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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1889)
WHAT ? Clh, what is the love or the hate of men? Vt hat- is their praise or their blame!' THetr blame is a breath, but an echo of death. And a star that glows bright and is gone from the sight— Ahl such is the vanishing guerdon of fame 0\ what is the grief or the joy of life!' What is its pleasure or pain? The joys we pursue pass away like the dew; And though bitter the grief, time brings re lief j To the heart that is wounded again and again Oh t what Ls the loss or the gam of the time? And what is the success’ fair crown? The gain that we prize—lo! it fades and it flies; And the loss we deplore as quickly is o’er. There Ls little to choose ’twist life's smiles and life’s frowns. Oh, men they may love and men they may hate, It matters little to me. For life is a breath, and hastens death To gather iri all, from the hut and wall, I To the home that is narrow—the house I that is free. —Boston Transcript. A BRAVE DOCTOR. When Herman Dean was in college and the medical school, he was so timid and so slow of speech that his fellow-students made him the butt of frequent jokes. He seemed to know his lessons, but in endeavoring to recite them he floundered about and clutched at his words desper ately and awkwardly, and made but a poor appearance. One could not help smiling at the tall, clumsy, blushing fel low But lie worked at some of the prob lems that discouraged the rest of us with a stubborn courage that enabled him more than once to surprise us and put us to shame. “Thorough” seemed to be his motto. He took his decree of M ]) with honors, and soon afterward we heard that he had been appointed a United States Medical Inspector on the Maine frontier He entered upon Ids official duties in 1885, the year of the memorable small pox epidemic which in Montreal and the surrounding villages ra<»eii destructively among thc French Canadians With al most incredible fanaticism, thousands of these people refused to be vaccinated They dfcclaitU that to vaccinate was to oppose the Divine will God had sent la wicotte, and to try to prevent its spread was wicked The Canadian health of ficials, in attempting to compel them to lie vaccinated, were fiercely assaulted, their flags and placards torn down and the people rioted in the streets. Under these circumstances, it was almost im possible to check the epidemic The American health officials estab Ifched a rigid svstem of inspection alone the Canadian border, and required that all passengers on railroad trains coming from Surgeons Canada with should be fumigated! the necessary appliances were stationed at the railroad stations, and on the wood roads and forest trails leading across thc boundary, to vaccinate all people arriving from Canada who had not already been vaccinated. Young Doctor Dean was directed to make a tour of the logging camps in the Moosehead Lake region, and to vaccinate every man in their crews whose arm did not show a fresh scar. Among these loggers were many ignorant, lawless fel lows, some of whom had the stupid pre judice against vaccination which had led the French people across tin* border to resist thc efforts of t he Canadian doctors. Their employers and the foremen, liow ever, were heartily in sympathy with the v>ork of the surgeon, and did their best to compel their men to submit to his lancet In one of these camps Doctor Dean encountered a French Canadian called Pierre Couteau, who was unusually obstinate, and showed a vicious temper in his opposition to the doctor’s pur pose to vaccinate him. He was a huge fellow with a black beard, and a great red scar on his forehead. “Its of no use for you to hang off— you’ve got to have the job done, said Dixon, the boss of the camp. “No!” answered Pierre, crisply and doggedly. “Don't make any fuss about it! Roll up the sleeve of your frock!” ordered Dixon. Dr. Dean took a step toward the Can adian. “No ’’growied the fellow,with an omin ous emphasis, at thc same time grasping his axe as if to strike. His eyes flashed, the scar oil his forhead grew redder, and be fairly bristled with determination. Dixon was furiously augry and bunt into a torrent of profane exclamations. “Leave this camp and don’t vou ever come back, you brute!” lie cried' “We don’t want any murderers here!” ' Pierre muttered a few words in his na live patios, flashed a defiant look at the foreman, dropped his axe with a scorn ful gesture, ami turned to go away. | In a second Dr. Dean sprang upon him, tripped him, throw him to the ground, face downward, and jumped on liis back, Dixon came quickly to his assistance and helped to hold the man down. “Throttle the