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KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA? -
Entered at the postofficc at
<la., as second-class matter.
Oysters are a favorite dish with oui
legislators at Washington. Iu the
Senate restaurant about twenty-five
bushels a day arc served out, and fully
the same quantity is dealt out in the
Uouse restaurant.
Upon the return of the Squadron of
Evolution to home waters, it is thought
that, in combination with other vessels on
the coast then- will be u grand landing
of the naval brigade for drill and instruc¬
tion in camp routine.
Not every person knows that the sun
test of genuine paper currency is to hold
the bill up to the light so that you can
discern two lines running parallel across
its entire length. These arc a red and a
blue silk thread inside the paper, No
counterfeit has them.
Senator Sawyer has discovered the
value of advertising, The fact was
mentioned in the Pittsburg Dispatch that
he was one of the wealthiest in the list
of Senatorial bachelors and widowers.
Within a few days thereafter he received
72U7 letters from spinsters willing tc
marry him.
A wealthy citizen of Osaka, Japan,
who is the owner of a rich Coppermine,
bus celebrated in a rather peculiar mau-
ner tiie 200th anniversary of the mine
coming into possession of his family.
On that occasion each of his 300 or more
employes received as a memento of the
occasion a swallow tail coat.
The daily rations of a pair of ostriches
on the Fall brook farm, San Diego
County, Cal., are forty pounds of beets
ior breakfast, and for dinner a gallon or
two of grain. For dessert the birds are
given bits of bone. “Gail Hamilton,”
the pride of the farm, is two years old
aud stands nine feet five inches high.
Though the King of Dahomey, against
whom the French in Africa are now at
war, is a very bloodthirsty person, whose
favorite amusement consists in killing
his subjects, he appears to have ad¬
vanced ideas on the equality of the sexes.
His army is largely composed of female
warriors. In a recent battle a number
of black amazons were killed by the
French.
According to a recent official return
the length of the telegraph lines on the
globe is at present about 600,000 miles,
or twenty six times its circumference at
the equator. The length of wire is
1,688,880 miles, or eighty times tha
length of the equator. Europe has tele¬
graph lines measuring 232,270 miles;
America, 176,346; Asia, 60,375; Aus¬
tralia, 26,053, and Africa, 12,973. These
are the land lines. There arc, besides,
950 sub-marine cables of a total length
of 112,701 nautical miles.
Japan is going to hold an exposition
of her owm in the Uyeno Park of Tokio,
this year. It is not to be on the world’s
fair order, however; Government exhib¬
its aside, ouly Japanese products and
works will be exhibited. None the less
it promises to be a show' well worth see¬
ing. There arc to be eight departments
or sections—fine arts, agriculture, horti¬
culture, live stock, sea food, forestry,
mineralogy, metallurgy and machinery.
Ample accommodations for visitors, in
the wav of hotels and restaurants are
promised, as also reduced rates from San
Francisco and other points.
The white population of the Congo, ii •
West Africa, is increasing at quite a
rapid rate. Five years ago, after Stanley
had founded his stations, there were only
al>out 200 white men engaged ia the
various enterprises along the river. The
number has now increased to nearly 500,
some of whom have lived on the river
nine or ten years. Tha gratifying thing
about it is that a fair averago of health is
maintained among thes-e colonists. The
fact would attract world-wide uttention
if these pioneers were having the ex¬
perience which, it is said, was iOrmcrly
the fate of the Governors of Sierra Leone,
the old Governor invariably going home
in his coffin while the new official was
traveling to his field of labor.
only a PAUPSR,
Onlv the face oTTpauper:
Eagerly pressing the window pane;
Heedless alike of the snow and the rain;
Watching the rich sit down to dine,
To their smoking meat and sparkling wine,
Hungrily eveing the tempting fare.
With a look that bespeaks the heart’s de-
ir .
Then turned again to the dismal street,
To the piercing wind and the stinging sleet—
Onlv the face of a pauper.
Only the hands of a pauper:
Tremblingly clutching the tattered shawl;
Bloodless and numb are the Angers small.
Once they were »-osy and plump and fair,
A baby's fingers, untouched by care;
Little more than an infant s now
Are 1 he slim hands pressed to tha throbbing
bro"-,
As with feeble steps she totters on,
To be jostled and pushed by the heartless
throng
Only the hand, e- a pauper.
