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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1890)
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McLEOD, Ellaville Georgia, Russia is the leading grain exporting country of (he world, the United States, India and Roumania following in the order named, Odessa is tho leading grain-exporting port of tho Russian Empire, and may bo con sidered as the principal business city. The export trade lias for many years been almost exclusively in the hands of foreigners, and Odessa might equally well be called a French, Ger man, Italian or even a Hebrew city, as far as the languages 6pokcn or tho characteristics of the inhabitants are considered. A medical journal says stuttering Is a purely nervous difficulty. The vocal muscles aro able tod) perfect work, but from deficient innervation the mind cannot commmd them fully and the trouble of speech commences, and soon the habit is formed, and gener ally grows worse and worse, Tho mind fears tho words will fail, and as the result they do fail. If fear could be removed the trouble would in a large part cease. A cure can be ac complished in no other way but by persistent and determined effort of the sufferer himself. Others can accom plish little for him. If his attention and his fear can bo removed from the muscles of his throat while speaking, if he can forget any trouble is there, he will soon improve in liis power of speech. This is tho ono line in which his efforts must bo made, and with persistent patience it can be successful. Tho building of a new navy is stim ulating tho mechanical genius of the American people, asserts the San Fran cisco Chronicle. Wo have already seen, it says, that ships can be built in the American yards which compare in point of speed favorably with the best specimens of Old World skill. Now in tho national gunshop at Washing ton we are afforded the spectacle of a traveling crane, tho largest in the world, a piece of machinery which picks up a mass of metal weighing 110 tons and transports it ‘o and fro in a largo shop with perfect case. T. e familiarity wo aro gaining with big machinery and tho oilier things we are forced to learn while building war ships will be bound to givo us a pro eminence' in shipbuilding for commer cial purposes, It was England’s policy of cr aiing a great armor-clad navy which gave such an impetus to ship building in that country, and the same results will bo witnessed here. Ericsson never changed his stylo of dress from the clothing which he wore when ho landed in this country to the time of his death. Ericsson had a habit of poking tho fire in his big open tiro grate when he was thinking out 6onie abstruse problem. He wore out so many fire irons that for many years before liis death he used to order pokers of wrought iron ubout five feet long, with which lie would pound the fi.c and grate till tho pokers wore away by being constantly kept in use while at a white heat, lie bought them by tho dozen at a time, and when lie was sick, shortly before Ids death, his physician or dered him to take broth, corn-starch and other light food, lie immediately ordered two dozen wooden spoons, and would sit over tho stove stirring his food himself until the spoon got what lie considore l too old for use, when lie would throw it away and take a new one. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. “LADY GARDENERS.” women Who Have Been Suc cessful in Cultivating the Soil. A Healthful, Pleasant and Pro fitable Occupation. Women have proved they can make * success of fruit culture, and it is not unreasonable to predict that they would succeed as gardeners. When they undertake to superintend and care for their own garden plots they do well. There me 62,000 women in America interested in the cultivation of fruit, and among them are some of the most successful orchardist- in Cali fornia. Many women in the same state are engaged in raisin culture. Last year a woman made a profit of $1/00 by cultivating tho raspberry. The $1,600 does not represent all the profit either. Tho healthful exercise in sunshine and fresh air, the cheering consciousness of ownership, the ab sorbing attention and necessity for considering all details, which left no room for despondent thoughts and kept the mind alert and active, are profits that cannot bo estimated. Of course there are care and industry needed, but care and industry accom pany every condition of life, and in the old, well-beaten, ethical, aesthetic and clerical lines of work for women there is often much worry, and at tho end of the year no profit. A South Carolina woman has built up a large and profitable trade in bulbs among Northern florists. Two sisters make a fine living in California with a tract of land devoted to tho cultivation of rose bushes. A