy rolling robs of rest
Is a patriotic spirit as a Continental dressed;
And be looms
From the glooms
Of a century of tombs,
And the blood he spilled at Lexington in liv¬
ing beauty blooms.
And his eyes
AVear the guise
Of a purpose pure and wise;
A* the love of them is lifted to a something
in the skies,
That is bright
Ked and white,
With a blur of starry light,
A» it Jaughs in silken ripples to the breexes
day and night.
There are deep
Hushes creep
O’er the pulses as they leap,
And the murmur, fainter growing, on the
silence falls asleep,
While the prayer
Rising there
Wills the sea and earth and air
As a heritage to freedom’s son3 and daugh
ters everywhere.
Then, with sound
As profound
As the tliunderings resound,
Come thy wild reverberations in a throa that
shakes the ground,
And a cry
Flung on high,
Like the flag it flutters u
Wings rapturously upward till it nestles in
the sky.
Oh, the drum!
There is some
Intonation in thy grum
Monotony of utterance that strikes the
spirit dumb.
As we hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere
Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the
ear!
—James Whitcomb Riley.
CATCHING A GORILLA.
I have seen nearly every one of the
gorillas on exhibition in the zoological
gardens of the world, and in only one
instance have I found an animal in any
way up to the standard of the beast as
found in the African jungles. That
fellow I helped to capture while in the
employ of the Hamburg house, and the
Sultan of Turkey paid a fabulous price
for him.
If Du Chailltt exaggerated at all in his
stories of the gorilla animals country, he killed. it was No in
the number of
writer can exaggerate the temper and
fierceness of the dangerous beast. his wild Men
who have encountered him in
aud savage state have lived to tell of it
more by good luck or accident than by
nerve and judgment. This is so because
the beast is never met with except by ae
cident. You can hunt for lions, tigers,
and elephants and find them, but the
gorilla always finds the hunter.
We were about seventy miles inland
from the coast, on the I.ufig. River,
wherehad a permanent camp, when
I received word to. . .tort
rnthTtirS 1,1, thousand
serpents and a variety of animals, and
only once had signs of the presence
a gorilla been detected. Two miles to
the north of us there wu .heavy jungle,
aud if there were gorillas hidden in
neighborhood Lgljashe the, Wert, the beast iiasn away t
there. is,
the nerve to attack a camp or a large
body of men. t>ne had come down with
in half a mile of us. probably at night,
d show his
the branches into fragments neither to
temper and courage, but we saw
1
When i 1 found wnat was was wante . t
called some of the oldest and wisest na
t,vc. .o
everheard of a full-grown gorilla be -
captured alive and none cou ® u gg 4
what steps to take
a beginning, I sent out se’ era! Parties to
.cou^ and on the second d y 0 „ e ofthese
located three of the beasts, fathe .
mother an d a baby gorillai. m a^ thicket
about tive miles away. !t a p f
rocky ground covered vri h . * dense
growth, and from a hiding place the mea
had seen the gorillas enter the thicket
by apath. The el phant and buff
w'lv^on way* on th^move^and^have^no the move, and hawf n. 0 ^xed
SSSirito !bS”S “ 7 mS!
forces them away. The gorillas seen by
the black scouts would not run away
until dis turbed, and I gave orders that
no one should go in that direction
only out my permTssion. effect I could capture: think by of
one way to a
setting one of our largest traps. We
hud them stout enough to hold a lion, or
bear, and one of them had once held a
buffalo all day long.
The strength of a full-grown male
gorilla is something wonderful. One
swipe of his open hand will knock an ex
down. He can bend a gun barrel double
w his hands alone. He has as much
power in his aws as a lion. I was,
fortunately an eyewitness to some feats
of strength which lost me several vatua
ble men. We were in no hurry after
locating the animals. I sent out other
men to watch, and after three or four
days it was found that the thicket had
several paths by which the gorrillas left
and returned. It got sight of them my
self, and 1 found the male to stand
about five feet eight inches high when
erect. He was terribly broad and heavy,
had muscies like whip cords, and I saw of
that he had the strength of auy four
U s. In about a week we found that one
path led to a spring where the beasts
quenched their thirst, and another to
several trees loaded with a peculiar sort
of pea or bean enclosed in pods, of which
the gorillas seemed very fond. It
was while they were eating this
fruit that I saw them, the little fellow
was just learning to go alone, and the
mother carried him much of the time,
The old tellow maintained a pretty sharp
watch, though he did not appear to be
particularly suspicious, and now and
then he unbended his dignity and played
with the little one in a manner to make
us laugh.
