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A PRIVATE AMBULANCE.
Beminlaceneea of the ClrU W»r Belated
by an Old Soldier.
** Among the men wounded in my
regiment at a battle in Virginia,” said
the old soldier, "was a man in my oom
pany who was , shot through the body
and taken to the rear. Our troops fell
back after the fight, and we had more
wounded than we had transportation
for, but two men out of his own tent
sat out to carry this man wherever we
were going, which was presumably
the camp behind intrenchments thal
we’d left in the morning.
“They took turns at backing him foi
half a mile or so until they came to a
farmhouse that had a grassy yard in
front They laid him down on the grass
and took a little look around the house
to see what they could see. In a build
ing at the rear they came across some
thing that made ’em .stand still and
look at each other and laugh. It was a
hand cart. What use the folks here had
made of it they couldn’t guess, but they
knew what use they were going to make
of it. They got it out of the building
and rolled it around the side of the
house alongside the wounded man and
dropped the handle on the grass. He
laughed, too, when he saw it. He was
going the rest of the way in a private
ambulance.
“The two men took their blankets off
their shoulders and untied them and
spread their rubbers down on the bot
tom of the hand cart and spread their
woolen blankets down on them, and
then they ran the hand cart up and rest
ed the handle on the front steps of the
house and lifted in the wounded man
and laid their guns in beside him. Then
they turned the cart around again, and
one man got inside the shafts, with the
crosspiece aganst his waist belt, and
the other man got behind to push. They
all smiled again when they started,
wounded man and all.
“It beat backing him out of sight. II
was dry weather, and the roads were
sandy, and up hill and on the level the
wheeling was hard. But there was
more down hill than there was up,
places where they had to hold back,
and it was all immensely more com
fortable for the wounded man, and so
they got him back to camp and to the
surgeon again. But he died after all. ”
—New York Sun.
FORTUNES FROM GARBAGE.
Science Convert* the Refuse of Cities Into
Steam, Fertilisers, Soap, Etc.
William George Jordan, writing on
“Wonders of the World’s Waste,” in
The Ladies Home Journal, says: “The
garbage of a great city is worth a for
tune every year if properly utilized. In
St Louis the refuse is placed in enor
mous vertical cylinders, surrounded by
steam jackets, which evaporate the 76
to 80 per cent of water in the garbage.
The fatty substances are dissolved, and
as the result of a number of processes a
fertilizer is produced which is worth
from $9 to sl2 per ton, the demand ex
ceeding the supply. One of the purest
and best soaps of the country was made
of garbage grease before cottonseed oil
entered the field. It is now proposed to
light Lohdon by electricity for nothing.
It now costs that city SI.OB (4s. Bd.) to
get rid of a ton of garbage. A combina
tion of rollers and other apparatus has
been devised that can burn the garbage
at 24 cents (1 shilling) per ton and gen
erate steam sufficient to run enough dy
namos to light the entire city. London
can thus save Bs. Bd. on each ton and
in addition illuminate its city without
cost. Garbage, by a machine called the
dust destructor, is converted into clink
ers, which can be used for roadways, as
artificial stone for sidewalks and as
Sand for mortar and cement. In Paris
the invisible particles of iron, worn
from wheels and from the shoes of
horses, are rescued by passing powerful
magnets through the sweepings. ’ ’
A Vision of the Future.
Clarence King, formerly chief of the
United States geological survey, says:
“The time is not far distant when
a man can start out of Denver and
travel to Klondike, stopping every night
at a mining camp. Already two Ameri
can stamp mills are pounding away on
the borders of the strait of Magellan,
and the day is approaching when a
chain of mining camps will extend from
Cape Horn to St. Michael’s. I believe
we are about to enter upon a century
which will open up vast resources and
will be the grandest the earth has ever
known. Before the end of the twentieth
century the traveler will enter a sleep
ing car at Chicago bound via Bering
strait for St. Petersburg, and the
dream of Governor Gilpin will be real
ized. ”
Slang.