young woman in San Diego, in tho southern part of the same state, is doing a paying business in both the wholesale and retail plant trade. She was a school teacher, a graduate of the University of Cali fornia, and ably filled a position as principal in one of the schools. She uid not like teaching and had a great love of botany. She started a florist’s shop, which has developed into a nursery. It is wise to have some capital to hack all enterprises, and especially wise in this branch of industry; how ever, one can accomplish something by utilizing ugly spaces in back yards without expending much money. The Jerusalem artichoke is a desirable plant for the “truck patch,” as these small spaces aro dubbed. It is a sure crop, and once planted it needs no re planting from year to year. It takes caro or itself and needs no cellar. It grows easily and it is a delicious arti cle L»r tabic use. It is in its prime when potatoes are old and unfit for use. Its blossoms will not sell in street bouquets, but they will improve the appearance of tho back yard. A bill lias boon recently introduced in the British House of Commons providing for instruction in agricul ture and horticulture in the elemen tary schools. America is not behind England in its desire to advance the interests of horticulture. There is a movement on foot to have an inter national congress of horticulture held in connection with the World’s Fair, “to make a broad study of plant var iation, of the adaptabilities of plants to all conditions of culture and cli mate, of species and varieties, and of all other points in which the know ledge of plants touches the welfaro of men.” There are a number of women interested in the movement. An Eastern girl went to California nml took up 160 acres of Government land north of San Francisco. Her cousins with whom she lived i:i the city made great fun of “her mannish scheme.” She bore the discouraging comments buoyantly, hired a man to fence in her homestead, and had a small one-room house built on it. The man lived there during the Winter and in tho Summer slio formed a camping party which spent the Sum mer months there. Thus she managed to live the time allotted by law on her homestead and make the required im provements on the land. Soon trees, plants, vines, vegetables and flowers flourished on the farm. At t'.e end of three years cousins and friends were glad to go to a neat little cottage in a charming garden and look with commendation upon (lie result of n girl’s enterprise.—[New York Times. Select seed-corn before frost comes. Tli® lector Had to More. IS ext to a dog that amuses himself by barking all night, a rooster that persists in exercising liis voice is na ture's own nuisance, especially when the rooster lives in town. A banker who used to live next door to a Dr. White, just beyond tho city line,owned two little bantam roosters that he had taught to crow for a grain of corn. He would take a double-handful of corn out into his back porch, lift his Land, and the chickens would crow. Then he gave a grain to each of them. This was continued until all the corn was exhausted and the roosters hoarse. This sort of thing annoyed Dr. White. One day a medical student dropped into his offico about tue timo the sere nade began. “I’d give $5 to shut off that noise,” said the doctor. “You can do it for lcs3 than that,” said the student. “Why don’t you en tice them into your back yard some time when old Rufe’s down town, catch them, and cut their vocal chords?” “By Jove I That’s the thing. Come around tomorrow at 11 o clock and assist mo in the operation.” The next day at the appointed hour tho student was at the office on time; so were the roosters. Within two minutes one vocal chord of each chicken was cut and then the birds were tossed over the fence to their home. At noon the owner came out on the porch for his daily amuse ment. White and the student watched him through tho crack in the fence. He lifted his hand and the little squall, ers reared back and went through the motions but did not utter a sound. Tho banker lifted his hand again with the same result. He went out into the yard and walked around his pets, but he couldn’t see anything wrong. Then lie called liis wife and the two made a critical examination. He made them go through their pantomime for an hour and got disgusted, lie tried it every day for a week and then ki led the roosters and ate them. When he found out six months after what White had done, he bought two large donkey-voiced parrots, trained them to say: “I)r. White is an assl” and hung their cages on the back porch. Then Dr. White moved.