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STATE NEWS- The Block ol dry goo*** ° f H ; Levi., on Bay ..reel, Brco—c*. wa« consumed by S f e Mon ay The buiM.ng wfl * <, ° ' n,lirtl interior. H»U> .be «" d were insured- Mrn. Kitty diver, wife of the late Col. J M. Oliver, of Perry, died Sun day morning. Mrs. Oliver had been a confirmed invalid fur several years with rheumatism, and was a great sufferer She leaves two brothers and one sister. The Wayne County Troop, Company I, ot the First Georgia Cav alry, has broken camp at Linder’s Bluff, on Hie Ahamaba river, where they bad been camping for a couple of days and all members are benefited by the trip, as everything was done ac cording to military tactics, and the same instructions were given and the same duty performed as in the regular state encampment. Mayor Bribe’s circulating library has opened up for business and hundreds of the poorer people of Macon have been enjoying an insight into thing that have been bidden mysteries to them and were reading magazines and newspapers furnisied to them, as the result of the thoughtful plan evolved by the Mayor. It is Mayor Price’s plan "to put a newspaper into every home and furnish every home with magazines and good reading mat ter. The many friends throughout the state of Dr. J. A. Stewart will be pained to learn that this distinguished physi cian is critically ill at Conyers, and grave fears fnr his recovery are enter tained. The doctor is a confederate veteran He entered the army from this place as captain of a company of brave men, and owing to valiant con« duct was promoted to major. After the War he relumed to Conyers and resumed the practice of his profession, and he has done an extensive practice ever since. P. S—The doctor has since died. Ordinary's Advertisements. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. To All Whom it May Concern: J. Chestney Smith, County Administrator, having, in proper form, applied to me for permanent letters of administration on the estate of Mrs. J. D. Sherrell, late of said county, this is to cite all and singular the creditors and next of kin of Mrs. J. D. Sherrell to be and appear at my office in Griffin, Ga., on the first Monday in April, by 10 o’clock a. m., 1899, and to show cause, if any they can, why permanent administration should not t be granted to J. Chestney Smith, County Administrator, on Mrs. J. D. Sherrell’s estate. Witness my hand and official signature, this 6th day of March, 1899. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. Whereas, A. J. Walker, Administrator of Miss Lavonia Walker, represents to the Court in his petition, duly filed and en tered on record, that he has fully admin istered Miss Lavonia Walker’s estate. This is therefore to cite all persons con cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said Adminis trator should not be discharged from his administration, and receive letters of dis mission on the first Monday in May, 1899. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. February 6th, 1899. TO THE EAST. shoo saved BY THE SEABOARD AIR LINE. Atlanta to Richmond sl4 50 Atlanta to Washington 14 50 Atlanta to Baltimore via Washing- ton 15.70 Atlanta to Baltimore via Norfolk and Bay Line steamer 15.25 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Nor- folk 18.05 Atlanta to Philadelphia via Wash ington 18.50 Atlanta to New York via Richmond and Washington 21.00 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, Va and Cape Charles Route 20.55 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, Va , and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company, via Wash ington 21.00 Atlanta to New York via Norfolk, Va., Bay Line steamer to Balti more, and rail to New York 20.55 Atiapta to New York via Norfolk and Old Dominion S. S. Co (meals and staleroom included) 20.25 Atlanta to Boston via Norfolk and steamer (meals and stateroom in cluded) 21.50 Atlanta to Boston via Washington and New York 24.00 The rate mentioned above to Washing ‘ m. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston are $3 less than by any other all rail line. The above rates apply from Atlanta Tickets to the east are sold from most all points in the territory of the Southern States Passenger Association, via the Seaboard Air Line, at $3 less than by any other all rail line. °r tickets, sleeping car accommoda tions, call on or address | B. A. NEWLAND, Gen. Agent Pass Dept WM. BISHOP CLEMENTS, 1 1 ■ A., No. 6 Kimball House, Atlanta .'o-lu-bac for tiny Veins. •‘‘ ltecJ , l °l>acc° baoit cure, makes weak jtrona, pu r e , toe.