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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1900)
TREATY LIPIN SENATE August Body Tackles the Meas ure With Many Misgivings. FORTIFICATION THE QUESTION Hay-Pauncefote Measure Is In Effect an Amendment to the Cfayton-Bulwer Treaty. A Washington special says: The Hay-Pauncefote treaty laid before the United States senate Thursday after noon, has an important bearing on the construdtion and operation of the Nic aragua canal. The treaty is in effect an amend ment to the famous Clayton-Bnlwer treaty, signed more than half a century ■ago, by the terms of which the United States made a contract with Great Britain relating to the construction, fortification and operation of any canal that might be built across Central America. Under the old treaty the neutrality of the canal was guaranteed and the United State* agreed not to acquire territory in Central America and made other entangling contracts Avhich have caused troable for this country every time the canal question came up. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty amends the old tieaty so as to permit the United States to acquire a Btrip of land in Costa Rica and Nicaragua ten miles wide through which the canal will be constructed, but in its original form the Hay treaty does not reserve to this country the right to protect and fortify the caual if it so desires. This is the main point involved and it is the one on which the fight against the treaty has Avaged for months. The opponents of the treaty insist upon an amendment leaving the ques tion of fortification open so that the United States will be free to build forts and adopt other protective meas ures at any time. The canal is to be neutral and open to the commerce of the world on terms to be arranged by the United States. The isthmian canal commission, headed by Admiral Walker, recently reported that the caual cannot be con structed for the amount specified in the bill, but it would require nearly $200,000,000 to construct it. The ad ditional cost will not prevent the pass age of the bill. . There is a bill pending, introduced by Senator Mallory, of Florida, by request, to create a commission to have charge of the construction and control of the canal. The commis sioners are to receive salaries of $10, 000 each per annum. Senator Morgan, it is known, fears tho effect of the ratification of the Hay- the Pauncefote treaty, as amended, on canal. He thinks there will be long •delay in the settlement of the diplo matic question between the United States and Great Britain involved in the fortification amendment, and that the administration will not be willing to allow the canal bill to be passed un til this point is settled. This may mean that the canal bill will have to go over until the next congress. In the latter case it means the old fight over again, as the bill would have to go through the house again as a new measure. Now it has only to pass the senate and for this reason Senator Morgan is anxious to secure its passage in the senate at this session,-avoiding a hard and danger ous fight in the next house of repre sentatives. So anxious is he to have the matter disposed of at this session he is willing to have the Hay treaty ratified in its original form, although he appreciates the un-American con ditions attached to the instrument. By a vote of 65 to 17, the senate Thursday adopted the Davis amend ment to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and immediately afterwards adjourned. The prompt adjournment of the sen ate was due to fear on the part of those in charge of the treaty that if a vote on tha( document was then taken it would fail to secure the necessary two thirds, for it was clear that the tem per of the senate was in favor of chang ing the treaty very materially or re jecting it altogether. BOOKS ARE DEMANDED. .Standard 0.1,1 Company Is Given Final Or ders By Nebraska Court. The supreme court of Nebraska Wednesday issued a formal order to tho Standard Gil Company to permit the attorney general to inspect the books of the com pauy, giving the list •of stockholders at present and at the time the company was organized, the minute books of the company and other books and papers, The order follows the decision of the court a week ago Avlioreiu it declared it was competent to try the case of the attorney general against the Standard Oil Compan) jn which it i.