scoundrel!” exclaimed the excited foreman. “No,” said the doctor, coolly. “I’m going to vaccinate him.” K friendly wood-chopper happened to come along He helped Dixon to hold down the struggling, cursing, frothing man, while Doctor Dean cut away his frock and shirt, criseroaaed his skin with his lancet, and rubbed iu the vaccine. COUNTY NEWS. In less than a minute the operation was OT ar. Trembling with rage, but cowed, the Canadian jumped up, flung back an angry threat at the doctor, took his small pack of clothing, and, still breathing vengeance, strode away from the camp. “I dunuo; I guess you made a mis take,” said Dixon. “Why?” asked the doctor. “That critter is liable to kill you. He’s a bad one! I rather think ’twould have been better to let him go without trying to vaccinate him.” “If I’d let him go he’d be liable to kill a hundred men instead ot one,” re plied the doctor. “He might be the very one to spread the small-pox all through this regon. One unvacinated man is a constant menace. The only safe way is for me to obey orders and see that everyone is vaccinated.” A few weeks later Doctor Dean was ordered to take his station at a point where a much-traveled road through the woods crossed the boundry between Maine and Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railroad had gangs at work in Maine, and many men were going back and forth across the border. A log cabin was build for the doctor s habita tion. a turnpike gate was put up, and no man was allowed to pass without first having bared his arm. The cabin was furnished with a stove, hunks and a few necessary pieces of fur niture, and was well stocked with pro visions. A young man known as Dan was engaged to stay with the doctor as his cook and companion, and he also had the company of a large mastiff and two less sociable friends, a pair of rifles. The cabin stood in the midst of a dense forest, in which were many wild animals; the nearest human neighbors were the men in a railroad camp, twenty miles away. The trout which abounded in a stream that flowed past the cabin often contributed to the bill of fare of the doctor and his assistant. Once Dan shot a deer - which supplied them with venison f ? r Several weeks ‘ Their tabIe was at no tlme scantily furnished, they had a col lectl ? U ? f books ’ tb ® air of the woods Wa f “""KORitmg, and they enjoyed their £ ost every day , men Wlth . . packs on ? , . backs alon the road from elP came S Canada> and were sto PP ed and vacci ‘ iatcd ; Sometimes the y gnimbled, but for a lou ff time no one resisted the doctor At night the -two young men t0 k turas at watchia S tbe g ate , ««d the travcler over tb / turu P ike to Maine, at wbatever hm e he arnved > had to stop and be examined. . Weelc after week passed, and still the you P e ^ , n ormance ” men , ba( of } , tbo “°. ‘ ser r du , . lous * ies trouble , , , 111 . tbe ,, - <>m \ foreaoon tbe doctors , assistant . took down °“ e of tne nfles ' aud sayin S tbat f or dinner b ° WOul star ? try ed to lnto # et tbe ® ome w / >ods P arfcnd The ? es ?™ , t0 ’ sd V ! * he door st ' o1 of the cabifi, \ .T aS reading n £ a °“ book. - ° h U -‘ijouldn –al t go very far away, Dan,” “Oh, pooh! You won’t have any trouble!” “No, but our instructions, you know, are to stick right here,” said Doctor Dean. U' I shan't run off,” laughed Dan. “Better not go so far that you can’t hear me if I should call.” “Well, if you want me, you halloo, and I’ll come.” Dan had been absent for more than half an hour, when the doctor heard voices, and soon saw three men coming up thc road. He took his case, and went out to the turnpike to meet them. “Gentlemen,” said he, politely, “I'm a Government surgeon, and have orders to vaccinate you. “Huh!” grunted thc foremost of the three men, a stout Canadian in ared shirt aud kld 5 ta P- “Qu’estcc que e’est?” The . doctor explained the situation to them in French. The three men chattered with each other ... their peculiar C anadian . t rench iu dialect for a few moments. The doctor pretended to pay no attention to them, lmt listened intently, and caught nearly all they said. “Let s keep right on,” the red-shirted man finally said. . “Break the man s head ! ^ ’ exclaimed _ a scrubby little man, with a large brass buckle on the belt of his frock. t l But the dog!” said the third man. The mastiff was a quiet but attentive listener to the colloquy. “who cares for the dog. He can t s ^°pus! said thc little fellow with the big buckle. Doctor Dean wished that lie had brought one of his rifles out of the. hut with him, and that Dan was at hand, He shouted “Dan; loudly, thinking that Dan might hear him. or that thc cal1 mi S bt at b>ast serve to intimidate the The three