*, All druaaista OEIIM CELLS OF LIFE. THEY RETAIN VITALITY EVEN AFTER APPARENT DEATH. A Startling Theory Showing That Inatant Death I. an Impossibility and That We May Be Coiiacioua For I Some Time After Diaaolatioa. “Yon often meet with the phrase “death was instantaneous,” and you believe it. but instant death is impossi ble. A professor has been studying the subject, a man of renown in his own world, and he has discovered certain important data proving conclusively that no one can meet with instant death. He works out his theory on the data afforded by the physiology of cells. He states that no one yet has proved the difference between a dead and a live brain cell. When this has been done, then we can more easily ascertain how long a time elapses before the death of a cell takes place. But, first, what is a cell? Tc be brief, both plants and animals —including, of course, man —are built up of units, ele mentary units, which you can only de tect under the microscope. Now, each tiny cell is a vital elementary unit. We are nothing but highly developed results of the individual vitality of huge quan tities of these fundamental cells. As this is undeniably so, how is it possible, by simple decapitation, say, to cause instant death in the millions of cells which compose the brain ? It is known that brain cells have their own cell life and are liable to live a certain time after they are cut off from outside nutrition without the supply of any blood whatever from the body. The nourishment is supplied inside the cell walls, and it can go on living after be ing cut off from other resources. From this argument it is clear to the professor that these millions of cells in the brain must continue to live after death has apparently intervened —that is, when death appears, but only on the outside, to have been instantaneous. After a man’s leg is cut off, or an animal's, you can stimulate the nerves for a long time, but you cannot do it after the cells are dead. You cannot get any response at all. Electricity has been thought to be the germ of life, but this is a fanciful the ory when confronted with the new laws as by research established. The countless millions of cells of which our bodies are entirely composed contain the germ of life, and it is im possible for these to bo visited with an instantaneous unconsciousness. You can take living cells from a pig’s glands, and this same professor will demonstrate to you that after these glands have gone through their prepara tion the cells are still living. But the curious fact remains that at present there are no data showing the supposed length of time it takes for the cells of the brain to empty themselves of the germ of consciousness or life, but it is certain that consciousness does not cease immediately after, say, a head has been cut off a body. The belief, however, is that at least four or five minutes must elapse ere death finally steps in to arrest life. It has been noticed in the case of a decapitated head that the cheeks remain red for some minutes after the sever ance, a conclusive proof that the cells are living. The heads of decapitated animals have continued to bite and snap at the air for three or four minutes after sev erance. This phenomenon is well mark ed in the head of a tortoise separated from the body. The life of the brain, therefore, must be retained for some time after the head is severed, from the very fact that, though being separated from the trunk, its nutritious blood and gases, taken from the fund stored up in the cells, are in sufficient quantity to I carry on life, but for what exact period is unknown. Do the brain cells die simultaneously ? No, because they have their own indi vidual cell life. Our scientific friend also makes the very startling statement that in many diseases the brain cells, although the person to all appearances is dead, may live for three or four hours after supposed death has taken place. In the case of a healthy person being hanged, seeming death is not instanta neous at all. Organic motion is arrest ed, but real death is certainly not in stantaneous. The brain cells are the last to die, and life is not really extinct un til rigor mortis sets in, which, in the case of a healthy person dying sudden ly, is protracted. Now, when it is known that an ordi narycell lives after being removed from a living body, why, then, cannot the brain cells retain their life when the conditions immediately surrounding them are much the same as during their previous existence? The head of a chicken was ent off. and after certain stimuli had been made it opened its mouth and gasped five minutes after its head had been decapitated from the body. The head of a certain animal was cut off and found susceptible to light for many minutes after it was apparent ly dead A strong electric light was held in front of the eyes and moved alternately near to and far away from them. The pupils of the eyes followed the light in its movements, expanding and contracting, that is to say. focus ing themselves upon the light as it moved backward and forward. It was proved that the anima) was capable of smelling by the use ort certain pungent odors placed near the nasal organs— and all this because the brain cells were yet living RiiiKing: Duck* Withoot Water. Ducks don't need water to thrive. There are many duck raising plants in this country where thousands of the fowls are bred each year for market and where there is not even a puddle for them to flounder in One of these farms is credited with an output of 20,000 ducks a year SUNDAY IN ENGLAND IN 1760. The Pleasure Seekers Were More Vumerons Than Charehcoers. Would you like to know how the peo ple of London observed their Sunday 150 years ago ? The churches were open, of course, and there were two services in every one, and in some there were three; also the responsible and respect able citizen took his family to church, as a matter of course. He made his apprentices go to church as well and demanded the text when they came home as a proof