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* WONDERFUL CATALOGUE.
The Work Done on the List of Boo>*» In
. the British iummus.
A wonderful catalogue—in fact *be
most remarkable production of Its ki a lu
the whole world—is the general oata iguo
of the British museum loading room. Nor
is this surprising, considering that this
reading room is itself the most wonderful
library in the world, and that its many
millions of volumes, if placed in a single
row would extend'to nearly 27 miles.
Every reader of the museum-la familiar
with the great circular shelves in the cen
ter of the reading room, which have been
constructed to take the almost innumer
able volumes of this mammoth catalogue.
It might bo supposed that these volumes
would grow in number with the increase
of the library until they came to occupy a
gigantic apartment all to themselves. The
contrary is the case. Whereas they origi
nally consisted of nearly 3,000 folio vol
umes, they are being steadly reduced, so
that it is hoped that ultimately there will
only be about a third of this number. This
Is due to the fact that formerly the cata
logue was written, but it is now printed.
It is supposed that by the time we have en
' tered the twentieth century the printing of
this enormous work—under the editorship
of Mr. A. W. K. Miller—will be complete.
Not that in reality such a compilation can
ever he really complete, for there will al 3
ways be accessions to enter. - The mere
entering up of accessions costs the museum
from £BOO to £I,OOO a year, while for the
printing of the catalogue Itself for many
years past the government has made a
grant to the trustees of about £3,000 a
year.
It has no doubt surprised many persons
to observe that the catalogue volumes are
of different colors. Some are blue, some
are green and others are red. The explana
tion of this curious arrangement is very
simple. There are three copies—the read
er’s copy, a reserve copy and a working
copy. When any alteration has to be made
in the reader’s copy, a reserve copy is put
in its place while this is being done. The
working copy is for the use of the officials.
The system on which the Catalogue is
compiled is a very interesting one. It is
based on the famous 91 rules drawn Up in
1839 by Panizzi, the first museum libra
rian.
When the present catalogue is entirely
completed, the authorities will enter upon
the publication of a great subject cata
logue. Provisionally Installments of such
a work have already been issued by Mr.
Fortescue.—London Mail.
What the Greek Has.
“Whatdo you think of the Greeks now?”
is a question often asked me, and it is gen
erally accompanied by a smile, for the
Englishman in his heart always believes
that might is right and that a nation
which has been defeated by a race nearly
20 times its size must have committed
some enormous sin. But before I went
out I did not think much of the Greeks
one way or other. I only thought of their
cause, and it seems to me certain that the
historian who in a hundred years narrates
the dismemberment of the Turkish empire
| and the deliverance of the peoples now
under its sway will speak of this quixotic
| attempt of Greece with natural enthusi
asm. As to the Greeks themselves, their
f failings, like our own, are obvious enough.
| They are, it is true, rather strange failings
for so old a race, for they are the failings
of children.
I remember a fifth form master in a
great public school once putting the em
barrassing question, “What had the
Greeks?” and after passing it down the
form in vain he exclaimed, with a sigh:
“Oh, don’t you even know that? Why, a
lively imagination.” Well, the Greeks
have retained that quality in daily life,
though not in art. Like imaginative chil
dren, they romance with entire ease, and
the fertility of their invention is only
equaled by the simple confidence with
which they credit-the Inventions of others.
By the time one fiction has been exposed
they are greedy for the next, and it is in
variably supplied. This peculiarity gives
an obvious advantage to journalism, and
I suppose there is no country in which
journalism is so dominant and so harmful.
But'that was not the worst result of tho
imaginative faculty in the war. It made
the men conscious of danger and oversen
sitive to it. They rated the risk even higher
than it was. They realized to the full the
horror of death. Perhaps they exaggerated
it. Poor and hard as the life of the com
mon Greek Is he loves it. He much prefers
it to death.—Contemporary Beview.
Edward Everett Hale.
Dr. Hale served the ministry in Wash
ington for a year or two and from 1846 to
1856 in Worcester, where he is affectionate
ly remembered in many ways and partic
ularly as founder of its public library, and
ho was commissioned pastor of the South
Congregation church 41 years ago, where
he is marrying and baptizing the children
and grandchildren of his early parishion
ers. But he does not belong to the South
Congregational church. He has always
maintained that to givp oneself fully to
any particular work, and especially to
that of the ministry, to make the gift real
ly great, one must enlarge oneself by the
widest service which intensifies the man
and makes him able to offer a worthy
offering. So he has had a planetary influ
ence through his institution of “Ten
Times One Is Ten” and “Lend a Hand,”
of W'adsworth clubs and Lend a Hand
clubs all over the world, in every sort of
philanthropic work, economic, social and
industrial.