travelers listened fora mo ment-, and looked sharply about them. They heard no answer to the doctor's call, and saw that nobody came. “Laissez nous passes!” (Let ns pass!) the first speaker said in French, with a threatening look at the doctor, who stood unflinchingly at the gate, “It’s a very simple thing.” said Dean, without raising liis voice. “The Govern ment requires me to vaccinnate you. It won’t take me five minutes.” He spoke pleasantly, as if he had not ! heard their threatening talk-—as if he did j not He sec a warning that he in tlieir about eyes. have saw was to se ! rious trouble, but he made two resolves: ! one was to make every effort to keep 1 those men from passing the gate in deli- anas of his orders, and the other was to manage, if he could, to get his rifle fiom the cabin. With that in hand he felt that he should be master of the situa tion. jt was possible for the men to escape him by turning from the road into the woods, but they were too surly to take so much trouble in maintaing their diso bedience. They had determined to defy the doctor, and to pass along the turn pike in spite of his opposition. Suddenly the man ia the red shirt moved towards the gate. At the same moment the doctor heard footsteps of some one approaching down the road. “Perhaps it is Dan,” he thought. The red-shirted man started to climb over the gate, but Dean grasped him and pulled him back. With an angry hiss the fellow aimed a blow at Dean. The doctor dodged quickly—and then straight from his shoulder came a blow that laid his assail an t; on th e g rD und. The t wo other men, cursing, sprang U p 0n the doctor. “Take him, Lion!” Dean cried to the growling mastiff—and in an instant the do g was a ^ the throat of the man with the brass buckle, who yelled with terror, Dean, meanwhile, was wrestling des pera t e ]y with the third man. If he could only * iake him o2 and ge t his rifle , But his first assailant was up. He rushed to the succor of the screaming wretch who was strugging with the mastiff. Dean was left to battle singly with the third man. His courage rose, They were whirling around, panting and kicking, each trying to trip the other, when a new-comer rushed into the melee. It was the man whose approach ing steps had been heard, Dean saw a great red scar burning over a face covered with black hair, and his courage left him all at once, The man was Pierre Couteau! The doctor ceased to struggle, and dropped limp to the ground. His antagonist aimed a kick at his face with his boot, that, if it had reached him, would have disfigured him for life. At the same instant the doctor saw something pass between himself and his assailaat llke a flash - Pierre Couteau ? ra PP led with the fellow and threw him. Amazed, Dean sprang to his feet, “I’ll help you!” Pierre cried in French; and he yelled to the other fellows to desist. flic poor mastiff had received . ,.. his death , blow from a stone. Dean rushed into the cabin and brought out his rifle. At its appearance the three fellows sur rendered and were vaccinated, and allowed ,, , to tb 8° on eir way. Tb ™ Dean learned from Pierre the secret of his unexpeted behavior. He bad S one from tbe Moosehead logging cam l ) to Canada. While he was there, the small-pox attacked his village. Many of his friends died; but he, thanks to thc doctors, vaccine escaped with a mild attack of varioloid. “I have often ask dose saint to bless de good docteur,” he said in hisabroken English. When, on his way back to the States, he saw his good doctor in trouble, he was glad to do him a service, and thus help the saints to answer his prayers. “Some good luck dat I come ’long, n’est-ee-pas?” “That’s so, Pierre! Can you stay here with me a while?” Pierre said he would be glad to stay, When the delinquent Dan came back with his partridges, he was dismissed for disobedience, and Pierre was installed in his place. All through that trying season, Doctor Dean aud Pierre guarded the turnpike iu the woods, and the doctor found in the Frenchman a most tractable and useful assistant.