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GEORGIA.
ctory is to be pub
soon, giving the names
f 30,000 Chicago women
*o various religious, bene
>olitical organizations. The
. compiled for the purpose of
.fig the number of women in
<:»go who wen interested in work not
purely persona 1 aud to encourage them to
i greater unity of effort.
We learn from IklCs WeCdy Messenger
(London,England) that Sir J. Ii. Lawes,
the eminent agricultural chemist and ex¬
perimenter of Rothamslead, England, has
devoted the handsome sum of $500,000
for the perpetuation of Lis invaluable
field and laboratory experiments. The
series of. investigations which were begun
■
nearly fifty years ago will therefore be
continued permanently, the income of
the money so munificently given for this
purpose having been put in barge of
nine trustees of the highest character,one
>f whom will be the proprietor of the
Rotliamstead estate for the time being.
Thus the first experiment station in the
world, both in existence and character, i
os well as in usefulness, will be made a
permanent establishment.
Wolverines arc Ugly Customer*.
Few "Washington people know what a
wolverine is. They kxvA that Michigan
is called the Wolvc.riile State and that j
Michig. n people arc called Wolverines. ;
But (bay have little or no idea why the
state was so mum ;l or what the nickname
menus.
The Slide i named after an animal
that used to in lest, and still frequents, :
the dense woods in the northern part of -
the State, as v.. ii as in the woods of j
northern Wt e msin ami Canada, l’his (
miitnal is the wolverine, or, as the varie- I
ties countries of him found called, in the northern glutton. European They j
are* beasts, these wolverines j j
are savage are,
,-uid they play sad havoc with the cattle ,
of the Michigan wolf farmers. They are The like a \
cross between a and bear. tail
I'lid the temper r< semblt*. those of a wolf, J
but in strength and size and savageness 1
they much resemble a bear, a very bud j
bear.
They are less clumsy than bears,
though, and they can climb trees. Many
n hunter lias walked under a tree up in ,
Michigan without looking for a wolverine ;
in the tree first, and the wolverine
.
dropped down on him from one of the j
lower limbs, and before the next morn¬
ing had him eaten up, buckskin breeches
all, even to the heels of his hunting
They are ugly looking beasts,
the one pretty thing about them being
their bushy tail,a foot or so long. Their
claw s are longer and sharper than beam’,
and their teeth just as sharp.
They are so savage and so wary and
that it is almost impossible to
them alive, and so they don't have
them in circuses and zoological gardens,
and most people don’t know what they
They are so savage that hunters
cure to limit them, and so the wol
verine has things about his own way
where he lives.— Washington Critic.
Laying Tracks by Machinery.
An invention which promises to revo¬
the present method of railroad
was put to a practical test re¬ 1
on the Green River branch of the
Northern Pacific Railroad in Washington
Territory. George Roberts is the inven¬
tor, and the trial of the new machine was
made in the presence of the superinten¬
dent of construction, the chief engineer
and about 300 railroad men. The ma¬
chine worked beyond the expectations of
the inventor and to his entire satisfaction,
the men laying at the rate of two aud a
Rdf miles of track per day, and twelve
intN doing the work of seventy-five by
the Gd way. It handles ties and rails ol
the he*vest kind—used in constructing
mountain roads—with the greatest ease,
placing them rapidly and accurately iu
position. The machine is so constructed
that it can be used on any ordinary flat
car. All construction material is moved
on rollers fma, the rear to the front,
where Hie machine takes up the rails and
the ties, laying them very rapidly.
Whero the test was made the grade was
aud difficult. The great success at
“'e trial has caused the Northern
-ure the refusal of the first
•nventor is now arrang
more machines to
mtor receives a
'riraering and
HORSES IN BATTLE.
THE PART PRAYED BY WELL
TR AINED ANIMALS IN WAR.
They Enter Info ihc Spirit of the
Fight as Fully as Their Riders—
Quick new in {learning Buttle
Cells and Evolutions.
