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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1897)
LIVE BY QUEER WORK. CAININC a livelihood in oricinal WAYS. 0 _ . d . oca .. ion o . c ___ - The . sional “Cheerer.” S Cli r,conic earn their liv Herald. There is a man in the city who makes a good income monthly by turning ont especially artistic sofa low- Another man will clear your kitchen of rats and mice for a small sum working in precisely the same manner as the sewer rat-catchers of Paris and other large cities. Ken wood honrewives are well acquainted with a bright young fellow who washes dog-and takes regular care of birds and other pets, and Oak Park has a masculine resident who goes from door to door collecting defective gloves, which he afterward carries to the small shanty which is home to him, cleans, mends and returns. is said to he actually saving money, despite the fact that his charges are ■conmderably lower than those charged by the downtown stores. Nor are Chicago women less enter prising than the men in the way of doing odd work. One nouth hu e woman writes sermons for a living, another furnishes “original papers to be read before clubs and bright rhymes for menu cards and quotation parties. There is another woman in town who is a practical miner. ^ n_ otljer Chicago woman conducts a com mission business on South ''“ter street. But the oddest occupation unearthed , , yet ih followed and was invented by a woman. It is that of a sort of funeral inspector and assistant. When her services are required she goes to the house of mourning, makes the shroud when desired to do so, gives orders for flowers, arranges them, takes mea aagcH to the friends and relatives of the household, bids people to the ser vices, buys or hires the mourning gar xuents, alters them if necessary, ar ranges the rooms for the funeral, talks matters over with the minister and the Undertaker, sees thut the wishes of the family are carried out, and, in a word, stands between the afflicted people and the world at large in a thousand ways and performs a thousand small but highly appreciated services. The funeral over, she takes the flowers to be photographed, rem ains m the h ouse until the '"fir' family rt ^ * 1 children, , prepares meal , if necessary, stays to this meal .f requested and in many ways helps along the dragging machinery of life When affairs have assumed somewhat of their normal appearance and course she quietly do parts. Another branch of her work 1s the assisting at weddinga or large private gatherings of any kind. V\ hen a wedding is in course of pre paration perhaps she arrives early in the day, or two days previous to the great event, and again takes charge of all the countless small details so trying to the mistress of the house Hhe it IS who sees that the bouquet f ,a re 8<1ineas f ; ,r Dm bride, that her nmk l . properly packed and is every th.ng that should go m it put in place, and that all arrangements for the com fort and convemenee ol the guests are completed. Hhe it is who lutervmws the bridegroom and makes sure that the I mg is forthcoming, she it is w ho crihcally 8njn‘nntt‘i\»t> the H •billet at the final moment, in order that her calm attention and uu inspent ion may insure perfection of detail. She it is who sees to the serv ing of refrt'slkinents, the earing for ami and tho . dreaded . . wraps topcoats the festivities “clearing up" when are over. 1 wo people, a man amt a woman, tlie former a college youth, follow in Chicago the down-east avocation of “professional entertainer." The ool lege hoy is in such incessant demand for "stag" and mixed parties that his studies suffer occasionally. The state Hu nt that he is "the life of’ every gathering he attends is his recoin mendrttn>n. He also superintends all the necessary arrangements for the affair. He is* held responsible for the enjoyment ami entertainment of the guests, and is treated as such himself, Tho college boy is paying his way through college by his work. There is but one professional “olieeror" NO far a 1 ' known, in Chi rago. This is a young girl who, «1h i\ plentifully blessed with Ihe world's goods, tried to help others by visiting them in trouble and trying to bring sunshine to them. Later, when hard times came to her own family, York more women do this work regularlv In the top of a tall building which on State street is a small office in a man works busily all bauds' daylong. making