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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1894)
Groat Britain is first in merchandise, Germany being second, the United feta tee third and France fourth The Orthodox Church of Russia is enormously wealthy. It is claimed that it could easily pay the thousand million dollars which constitutes the national debt of Russia and yet not impoverish itself. The Iron Trade Review says the close of 1893 recorded the lowest prices for iron and steel in the lii- tory of the trade, but that already <-iters have been made for ore and pig fer tile coming year at prices lower than were touched in 18.‘3. Why is it, asks the Atlanta Consti tutiou, that so many men of culture are leaving the centres of civilization? Robert Louis Stevenson prefers to live in Samoa. Scores of eminent Englishmen spend their time in Africa. And now Julian Haw thorne has moved his family to Jamaica, where they will make their future home. Aceording to Virginia law a person may get sll the enjoyment*possible nit of measles, in an unobtrusive way, but ho is not allowed to display it in public. A ease in point Las just come to the notice of the New Y’ork 'News, wherein a commercial traveler .was .fined a thousand dollars by a focal court for introducing measles into the county. Fortunately for the drummer the Legislature has passed a special bill for the remission of the tine. The Atlanta Constitution exclaims: “Tho war coat the South $5,000, 000,000. Y’ot iti the last decade alone, the product of Southern industries equalled this vast sum. Last yearoiu manufactured products were worth $700,000,000. Our manufacturing establishments in the past ten years have increased from 34,000 to 62,000, and their capital has increased from $180,000,000 to $600,000,000. Last year in spite of the hard times, 2,251 new industries were started in the South.” If the Becolo of Milan is to be be lieved, Signor Giolitti proposes to set the finances of Italy straight by impos ing a tax upon beards. Should he re sort to this method of obtaining the wherewithal to pay his way, he cannot claim that his plan is novel, for Peter the Great, aware of the value which th.’ Russians attached to tlieir hirsute appendages, levied a ^similar toll, tax ingeaeh male citizen,* not in accord mice with the length of beard he cul rivaled, but in proportion to the social flatus of the wearer. .Russian officials are employing all the radical measures possible under a despotic government to stamp out the cholera, with which they have now been waging a continuous but unsuc cessful combat for two years. The Governor General of Yilua recently ordered the destruction by fire of ten house* thought to be hotbeds of con tagiou, relates the New York Mail and Express. The infected neighborhood w as surrounded by a cordon of troops, the inhabitants of the houses were driven out into the street anil tho torch w as applied. While the doomed houses burned, their tenants helplessly watched the destruction of all their property. Remarks the Cincinnati Tribune:— Waiting for dead men’s shoes is an old proverbial expression, and in con nection with army officers and their wives still has a remarkable signifi eance. Bnid an officer’s wife a few’ evenings since: “I do dislike to take up an Army Register and scan the personals to see if any one outranking the Captain is ill, or to keep an eye on the old ofheers and figure out when they will _ be retired. ,. , But I m not as , jw some otner.s. \ the\ t mu \, 8 ( life insurance tables and stiulv mor - tuary • probabilities 1 to see when an of tor ma y be 1>yomoteJ b v ol - - dr„th among officers outranking him. i i -onle officers die as ffhoy /. should ac ending rule, . the ,, Captain .. will , be ° to , ’ / a ,. funeral before , he is sixty old. y years - Iwi T . t it a mean business . to think about? But , we get paid .. , back, , for . when , husband . , old all the rank my is nod . file .. will ... , be indulging . , , . . the , m same kind of speculation, and wondering _ . wby , old General Blank doesu ... t die.” In tbe year 18911 Japan lmd only five authors whose income exceeded $40 a month. A Russian scientist has made the dis covery that man’s deseases are all due to tho fact that he wears clothes. There is church seating capacity in tliis country for 48,000,000 people. There are 111,036 ministers; this would give to each minister a congre gationof 387. Everbody in this coun try could go to church morning or evening, and one-third of the popula tion could go both times, without a t,ingle person being forced to stand, is the estimate of the Occident. Paris tradesmen who sell photo graphs say that the pictures of prom inent men are very little in demand nowadays. They are seen so often iu tho illustrated papers that photo graphs no longer go. The actresses and fashionable women, of all social grades, are