The difference between ancient and
modern slang was amusingly illustrated
in a recent incident at the Chautauqua
assembly, when the teacher of English
literature asked, “What is the mean
ing of the Shakespearian phrase ‘Go
to?’ ’ ’ and a member of the class replied,
“Oh, that is only the sixteenth century
expression of the modern term ‘Come
off. ’ ” The two phrases, while appar
ently opposite, do, in fact, substantially
mean the same thing.—Chicago Chron
icle.
A Natural Inference.
“Did yon hear what Whimpton’s lit
tle boy said when they showed him the
twins?’ ’
“No; what was it?”
“He said, ‘There, mamma’s been get
ting bargains again. ’ ” Collier’s
Weekly.
It is an extraordinary fact that only
two presidents were born between April
and October. The record by months is
as follows: January, 2; February, 3;
March, 4; April, 1; July, 1; August, 1;
October, 8; November, 4; December, 2.
In Russia women householders vote
for all elective officers and. on all local
matters.
SCHOOLS AND POLITICS.
A Scheme With Real Estate Trimming*
That Won In Oregon.
“Speaking of schools in relation to
politics,” said the ex-boomer from Ore
gon, “always reminds me of a campaign
in which I was interested some years
ago. The Douglas county representative
in the Oregon state legislature, realis
ing that his popularity was not exceed
ingly great, had been talking of build
ing a new state normal school, presum
ably at Roseburg, the county seat and
his own home. This caused great con
sternation among the 350 inhabitants
of the little city of Drain, who had been
profiting by the courtesy title of ‘Drain
Academy and Oregon State Normal
school, ’ under which the school there
had been run since 1885. The postmas
ter, who kept a drug store and sold
school supplies, took counsel with his
sister-in-law, who dealt in millinery
and ran a boarding house for students,
and she sought the mayor, at whose
general merchandise emporium she was
the principal customer.
“The mayor was a man who thought
slowly, but to a purpose, and, having
set himself the task of devising some
way of circumventing the member
from Roseburg, he passed the next three
days in profound cogitation. He con
ceived a scheme whose various elabora
tions and ramifications were too diver
sified for him to handle alone, and he
came to me for help. I had just gained
considerable influence in the county
through backing a projected railroad to
the coast, and also as a real estate deal
er and sawmill owner. With my busi
ness methods and the mayor’s knowl
edge of the conditions confronting us
our plans were soon put into operation.
First, we suggested the candidacy of an
ambitious young Drainite. a dealer in
leather goods and hardware, for mem
ber of the legislature, taking all the
wind out of his opponent’s sails by,
heartily indorsing the talk in favor of a
new normal school. Meantime we had
a large grain field of the mayor’s, which
had begun to lose its fertility on ac
count of overcultivation, surveyed into
city lots, and as soon as our candidate
had received the regular party nomina
tion we put the town site of East Drain,
with its streets named after conspicuous
men of the state, ou the market and
gave one of its centrally located blocks
for the new normal school.
“Well, everything came to pass ex
actly as we had planned. Our candidate
was elected, and the building of the new
normal school on the site we gave was
authorized. We sold a sufficient num
ber of East Drain lots to more than pay
for the land and all expenses. The con
tractors ou the new school were men
who had aided the legislation authoriz
ing it, and they got their supplies from
the mayor, their hardware from the
member and their lumber from me. My
mill also supplied lumber for other
buildings in East Drain, including a
new boarding house for the milliner,
who has prospered ever since. The post
master’s increased business soon war
ranted his moving into one of the two
brick buildings in the city of Drain, and
the former dealer in leather goods and
hardware is still member of the Oregon
legislature. ” —New York Sun.
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Duration of Human Life.
That the human being was intended
for greater length of life than is usually
attained in our artificial existence is
probable from the fact that he does not
reach his full and complete development
until his twenty-fifth year. The life of
most of the low animals is reckoned to
be about five times their maturity in a
natural condition, and, although dis
turbing causes interfere with human
life in the present day, yet within cer
tain limits man is subject to the same
laws as every other type of existence in
either the animal or the vegetable king
dom.
Nature has assigned to him a certain
period during which he should attain to
a sound physical and mental maturity,
and any attempt to curtail that period
by early forcing is and must be neces
sarily productive of lamentable results.