His progress through the west a year or
two ago was a kind of peaceful triumph.
No name is more familiar on the lips of
good men everywhere. His literary work
has been stupendous, reaching to 50 vol
umes and tenfold 50 volumes in uncollect
ed articles, studies and sermons. He has
caught the popular fancy as few purely
literary men have ever done with “My
Double and How He Undid Me” and*‘The
Man Without a Country.” But these are
only unconsidered trifles in the bibliog
raphy of the prolific author who is now
delighting everybody with the reminis
cences of his rich acquaintance with men’
and things, the expression of a ripe mind,
full without prolixity, liberal without
garrulity and instructive without pedan
try.—Time and the Hour.
Emergency Doctors In Paris.
In Paris a list of doctors ready to attend
in case of emergencies oedtarring in the
night is published for the convenience of
the public. Originally, we learn, a fee of
10 francs was the standard payment, but
more recently a pool has been instituted
and the result divided quarterly among
the doctors. This system has alienated the
better class practitioner, and now the em
ployment of the whble class has become
endangered by the death of a patient treat
ed by one of the members who lives on
£ls per annum, with a stock of instru
ments as scanty as his income.— London
Hospital.
A BEE’S RESTLESS LIFE.
It Begins Work When Three Days Old
and Dies a* Forty-Sve.
G. W. Reynolds of Los Angeles,
one of the oldest traveling men in the
United States, has a ranch of which he
enjoys telling even more than he does
of the experiences through which he
has passed during his half century upon
the road. The ranch is near San Diego,
Cal. The chief product is honey. This
product is gained from two apiaries,
which Mr. Reynolds visits every time
his business permits him to go to south
ern California. •
“In my apiaries, which are cared for
by my son,” said he, “there are 140
stand of bees. The honoy season lasts
from April to July. Last season my
bees yielded 40,000 pounds of honey,
which sells in that country in bulk lots
at 4 cents a pound. Two of the hives
gave over 500 pounds each. For ten
years I have been interested in bees in a
small way, and I take greater interest
in them every year. A hive or stand of
bees is worth $2.50. In it are the queen,
the drones and the workers, a total
population of from 20,000 to 25,000
bees.
“This very good sized colony,” he
cqntinued, “resides in a hive or wooden
box. In the hive are a dozen frames 18
by 7 inches. In these the bees make or
deposit the honey, a foundation of wax
having been first placed in each frame
by the beekeeper, so that the bees may
have something to build upon. The
honey is taken out of the frames every
other week during the honey season.
While doing so there is little need of
protecting the hands. The bees seem to
be most inclined to sting one in the
face. So, as a precaution, the man who
is removing the honey from the hives
wears a straw hat, from the brim of
which is hung a silk veil, like they have
to do up in the Klondike country to
ward off the summer mosquitoes.
“The queen is an absolute monarch
within her dominions. She is the un
disputed boss of the job. An ordinary
bee lives during the working season on
ly 45 days. Young ones are being hatch
ed out all the time. A bee goes to work
at the tender age of 8 days and hustles
like a veteran for 42 day a Then it is
just naturally all tired out, I suppose,
for it diea The queen lives longer, and
when a$ young queen comes into exist
ence in the hive she drives the old
queen out. Her loyal subjects follow
her in her banishment, and that is what
makes the swarm.
“In southern California the bees make
water white honey when the black sage
is in blossom. When the white sage is
flowering, the honey has an amber
tinge. In winter the bees make no hon
ey. Seventy-five carloads of the article
are shipped out of San Diego county in
good years. ” —Denver Republican.
GREATEST OF COLONIZERS.
Much of the Earth Owes Its Settlement to
the Finding of Gold.
It has been well said that gold is the
greatest of colonizers, and this has prov
ed especially true in the last half of the
present century. To what lone regions
the footsteps of man were attracted in
the earliest times by the discovery of
gold we may not know, but within the
memory of living men great regions of
the earth’s surface have owed their set
tlement and occupation solely to the
finding by search or accident of a few
shining payticles in the earth.