plaster casts of feet heads, and so on* For women with pretty members to have them petnated in plaster, always supposing that marble is bevond her pocket book’s capacity, has been a society fad for some time. This man seized upon the idea, and has lifted himself well above want by means of it. Over in the Bohemian district lives a man who is growing rich by painting pictures for the use of beggars. Day after day he works on, painting away at explosion scenes, fires, battlefields, and other gory and startling happen In a big Wabash avenue building may be found a woman who earns her o ea ier wor never con 111 .mere except by herselC It is a German method, a combination of repousse work, hammering and photography. On the west side is a man who carts bodies from the morgue to the medical colleges for a living, and Chicago has the only woman in America to make colored medical drawings within her gates. the list of And so it goes on; queer avocations followed in Chicago might well be indefinitely extended, for the people who are forced to think out new ways to earn a livelihood are ex eeedirigly numerous. SPINNINC SILK FROM SPIDERS. __ Science Robs the Wily Insect of Its Del cate Web. The prize of $5,000, offered by the an u f a( » tn r e r 8 ’ Union of England to t) Hf inventor of any perfect process for u tj]{ z j n g the web of a common spider, baf) been aW arded to M. Cachot, an eminent chemist of France. The spider, unlike the silkworm, is ! w ild and warlike. Its short mandibles are arme j w ith fangs through which a ! ( i t . R dly poison flows. It is a gourmand, demanding large supplies of animal foo( j and p i eu ty of water. It is the hardest of all insects to manage. De¬ Bpde ay, these drawbacks science has conquered the little fiend and compel , ed it to pay tr i bu te to genius, M Cachot recently invited acorn pan _ 0 ( manufacturers to inspect the workil)g8 of bja prt)ce ss. They were ushered into u damp) ,U m l y lighted roonij inhabited by hundreds of large Madagascar spiders clinging to the gide wal j g anJ upon tbe rafters. The onJ food required by these curious oreatures i 9 a diet of insects, house diesand small living things of all sorts, Th 0 atoh the victim, and, while try • to imprison their prey, send out their m(J8t va i nab i e webbing. It is gtrong and permits of being t „ rnji d off Readily. stands (tre JAl! ,V>v of tbe room a f, a e ,th bobbins worked by a lu is i ^ turns around {he fly and then webisauing ^ fro m its abdomen is h( b ^ a d icate hook, fastened to th# bob n d wound off afl fast as tbe ‘ ider produce ‘ g it. One spider wm jn . week 8ufficient w6b t f a o „„ a obbin ttH Iarge aa a pea nut. As , “ HH it ig e gene rously fed it will con tin e to crea te it s thread until it dies, The lm ()f , he web ig a pale gray, and , akeg a „ d g read i,y. e ^ )erim ental purposes, a little ()f fhe g i er web was woven into a ^ It yieldeJ a fabric very silky jn touch M flne as the best 0 f ()riental J prodnct8 . It is possible that (he w0 e ,. ful| “ delic „te silks of the ancient8 f 8pi( I er web, as with ftU f tu# increa8ed facilities ami k|lowle(1 ^ of nloder n times, they have mivpr dupli( . ated . The robes tbat oieopatra boasted she could draw tbr()Ugb an earr i ng were probably mad „ ()f tllia flnest G f oil known ma toria | g The start has been made, The development will be watcheduitb i|lU , re8t T(ixtile American. Coal Dust a Dangerous Element. , An instance of the ignition of coal du8t l.y the sun’s rays is reported in I tUe <;i„«-knuf, a German authority, j j It appears that the surface works ol be Maybach colliery, near Friedrich „tahl, in the a district, are chiefly td i rou; an ii „a certain girders the floating dust, due to the tipping ol ,. oa i ou b , the time', jigging screens, becomes, , u t . ourse 0 f deposited iu a lave: lu „ve than an inch thick. On a work llia n burning his hand, while repairing ft pipe running through the corrugated ,,. on forming one of the south walls, tbe otb ,.j a | inquiry showed that the | HVer 0 f P()(d du9 t had been formed along the whole length of the wall, and although the dust contained a proper tlo „ 0 f pulverized rock, the metal plates heated bv the sun had ignited it, the layer of white ash on the top proving that it had burned for a con siderable period. The circumstances affords fresh proof of the ease with which coal dust may be brought to ig nition, also a possible