The boy or girl may be developed under
a system of steady “cramming” into a
highly accomplished man or woman,
before full age has been reached,
but it may bo accepted as an axiom in
almost all instances that the earlier the
development the earlier the decay. The
lesson to be learned from the records of
those who have lived to advanced years
is that moderation in all things, whether
physical or intellectual, is the secret of
long life, and that it is easy by system
atically violating this rule to produce an
artificial old age.—Nineteenth Century.
A Friendly Bar Examination.
A Georgia correspondent sends us this
account of a young man’s oral examina
tion for the bar by a local committee
before an old judge, who was also an
old acquaintance of the candidate. Be
ing asked, “Whatis arson?” he scratch
ed his head and finally said, “I believe
that’s piton, ain’t it?”
On this the old judge, to help him
out, says: “Tut, tut. Jim. Suppose I
were to set fire to your house and burn
it down, what would that be?”
With quick and emphatic reply Jim
says, “I think it would be a dad dratted
mean trick. ”
But although this answer was not
technically accurate Jim was in the
hands of his friends and was honorably
admitted. —Case and Comment.
Walked Right Over Them.
“So your wife won that suit about
her real estate?”
“Os course. You didn’t suppose that
such little obstacles as a judge, 8 law
yers and 12 jurymen could throw her
off the track, did you?”—Detroit Free
Press. H 1
FhyilolopicaL
Instructor—What is it that gives to
the blood its bright red color?
Little Miss Thavuoo—l know. It’s
the corpuscles But outs aint red.
They’re blue. Mamma says Chi
cago Tribune-
LIGHTHOUSE IMPROVEMENT
Change. That Have Iteen Made In Lights
and Lease..
An article about lighthouses, entitled
“The Lights That Guido In the Night,”
is contributed by Lieutenant John M.
Ellicott to St. Nicholas. After telling
of the growth in the number of light
houses Lieutenant Ellicott says:
Meantime the means of lighting were
being steadily improved. The open fire
gave place to the oil lamp, then a
curved mirror, called a parabolic mir
ror, was placed behind the lamp to
bring the rays together; next, many
lamps with mirrors were grouped about
a central spindle, and seme such lights
are still in operation. The greatest
stride came when an arrangement of
lenses, known as the Fresnel lens, in
front of a lamp replaced the mirror be
hind it. This lens was rapidly improved
for lighthouse purposes, until now a
cylindrical glass house surrounds the
lamp flame. This house has lens shaped
walls, which bend all the rays to form
a horizontal zone of strong light which
Agrees the darkness to a great distance.
*Thq rapid increase in the number of
lighthouses has made it necessary td
have some means of telling one from
another, or, as it is termed, of giving
to each light its ‘ ‘characteristic. ” Col
oring the glass made the light dimmer,
but as red comes most nearly to white
light in brightness some lights have red
lenses. The latest and best plan, how
ever, is to set upright prisms at inter
vals in a circular framework around
the lens and to revolve this frame by
clockwork. Thus the light is made to
flash everytime a prism passes between
it and an observer. By changing the
number and places of the prisms or the
speed of the clockwork the flashes for
any one light can be made to occur at
Intervals of so many seconds for that
light Putting in red prisms gives still
other changes. Thus each light has its
“characteristic,” and this is written
down in signs on the charts and fully
stated in the light lists carried by ves
sels. Thus, on a chart you may note
that the light you want to sight is
marked 7‘F. W., v. W. FL, 10 sec.,”
Which means that it is “fixed white
varied by white flashes every ten sec
onds. ” When a light is sighted, you see
if those are its characteristics, and if so
you have found the right one.
MOTHER GOOSE.
The Iconoclast Throw, ■ Big Stone at
Boston’s Famous Personage.