California was a remote and outlying
province of Mexico, inhabited by Indi
ans, gathered in missions or scattered
abroad, and cattle barons and their de
pendents, visited by a few ships each
year in search of a freight of hides,
when the picking up of a few grains of
gold in the banks of a mill race called
the geld seekers from the fopr quarters
of the c arth and transformed a wilder
ness into a populous empire.
Australia was a corner of the earth
selected on account of its remoteness
from their former home as a place of
banishment for British criminals when
the gleam of gold illuminated it and
filled the distant harbors with sails and
their shores with cities.
South Africa might have remained
forever a grassy waste, the home of sav
ages contending with the Boers and the
British for the possession of illimitable
pastures, had not gold called the miner
and those who follow him to build Jo
hannesburg.—Kansas City Times.
The Sea.
It is the sea which ennobles every
thing. Between the line and the surf
there was but the ancient foreshore,
covered with prickly tamarisks and
mauve colored heath, with yellow sand
conspicuous here and there. At the lim
it of the foreshore the rugged border
line cut clear into a deep and somber
blue. It is she—blue as any grape on
this cluster which hangs in the cooling
breeze. The azure deepens, filling up a
good half of the range of sight; the
white sail of a fishing smack floats
alone, like a hollow shell; the eternal
monotone of ocean is borne upon the
ear. Draw near and see the leaping sil
ver foam.
Above this intense blue the sky is trans
parently, superbly pale, and the stars
are hurrying to light their lamps. There
is not a living soul, a plant, nor
any sign of the hand of man. There
might be nereids and fauns dancing
on the strand, as in the days when the
world was young.—H. A. Taine in
“Journeys Through France. ’’
Caught Napping.
"Where did the police catch their
Sian?”
"Found him asleep on a seat in the
park.”
“Oh, I see. Then, I presume, they
arrested him on a bench warrant ”
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Nipped In the Bod.
Mudge—Which is proper to say—
“ Lend me $10,” or “Loan me §10?”
Wickwire—lt won’t do you any good
to say either. —Indianapolis Journal.
No Getting Vast Hh: Bare.
Manchester, in Arinins < ouuty, has a
colored baseball nine that J.as been beat
ing everything in soutbci i Ohio. Not
long since they tept word t > West Union,
the county seat of that cor. aty, that they
wished to arrange for a gan a with the col
ored boys at that place. Although West
Union had no regularly organized nine,
the challenge was accepted. A team was
got together and put to practice.
The day for the game arrived, and the
two teams met on the fair grounds. The
West Union boys had several players in
their team who had never been in a match
game and knew as little about the rules
as they did about playing. One of them
was Pete Johnson, a tali, rawboned darky,
who was assigned to hold down first base.
Pete’s hands were as big qs a tarn door,
and when he opened them out it looked
as if it were impossible for a ball to pass
him.
The game was called, and the visitors
took the bat. The first man up hit an
easy little pop up to first base. Pete got
under it. It fell plumb'lnto his open
hands, but bounced out and rolled to one
side. The batter reached his base. Pete
picked up the ball, and, stepping up to
the base, hit the runner in the back with
the hand Containing the ball and almost
knocked the breath out of him.
He stood bolding the ball, apparently
wafting for the runner to vacate the base.
Presently he said:
“You’seout, niggah.”
“Naw, I isn’t out, nutber,” replied the
runner.
“Mistah niggah, I sez you’seout,” re
peated the burly first base man. ■
“Naw, I isn’t out,” protested the.run
ner. “I wuz on my base when you
touched me.”
“An you sez you isn’t out?”
“Course I isn’t out, man. You fro’ de
ball to de pitcher.”
The umpire called out that tho man
was safe, but Pete took no heed. He ran
his hand down into his pants pockets and
drew out an ugly looking razor. Strik
ing a menacing attitude, be again directed
bls attention to the runner and said:
“Mistah niggah, I sez once mb’ you’se
out. Now, isn’t you out?” and he opened
the blade of the razor.
“ Yessir, yessirl” replied the now thor
oughly frightened runner. “I’zo out—l’ze
out!” and he hurried off the base.
That ended the game. The visitors saw
clearly that they had no possible show of
getting past first base.—Ohio State Jour
nal.
The Political Secrets of Dr. Uerz.