( sought to debar it from the elate. kew disease in town. it Called "Grocers’ Dyspepsia," and Buyers Who Sample Are Victims. Hundreds of men In this city are suf fering from a most insidious and energy-sapping form of indigestion known as “grocers’ dyspepsia.” Buy ers for grocery houses ami commis sion merchants are the ones who suf fer from this peculiar ailment, which is caused by their Inevitable pro penalty to taste the crackers, fruits, spices and other tempting forms of food which are displayed by the whole salers. “Do you see that tall, lanky, cadaverous fellow over there,” asked a prominent wholesale grocer. "Well, what would you say was ailing him? Dyspepsia? Well, sir, you have hit the nail on tho head. But it isn’t any common, ordinary sort of dyspepsia from which he is suffering. Not a bit of It. It’s what we In the trade call •grocers’ dyspepsia,’ and it seems to me the name fits the case exactly. Now just watch him. “You see the first thing he does is to make for that open bag of roasted cof fee beans. There go some into his mouth. Now let us see what the clerk is going to show him. If it Is. anything softer than a cocoanut, you can wager he will sample it. Prunes! Well, he Is good for about an eighth of u pound of those.” “Now that fellow—he’s a well-known buyer Tor one of the largest grocery stores up town, by the way—probably visits from eight to ten wholesale houses In the course of a forenoon. In every one he will taste of something, a cracker, a cinnamon stick, some dried fruit or, worst of all for the state of Ills health, a handful of cloves. It doesn’t seem much, to be sure, but he gets the habit, and day after day he goes through the same performance, and then wonders why he is troubled with indigestion. “I was speaking to a doctor about it only last night. He said that eating continually, ns many of these buyers and commission merchants do, is enough to ruin the best digestive ap paratus provided by nature, Tho stomach can’t stand the wear and tear of always being obliged to work. Then, much of the stuff that these men can't seem to resist is had enough, even when taken with other food. When taken alone they prove most pernicious in their effects. Take spices, for ex ample. They continually excite the secretion of the glands of the diges tive organs, and in time succeed in ex hausting the gastric juices. Then the glands themselves become abnormally large, with the result that they are unable to perform their proper func tions. “The punishment for these Indiscre tions seems bad enough, doesn't it? Yet I like to think of it as a sort of divine retribution, for there is another side to the story. You can readily realize that the loss to us is consider able when I tell you that some fifty first boss did to me, of these men come in every business day in the year, and that fully three quarters of them indulge, so to speak. I know no way to cure buyers of the habit except to do with them what my first boss did to me.” “What did he do?” Avas asked. "Well,” said the grocer, with a slight chuckle, “when 1 was a lad, my first position was Avith a wholesale grocer. The morning I started in the boss said to me: ‘You see a lot of nice things around here—ruisins, fruit, crackers, cinnamon, etc.—don’t you? Noav, I Avant you to eat all you feel like eating. Understand?’ “Being a most innocent and unsus pecting youth, I followed his direc tions literally. I didn’t do a thing to those raisins. I also dipped into the coffee and sugar, and polished off about a half pound of crackers. “The next day I stayed at home xvitli mother. When I appeared again, and was gfeeted with a knowing wink from the boss 1 tumbled to his scheme. It was successful, for. I never cared to taste of the dainties I saw around af ter that.”—New York Mail and Ex press, The Largest Toy Factory. The largest toy factory in tho world is in NeAV York City, Avliere playthings in tin are manufactured literally by the million. It stands five stories high and turns out 1.607 dis tinct varieties of tin toys. The out put of circular tin whistles is 20,000, 000 per annum. The extent to which the fruit trade has been developed may be judged by the fact that the Admiral Schley, one of the four modern built swift sailing fruit steamers uoav running be tween Jamaica and Boston, recently brought to Boston 36,653 bunches of bananas, to say nothing of 298 bags of cocoanuts. - >* jV-a 4 p UK I p I i i if* ^lt[» Y •I# pV . PORTRAIT CAMEO CUTTING. Only One Exponent of tho Art In ThlJ Country. Chicago claims the only portrait cameo cutter in the United States. There may be other cameo cutters, but portrait cameo cutting is as far be yond ordinary cameo cutting as is por trait painting beyond photography. It is an art In itself. The only portrnlt cnnieo cutter is A. Hylen, a native of Sweden, where he learned the art of engraving on metul, which Is the basic art of cameo cut ting. He learned cameo cutting In Vienna. Like other fine arts, earned cutting requires Infinite putlence, be sides artistic sense, and it was not until Mr. Hylen had worked for souie tlunk like 40 years that he considered himself a competent portrait cameo cutter. Cameo cutting Is one of the oldest fine arts. It probably originated in India, but was carried thence to Egypt, where it flourished before the time of Moses. It was carried from Egypt to Persia. In those early days it is be lieved that the art of cutting precious stones was a part of the literature of the times, rather than a means of ex pressing the artist's sense of the beau tiful, and it was not until the art was taken up by the Greeks that it at tained that perfection which has since distinguished It. With the decline of the Roman empire it became a lost art, but was revived in the Renais sance and became more prominent than ever. Up to that time the art had been one of engraving on precious stones, but the artists of the later period not only discovered that it was possible to put pictures