About twenty days from the time we
located the gorillas we set our path traps, one
on each path. The one on the lead
ing to the spring was within thirty feet
of the water and carefully concealed iust
below the surface. The beasts, as near
as our scouts could determine, visited
the spring only every other day, and it
was on the oil day we set that trap. only
There were seven of us, I being the
white man, and as we returned to camp
we took a different route from the one
we bad come, It was a very hot day,
and when half way beautiful back we stopped x»
rest. It was in a grove, pretty
clear from underbrush, and most of the
natives at once fell asleep, as is their
custom when making a halt, even if only
for ten minutes. Only one of them, so
far as I saw, was awake when I rose up
and walked away about a hundred feet
to examine a curious excrescence on the
side of a tree. From where I stood I
thought I could distinguish the figures then
“5b” standing out on the tree, but
I reached it I found only a wart or knot.
This tree was to the right of the native^ party,
and as 1 started for it one of the
sleepily cautioned me not besidf to go too far
alone. I was standing and" the tree,
looking upward around, when I
heard a shout of alarm, followed almost
instantly bv a shriek of pain and terror.
I saw the men spring up, ea h uttering
a veil, and then came the sounds of
blows and screams and the angry and de
bant roar of a gorilla. It was all over in
• i j # v v n , • . l_ Qr
predate the situation two of the native^*
a dark object moving swiftly away
As well as could be ascerttnued a bi
gorilla had been passing thr0u o l1
grove, and he had stumoled upon the
men just as the one who had spoken to
me rose up 1 Ins action was sufficient
to arouse the ire of the beasc and he had
seized the native and Hung him ten feet
away. I he secoua one received a blow
which knocked ^ him flat, and the got ilia
let himself out to kill. The other
four men were dead when we approached had
One had his neck broken, a second
half his face torn oil »Dd his breast
crushed in, and the other two nad their
skuils crushed as if by blows from, the
hand. My rifle and the muskets of the
natives had not been meddled with,
The two natives who escaped were lit- the
tl e better than jabbering idiots for
next hour, and it was only af ter our re
turn to camp that I learned ail the par
ticulars. It all happened in had fifty or sixty
seconds, and the attack come so
suddenly that no one thought of de
^‘ camp e ; that l had „teat aimcuuy nett nextuay day
'» “
"he. ’ w ? ,
l^ Jnsty, g tb e oath On tS
next t d day, av howe howmer er the the natives natives having having
meantime -Xu recovered 1 Uto they pluck e.ril“t to some
. of °,U tt.
.torn
ba 4 b mns^lached iur P Yells 24; roars
a ? ds rC severS e am and
dl9 a halt a mUe small " ani-
■^TS.-SSXwa.r. P^ed my head hunter attri ter „ ht me as» w«^pre.sed Whie
lorwarj. ^ S
break away, and he will want all our
n nav for the insult ”
neired fhe po w~wow .torendthecries.ndw.il, grew louder as we
J ^ motbe r and offspring mingled
uh f the snar is, growls, barks and roars
he father . When we finally crept ^_
a tQ to a £ t whence we c3uld 0
^ mau .
^ P SothlL Sne, wUh tfe
^ ot tbe aws covered with felt, but
- h ftlmost hold
M 4 Ve enou to an
^ e P^f Y had to bend down the
^ with everS) aad it was a d
! att^hed^ould e ; cbr for two me n to carrv. The chain
not have been broken by
horse, and we had securely fastened it
audit
; VCutotfuk to tod been in .be perhaps ,„p
long when we first heard him.
no t over five minutes He was, doubt
| less surprised and frightened for a time.
but by the time we had reached a point
where we could see him his terrible
anger was fully aroused. His mate and
offspring stood by, wailing and growl
ing, and just as we got settled in our
places the female lifted up the trap and
wrenched at it with all her strength.