of attend ance. Alas, he little knew that the boys weie larking all the morning, and when the congregation came out stop ped the old women and got the text from them I However, those who went elsewhere formed the majority. The fields round the town were filled with companies of men. called rural societies, who ram bled about all the morning and dined together at a tavern. The high consta bles went their rounds among the vil lages pretending to prevent profanation of the day, but they were squared by the publicans. Informers were about threatening publicans, barbers and greengrocers for carrying on trade on the Sunday morn ing unless they paid a little blackmail A shilling was understood to meet the case. Barbers sent their apprentices on Sunday morning to shave the prisoners in the Fleet for nothing, so that they might get practice. Children were baptized after after noon service, and a supper was given afterward to celebrate the occasion. At this snpper the nurse, it was allowed, could blamelessly get drunk. The beadles of churches were bribed by beggars to let them sit on the steps and ask charity of the congregation coming out. It was the best business of the week. The rails before the houses of gentlemen were crowded with beg gars. When the ladies got home after church, they did not disdain to slap their servant if dinner was delayed. The fields between the Tottenham court road and the Foundling hospital were the resort of the sporting fraternity, who were assembled to enjoy the inno cent diversions of duck hunting and cat hunting, with prizefighting, quar terstaff, wrestling and other sports. The pleasure gardens were open all day long. Peoplfe crowded to them in the early morning for breakfast and staid all day. At 3 there was an ordi nary, in the afternoon and evening an organ recital; there was tea in the al coves, and in the evening there was supper. In the evening, when they reluctant ly came away, with as much punch as they could hold, they formed them selves into bands for purposes of pro tection, while the footpads looked out on the road for single passengers, or, haply, drunken passengers, whom it was easy and a pleasure to rob. And this was the way of a Sunday in June or July, 1760.—London Queen. JAMES COULDN’T IMAGINE. A Story That u New York Clubwoman Tells About Herself. Here is a gojd story which a clubwo man tells about herself. “At one time,’" she says, “we had a colored butler who staid with us for years, and who admired my husband immensely. He thought that Dr. H. was a marvel of manly beauty, as well as the embodiment of all the virtues, domestic, professional and otherwise. Os course I quite agreed with the but ler on this point, but the fact is I some times pined to have him pass his en thusiastic compliments around to the family and not bestow them all on the doctor. So one morning, when Dr. H. had just left the breakfast table and was even then to be seen, an imposing I picture, as he stood on the front steps drawing on his gloves, I remarked to James: “ ‘Dr. H. is a handsome man, isn’t he?’ “ ‘Yes, ma'am. 'Deed an he is, ma’am!’ with gratifying enthusiasm. “Then, hoping to get a rise from James, I added with an absentminded air, as if I scarcely knew what I said, but was just uttering my inmost thoughts: “ ‘How in the world do yon suppose that such a handsome man as Dr. H. ever happened to marry such a homely woman as I am ?’ “Well, James just stopped short and rolled his eyes and shook his head as if he gave it up. Then he ejaculated: “ ‘Heaven knows, ma'am!’ ” —New York Sun. I.lKfit From Sagar. A phenomenon, the cause of which has not yet been satisfactorily explain ed, was described at a meeting of the British association. Disks of loaf sugar were mounted on a lathe and rapidly rotated while a hammer played lightly against them. An almost continuous radiation of light was thus produced from the sugar. It was shown that the light did not arise from heating of the sugar, and it is believed to be caused by some change taking place in the sugar crystals. The act of crystalliza tion is known to be sometimes accom panied by flashes of light The practi cal bearing of these experiments is on the question of the possibility of obtain ing artificial light by methods as yet untried.—Youth’s Companion. A Poser. Mrs. Jibbins (after gazing on a globe in a shop window) —Well, nothing won’t persuade me but what the world's flat Mrs. Trimmins —Well, Mariar, if the world's flat, ’ow can yer account for 'Averstock hill?—London Punch. Wan Gathered In. Watkyns—What did you««ay to your wife, anyhow, when you proposed? B jones— W ell—l—er w ell—th e f act is, Mrs. Bjones was a widow when 1 married her. —Somerville Journal. TEA Table ETIQUETTE. Quaint Custom* Oace (ibicrvrd fry Knigliah Dameg. Tea drinking has become very fash ionable among ns of late years, almost as ranch so as it was in England a cen tury ago, but the prevailing customs at the table are different. The “teacup times of hood and hoop” had their own etiquette, of a sort not likely to be re vived. What should we think now of a fashionable lady who cooled her tea with her breath ': Yet Young says of a certain bewildering Lady Betty: H» r two red lips effected eephyr* blow To cool the Bohoii liud inflame the beau, While one white Auger and a thumb conspire