— Youth's Companion. He saw the Gorilla. The Fort Wayne (Ind.) correspond ent of the Cincinnatti Enquirer says: \\ H. Stewart, proprietor of a museum, residing in this city, has a very large g 0r iffa, noted for his strength aud feroc ity, caged, and at present the cage is in j,j s barn. This afternoon a man named Isaiah Sla de, of Akron, Ohio, desired tc see the animal, and visited Stewart’s bare during his absence. The animal had j us ^ been fed and one of the iron bars ol the cage was left open. As soon as Slade entered the barn the gorilla forced k is way through the opening and sprung upon the man, forcing him down an d punished him frightfully. His veils brought Stewart, who with great iliffi culty drove the animal into his cage, Slade had liis whiskers all pulled out, one ,, ve gouged out and liis nose badly torn A Meteorological Mystery. A remarkable air-wave has attracted much attention from meteorologists, who are still unable to explain the phenome non. At several stations in Central Eu rope the barometer recorded a sudden dip of about four-hundredths of an inch, followed by a corresponding rise a few minutes later. Dr. E. Hermann has traced the disturbance from Pola to Kei turn, separated by about five degrees of tho rale ^ translation between thesc V laces bav,n . g be <‘ n about seventy one miles an hour. In an easterly and westerly direction the disturbance was confined to narrow limits. There was no earthquake iu Europe. — Avkamaw Traveler. Queen of Spain—-“Good gracious! The baby King has the stomach-ache ” Lord Chamberlain (excitedly)__“Call the Secretary of the Interior!” PECULIAR FISH. Different Species Capable of Fly ing, Walking and Climbing. Some which Leave Their Native Element to Lay Their Eggs. “It was something like two years ago,” “says a writer inthe New York Ilera d, while sitting on the deck of one of our European steamers and looking quietly inio the water of the Gulf Stream, a suddenly saw a creature of some sort with wings. It came, apparently, ou*' of the ocean and immediately took a complacent attitude in mid-air. It was a fish beyond dispute and I accounted for its conduct from the fact that a huge fish of a much larger kingdom darted to the surface of the water in eagei pursuit of this frightened creature. At first I thought the tiny fish was safe from the chase, but in less than two minutes it dropped back into the sea. Hardly had it touched the water when it again bounded in another direction, and it was soon evident that it was again followed. When this aggravated pursuer came to the surface I saw it was none other than a huge dolphin. I watched the sport very attentively for some time, but as our steamer was los ing sight of it I saw an albatross com ing toward the fleeing fish. The acute eye of the bird had espied the tiny fish and ha t come to rob the dolphin of its p;ey. “The litt'e creature was not aw-are of its double danger, ani by its frantic movements kept sailing along,endeavor ing to escape its finny enemy, Death beset it in all directions, when at last the albatross was upon it, and the fish conscious of only the danger behind, fell right into the claws of the bird. “Naturalists claim that the fish does not fly, but simply leaps from the water and sails along on its membraneous w-ings. I cannot believe this, for I have seen the fish on many occasions leave the water ani fly along furtuer than it could possibly do if it dil not fly. And. too, 1 have seen them flap their winglike lias, change their course, and fly against a strong w.nd. Tins evidence, it seems to me, is far more reliable than that of hundreds of natur alists. A man may not be sharp- sight ed enough to see the flying fish fl ip its wings; nevertheless, 1 have often seen it done, and nothing cun change my mind.” That keen observer, Grant Allen, forcibly declares that the flying fish does actua.ly fly. Of the flying fish there are at lead twenty species and in appear ance greatly resemoles the herring, with large, bat-liite wings. T-.cy will not leave the water unless threatened by an enemy. Their speed is not rapid, although they can easily keep ahead of a steamer going at the rate of tweive knots an hour. We are told there are fish that walk, which are more numerous and more variable. Many of them leave tne water from choice ratiierthaa necessi.y. O.ie kiud in particular leaves its native ele ment in search of leaves and twigs with which to bui d a nest. It lays its eggs and watches with great care until they are hatched. There is auother when on seeing there is danger of its pond dry ing up and leaving it to die takes in a supply of wa?er and embarks on a tour of inspection. In a body they start through a forest with as much boldness as a body of men. The.r bodies arc covered with sharp spiucq so they arc not desirable eating for the animats of the forest, and consequently are allowed to pass unmolested. Some unmistaka ble instinct tells them where to find water, and their march always results in reaching a much larger body than that which they have just left. There is abundant proof to convince the most seep ieal that a fish can actual ly run. There is a species m South America that have large and prominent eyes, which they have the power of rolling back and forth at will, As you thrust you hand down toward one it turns its great eye with a rather corned