Then both seized the chain and tugged
and pulled and growled and roared, but
it was no use. \V hat I feared was that
the old fellow might gnaw his leg off, ns
coons cr muskrats or beavers will do
when trapped, but he showed no inten
tion of the sort. Indeed, it would have
resulted in his death, and he doubtless
so figured. For a long hour he refused
to give in, biting, leaping and tugging,
and another such p cture of ferocity
would be hard to find. He frothed at
the mouth, exhibited his great fangs,
and his eyes glittered like diamonds. I
should have been willing for the mate
and her little one to go, but as they re¬
fused to leave the spot, and as the
natives said that the mother would not
hesitate to attack us in her excitement,
I pushed forward my rifle and gave her a
bullet, which dropped her dead in her
tracks. The young one immediately
sprang to the father’s shoulder, advanced, and was
sitting there when we
The resemblance of the big gorilla paused to
a native was so striking that I to
wonder if a mistake had not been made,
When he saw us he stood upright, arms
hanging down by his sides, and h«
looked far ipore like a human being
than some of the natives in my camp,
He was so mad that he did not know
what move to make first, and as he stood
there clots cf foam fell upon his breast
a nd down to the earth. By and by h*
the young one and flung it away,
Half a dozen of the men rushed to se.zs
l4 . and as it scrambled back one of the
“^ives pursued it too far. The gorilla
u »ered a temble roar, made a savage
»pnng, and the native was caught by
4h ® ha,r ‘ / was n ° t ? v er twenf / f « e *
awn -U and saw all 11 that happened , lie
was flung and the gorilla which
and gave him a blow on the chest
crt and ^ left ed on 14 the sides of 4h the f£ ^ head, J™ and the J 4
raan dead - T h « dld aot satisfy the
™ hteralIy ons4er - tore H 14 ° } 4 ° ltte P iec A .f the P ulbn ^°- dy S U °® P*^ tbe
’ hind
arms as ^ou would pull a stick of r
l^g wood out ot a bundle It then
s eized by a h 'f le f’ aad
®l . a “ imed 11 on the earth and a flung fl tha
bodyand beat ltS breaSt aad
roared defiance at us.
*1. advi c ^ of tn e nat ive9 1 dt £ lded
to . let the old t tellow alone , f for a while and
allow hua S£ aad thirst to work on his
4 f“P er - We roade a temporary camp
a mde ,. away, and did not go neat
him again for two days During the
f, r »t day he roared at intervals, but on
thc after “ 00n °/ 4he second wa ? £ ry
^ ,? ne of the m *V« nt to , tak ® *
look at , him, and , reported the captive , as
Slt down on the trap and crying
P alQ - Next forenoon we went out
w.thne s. ropes nooses, and chains, and
after a long, hard fight, tangled him up
^^Ms 1 leg' wi had his'hind'feet
shackled . , , . tosjGthcr, . his fore „ teet .. . f or __ arms»
^uzzlT ove?'his*'^
had been made Hig eg was badly
swollen aad he was pretty well bea ten
QUt but three days after we got b im in
to the cage he W as all right and as mad
evftr _ gent Wm down tbe r i ve r and
aroai]d to Zanzibar, and after months ha
brought up l in Constantinople, so fero
cio „7 and dangerou3 that the utmost
precautioa T bad to be taken by those
He was liY i ng
d f tbe Russ0 . Turkish war, and one
who aw him informed me that there
nQ ho of sWeetea j ng his temper o*
Babdaing b}a ferocity.-—Ae:c York. Sun.
Test for the Purity of Water.