eagerly bought, not by their admirers among men mainly, but by dressmakers of the second class in Paris and the provinces. The latter buy the photographs to study the pat terns. Raphael Pumpelly thinks it possible that during tho Miocene geological period the present plateau of southern Georgia was outlined by submerged islands of limestone. The gulf stream, after the creation of the Central American barrier, found its way back to the Atlantic,sweeping over southern Georgia and northern Florida and supplying material to build up the great organic beds of the Chattahoo chee. These grew to the surface and formed islands, thus explaining the occurrence in that region of land shells and beach-worn fossils The whale is destined to disappear from the North Pacific much more speedily than he was driven from the eastern approaches to the Arctic. The w’hale fleet sailing out of the port of San Francisco has this year caught in the Arctic regions no less than 353 whales. The product of this season’s catch would have been represented by by about $2,000,000 had prices re mained as they were about three years ago. When one small steamer takes sixty-two whales in a single sea eon, and a still smaller one kills sixty four, there is a striking illustration of what steam whaling is doing for the extermination of the whale in the Pa There will be no restriction, The whale fishery by sailing vessels has for sonte time been unprofitable. What the sailing craft could not do in a lifetime of years the steam whaler will pretty effectually accomplish in n very few years. A prominent woman’s magazine asks. “Why, in this age of manual training; should we overlook and neglect the education of the left hand and con tinue the right hand at the expense of the left?” No physician or physiolo gist lias ever given a sensible reason for doing so, and we seem to adhere, to i the custom merely because it lias been brought down to us by our ancestors. It is pointed out that as a rule neither old nor young women know how to handle a broom. Their right hands have been trained and their left ne glected, and tho consequence is that when a woman takes hold of a broom her right band goes to the top of the handle and her left hand below, and no matter how she may change her position or the direction of her sweep ing the position of her hands remains the same. This causes a forced and cramped action of the muscles, which would beentirely obviated if the hands } were moved in accordance with the de mands of the occasion. An instruc I tor in the school of domestic economy in an agricultural college states that not more than one woman in twenty five ,, who . under las , . instruction . , ,. i came i could sweep properlv, and he holds j single-handed habit responsible i for , the ,, tact. . . -o He that parents says are unwittingly .... , neglecting ... the .. education - of their children when they foil to in ^ „„ jng ot th<J lrf , to . do. . everything ... that , . possible ... to is the ., right . , , , hand. , I lmt , this .. . . be done . can , has . been abundantly , . proved. . In T Swc den , students , . , taught . to , ienee „ with ... are : tneir left liana as well as with the right, . ,, and . - of , the modern . schools . many athletic te, .. .. training .. include . , . or exercises for . the promotion ,. of , amoulextrous- , .. , ness. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. Dieamland. Near our dreamland lies a lowland Ever fresh and fair with flowers; We can see it from our dreamland Boon the loveland will be ours. There’s a cottage in that loveland. Porch-embowered withtrelliscd vino, Bwoot the vision from our dreamland, Hound Its windows roses twine. Load me gently through the .lreiuiflar 1 That I may no longer roam: Guide me safely to the loveland For I long to rest at home. Where the breath of tender blessing Sweetens duty bravely done; Care beguiled by fond caressing— Dreamland, loveland—all in one. —Wallace Bruc e in Home Magazine. THE CAPTURE. Martha, the old servant, awakened me. She said, “Your uncle is dying!” I went down stairs, and again found myself before the half-open door, where for the past two days 1 had been watching the agony of my uncle. He had brought me up, and had been the kindest of guardians, He had bau islied me from his presence. He had commanded that I should not be ad mitted to the chateau, He had done all this without motive, without any offence on my part,but simply because he had disinherited me for her! Her! I see her moving about in the dying man’s room, a few steps 'from me. There she reigns as a sov ereign. She devotes herself to the patient. She obeys each request of the doctor, who, with her, watches by my uncle’s bedside. I watch her every movement and a wild hatred, mixed with agony and humiliation, burns in my veins. On my return from Germany, I found her living at my uncle’s, and he said to me: “She is my old friend Senart’s daughter. He died ruined—, poor old fellow! I hope that you will not object to my giving her a small dowry. l r ou will still be a millionaire!” She was very beautiful, but proud and haughty. She received me coldly and in a very ungracious manner, but in spite of that I fell promptly in love with her. Her step made me tremble and her fine profile charmed me. At the end of a month I would have given heaven and earth for her love. I dared to tell lier so, to ask her to marry me, but she refused me without hesitation. “Never!” she declared positively. Ah! that “never!” It broke my heart, but I answered her calmly: “You might have told me so more gently.” “It would have beeu less effica .Luos!” she returned calmly; And I admired the barbaric frankness of her answer, like the sentimental fool that I wa^! Today I know w hat the girl with the dark eyes was hiding! I now under stand her silence, her cold reception, her insulting rejection, It was be cause she was sure of her position. Al ready she knew that she should rob me of my fortune. And to think that during the past two days I have not told her how I despise her. To think that I was satisfied to avoid her, not to talk to her! How she must laugh at my folly! As this thought enters my mind, I am about to enter the room. But the words of t-lie doctor still sound in my ears: “Do you wish to kill the patient? It cau be doue in a minute. A sudden emotion, a surprise, and he goes!” Thus even nature is in favor of the spoiler! Again I look at her. Blie is loaning over the bed with the expres sion of a Madonna! Suddenly the old man moves and moans like a little child. My heart is filled with pity for him. Then he calls: “L.aure!” The doctor moves quickly, I hear a confused whispering, then a cry: ‘ ‘I am suffocating! Ah—I---” A dead silence,—then a rattling in the throat,—and again silence. Then the doctor leans over the bed, listens, and finally says in a low voice: “He is dead.” Laure hides her faco in her .hands; I approach. I would like to accuse her, but a puerile sense of respect keeps me silent, and it is she who speaks first: “I would like to say something to you.” Her eyes are filled with tears; but her voice is resolute. It seems as if she were defying mo. However, I consent and lead her in to the next room. There we remain looking at each other for a minute without speaking. It is she who con tinues : “You will oxcuse me for not having sent for you sooner’,—but your nncle refused absolutely to seo you,and con sidering his condition, I lmd only to obey. That was at least the I opinion of the doctor. Believe me, I am sorry!” “I should think sol” I exclaimed with an insulting laugh. She looked me full in the face.—-her eyes Hashed,—and she stopped crying. “You will regret that laugh!” she said haughtily. t 6 It is cowardly! Your duty as li gentleman is first to listen to me.” I was struck with her attitude, al though I believed it to be only another form of duplicity; and I re plied gravely: “Be it so! I will listen to you.” She continued then vehemently: “I know that you believe that I in fluenced your uncle. I know that you believe me responsible for his change of mind toward you, and guilty of having captured his estate. I know that you believe me avaricious, a liar, a plotter! However, I am none of these things!” “Ah! then you are not his heiress?” I asked with bitter irony. “Yes! I am his heiress! But I did nothing that the most scrupulous delicacy could object to! I often begged your uncle to sand fdr you, and I only ceased when the doctor assured me that my constant demands worried the patient. Your uncle was my benefactor. “He saved me from misery, and I could not do anything which would prove me ungrateful. When he was attacked with the strange whim of pre ferring me to you, I was obliged to submit; as he was then too ill to be opposed--” “But you inherit the estate!” I re peated with the same melancholy irony. “I inherit it--well?” She gazed fixedly at me. “If you were in my place, what would you think?” I exclaimed. “Just what you will think!” and she drew a small packet from her pocket and handed it to me, saying, “Forgive the old man, and destroy this proof of his delirium!” I was too much astonished to speak. My hands trembled. Confusedly I realized how wrong I had been in blaming her. “What do you mean?” I finally stammered. “That is the will. I give it to yon, and you remain the heir of your un hnppy uncle. ” I was so overcome by her answer that I was obliged to lean against the wall for support; so ashamed that I could not look her in the face,—her, whom I had so basely accused. After a few minutes, I collected my self and begged in a supplicating voice: “Forgive me! Take back this packet! I would rather die than ac cept the estate on these conditions.” “And I!” she exclaimed, vehemently and disdainfully, “do you think that I will touch it? Do yon think I would defile myself by stealing?” “I have misunderstood you!” I ex claimed. “I have acted like a brute ! I am a miserable fool!” “It does not matter now! We shall probably never see each other again !” Bhe spoke gently, in an absent man ner. Her beautiful eyes had a far away look, — and now I knew she was really pure, innocent, stainless. “Ah'!” I murmured. “Of wliat use is the money to me! To receive it thus from your hands is the hardest of punishments. I will not have it! To receive it from you who refused me so coldly!