An opinion on the Dr. Cornelius Herz
affair has been submitted tome. It is that
it has been revived to alarm some illustri
ous Italians. King Humbert is to visit
Berlin on the morrow of the anniversary
of Sedan. Dr. Herz was charged in this
decade to negotiate the desertion by Italy
of tho triple alliance. About £1,000,060
was to have been spent, £600,000 of which
was to go into Italian pockets. If he were
now to “reveal” what he knows, ft would
be extremely awkward for some upper
most personages In Rome and for a few
living French statesmen. M. Spuller was
favorable to the plan of buying Italy out
of the triplice. Ho was such a plain, hon
est man and so well satisfied to live like a
struggling student that Ido not believe he
had personally any reason to be afraid of
Dr. Herz opening his mouth, but there
were colleagues of hia who trembled.
In the present state of Europe Italy
might help to make the scale tilt over one
way or another. It would be more pleas
ant for Russia to hold her by revelation
made through Dr. Herz than by heavy
subventions. There can be no sort of
doubt that Herz was engaged in a mission
to Rome by a syndicate of French parlia
mentarians that included M. Spuller. If
there were not a colossal motive for seeing
Aim, a committee of 30 of the chamber of
deputies would not have first sent’two
members to Bournemouth and then pro
posed, because Dr. Herz required it, to gp
there en masse. A most eminent diplo
mat—l shall not say what power ha repre
sented in Rome—when Herz was pulling
wires there once said to me that he could
only account for different things which
came to his knowledge by assuming that
Herz bad nearly detached Italy from the
triple alliance.—Paris Cor. London Truth.
Japanese Newspapers and “ Devils.”
The Japanese newspaper, as desori bed in
a letter from Tokyo to the New York Post,
fa a curious product of the borrowed civi
lization of the mikado’s empire.
Practically there is in it no telegraphic
news, and the editorial articles are ingen
ious studies in the art of saying certain
things without saying them in away to
warrant the censor’s suppression of them,
for the minister of state for the Interior
has power to suspend any paper when in
his opinion it pays anything prejudicial to
order, authority or morality.
Not infrequently the censor has occasion
to write an order for the suppression of a
newspaper, and when ho does it he is brief,
but wonderfully polite.
He puts the honorifles “o” or “go” be
fore all the nouns and verbs. Prefixed to
a noun “o” means honorable and toa verb
it means honorably. Similarly “go”
means august, augustly. So the order to
the editor of the offending newspaper
when it arrives will read like this:
“Deign honorably to cease honorably
publishing august paper. Honorable edi
tor, honorable publisher, honorable chief
printer, deign honorably to enter august
jail.”
The honorable editor with his honorable
coworkers bows low before the messenger
and then accompanies him to the august
jail, chatting meanwhile of the weather,
of the flower shows or of the effect of the
floods on the rice crop. Centuries of breed
ing under Japanese etiquette have made it
impossible for any one to show annoyance.
True to His Bringing Up.
A writer in The Indepenent has discov
ered something rare—a donkey boy in
Cairo with a sense of the ideal Most boys
of his profession are a good natured lot,
but few are the vices they cannot teach.
Little Hassan, on the contrary, seems to
have principles and Is quietly stanch in
his adherence to them.
Once he refused a cigarette, says the
traveler, and in my surprise I almost lost
my balance.
“What! Not smoke, Hassan?” said I.
“I thought all the donkey boys smoked.”
“I don’t,” said Hassan, who looked
about 11, was short, very brown, very
Scantily dressed, quite dirty, had only one
eye and trotted behind the donkey with
rounded shoulders and head craned for
ward. “I don’t. If I did, my family
would beat me, and quite right too.”
“But who are you and who are your
family?” I asked.
“Ah!” be said proudly. “We are Su
danese. ' In the Sudan we are strict. To
'■smoke, to use wine, to drink coffee, not to
pray—these are shameful things, and. if a'
man dees anything in.pure they hang him
to a tree with bis face toward the sun.”
POLLY’S DANDER UP?
Inflamed at Sight of an OfTenalve Bird a
V fait or Wore on Her Hat.
A bridal couple who put in several
days recently taking in the sights of
the capital enjoyed themselves im
mensely until the day preceding their
departure. It then occurred to the bride
that she had not called upon “dear
Fanny,” who liad been her chum dur
ing her days at the seminary. Now,
Fanny was still enjoying single blessed
ness, and this may have had something
to do with the anxiety of the bride to
call upon her maiden chum. George de
murred feebly, but at last consented to
pay a formal call. The bride dressed
herself in a fetching gown and placed
upon her saucy head a Parisian dream
in the way of a hat The hat wus one
of those indescribable creations of the
milliner’s art, a mkss of flowers with a
bird or two partially concealed in the
foliage, so to speak.