The Chronicle a few days ago noted
the fact that the Government had paid
Captain Jerome B. Cox $100 for a horse
killed in the late war, twenty-seven years
ago. It is interesting to know that the
a ? imal which the Captain prized so
highly then met death at the battle of
Murfreesboro, with which Captain Cox’s
military fame is most closely connected,
for it. was here that Cox’s battery saved
the day forRosecrans by holding an im
portunt position at a critical moment
against fearful odds, winning a place iir
history which will be held while the
story of the great battle shall last. It
was during these critical moments, when
the battery was pouring grape and canister
into the ranks before it at the rate of six
rounds a minute, that a shell exploded
under Captain Cox’s horse with fatal ef
feet, though the rider escaped unbanned.
The horse was a well trained animal that
had galloped over many a battle field,
and was Captain Cox’s private property.
Hi s claim for its loss was not presented
after the war until too late, but a recent
Congressional enactment reopened the
way for his claim.
“It is remarkable how quickly horses
adapt themselves to the military service,”
said Captain Cox to a Chronicle reporter.
“ Every artilleryman knows that they
learn the bugle calls and the evolutions
quicker than the men, as a rule, For
one thing, they very soon acquire a uni¬
form gait, which is about the same as the
‘route’step or the usual marching step,
It the horses did not acquire the same
gait as the infantry there would be vary
ing distances between the different arms
of the service—that is, between the in¬
fan try and the cavalry, artillery, and the
commanders and their escorts.
“In the drills in the artillery service
t lit- horses will themselves preserve their
alignments as well as the infantry, I
shall always remember one illustration ol"
this trait which 1 noticed at a very ex
citing and critical period of a battle, fn
order to save some of our infantry from
being surrounded and captured, I quickly
mounted the.cannoneers on the guns and
put the whole battery at a dead gallop
across a stretch of meadow about half a
mil,. wide. I was quite accustomed to
such sights, but when we were half way
across the field I noticed the array, and
for a moment I was lost in admiration of
the magnificent picture. Every driver
was plying whip and spur, the great guns
were rocking and thundering over the
ground, and every horse, risking with
foam and full of animation and excite
uient, was straining every muscle rt he
galloped forward, yet it seemed to me
that a straight line drawn along in front
would have touched the heads of the lead
horses in front of the six guns. That
was an artillery charge, one of the most
thrilling sights in the evolutions of war.
“it is surprising how quickly they
learn the bugle calls. After we had been
in service some time, my first sergeant
once asked me what call that was, as the
bugle blew some command. ‘That’s a
pretty question for you to ask,’ l said,
■llow in thunder do you know how to
march V ‘I don’t know,’ he said, ‘but my
horse knows.’ Let the first note of the
feed or water call be blown, and there
will be a terrible stamping, kicking, and
neighing. Once, in a terrible storm, our
horses and those of several other batteries
broke loose, and there was a wild rush
among the artillerymen to get homes in
the morning. All was excitement and
the horses were hard get, but when 1 or
tiered the bugler to mount the stump and
blow the feed call the horses all made
such a made rush for our battery that the
men could hardly get out or the way
"
quickly enough.
“When it comes to battle a horse
seems to know everything that is going
m but he does Ids duty nobly, and
seems to be in his element. He enters
into the spirit of the battle like a human
being. He shows no fear of death, and
it is singular that if his mate is shot
down he will turn to look at him and
seem pleased A horse in my battery
was once struck by a piece of shell,
which split his skull so that one side was
loose. The driver turned him loose, but
he walked up to the side of the gun and
watched the firing, and when the shot
was fired would look away in the direc
Hon of the enemy, as if to see the effect
of the shot. When a shell would burst
near bv he would calmly turn and look at
it When he saw his own team going j
back for ammunition he ran to liig own
Place amt mdloped back to the caissons :
with the rest When the Lieutenant
pushed him aside to put in another
horse he looked at the other one sorrow
fullv while he was being harnessed up.
ind~when he seemed to realize that there j
was no further use for him he lay down !
md died. The Lieutenant strongly as- 1
jerted that he died of a broken heart. i
“At the time that Adams’s. Jackson’s !
i Preston’s brigades charged me and at
ajsboro some officer was killed,
•Ves were driven hack. But the
"s horse had not been taught j
be did not. He just came
ngh the battery, and I
simply his grand. tie
' nostrils were
; rly blazed, and
'iis teeth as he
came on. He came like the wind, and
with his saddle-flaps flying he looked as if
he were flying himself, instead of run¬
ning. Everybody gave him a wide berth,
and I called to the infantry that I would
give $100 to the man who would catch
him, but no one tried it, and he is run¬
ning yet for all I know of him.