A simple and convenient test foi
water is as follows; Fill a perfectly
clean quart bottle half full of water;
cork and shake it, remove the cork and
see if any odor can be detected at the
mouth of the bottle. Cork the bottle
and place it in a warm place for a few
hours or set into a pan of hot water
for an hour, bhake, uncork and again
test by smell. If au unpleasant or faint
?e™elw d miml.e is , )e rceDtible. SSigltion. the water
The
s~o»d simple test is to cr.por.te,
£
sedinfent left after evaporation is small
and on being burnt in a metal spoon
Ktve. rise . only to » such *uth odor » as comes
Sclent* |reatl“ eoutamiuated with
sewage Bur if the sediment is ,n eon
siderable quantity and burns, gtvmg off
the peculiar odor of burning hair or
other animal matter, then the water is
foul. Either of these tests you can easily
eppiy-^-We.
Cheerfully on Two Cents a Day.
Dr. T. R. Allison has been trying the
experiment of living on meal and watei
for a month. His daily allowance was
one pound P of whole meal, made into a
c.ke wiih distilled w„er. His account
of his condition after aweek is cheering,
In the first few days he felt hungry, disappeared but
^ about the fourth day this
and he had no craving for other food,
H is brain was clear, his lung capacity
had increased five inches, and both his
sight and heating had improved. He
had lost seven this pound*weight, rather advantage, but seems
to Altogether regard he feels as thoioughly an satisfied
wit h his experiment. It is a very econ
omicalone,thewheatforsevendayshav- This he
ing cost only sixteen cents.
says, is living on almost two cents a day,
^denjonogit.-^^.
gtotoM.JU.rtj- ^sir.” “Wh?Jo wirf
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14 4 ’ Slr ^_o c: au.
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GURESVVHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. an
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use <n
in time. Bold by druggists. —4
CONSUMPTION
e s
I believe Piso’s Cure
for Consumption saved
rny life.-—A. H. Dowell,
Editor Enquirer, Eden
tou, N. C., April 23, 1887.
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PISO
The best Cough Medi¬
cine is Piso’s Cuke fob
Consumption. Children
take it without objection.
By all druggists. 25c.
9
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good, Use
in time. Sold by druggists.
A PHYSICIAN’S
WARNING!
Of all ths terrible, soul affrightening curses that
afflict all classes of humanity, nothing in all ages
has ever approached comparison to the ravages of
BLOOD POISON that slow, insa
tiate destroyer
of flesh and life. Alas! How often just such an
affliction loves to affect a noble life with its poisonous
taint. It strikes with destructive aim the most
notable, sparing neither
SCROFULA king nor statesmen.
Even unto the third
generation are the sins of the father made manifest.
What a fearful heritage to bequeath an innocent
child! Ah! the horrible ravages of this affliction!
To its activity is due sore throat
SORES sore liver, sore kidneys,sore lungs,
sore skin, great ulcers, internal, ex
temal and eternal unless proper treatment is applied
The best remedy is a prescription used extensively
in private practice by an old Atlanta physician. It
is now prepared a thousand gallons at a time, and
is sold in large bottles at
PIMPLES only one dollar per
It is called B. B. B. or
tanic Blood Balm. Under its peculiar influence the
blood poison first becomes passive, then
and lastly is exuded through the liver, through
kidneys, and through the pores of the skin.
It is clearly the duty of every one who
the least trace of syphilitic or scrofulous poison
their blood,whether recently from contagion or
inheritance, to get it out of their system
PAIN by the u*e of this great remedy
that pimples, sores, aches, pains,
kidneys ana other symptoms will not be
ted to innocent posterity.
Demand it of your druggist and take no
tute. Testimonials from those who have used
may be found in the illustrated “ Book of
sent f ree to any address by the Blood Balm
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But do not use the dangerous alkaline
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your nervous system and ruin the digestive
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agents. Dr. Sherman devoied the greater
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are vegetable. He gave it the name of
Prickly Ash Bitters S
a name everyone can remember, and to the
present day nothing has teen discovered that
is so beneficial for the BLOOD. * or the
LIVER, for the KIDNEYS and for the
STOMACH. This remedy is now so well
and favorably known by all who have used
it that arguments as to its merits are use
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the health of this country would be vastly
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