Iconoclastic Boston has decided that
if there ever was a Mother Goose with
poetical talents—which isn’t likely—
she was not the Mother Goose buried in
that city and whose grave has for years
been haunted by sentimental, patriotic
and more or less literary visitors from
all parts of the country. It seems that
the respectable Mrs. Elizabeth Goose,
whom legend credits with the composi
tion of all those sprightly lyrics in
which, for no very good reason, chil
dren are supposed to take such delight,
had no more right to a place among
America’s eminent women than Jack
the Giant Killer has to be included
among our famous generals. She lived
and she died, and that, except the
names of her parents and the fact that
she had some children, is absolutely all
which is known about her.
The story that she wrote, or at least
collected, the famous poems is a myth
invented by one of the presumably good
lady’s descendants. “Mere I’Oye” was
from time out of mind a character in
French fairy tales. The name first ap
peared in English in 1729, when the
prose “Contes de ma mere I’oye” were
translated as “Tales of Passed Times
by Mother Goose. ” This book became
the property of John Newbery of Lon
don, the famous publisher of little
books for children, and about 1765 he
utilized the trade name by printing as
a companion book “Mother Goose’s
Melodies.” The latter was merely a
collection of old English nursery rhymes.
From England it came to America and
was reprinted by Isaiah Thomas of
Worcester, Mass., about 1787, then by
Munroe & Francis of Boston about 1825,
and now by every one. The fiction
about Mrs. Elizabeth Goose of Boston
was started by John Flint Eliot about
1860, utterly without proof or probabil
ity, and has since been repeated, gain
ing imaginary details at every stage.—
New York Times.
Tke Queen of Greece.
It is said by a lady who recently vis
ited Greece and had the honor of meet
ing the royal family that perfect har
mony exists between them, and the king
and queen are devoted to their children.
The queen is still a very beautiful wom
an and the only lady admiral in the
world. She bolds this rank in the Rus
sian army, an honorary appointment
conferred on her by the late czar because
her father held the rank of high ad
miral and for the reason that she is a
very capable yachtswoman. The king
has a very remarkable memory, an in
teresting personality, and is a brilliant
conversationalist. He goes about the
streets of Athens without any attend
ants and talks with any friend he
chances to meet. Prince George is very
attractive, and his feats of strength,
shown often in the cause of chivalry,
are a continuous subject of conversation
among the people.
A Telling Look.
“lean tell a man I like the first tims
I look at him. ’ ’
‘ ‘Yes,’ ’ rejoined the “your
eyes are certainly very expressive. ”
Os course, the poet was on the right
track, but it is woman’s inhumanity
to woman that really stimulates the
crape market. —Detroit Journal.
The first ingredient in conversation
is truth, the next good sense, the third
good humor and the fourth wit.—Sir
, William Temple.
There arc several “giant bells" in
Moscow, ths Mgest, “the King of
Balls,” weighing 482,1)00 pounds.
GEM SCULPTURE.
JSIm>US the Muhfaßf off CMHMMMI
Mid Intaglios*
Gem sculpture, car litboglyptics, is
an art of great antiquity, having been
practiced by the Babylonians, the Egyp
tians, the Hebrews and the Greeks.
Afterward it sank into decadence, but
in the fifteenth century was revived in
Italy. It is an art that calls for great
elegance of taste and much skill, for on
a small stone, generally prtcious, de
signs are represented either in raised
work, as cameos, or by being cut below
the surface, as intaglios
To cameos the term “minute sculp
ture” is indeed applicable, for since
the days of Greek art celebrated statues
have been copied in this way. The first
intaglios were the scarabs, or beetle
shaped signets, worn in rings by the
Egyptians from a very remote period.
One side of tbe stone was shaped like a
beetle, the other side was flat, and the
name of the king or wearer was out in
to it. A hole was then drilled tn the
stone from end to end, and through it a
strong wire was passed to hold it in
* position in a ring. The flat or seal side
was always worn next to tbe finger, but
when used as a aeal it was turned.
In the art of gem sculpture the
Greeks excelled all predecessors. The
Etruscans, contemporary with the
Greeks, also attained excellence tn gem
cutting, and it is said thal “on these
early gems of Etruscan or Greek origin
may be read as tn a book the forme at
their religion and the subjects of popu
lar Interest in politics, song and table
tor centuries. ”
Under Augustus gem sculpture flour
ished among the Romans, many of them
possessing oameos and Intaglios ot great
value, and cabinets at oostly gems be
cams numerous It is said ibal Ceesar
sent sia cabinets of rare gems to the
temple of Venus.