Oniy the feet of a pauper:
Bleeding and bruised by the icy stone,
Shoes and stockings are all unknown,
Senseless now to the freezing air,
As she hurries on, she knows not where;
On through the streets unshod they roam,
Sheltered no more by the warmth of home;
While the fierce wind roars, and the storm
beats wild
On the ill-clad form of the shrinking child—
Only the feet of a pauper.
Only the cry o[ a pauper: .
Wnrnst from the lip. by the heart', deep
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woe
As the frail form sinks in the drifting snow,
Drowned at once by the shrieking gale,
All unheard is that feeble wail.
Yet He who rules from His throne on high,
Who heareth even the raven’s cry,
Think ye not He hath caught the note,
That rose from tha dying wanderer’s
throat?—
Only the cry of a pauper.
Only the soul of a pauper:
Freed at last from its earthly thrall,
Rising up at its Maker’s call,
Leaving forever the want and woe,
The pain and heartache it knew below,
Borne aloft to that blissful shore.
Where cold and hunger shall pinch no more;
Through the white gates of the city of love,
Info the presence of God above,
Floateth the soul of a oauoer.
-—Mortimer C. Brown , in 1 ankrt Blade.
AN UNEQUAL PARTNERSHIP •
Never dawned a brighter morn iug than
that which ushered inRay Huntington’s
wedding day. Never throbbed a happier
heart than that of the fair girl who, for-
saking home and friends, vowed to 'love, ’
honor and obey him “until death do u
part.”
“She was the belle of the village, and
ought to have had her choice among ii-
all,” exclaimed Carl Trenton, who,
everybody knew, had been refused by
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the bride at least half a dozen times.
“He is so handsome, and rich, too,
they say. Really Nell Aldcn has done
remarkably well,” said more than one
envious maiden.
Ray Huntington, although he was not a
rich man, was advancing rapidly on the
road to wealth. As he was a lawyer in
a distant city, the wedded pair at once
went to the home which he had provided
there, a modest cottage in the suburbs,
very plainly furnished, but as beautiful
as a palace in the eyes of the loving
bride.
“We shall be away from the disagreea¬
ble and bustle, dearest,” said Ray, un-
easily. “I cau lunch at Roger and
Allen’s, and be home for an early tea.
except, perhaps, iu very busy seasons,
Besides, I got this place at a bargain—
it costs dreadfully to rent—and we must
really economize in every way possible,
Me must creep before we can walk,
,e '
.
a 4"'“
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better than being ght in the city. I
am sure that I shoul be crazy in a week
there.
“I don t doubt #--• , returned the rc-
heved husband. r. But you will not be
bothered here at all. I will attend to
the marketing each daj as 1 go to tow c ,
and we will have a quiet little home o f
our own.
r J hat was the beginning. _ Ray Hunt-
ington’s boasted creed was that marriage
was simply a partnership of two eon-
genial souls; a blending of two lives
into a perfect whole, whose thoughts,
whose aims, whose energies, were one.
That was all very well, if our legal
friend hud lived up to his professe 1 be-
lief. But, like many others, he pro-
fessed one thing and lived another,
4Y hile he often declared that a man and
his w'ife were one, his daily life added
most emphatically, “and the map is that
one.’
Pretty Nellie was not long in discover-
ing that fact, and, although grieved that
her exalted idol proved to be but com-
mon clay after all, she made the best of
life as she found it, and succeeded in
eking out the scanty allowance which
was grudgingly given to an extent which
surprised and delighted him.
“It isn’t every man has a wife like
mine,’ he often said to a friend, but
never a word of praise to the toiling wife
herself.
What wonder that the roses in Nellie’s
chceks gave place to colorless lilies, and
“crows’ feet multiplied in the fair face
as added claims taxed her strength and
economy. Tiny feet pattered here and
there; baby voices made the sweetest of
all music to her mother heart, and the
a llied numbers brought added labor to
the patient mother.
Ray Huntington was recognized by the
world-by his world, in which his wife
had ao V**—™* successful man. H e
attended his clubs, and dressed in a man-
acr befitting his station, while his wife
"'ore s abby calico. do not
“Because I must, my dear; you
understand ” he explained, when she
gently chided him for some extravagant
? utla >'- “ quite necessary that one
position should do so. I heard it
hinted that I was to run for mayor next
year. Think of that, my dear.”
And the uncomplaining woman did
think of the proposed honor—thought ol
it w itli added dread—as she toiled in the
kitchen with no help except an ignorant
Swede girl, whose chief recommendation
was her patient love for the little ones.
Once she ventured to suggest an al-
lowance for family use, as the busy law-
yer often forgot to order the necessary
articles, but she was met with indignant
surprise.