4 l I tell you I was sorry to lose Charley at
Murfreesboro. He w as my friend as well
as a faithful servant, and was as fine an
animal as I ever bestrode. When he was
shot I tried to get him to go on, but he
told me plainly that it was all up with
him,and I had to leave him where he fell.”
—San Francisco Chronicle.
Facts About Lamps.
Oil has been burned in lamps for many
centuries, but no real improvement in oil
lamps was made until about lOOyearsago,
or about 17S3, when M. Argand,a Swiss,
who lived in London, invented the
cylindrical wick and burner, which has
since borne his nanie.^ Soon after the
glass chimney was introduced and light¬
ing oil Ivas fully revolutionized.
These two improvements multiplied the
light to be obtained from a lamp, and by
producing a perfect combustion of the
oil obviated the smoke and bad odors
previously inseparable from the use of oil
lamps. Other improvements followed,
one of the most notable being the placing
of the reservoir of oil below the burner
instead of above, making the lamp much
more convenient. This was a discovery
of Philip Girarde, a Frenchman, about
1S07.
Another Frenchman, Cartel, con¬
trived a mechanism to regulate the supply
of 'oil, but his contrivance was super
seded by the moderator lamp, introduced
about sixty years ago. Some further
modifications of lamps followed the dis¬
covery of petroleum, but these are the
principal features included in the lamps
of the present day, the Argand principle
being substantially unchanged .—Good
Housekeeping.
Salt as a Luxury.
“Dr. Hibberd talks about paying three
dollars (in California, where the gold fever
first broke out) for five pounds of barley
to make a feed for his horse,” remarked
O. L. Divine, foreman of the composing
room of this office, “and of paying three
dollars for having hi.s*hair cut and being
shaved. I have an experience in high
prices that will beat that or anything that
occurred during the last war. In the
winter of 1854 I was in the mines on the
north fork of the Salmon River, in North¬
ern California. The Salmon Mountains
were covered with about sixty-five feet of
No pack-trains could get in to us,
■•,d [>i •vision;; of all kinds were running
hort. E : >i:r sold as high as two dollars
pound. We were absolutely
>ut of } 11 an ! the men were fairly wild
hu>: icMichael, of Philadelphia,
E he forks of the Salmon,
3 rummaging about he came
hi*or ten small sacks of salt that
had el.ni'l a partition in his store.
I’he -R f, find spread like a prairie
1 oe was besieged with men
itj = •ft. McMicliael said he
f- E >t he could to make it go
r- money would buy it. He
iveig it out by the ounce, each
paring an ounce of gold
ud was then worth $16 an
muci, so that he sold his salt at the rate
I d r and everybody was
— Ind■ ■napolis Journal.
The Most Prolific of Authors.
The most pretentious example of
fecundity that the world has ever
is to be found in the Spanish
Lope de "Vega. His known
are almost beyond computation,
He thought nothing of writing a play in
days, that even a copyist could not
in that time. He dictated verses
rapidly than an amanuensis could
it down. Alight farce lie could
in a couple of hours, and in the
of his life he wrote more than two
original dramas. Hallam cal
that De Vega was the author of
21,300,000 lines. But oven arithmetic
fails to convey to the mind the immense
production of this remarkable writer,
Some of his plays still hold the stage m
Spain, though it is nearly three cen
turiea since they were written,
Defoe and Southey were the most
voluminous of English writers, but their
works are now nearly forgotten. Defoe's
fame is enshrined in “Robinson Crusoe,’"
while South, y's rests on his “Life of
Nelson • and ‘ Life of IV e»ley, and then
popularity is somewhat on the decline. •
Chicago Herald.