— [Philadelphia Press. Redeeming Stamped Envelopes. Some people have an idea that the Government redeems postage stamps when from any cause they become unfit for use, or ai*e difficult to use. Fre quently sheets of stamps are stuck to gether or arc torn or injured. The loss, if any, falls upon the owner, as the Government refuses to assume any responsibility for stamps wlieu once sold. The agents of the Government, the postmasters, can redeem stamps which they have for sale, if through any ac cident they become unfit for use. Blit when the citizen buys a stamp he cither uses it in the legitimate way or else he is out tne value of the stamp. The Government, however, redeems stamped envelopes. If one should happen to be misdirected or should be come blotted, or for any reason a person should wis.li to tear open a stamped envelope after he had scaled it for mailing, lie can take it to the post office and get a brand-new ono in its place. The reason of this difference in tho treatment of the adhesive stamp and the stamped envelope, is that the ad hesive stamp can be used and then washed and passed as good unless a careful scrutiny is made. If the Gov ernment should begin the practice of redeeming adhesive stamps, the oppor tunities for fraud would be increased. Then the adhesive stamps are manu factured at a cost to the Government, which tho stamped envelope is not. The stamps aro furnished to the public at tho face value, and out of this has to come the cost of manufacture, but iu the case of stamped envelopes they are sold at their face value plus the cost of manufacture.— [New York Journal. One Secret Safe. Mr. Handsome — Oh, you know, mother, women can’t keep a secret. His Mother—Yes tney can, my son. You have been industriously courting that Miss Ilighfly for a year, and you don’t know her real age yet.—[Good News. AN ELECTRIC TREE. A Remarkable Old Elm in New York City. Invalids Touch It and Assert That They are Cured. Every time it rains the tall elm tree in front of Franz Otto’s place, No. 19 Stuyvesant street, becomes electrified. The current is cause l by four electric light wires which come in contact with the branches of the tree, and in wet weather the wood becomes a splendid conductor. At times the current is very mild. Then again it increases in strength and those whose hands come in contact with the tree draw back in alarm.. It is believed by many people that the electricity after filtering through the damp wood h n s great healing qualities. Invalids of all descriptions cotne to the tree for relief after all other remedies have failed. The school boys testify that contact with the tree will remove warts. One boy, who gave Ins name as Charles Burton, said that the back of his left hand was covered with them until a week ago, when they wei'e all removed by hold ing them against the tree for half an hour. Several old people suffering from rheumatism visit the tree every morning about 6 o’clock and lean against it for an hour or so. Mrs. Franz Otto said to a World re porter that she was frequently com pelled to call a policeman in order to disperse the crowd from the front of her door. “One old lady,” she said, “walked Imre from Cherry street, though 6he was very lame and peeled off a pint cup full of the bark. Her son i3 near ly dead with consumption and in some way she had become possessed of the idea that a dose of the powdered bark after each meal would cure him.” When one suffering from tho tooth ache wishes relief, some friend places one hand against the tree and a finger of the other against the affected tooth. It i3 said that the treatment works an immediate cure. Adolphus Johanson, seventy-two years old, told tho reporter that he had taken a pint of buttermilk after each meal for more than five years, in hope of curing a serious heart trouble. Leaning against this tree half an hour every morning for a week, he said helped him more than the whole five years’ buttermilk treatment. Hiram J. Colt had tried all the vari ous remedies for catarrh until the car tilage support of his nose was com pletely gone. He then stood patiently with his face against the tree for ten minu'es each day for three weeks and is satisfied that his nose has greatly improved. Miss Henrietta M. Truesdalc tells a remarkable story. She is sixty-five years old and has been afflicted since early womanhood with extreme nerv ousness and melancholia. Life, she said, for more than thirty years had been one gloomy waiting for God to take her home. About two weeks ago she heard her little nephew talking about the wondciful elm tree. She dislikes a crowd and would not go during tho day, but, accompanied by her brother, she ha 3 since visited the tree every night at 12 o’clock. She remains there about half an hour with her head against the tree. “The brain is the seat of electricity in the body,” she said, “and the cur rent came so gently that it was all ap propriated by the cells of tho nervous tissue. Consequently tho power and extravagance of niy