“Women know nothing about spend-
iug money. Nellie, I am surprised! I
will attend to it. What! Gretchen wants
more money? Wasn’t it last week that
I gave you two dollars for her?”
“Yes, but she has been here four
weeks. We owe her five dollars now,”
Nellie began with a c rimson face; then
she went on desperately, “mother wrote
me that she was going to visit us next
month. She has never been here—never
seen our children. Charlie must have
" ew sl, »« “" d cIo * he s .= ( ,ab v " eed f
, ^ r best dress
I have m the world, Y ou would not
want me to feel ashamed to welcome my
own dear mother, Ray ?”
“How much money do you want?” he
asked frigidly. least, make
“Fifty dollars, at to us
comfortable and respectable,” she re-
plied with painful hesitation.
“Fifty dollars! I am not made of
money!” he exclaimed, even while his
faithful conscience reminded him that iic
had paid more than that for a club
dinner the week before, and paid it with
a willing smile. “Here, this must do,”
and he counted out four fivc-dollar bills
into her hand.
With one startled, indignant glance,
the wife’s hand shut convulsively over
the money, and she left the room hastily.
“She will make that do,” muttered
her husband, uneasily, watching her.
“Next time I will give her more, and I
really think I will call at Blankton’s and
order one of those new silks-”
The silk came, and Nellie smiled bit-
ter ty as she laid it in the corner of her
bureau drawer.
Charlie rejoiced in new clothes and
reaI “boys’ boots;” baby wore soft new
flannels, Gretchen was paid, but there
was nothing left to replenish the mother's
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wardrobe.
One evening Ray Huntington returned
to find his well ordered house in confu-
s * on - Baby had cried herself to sleep,
wbilc Charlie was crying softly by the
chamber door, where Gretchen was vaiu-
l v tr J in g t0 3 uiet the fevcr-strickeu
‘“ether.
“Oh, papa, will my boo’ful mamma
die? Say, papa, will she die?” wailed
Charlie, creeping timidly to his father’s
skk ‘.
Gretchen looked up wofully as he en¬
tered.
“I will do it in a moment. Ray!” cried
Nellie, with crimson cheeks and strangely
bright eyes. “I only stopped to rest for
a moment, my—my head feels so queerly;
but I will get your tea at once.”
“Lie still, dearest,” he said more
gently than he had spoken for many
months. “Gretchen, take this note to
Doctor Davis, and call as you come back
and ask Mrs. Hall if she will run in for a
few moments.”
Doctor Davis came, a gray-haired _ . man
who had read many of this world s les-
sons aright. dear System
“Overwork, my sir.
SX&r capable, Men don’t
enough, but not sir.
know the value of good wives until they
* ose them, said the old man, bluntly.
“You don’t think—she—my wife—
Nellie—will die?’ cried the startled
lawyer.
4 ‘Perhaps not—hope not. But she is
worked out, and the worst of it is she
will carry her worry and trouble with
ber through her delirium. What is
about partnership, Huntington? I have
heard you define marriage often enough.
How have you used this partner of yours?
Have you shared the profits honestlv?
j'd like to have you compare accounts ;
you will have time enough before your
^rife <r ot s up again. I suppose she has a
mother? Send for her at once. Yes,
ves. I’ll be round in the morning, but
more depends upon lovin rir care than upon
“ilhl . mind I said lovino- rare Gnnd
’’ °
thr
j n the weary time of anxious waiting,
Huntington learned a new meaning of
his Hvorito erred In her delirium whidTebe Nel-
i ie told him many things
would never have mentioned in her ra-
tional moments.
last there came a day when the lit-
tie cottage w'as as silent as death; when
the dread angel hovered on the threshold.
then passed mercifully by; when a hu-
man flower bloomed but to perish, and a
tiny life went out with its first glimpse of
earth.
“Yes, she will live,” said good Doctor
Davis, suspiciously wiping his glasses.
“You have learned your lesson easier
than many men do, Huntington, for you
will have your wife again. If you love
her, cherish her, man—make her happy,
she is your partner in life. She has com-
mon sense, 1 suppose? Well, then, allow
her her share of the profits. Never let
her be ashamed of her husband’s manners,
Idna blunt old man, but I mean well,
t have seen much of this one sided part¬
nership business among married people.
Your wife has as much right to her share
of your income as you have. I hope you’re
not offended, but I’m glad I had the
courage to give you something to think
about. Keep up the loving care, Hunt¬
ington, and your wife will be around in
a month.”