Cocoanut ~~~7 Talm 7 America, “
The m
The cocoanut palm succeeds best near
the seacoast, w here its leaves are occa
siomillv moistened with saline fogs,
This species of palm grows to a height of
from fifty to one hundred feet, li j
planted in a good soil it requires no after
cultivation or attention. An immense !
number of these palms have already been !
planted along the coast of southwestern j
Florida, but very few are as yet old
enough to bear, and nothing certain can j
be said of the financial success of these
cocoanut plantations. The fresh nuts foi I
planting are procured at various parts in
Central America. Date palms may be
raised from the seed or nuts taken from
the pressed dates found in our markets at
all times. Remove the nuts from the
pulp and then plant in a sandy soil, eov
ering them about one inch deep. As this
palvu does not require very great heat, we
should think it would thrive anywhere in
Florida, provided it was protected from.
severe frosts in winter:— JFteoY&rl San.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Ignorance is the mother of all evil.
That alone belongs to you which you
have bestowed.
No gift can make rich those who art
poor in wisdom.
Twenty years in the life of a man is
sometimes a severe lesson.
The surest way to please is to forge;
Due’s self and to think only of others.
The more you practice what you know
the more shall you know what to prac¬
tice.
We attract hearts by the qualities wt
display; we retain them by the qualities
we possess.
Laughter does not always indicate
good nature; the laughin: hyena is the
fiercest of ar a>.
Time wil vvr ev iyi: ing to po 0
terity; it is shier, .ml -peaks when
no question
One of th <rre; > .........of trouble
in this world i- the hulot v ople have ol
talking faste than they think.
It is not polling thine n the right
place that both: irai so much as
finding the re pi: after he has put
things in it.
Pay your bi : twi ■ r her than go to
law. There an i & V V rs clamoring
for the wrong a there are lawyers
clamoring for rigl
The prejudices of men emanate from
the mind and may be overcome; the pre¬
judices of women emanatS from the
heart, and are impregnable.
The man who does good, and the man
who does evil, are alike expected to hide
their deeds; it is only the man who does
neither who is allowed to boast.
Most of the troubles of life originate
from the habit of talking too much. The
tongue is useful in its way, but it should
be handled with as much care as gun¬
powder.
We have heard a great many people
admit that they were peculiar, but we
believe we have never heard a man ad¬
mit a peculiarity that he thought was to
bis dircredit.
The Logwood Industry.
The trim little Yankee brigantine
Edith, of Boston, Captain W. G. Fostei
master, was lying discharging logwood
from Jamaica at Providence, R. I..
when the Journal's marine reporter
strolled on board in search of an item.
The mate gave him this information:
lv This brig is a rcg’lar West Indiaman;
that’s what she was built for. She has
carried many cargoes of sugar, molasses
md melado—melado, yes; melado is a
combination of sugar and molasses much
ike that we call molasses sugar.”
Melado, when refined produces various
grades of sugars and sirups.
Logwood, the sap or juice of which is
extracted very largely for purposes of
dyeing in different colors, grows in
swampy places on low lands and is the
other branch of the business. The trees
are shaped somewhat like elm trees,
with large branches, but these are more
tortuous and kinky—much more clumsy
looking, in fact. The leaves of the foli¬
age do not grow with any luxuriance,
but are dwarfed and grow close to the
limb; they are slimmer and longer..
The natives, in securing the wood, cut
down the trees with huge, heavy-headed
axes, like beetles, and Cut off the bark
md sapwood with these and with
machetes, long cimeter or cutlass-like
knives. The heavy heads of the axes
assist them in breaking off the limbs
when nearly severed, and they proceed
ten cut these into convenient lengths.
The heartwood. which is red (the sap
wood is yellow), is used for dyeing, and
is piled up and carted down to the
shore or quay, where it is piled up by
the natives. The carts are of very rude
construction, with clumsy, ungainly
wheels made by the natives. If the ship
is to be loaded lying off in the harbor,,
the logwood is loaded in canoes carrying
two natives, who handle the wood from
the canoes to rhe ship. The canoes are
“dugouts,” cut from the trunk of the
cottonwppd tree. The natives have cut
down ail the trees near thy shore, and
now have to go from three-yfeu gJsj.1 four,, to
even ten. miles inland to finjl wood.