youth have re turned and I a n a new woman.” Miss Trnesdale was for many years an ardent Christian Scientist, but she now believes that the electric tree has greater power to heal than has the human mind. Ralph Spencer of East Eighteenth street, Chas. Cook of West Fifty second street, and Jacob Silbcrwick of St. Mark’s place, all assert that the tree will restore hair to bald heads. These gentlemen are not sure whether their gratitude should he extended to tho electrical currents or to the medi cal properties of the bark. One thing they arc certain of, however, is that after little more than a week’s treat ment, which consisted in rubbing the bald spots with tho fresh bark or leaves of the tree, a new and abundant growth of hair appeared, where before the skin w r as as white and smooth us that of a baby. — [Ex. A Novel Life Boat. A London correspondent of tho New Orleans Picayu: e says: In a short time there will be stationed at Har wich, for work along tills coast, a life boat that will have for its motive power neither sail, nor oars, nor screws, nor paddle wheel, but will be driven by what is called a turbine wheel. A turbine is a horizontal water wheel, and nothing in the way of engines could be less comp’ex than those of die life boat. They have simply to drive water through this wheel at something like a ton a sec ond. The manipulation of tho valve directs the course of this tremendous stream, and sends the boat forward, turns it to the right or left without as sistance from the rudder, spins it round and round like a teetotum or stops it dead at pleasure. It sounds Jules Vcrneish, but it is a fact. She—the Duke of Northumber land is the name, but all boats are slies —is built of the very best steel and is of immense strength. Being divided into no less than fifteen water-tight compartments, she practically cannot upset, and may be relied upon to live in the wildest seas. There is another of cruel old Neptune’s amusements— an amusement which has lasted since the days of Noah—destroyed, and we may confidentially look for a time when the sea’s powers of destruction will be nil and its terrors reduced, and that wholesome fear of seasickness which keeps many a would-be traveler from roaming overcome. A Little Heroine. >•1 Jeanne Victoire Suooke, 10 years of age, the daughter of C. Suooke, of Portsmouth, England, was, April 26, 1890, with her brother James, aged 4 years, on the landing stage of the old sallyport at Portsmouth—a place which is a favorite resort of children, Sud denly Jeanne was startled by the fact that her brother had fallqn into the water, which was then 12 feet deep. Without a moment’s thought about self Jeanne sprang into the sea to the rescue. The struggle was great, and both of the little ones sank and rose to the surface continually, but the brave elder child never quitted her hold of her brother. The tide was running 6trong and carried them away from the stage, and both must have been drowned had not II. Craven of the chamberlain’s office,Portsmouth,who was corning out of the harbor in a boat, gone to their rescue and got the half-drowned, struggling children out of the water. For this act of bravery Jeanne was, (he 20th of May following, awarded the honorary first-c' sss certificate of the Royal Humane Society. The Great Tempest of 1703. Apropos of recent numerous tem pests and cyclones all over Europe, the Boston Transcript gives some in teresting facts about the great tempest of 1703, which extended over the whole of Europe, and continued for a week with unparalleled violence— more especially in England. It reached its culminating point on Sat urday, November 27th, of that year. The losses in London were computed at $10,000,000; the streets were en cumbered with the ruins of houses; t he number of persons drowned in tho rivers Severn and Thames and in tho vessels which broke away from their anchorage, and which were never heard of afterwards, was by estima tion 8,000, besides which twelve ships of war, with 1,800 men and 021 can nons, foundered within sight of land; 1,700 trees in Kent were torn up by the roots, and on ono estate in Gloucestcrship, 600 trees, averaging 80 feet in height, were uprooted in a space of five acres. The Eddystouo lighthouse was destroyed, and a largo number of cattle perished. An Expensive I)og. Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt has a mastifl dog, Wallace bv name, which stands him in $10,700. This valuable animal cost the odd $700 originally, and in creased liis value by biting Charles Myers, who had been employed by Mr. Vanderbilt to train bird-dogs. Mr. Vanderbilt paid the expenses in curred by' Myers in repairing the dam age inflicted by tho dog, which amounted to $5000, and has sent Myers a check for $5000 as compensa tion. lie still has the dog, however.