That month was one of pleasure and
sorrow to the repentant husband, but he
had resolved upon a new course of ac-
tion, and as they sat at the table on New
Year’s Eve, he said tenderly:
-‘It was kind of the mother to leave
us to begin the new year together,
Nellie; it shall be the beginning of a new
life for us. Henceforth my ‘partner’ is
an equal with myself. The household is
your branch of the business. I will see
that you have sufficient funds to cover
all expeases in a creditable way. My
wife shall never again feel ashamed be¬
cause of my stinginess.” protested,
“I never was that,” Nellie
loyally. sensible of it,
“Perhaps you were not
but the feeling was there just the same,”
replied her husband firmly. “It shall
never happen again. To-morrow the firm
of Huntington and Wife begins anew,and
on a different basis. I will cherish my
family hex oaf ter.”
And happy years have proved the truth
of his vow.
The Trade in Adulterations.
Of all the dishonest trades, the most
interesting is that which supplies the ma-
terial3 used in adulterating or imitating |
legitimate articles of commerce. L
dropped into one not far from Chatham
Square, and was astonished to see the
ingenuity and scientific skill displayed,
as well as the large amount of business
done. It destroyed many romances piece of to
have the proprietor pour upon a
tissue paper a few drops of “Havana Ex-
tract” and produce a cigarette worthy of
Honradez, or mixed raw spirits, burnt
sugar and oil of otard and have a very
palatable brandy. who his
I asked the proprietor were
chief customers. lie said:
“All aud every sort of people. Candy-
makers are large buyers. They want
imitation flavors for their cheap, so-called
‘French confectionery’. Cigarmaker3 Extract’ use
immense quantities of ‘Havana
while tobacconists that article and Turk-
ish oil. Liquor dealers—both wholesale
and retail—are the heaviest purchasers,
using vast quantities of preparations goods, to
blend and improve their
Spice men, who grind cocoanut shells
into black pepper and cigar boxes into
cinnamon, consume the extracts of these
genuine articles or else imitations of them.
Of course we ask no questions, and
generally we want cash down or else sell
C. O. D.— New York Star.
The Eyes of the Mole.
Carl Hess, the German naturalist, has
proved by minute microscopical investi¬
gation that the eye of the mole is per¬
fectly capable of seeing, and that it is
not short-sighted, as another naturalist
would have U3 believe. Hess maintains
that, in spite of its minute dimensions—
1 millimeter by 0.9 millimeter—the eye
of this little creature possesses all the
necessary properties for seeing that the
most highly developed eyes does, that it
is, indeed, as well suited for seeing as
the eyes of any other mammal, and that
in the matter of refraction it does not
differ from the normal eye. In order to
bear out the theory of short-sightedness,
the physiological reason was adduced
that in its subterranean runs the mole is
accustomed to see things at c'ose dis-
tances> aud that its eye had become
gradually suited to Iicar objects. But to
Hess objects that the mole when
under ground most probably makes no
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abscnce o£ light> but that when he comes
to tbe sur£aCL . > and especially when he
j s swimming, he does use his eyes. In
order to accomplish this< be onl has to
alter the erect position of the hairs which
surround aud cover his eyes, and which
prevent the entry of dirt when he is under
ground, and at the same time to protrude
liis eyes forward.— Nature.
A Remedy for Burns,
The celebrated Germau remedy foi
burns consists of fifteen ounces of the
” cst broken into small pieces,
in two pints of water, and allowed to
become soft, tnen dissol\e it by cans
°* a water bath and add two ounces of
gD'ceriue and six drams of carbolic acid;
continue .he heat until thoroughly dis-
s °Red. On cooling this hardens to an
clastic mass, covered with a shining,
P arc 'bnient-like skin, and may be kept
lor any length of time. When required
* or 1130 14 I s placed for a few- minutes in
a ' vater bath uatil sufficiently liquid and
a PpH ed by means of a broad brush; it
forms in about two minutes a shining,
s ™ oot b, flexible and nearly transparent
skia *
_ Do , Scent _ „ and , Sl ht
A . ” s S -
Have you ever thought how largely a
dog’s “scent” really depends on his
sight? Note how confused he gets in
trying to follow his aosft on a hard sur-
face. Then watch bow he stretches his
neck and throws his head up. And finally
consider how the puzzled guide or hunter
gets down to take a dog’s-eye view ol
the situation, whence every bent twig or
broken blade becomes plainlv visible a*
a pathway in the wilderness .—New Tori
Tribune.