expression, and just as you are about to pick it up away it runs out of your reacn. But unless disturbed they march slowly along until a pond is reached, when they jump in and stay. Another interesting kind of fish is called the climbing perch. They ac tually leave the water at intervals and by means of two spines ascend into tho treetop. What (heir object is in so do ing cannot be accounted for, unless it is to search for insects. These are but a few of the fish whi leave the water for time. (h * a Th« * ue com. mon eel , often travels considerable tance in searching for fli s * more anj dee ^ water. Eels have been found Uad stones that have been dry for Wt(i( . yet when placed in water signs 0 f Hfg are immediately made manifest. These eels are very interesting fish and no has been able to disting one fish betw een the male and the female, and but little i known about their s mode of rcproduc. tion; yet each springtime swains of tiny eels are seen to swim up the fresh brooks, showing that they have been born. How Egyptians Water their Crops. - The summers in Egypt, in Syria and in Asia Minor are almost rainless. i such climates n the necessity of irrigation is obvious, and the loss of the ancient means of furnishing it helps to explain the diminished fertility of mast of the countries in question. In Egypt evapor ation and absorbtion by the earth are so rapid that all annual crops require irri. gation during the whole period of their growth. As fast as the water retires by the subsidence of the annual inuudatioa the seed is sown upon the still rnoist uncovered soil, and irrigation begins at once. Upon the Nile to-day, just as it was thousands of years ago, one still hears the creaking of the water-wheels through the whole night, while the poorer cultivators occasionally ply the simple “shadoof/ 1 p r bucket and sweep, laboriously raising the water from trough to trough by ia many as six or seven stages when the water is low. Toe bucket is of flexible lea:her, with a stiff rim, and is empted into the trough, not by inverting it like a wooden bucket, but by j utting the hand beneath and pushing the bottom up till the water all runs out over the br.m, or in otner words, by turning the vessel inside out. The quantity of water (bus withdrawn from the Nile is enormous. Most of this is evaporated directly from the surface or the super ficial strata, but some mo.sture perco iates down and oozes through the banks into the river aga n whiie a larger quantity sinks till it joins the slow cur rent of infiltration by which the Nile water pervades the earth of the valley to ti e distance, at some points, of not les3 than fi.ty miles. A Remarkable Fight. The cliy of Constantine in Algeria has been making a remarkable fight against the crickets, which threatened to strip the town of every bit of foliage. These | eits, which have been trying for two years to turn Algeria into a desert, invade l the town in a cloud, and in a few hours they were devouring all the gardens, and even the interior of the housei, the hospital and the prison swarmed with them. It is well known that ’.ho particular insect which is uffl cting Algeria does not fly high. In old r to keep out fresh arrivals the citizens lost no time iu surrounding the eutiie town with a fence of cotton cloth about six feet high and over 36,000 feet long. As soon as they had cut off thc sources of re-enforcements, every man, woman and cuild began to devote < xclusive at tention to the enemy within thc walls. Business was almost entirely suspended, and lawyers, merchants, magistrate*, Jew ban.icrs, laborers, Mohammedans and Christians all went eagerly to woik to k.ll crickets and save the gaidens. The insects were killed bj tne hundreds of thousands, and the b dies of the slain were swept into the river and carried out of the city. The town had uo other thought oi business as long as there were a n J crickets to bo killed, At last the enemy was completely vanquished* and tho half-destroyed gardens were saved from further injury. The war kept the town bu;y for nearly a w'eek. Died as He Wished, Fishing. Colonel John Walker, of London, Canada, who died while on a salmon f.t-hing trip at Gaspe, Quebec, Canada, recently had fulfilled in a remarkable manner the wish he uttered when bis friend, Sir John Rose, of London, Eng land, dropped dead in the act of firing at a stag in Scotland a few years ago Colonel Walker then said at his club: “When my finis comes Iliopo I may be catching a 28-pound salmon.” A lettet received from Gaspe with details of b'® illness, says lie was stricken withparnly sis just after catching a 24-pound fish. Ho never rallied. Colonel Walker ^ a ® well known throughout Canada .—^ York