There are many fine oameos and in
taglios tn the British museum. Among
the finest ot them accessible to tbe jmb
lie are the “Cupid and Goose” intaglio,
the “Dying Amazon,” the “Laughing
Fawn,” “Bacchus” on red jasper, and
the “Julius Csesar” of Dioecurides. In
modern times gem sculpture has reached
• high state of perfection and beauty.
—Philadelphia Times.
THE FUNCTION OF ETHER.
Without It There Would Be No Light,
Radiant Heat or Magnetism.
“Whatever difficulties we may have
In forming a consistent idea of tbe con
stitution of the ether, there can be no
doubt that tbe interplanetary and inter
stellar spaces are not empty, but are oc
cupied by a material rubdtanoe or body
which is certainly tbe largest and prob
ably the most uniform body of which
we have any knowledge. "
Such was the verdict pronounced
some 20 years ago by James Clerk
Maxwell, one of the very greatest of
nineteenth century physicists, regard
ing the- existence of an all pervading
plenum in tbe universe in which every
particle of tangible matter is immersed.
And this verdict may be said to express
the attitude of the entire philosophical
world of our day. Without exception
the authoritative physicists of our time
accept this plenum as a verity and rea
son about it with something of tbe same
confidence they manifest in speaking of
“ponderable” matter or of energy. It is
true there are those among them who
are disposed to deny that thia all per
vading plenum merits the name of mat
ter, but that it is a something, and a
vastly important something at that, all
are agreed. Without it, they allege, we
ahouldjmow nothing of light, of radiant
heat, of electricity or magnetism. With
out it there would probably be no such
thing as gravitation—nay, they even
hint that without this strange some
thing, ether, there would be no such
thing-as matter in the universe. If these
contentions of the modern physicist are
justified, then this intangible ether is
incomparably the most Important as
well as the “largest and most uniform
substance or in the universe. Its
discovery may well be looked upon as
the most important feat of our century.
—Henry Smith Williams, M. D., in
Harper’s Magazine.
A Good Story of Sheridan.
Sheridan once had occasion to call at
a hairdresser’s to order a wig. On be
ing measured, the barber, who was a
liberal soul, invited the orator to take
some refreshment in an inner room.
Here he regaled him with a bottle of
port and showed so much hospitality
that Sheridan’s heart was touched.
When they rose from the table and
were about separating, the latter, look
ing the barber full in the face, said,
“On reflecting, I don’t intend that you
shall make my wig. ”
Astonished and with a blank visage,
the other exclaimed: “Good heavens,
Mr. Sheridan I How can I have dis
pleased you?”
“Why, look you,” said Sheridan,
“you are an honest fellow, and, I re
peat it, you shan’t make my wig, for I
never intended to pay for it I’ll go to
another less worthy son of the craft ”
—Liverpool Mercury.
■polled Flcasure.
Mrs. Meyer—What’s the trouble, Mrs.
Schulx? You are in bad humor thia
morning.
Mrs. Schulz—You see, my husband
staid at the club every night last week
until after midnight Last night I sat
up, determdned to give him a curtain
lecture, when he got in late. And what
do you think? Tbe fool came home at
9 o’clock.—Fliegende Blatter.
Apoplexy baa increased in England
in a very remarkable degree since 1860.
In the 16 years ending with 1866 there
were 407 deaths from apoplexy per
1,000,000 inhabitants. Last year tbe
ratio was 577 per 1,000,000.
Tbe eruption of Etna has entirely de
stroyed Mie chestnut woods on the
mountain slopes, the trees being, devas
tated by the lava.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as OUR TRADE MARK.
J, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now ZZJP-s Z on
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original •* PITCHERS CASTORIA,” which has been
used in the homes qf the Mothers qf America for over thirty
gears. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought s/JAj
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. • -m,
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a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(because a few more pennies on it)/ the in
gredients of which even fie does not know.
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