SCIENTIFIC' AND INDUSTRIAL.
Experiments in St. Petersburg hav<
shown that boiling milk greatly reduces
ita nutritiousness.
There is within a few miles of Haze
Green, Ky., a bank of clay that makes a
very superior calcimine when dissolved
in water.
In a paper to the Vienna Academy of
Science, Theodor Gros; has doubted that
sulphur is an clement, believing, for rea-
sons soon to be given, that it is a «am-
pound of carbon with some other *s jet
undetermined elementary substance.
Compound locomotives arc to be tat
railway engines of the future. In com-
petitive trials in England a compound
locomotive consumed twenty-two pet
cent, less fuel than the ordinary loco¬
motive running under exactly the same
conditions.
There is talk in France of utilizing
water courses as a railway motive power
It is proposed that the track shall be laid
on an embankment in the middle of the
current, and that the locomotive shall
have two paddle-wheels dipping into the
water and revolved by it.
In experiment^ recently made for the
substitution of electric lights for the oil
lamps at present in use for lighting the
compasses of vessels at night, it was
found that by bringing an incandescent
lamp close to the compass a deflection
of the needle was produced.
M.
have discovered in a mixture of copper
and lime the beautiful color, azurrino,
the composition of which lias so lono
been a puzzle to artists. His tint is said
to be perfectly unchangeable, and is
identical with the famous Alexandrine
blue.
Colonel B. C. Barkley, of Charleston,
S. C., says that the curlews and sea-gulls
on that coast cat more clams than the en¬
tire population of the city. They pick
them up, carry them into the air,
drops them ou the rocks, which breaks
them open, and then, swooping down,
feast on them.
Cinnamon is the bark of a tree, and is
grown most largely in Java and Ceylon.
Only the young branches are stripped for
the cinnamon bark, but very small
branches are not peeled. Tliebarkisre-
moved in strips and scraped on both
sides, and afterward sun-dried, when it
is ready for commerce.
In Franco, about 6300,000 is to be
spent during the year iu measures against
phylloxera and other insects; 6400,000
odd in encouraging horse breeding;
$280,000 for buying horses and mares
for the stud farms; 6300,000 iu en¬
couraging agricultural improvements and
drainage; -$330,000 toward agricultural]
institutions, and about $200,000 ia
veterinary education.
A chemist of Bockemheim, Germany,
has discovered a new alloy, which is said
to resist the attack of most acid and
alkaline solutions. It contains 15
of copper, 2.34 parts of tin, 1.82 parts
of lead aud 1 part of antimony—being,
in fact, a bronze with the addition of a
little lead and antimony. It is
that the alloy is much better than ebonite.
vulcanite or porcelain for vessels
fittings liable to be acted upon by
chemicals.
Hydraulic power is now being applied
to the manufacture of seamless steel
boats. These boats are claimed to be
proof against the destructive influences
of suu and shower aud to be much more
durable and reliable than the ordinary j
wooden boats. Though made of steel,
the weight will not be greater than that,
of a wooden boat of the same size, and
the buoyancy will consequently be not
less. It is contended that in every re¬
spect the seamless steel boat will be
superior to the wooden one, aud the cost
■ of the one will not be materially greater
thau that of the other.
The Lepers Gof Even.
An interestiug story concerning the
lepers of Tonking is brought by Dr.
Hocquard, who recently returned tf
France from that far-away Asiatic coun
try. The lepers there are kept in largf
settlements near the larger towns. A
Mandarin of high rank some tim<
ago sent invitations to all the member:
of his family to come together to cele¬
brate an anniversary and to offer up
sacrifices to their ancestors. The chief
of the adjacent leper settlement, whe
had heard of the coming ceremony an'!
family party, called upon the Mandarin,
and asked that the gathering be madf
the occasion for giving alms to the Icpei
village. The Mandarin, in a brutal man¬ and
ner, refused to grant the request,
without a word the leper retired from
his presence. When the Mandarin's
guests had all assembled they started for
the pagoda to attend the religious ex¬
ercises. While they were gone, how¬
ever, a throng of lepers stole out of thf
disease-stricken village, and. going to the
Mandarin's house, installed themselves
before the tables all set for the banquet.
The guests of the Mandarin, on returning
from the pagoda, were surprised and
horrified to find the lepers in the
set for them, and at once abandoned
thought of feasting upon what had
already defiled by the touch of the
The latter accordingly had the
all to themselves. For some time
ward, in consequence of this act,
were confined more closely than usual
the village allotted to them .—New
Sun.
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