and portraits in shell, but they carried it to such perfection that shells are now universally employed for the finest work. The shells used are the large conch shells found in the Bahamn islands. Only one or two pieces of shell suit able for cameos can be cut from one conch. The pieces are ground to an oval surface and then are examined for flaws and bad coloring. If the least flaw is discovered or a color which would destroy the value of the cameo, the piece is rejected. If the surface shows pure white, the cameo cutter sketches an outline of his portrait or figure on the surface and then exam ines the thickness of the white part. He removes the superfluous parts of the white surfaee outside of his out line, and then gradually works out his design, taking care to work uniformly so he can compare his figure with the photograph from which he works. The work is so trying on the eyes that the most powerful magnifying glasses must be used, and even then the cut ter can work only ten or fifteen min utes at a time. After those short in tervals of application he has to rest his eyes for an hour before taking up the work again. Considering the slotv ness of the process and the long time required for the artist to become com petent for his work, it is easy to un derstand why genuine cameos are ex pensive. Many fraudulent cameos are made in Europe and sold in this coun try as genuine. Most of them are made Of opaque glass, which is ce inented to a background of onyx or other stone. Ivory is sometimes used in the making of spurious cameos, but it soon becomes yellow.—Chicago Times-Herald A Gloomy Tragedy. It is a dark night. It is also a dark kitchen. The kind-hearted man in his stocking feet is after a drink of wa ter for his fretful youngest, He thinks he can find his way in the inky darkness. He is mistaken. He turns to the left instead of to the right and falls down cellar. Another good man gone wrong!— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Our Nation's Wealth. Gold and sliver are poured abundantly into tho lap of the nation, but our material wealth and strength is rather in iron, the most useful of all metals, just as tho wealth of a human being lies in a useful stomach. If you have overworked yours until it is disabled, try Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It will relieve tho clogged bowels, improve the appetite and cure constipation, dyspepsia, biliousness, liver and kidney disease. Full Blown. lie called her month a rosebud then. But. »h. It makes him wince To think they’re married now, and it's Been blowing ever since. To Cure a Cold in One I>ay. Take Laxative Bnojto Quininb Tabi.ets. All druggists refund the money If It falls to cure. L. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. “Ac. The Plot. That Falle 1. “Arabella doesn’t look at all happy.” "No; she married a man younger ihan herself under hr imprestlon that he would be more manageable than an older olio. A Colonel in the British South African army says that Adams’ Tutti Frutti was a blessing to his men while marching. A Youthful Observer. Mamma—Don’t lounge that way, Tommy Sit up 11 ;e a little man. Tommy- Wh>-. mamma. tn'»n sit down; It’s only dogs and things that sit up. A Noble Porter. A correspondent writes: “A girl belonging to n Sussex village was en tering the service of a lady living at Arundel. Arriving at the railway station, she engaged an outside por ter to carry her box, and having gono a short distance she mentioned she could not give Win more than three pence, as the box was quite small. Thereupon, after the manner of so many of his kind, he pet it down in the road and walked off. “A homely-looking man, wearing a coat green with age, chanced to over take her. In spite of old clothes, he looked very respectable, she thought, and thinking he might be glad of a few pence, she offered him the job. He picked up tue little box and walk ed with her, but on reaching the des tination, he set it down on the door step, and hurried away without waiting to be paid. She mentioned the fact to her mistress, and from her description of the man, the indy’s amused suspicions were aroused; but she said nothing until a few days later, when the Duke of Norfolk happened to pass the house. “That’s the man that carried my box,” the girl said promptly, about to rush out forthwith and pay him, for the duke was wearing the identical green garment. Her confusion may be imagined on hearing that the erstwhile porter was the first peer of Emrland.”—M. A. P. Court Stopped the Discussion. At Hoisington, Kan., in the of a six days’ debate over whether Saturday or Sunday is the Lord’s Day, the Rev. E. T. Stewart was taken be fore the probate court ami adjudged Insane. The local papers fail to state the manner In which the other party to the debate made Ills escape.—Kan sas City (Mo.) Journal. 1 lie Ilext Prescription for CliilW and Fever Is a bottle of Ghovk’s Tastei.ksh l hii.lTonic. It Is simply iron and quinine In a msieless form. No cure—no par. Price'We. Forewarned. “You can't believe more* than half you hear.” “Which half of what you tell me shall I be lieve? Vis. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup tor children teething, softeffs tho gums, reduces lntlnmina lion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 2ic. a bottle. Out of Harmony. “In't this a lovely puritan picture?” “I should say not! Look at that puritan maiden—wearing a rufled apron while she picks a turkey .” Thirty minutes is all the time required to dye with Pctram Fadeless Dyes. Sold by all druggist.-, Signs. Briggs—Monkerly Is lostng his interest In golf, What so?" Griggs - makes you think Briggs—I saw him at bis office yesterday. Best For the Bowels, No matter what alls you, headache to ft cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascarkt* help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, just produce 10 cents easy to natural start getting movements, cost health you your back. Oascarets Candy Cathartlo, the geuuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab let has C.C.C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. Expensive and Exclusive. ^Vhat Is this social struggle we hear BO much “It Is partly getting In yourself and partly keeping other people out.” StOO Reward. 8100. The readersof this paper will be plea c ed to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that science tuts been able to cure in all its staues, and that is » atarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only nositive cure now known to the medical fraternity, (’atarrh being acon stitutional disease, requires a constitutional ire-'iment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken iuter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation ot the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the con stitution unit assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have sotnuch faith in its curative powers thatthey offer One Hun dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney – Co, Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Holiday Zest. “Well, now we can sottle down and think about < hrlstinns.” “Settle down? Get stirred up, you mean.” Uncle Sam's Soldiers Will eat Libby’s Plum Pudding for Christmas dinner. The U. 8. Government has Just pur chased a large consignment of Libby, McNeill – Libby’s famous plum pudding, which will be supplied to Am rlcan Soldiers In tho Phil ippine Islands and Cuba. Inadvertently Pleasant. “I didn't know it was to bo a comic opera." “Well, you knew It was to be an opera «iven by an amateur company. I am sure Tlso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life throe years ago. Mrs. Thos. Bob bins, Maple St, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1000. The Charm of Novelty. “Don’t you find the fad of collecting rather tiresome?” “Oh. no; now and then I quit collecting some thing and collect others.” pr.Bull'sSSSHsS Cough Syrup Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. Bull’s Cough Svrup. Mention this Paper tn adiwrftsers. 61 If nTHrtetH with ‘Thompson’s Eyi Water w i ak eyes, use Feeds the Hair Have you ever thought why your hair is falling out? It is because you are starving your hair. If this starvation con tinues, your hair will continue to fall. There is one good hair food. It is Ayer’s Hair Vigor. It goes right to the roots of the hair and gives them just the food they need. The hair stops falling, becomes healthy, and grows thick and long. Ayer’s Hair Vigor always does another thing, also: it restores color to faded or gray hair. One dollar a bottle. It' your druggist cannot supply you, send us fci.oo and we will express u bottle to you, all charges prepaid, lie sure and give ua your nearest express office. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Send for our handsome book on The Hair. We make a specialty of mince meat — employ the best skill — use the best materials. We stake our fame on it. We use h to advertise the many other ■ good things that we make. ■ LIBBY’S MilUGt MEAT 5f A package makes two large pies. » Your grocer will furnish it if you ask him. You will find it better than home-made—better than any mince meat you ever tasted. You’ll eat Libby’s foods thereafter. Libby, McNeill – Libby, Chicago 1 Our book, ‘‘How to Eat,” to sent Make free. Good Thinea Two hundred bushels of po tatoes remove eighty pounds jilt of ‘ ‘actual ’ ’ Potash from the g?!: soil. Unless this quantity WM is returned to the soil, Wk he following - crop will . materially decrease. £ We have books telling ojjout stsili composition, • fertilizers They are use tor sent various and tree. value crops. of |j> GERMAN KALI WORKS, •V 3 *‘V Nassau St., « New York. £ • s I' T-V -~T ■ j •s,_ l EaiiitL S Saw Mills SI29 TO $929 00 With Improved Rope and Ilelt Feed. SAWS, FIX.ES and TEETH In Stock. Engines, Boilers and Machinery All Kinds and Repairs for same. Shafting, Pnlleys, Belting. Injectors, Pipes, Valves and Fittings. LOMBARD IRONWORKS! UPPLYCO, AUGUSTA, GA / FREE! CATALOG T SPORTING GOODS RAWLINGS SPORTING GOODS COMPANY, 640 UocustSt., ST, LOUIS, Me. DROPSY of testimonials quick NEW and r«b* DI30(JVE7!Y; 10 days’ r snd cures treatment warm cases. Look I rec. Dr H. B. GREEN'S SONS Box B Acisnra Oa Use CERTAIN COUGH CHILL CORN era m i ■so* w Cough Syrup. ELSE Good. FAILS. cn Rest Tastes L'bo |8| in time. Sold by druggists. a