—from you who despise me with such humiliating gentleness! I should consider myself disgraced for life!” “What do you say? Disgraced? because I returned to you what be longed to you? Because I refuse to profit by the unreasonable whim of an invalid!” She retreated a few steps and her admirable beauty filled my heart with adoration, 6 i Ah why would you not accept my love?” I cried. “Why would yon let me hove no part in your life?” “I was a poor girl, treated w ith kindness and trust in listening to you.” “Would you have listened to me, then, if you had been rich?” I ex claimed. She cast dpwn her eyes and remained a minute undecided. Then, iug her long eyelashes, she said simply. “I think so!” Mv excitement increased* words failed me and I could only stammer: “But now—you can--” She motioned me to be silent. After a few minutes deep thought, she said: i 6 Today, I think that I have the right to listen to you. My refusal or acceptance depends now only upon my own inclination. ” I approached and implored her: “Accept my life or refuse it!” “I will not refuse it!” she answered gently. And suddenly, smiling sweetly, she said with subtle feminine irony: “I would never have refused it. For if you fell quickly in love with me, I too, was not slow in loving you !” I caught Laura’s hands and kissed them humbly, but she gently drew them uway aiul begged me to remem ber the presence of the dead, which, to tell the truth, I had almost for^ gotten. • ' Tims I captured my inheritance.—* [Romance. An Apache Mason and Sea Cook. Since the days of William Kidd, the talented but unfortunate buccaneer of the Spanish main, there has been a halo of romance over the head of sea cooks. They have been the heroes and villains of prodigious tales, and even their sons have been endowed with peculiar attributes. Every sea cook commands wonderful recollec tions of hairbreadth ’scapes, as well as stores of plum duff and nutritious horse. Not one, however, is himself more of a unique specimen than the cook of the British ship John Cooke, which recently arrived at San Diego, Cal., after a long and dangerous voy age from Cardiff'. This cook, says the Union,is a full-blooded Apache Indian, born in the White Mountains of Ari zona. His people, the terrible White Mountain and Tonto Apaches, caused no end of trouble to the troops and settlers in Arizona. This man was named Tum–shaney (Silver River) and was taken when still .a child to Mexico where he was raised. He has followed the sea for the greater part of his life, and has visited eyery part •of the globe, learning several Ling ual? ;s, including English, and becoin ing some years ago a member of the masonic fraternity. In civilization he is known as John Levin. He is quite dark, with the Indian physiognomy, and although sixty years of age, ap pears hardly in middle life. He has a Mexican wife and family living on the peninsula of Lower California, and says that this is his last voyage. He was picked up in Liverpool by Captain Lillia of the John Cooke. Levin or Silver River is an intelligent fellow and a sea cook, and does not seem half as bloodthirsty as many other cooks with a far different pedi* gree. How <o Ascend Stairs. The matter in which people g(> d[ stairs is productive of many ailment! and a careful observer who under stands the anatomy of the body would not wonder that it is so. Notice lioff much of the “dead lift” there is about it; the feet and legs are made to act as levers, not only to force the weight of the body n|i, but also the addi tion al weight which is the result of in ertia. Instead of raising the chest and animating the body to lift its own weight, we bend the body nearly double, cramping the organs, hinder ing free circulation and consequently easy breathing. Panting for breath we reach the top, but in the effort what a spectacle we present! Going up stairs is easy and healthful when properly done. We shall not say that it will not quicken the pulse, for in this case, as in any other exercise, the rapidity and force of muscular action determine the rate with which tee blood is forced to and from the head. —•[St. Louis Star Savings. Her Two Languages. < He—“Did you ever hear that It 1 ? son’s wife speaks two languages?” She—“Yes.” He—“What arc they?” and the “The one for company other for Jagson. ”—[Chicago Inter* Ocean.