To lift the cup and make the world admire. Again a passage in contemporary lit erature shows that it was a lack of good manners to take much cream or sugar in one's tea. Says a lady of qual ity to her daughter; “1 must further advise you, Harriet, not to heap such mountains of sugar into yonr tea, nor to pour such a deluge of cream in. Peo ple will certainly take you for the daughter of a dairymaid. " Ceitain other iu toms may be re membered in this country among us who had grandmothers trained in the ceremonies of a later day. One of them consisted in putting the spoon in the cup to show that no more tea was de sired ; another was that of turning over the cup in the saucer for the same pur pose. Etiquette also demanded that the tea should be tasted from the spoon, and that the hostess should then inquire, “Is your tea agreeable?” Certain serr. pulous old ladies ask that now, and the question savors of a more sedate and gentle day than this. —St Louis Republic. AN EXPENSIVE EXPERIMENT. The Head Bookkeeper Finally Bal ance* III* Account*. A south side man who is a clerk in one of the Iwding banks on this side of the river was in a communicative mood last night. During a conversation about various things he took on a retrospective air and said, “There is nothing like the faithful discharge of one's duties, but it is sometimes an expensive experi ment. ” On being questioned as to the cause of the remark he replied; “Well, it re minds me of an experience I had while employed in a prominent Fourth ave nue bank. I don't mind telling it to you. The head bookkeeper was a char acter in many ways. Method was his hobby. He had away of doing every thing. and he never varied from the rules he set down. Exactness in his ac counts was a particular fad, and he spared no pains in carrying his ideas into effect. One afternoon in balancing our books it was found he, was short 1 cent. We searched and searched, but when it came to the usual time for go ing home that cent was still missing. “Do you think the head bookkeeper would allow us to go? Not much. Sev eral of us had engagements we wanted to fulfill, but it made no difference. Supper time came, and we were no fur ther ahead than when we started. Headed by the bookkeeper, we repaired to a neighboring restaurant for supper and then returned to work. After sev eral hours the missing cent was found and the accounts balanced. But in fig uring up it was discovered that in searching for the discrepancy of 1 cent the bank had incurred a bill for suppers to the amount of $7.50. ” —Detroit Free Press. All American Children. “Do you not have trouble with so many nationalities?” the spectator asked of the principal of a large school in the crowded tenement part of the city. “Oh, we hang the flag over the school platform,” was the answer, “and have the regular exercise of salut ing it, and the children become very patriotic indeed. They will not own, in most cases, that they are not Ameri cans. ” “Yes,” said the other teacher, “I often ask, ‘Will the German chil dren in the room stand up?' The Ger mans are more wedded to their father land, api>arently, than other immi grants, for a few though not by any meanshhalosf —of them usually rise to this invitation. ‘Now let the Italian chil dren stand,’ generally brings no re sponse at all, though the school is crowded with them in my district. But when I end up by saying, ‘Will the American children stand up?’ the whole schcolrises joyfully.”—Outlook. A* to Providence. A country parson went to see a hum ble parishioner and, if possible, to com fort him some little under heavy trou ble which had befallen. The pastor found the homely old man in his deso late cottage alone. He said many things, and added that he must try to take all affliction humbly, as appointed to ns by Providence. “Yes,” said the good old man, who was imperfectly instructed in theology', “that’s right enough, that is. But somehow that there old Providence have bin ag’in me all along, but I reckon as there's one above as 11 put a stopper on he if he go too fur. ” Baltimore News. Wanted Thein All. Julia Ward Howe was once talking with a dilapidated bachelor, who retain ed little but his conceit. “It is time now,” he said, pompously, “for me to settle down as a married man, but I want so much. I want youth, health, wealth, of course, beauty, grace” “Yes,” said Mrs. Howe, sympathet ically, “you poor man. you do want them all. ” The right leg is far more subject to accidents than the left. It has been found that the ratio is alx>ut 13 serious accidents to the right leg to three to the left The practice of kissing under the mistletoe is of very ancient origin, as it dates from the days of the Druids, when nodonbt it had a religious mean- mum jICASTORIi ■ For Infanta and Children. f ASTORliliThe Kind You Have I Always Bought AWgetable Preparation for As- I ■ # Il ting theStomachsandltowelsof ■ til 6 , $ I ' /Os ” ZL27- I Signature //I y I Promotes Digeslion.Cheerful- ■ £ ijv | ness and Rest. Contains neither ■ Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. vl #ll*l** i Not Narcotic. H *t \\ |, - '■ i A V IJlxfcnrut * | Bfm □ I t * /rujt St*<i * ’ 99 feX M v hppfrrtiUii , 9| I | b II p f “ Ih CarbanGto S—Lt ■ ’ Qi ii .? « //.jry.ij Sctti - . 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