explanation ot fires at similar surface works—Bos ton Transcript. use of sugar or pure candies. lour ists who climb high altitudes crave sweet, and are greatly benefited by it. The value of sugar as a part of the diet of soldiers has been clearly determined, It is said that after violent muscular exertion the quantity of sugar in the blood is greatly reduced, but tbat en ergy is rapidly regained by eating pure candy or othd good sweets. The Ledger. THROUGH GEORGIA. J. W. Nall, of Troy, Ala , has been appointed commercial agent of the Central of Georgia Railway company at Augusta to take the place of Mr. E. T. Charlton, who was recently appointed eastern agent of the Ocean Steamship The report of Receiver Joel Hurt of S^wanee Canal Company, has been f ^ ^ states that the prospects for re izing g d amount of assets from lbe compaJ1 1 v - are encouraging. ° b * * * j> r c. D. Wall, who was sent by the Columbus authorities to Birming ham a few days ago to investigate the smallpox situation there, reported to the boarijl of health that the situa don is no worse than given out. The board rocommended that the council ldopt stricter vaccination regulations lnd inaugurate a house-to-house ex animation, * * * much talked of Horse-Swappers' State Convention will meet in Coving ton, Gft , on tbe 21st day of Septem ber an< i remain in session three days, ^ object of the convention is to elect a president,. vice president and other officers. Every horse-swapper in Georgia has lias a special invitation to attend, and those in attendance will be entitled^© a vote at the convention in any and all matters brought before the union. Mr. Phi! G. Byrd, Governor Atkin¬ son’s special commissioner, appointed to inspect the misdemeanor convict camps, has filed the supplemental re¬ port of his investigations which the governor asked for some time ago. It concerns the discovery and inspection of several private camps that were not known to. be in existence at the time of the filing of the first report, and is a complete ijfcu. nption of their location, size and condition. At Hahira, ten miles north of Val¬ dosta, Sam Parker, a farmer, who lives at Cecil, four miles away, was killed by Shelton Dampier, a young man who worked at the wood rack near Hahira. Three years ago Parker prosecuted Dampier for stealing meat from him. Dampier was convicted and sent to the chaingang. He swore then that he would kill Parker on sight when his term expired. settled. Tfie tuJ'3,u«i:iesH Commissioner has Nesbitt at last been has let the contract for 3,000,000 tags to Hie Dennison Manufacturing company, of New York, at 45 cents per thousand and a $2,500 bond has been made for the faithful performance of the con¬ tract, which provides for the delivery of 3,000,000 “G” tags and as many more as the agricultural department mav need, at 45 cents per thousand. It is estimated that 4,000,000 tags will he used be ore the year is out. They cost this y, ar but little over one-fourth of last yea ’s price. A questi m has been sjirung which may result in Chattanooga, which has long been 1 nowu as one of the leading cities of Te messee, becoming a Geor gia town. Doubt has been thrown. upon the alcuracy of the survey of and the boundary 1 ne between this state Tennessee, and if the theory of emi nent tegal i uthorities is confirmed, it may be f«i nd that Chattanooga is oil Georgia so I. This view is shared by W. <if A. Wimbish, special com miasioner tlie state for the Western ^ Atlauti e. railroad , v lio has looked , into the qu X istion in his official capac itr and e re8se d liis strong belief tbat „ oorr 4 ot snl -vey would bring the e it v0 f Chattanooga within the contiues 0 f this state The fight for the courthouse and county seat of DeKalb county grows warmer as the time for the legislature to meet grows nearer, and the lines will soon be definitely drawn. Much of detail is now being doue by the Stone Mountain people ami they will present a solid front when the time comes for final action. Their representatives have been in commit nicatiou with a number of the legisla tors and are getting their forces to gether and organized before tbe bill is presented to the general assembly, It will be one of the first measures to he acted oil at this session, as it is desired that the question be settled as soon as possible, so that work on the new building may begin immediately. 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