The?older- growth is the lief i. ^
The HJytians are said' to be a lazy,
shiftless set,, and addicted to drinking
cana or sugarcane rum (pronounced
canya), and fond of vondoo worship.
Human saarifices ’of infants even arc
said to be a part of their weird wor
ship.
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Congress Gaiters the ideal Shoe.
Button and lace shoes not only ,
going out of‘style, but out d^se. The
only thing that can save the Xce shod ;
will be the invention otta fast&mg. foi
die ends of the laces winch will no awaj j
with the tie and at the same time be j
popular. There nave been seieral rnven
turns ®f tms kind, but none oi them ,
were practical. The principal rouble i
with the gaiter hitherto ha- been the bad
quality of the rubber used m the elastic
sides or gore?. Tneseare now being made
with a new kind of rubber, invented by a
Connecticut man, called “Kelgum. It
is made of vegetable oils, and is said to
be much more durable than the rubber
that has been used. The gaiter is |>opu
lar because it can be piit on and taken%fi.
so much more rapidly than the
styles of shoe, and physicians recommend
its wearing because it does not weaken
the ankle as tie lace and button shoes do. 1
— St. Louis GiWjt Democrat. |
I
UNAPPRECIATIVE.
How little we are apt to appreciate that which
we possess. The hardy wood-sawyer envies th*
wealth of his employer. The rich man envies the
health and strength of his poor neighbor.
“Our mind and our time we employ
In longing for what we have not,
Unmindful of what we enjoy.”
How much better if all exerted themselves to ob¬
tain their heart’s longing. If poor in purse seek to
gain wealth by industrious and frugal habits. If
poor in health seek to use those remedies which are
the best and truest medicines. Among remedies
sold by druggists none is the equal of Botanic
Blood Balm for curing the ills of flesh and blood.
Felix Foster, Atlanta, Ga., says: “I took B. B.
B., for several foul ulcers, which had given me
much trouble and would not heal from a use of
ULCERS other remedies. Within ten days my
health improved, and before I had
used three bottles every sore was entirely healed. It
improved my appetite and gave me flesh and
strength.”
Hudson Clark, Camden, Ark., says : “I was af¬
BAD BLOOD flicted with the severest form
of rheumatism for about 12
years, and suffered extreme misery during all that
while. I also had catarrh so bad it almost stopped
CATARRH my breathing through my nosa.
My flesh in some places looked as
if it had been charred or scalded. My back was sc
lame I could hardly stand. I tried nearly every
RHEUMATISM thing but found no relief
until I tried B. B. B. I used
several bottles and am now as sound and well as
any man in Arkansas.”
J. W. Messer, Howell’s Cross Roads, Cherokee
County, Ga.- writes: I was afflicted with chronic
SORES sores nine years, and had tried many
medicines and they did me no good. I
then tried B. B. B., and eight bottles cured ace
sound and well.” (6)
S. G: RILEY
Physician anti Surgeon.
HAMIXTON CEOlMilA.
Office at the Drug store of Riley & Wil¬
liams. Calls promptly attended day or
night.
II. II. P.
Is an old reliable family medicine, that
lias been proven invaluable for Liver
and Bowel complaints. Guaranteed to
cure Sick Headache. Indigestion, Dyspep¬
sia. .Sour Stomach and Heartburn. Taken
regurlarly it will cure the most stubborn
ease of Habitual Constipation.
No Cure, no pay.
Mau’f by the Barret Drug Co.
For sale by Riley & Williams.
GILDERS LIVER PILLS.
These Pills are justly the most Cele¬
brated and highly Recommended of any
on the market today. Gentle but Effect¬
ive in tiieir action, as a cure for Contipa
tion, Liver Complaint. Biliousness,
Indigestion, etc; they are unsurpassed.
All we ask is a trial, if you are suffering
from any of these Complaints.
GUARANTEED, and Man’f by the
Barrett Drug Co.
Augusta Ga.
For sale by Riley & Williams.
I, W. HOWARD & CO.,
1441—18 1st Avenue, Coliimlras, <i».
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cttoii in the Seed and Gotton Seed
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KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all reu
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