The pair went gayly forth and in a
hotel coupe were soon at the door of
Fanny’s residence. Their cards were
taken and they were ushered into the
drawing room. While awaiting the
coming of her friend the bride’s atten
tion was attracted to a large cage con
taining a splendid parrot She chirruped
cooingly to the imprisoned bird and
wished she might take him out of his ,
cage and caress him. George remarked
that he looked tame enough and sug
gested the opening of the door of the
cage. Suiting action, to the word, he
opened the door and the released bird
calmly walked forth and strutted
about, blinking his beady eyes know
ingly. The bride, with usual calls of
“Poll, pretty Poll I” coaxed the bird to
ward her, and poll proceeded to climb
up the rounds of the chair upon which
the lady was sitting and perched herself
upon the arm of the chair. The parrot
uttered guttural cries of “Polly, Polly,”
this word seemingly comprising her en
tire vocabulary.
The bird accepted the caresses, and
apparently all was serene, but without
an instant’s warning she uttered a
scream of rage and flew at the lady’s
headgear, alighting fairly thereon, and
then for a few minutes the air was fill
ed with flying feathers and bits of flow
ers, while the atmosphere was fractured
by screams from the bride and discord
ant cries from the parrot. George at
tempted to come-to the rescue and had
his face badly scratched for his pains.
The lady finally shook the bird loose
from the flower garden she was wear
ing upon her hat and made one wild
dash for the front door, followed close
ly by the bridegroom. Once on tne pave
ment, they became somewhat composed
and determined to return to their hotel
to repair damages. They did not tarry
long enough to see “dear Fanny. ”
The sudden wrath of the bird was
evidently caused, George thought upon
reflection during calmer moments, by
the fact that amid the flowers in his
wife’s hat there nestled a stuffed Caro
line parrakeet, which the parrot took
to be a real live rival and proceeded
forthwith to demolish. The bride is
now a thorough convert to the teach
ings of tho Audubon society.—Wash
ington Post.
Heirs Afraid of a Bomb.
Byway of illustrating the nervous
ness which the recent explosions have
revived here, a queer adventure which
has just befallen the heirs of a house
owner may be mentioned. They had
met at the dwelling of their departed
uncle for the purpose of drawing up an
inventory of his effects in company
with a lawyer and had nearly completed
their task when one of them pulled out
of a cupboard a metal box, which was
laid on the table and which the man of
business was about to open, when one of
his nieces cried out in horror: “Don’t
touch it! Look, that is a fuse.” Sure
enough, there was a little something
popping out of the cover. “It is -a
bomb!” exclaimed the panic stricken
heirs in chorus, and then they proceed
ed to remark that their deceased rela
tive had been a moody, silent and re
served sort of individual, and thence
they inferred that he might possibly
have been an anarchist. Two of the
nephews had had pnt on their hats and
were on the point of rushing off to the
office of the nearest police commissary,
when the lawyer, who had been quietly
inspecting the box, calmly suggested
that it might simply contain some pre
served fruit This theory somewhat re
assured the men, but the ladies would
have their way. The commissary was
sent for, and the mysterious box was
soon on its way to the municipal labora
tory; It was found to contain a pine
apple, the stalk of which had been mis
taken for a fuse. So the good old uncle,
who had been bo ungratefully maligned,
had not been an anarchist after all.—•
Paris Cor. London Telegraph.
Early American Bishops.
Before the war for American inde
pendence tho American Episcopalians,
who were connected with the English
church, were never suffered to have a
bishop among them, but remained un
der the jurisdiction of the bishop of
London. The confirmation was
unknown, and every candidate for or
dination was obliged to travel to Eng
land. Out of 52 candidates who came
from America for ordination in 1767 10
died on the voyage. At length, after
the United States had been declared in
dependent, Dr. Seabury was ordained
bishop of Connecticut by the primus
and bishops of Scotland, the prelates of
the English church having refused to
consecrate him.—Landon News.
A whistling moth is an Australian
rarity. There is a glassy space on the
wings crossed with ribs. When the
moth wants to whistle, it strikes these
ribs with its antennae, which have a
knob at the end. The sound is a love
call from the male to the female
The leaders of a flock of migrating
wild geese become tired sooner than
others and are frequently relieved by
their fellows
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