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LOVE IS MOST ClAD.
Tore is most glad with cruel bands
To bind his tender feet and hands;
To scourge himself, to know all loss.
To carry far his heavy cross
Into the vaguest distant lands.
To suffer—oh, love understands * *
The awful waste of desert sands;
Strange that on beds of thorns to toss,
Love is most glad:
And for his service love demands
Jso Calling sacrifices. Lo! he stands
his golden deeds but dross,
TV Flaunting hen flayed the proud world’s piteous gloss,
and wounded on life's strands,
Love is most glad!
—Charles Hanson Towne, in the Reader.
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Cold-Water
Man.
By CLAR.A AUGUSTA
■- . i n—. 1 . "
JttCJAK GORGE RONE was a firm
'4 Cx ^ believer in the medicinal
<• O virtues of cold water. What
f cold feet, water in the would of not curing ef
way
the ills which flesh is heir to, might as
well be given up as impossible.
According to George's theory, if a
man only drank enough cold water, and
soaked himself enough in cold water,
he would live forever, if no accident
took him off suddenly.
He set up a sort of cold-water cure
at his house, obtaining his supply of
water from a well dug at a height suf
ficient to throw the water to the second
floor of bis dwelling, for George lived
in the country, where water in the
house is a rare luxury.
I11 the bathroom was a large upright
tub, five or six feet higher than a fair
sized man’s head, and in this tub
George passed a large part of his time,
doctoring himself.
Ilis wife was a timid, yielding little
woman, and she was constantly made
the subject of her husband’s experi
ments in the cold-water business.
She had neuralgia, and though she
bore it for a long time in silence, pre
ferring the pain to George's doctoring,
in an unguarded hour she groaned
aloud, and her fate was sealed. A pa
tient to coddle was Rone’s pet, desire,
and lie began tlie business with vigor.
Toor Mrs. Ilone was showered, and
packed, and sponged and submerged,
until she was pretty much soaked
'away, and one day George turned Oil
too much water, and it went over her
head, and washed the life entirely out
ct her.
p Poor woman, after she went to her
long home—which waft, properly speak
ing, a short home, seeing as she was
only four feet five—her husband la
mented her departure, but stuck to liis
first reservation that slie died from
lack of cold water, instead of from sn
pin-abundance. For, if she had only
done her duty by herself, and bathM
properly, she would have had strength
enough to have cried out, or burst open
.the door of the bathing tub, and so
have been saveu. 1
" ben site had bf^n dead a year Mr.
peMtZ l” a de aihff'ngements for supply
ing her place. Time was short, lie
said, and if he over calculated on hav
ing a second wife now was his time.
His choice fell on Patty Fields, a
spinster of forty, with a temper like a
ten-horse power steam engine, though
*sTie generally kept it under, and was all
the better woman for having it.
She- was not a believer in the cold
^
water uocirine, but George diked her
quite* as well. lie should convert heix
he said, and thus add another member
to the cold-water clique.
The wedding day came, the feast was
spread and the guests assembled* The
ceremony was to take place at S o’clock
in the evening, and the appointed time
arrived, and still the bridegroom tar
ried.
The guests began to whisper together
and look grave; the parson took to
reading the Bible; Patty shed a few
tears, as in duty bound, and spotted
her lavender tie with the salt water,
and old Major Fields, her father,
had “seen service,” and was as
as a boy of twenty, put on bis
hat, shouldered his old rifle, and
ceeded to Rone’s house, with
in his heart.
The servant girl giggled when
opened the door and saw him,
when he asked for Mr. Rone she
ducted him to the bathroom with
rity. There lie fo’ nd tlie
bridegroom, .up to Lis chin in
splashing about like a frog, and
dently enjoying himself much on
same principle.
“You infernal scoundrel!” cried
Fields, “what do you mean by
my darter in suspense, and the
folks a waitin’?”
"Good gracious, Major!”
George; “it can’t be 8 o’clock, can
The Major held out to him the
“bull’s-eye” watch, which liad
to his grandfather, and its band
ed to the ominous hour of 9.
“Well, well, well!” exclaimed
springing out of the hath and
himself inside his clothes with
waste of time, “did ever anybody
the beat of that? YVhy, I got into
bath at just G o'clock, and I
have sworn it was only 7 now.
passes quickly when a man is
in the cause of science. I was
in opening the pores of the epider
mis-”
•’Upper dermis and lower dermis be
cussed I’’ cried old Fields, angrily. “A
man that has to soak himself three
hours afore he can come to his own
wedding deserves a boss-whipping.
Are you ealkilating, sir. to be married
or not i
“Certainly, Major, certainly — to be
sure!” said George, hurrying up his
toilet, under the supervision of his in
tended father-in-law and the old rifle.
Tlie wedding was a little later than
the time appointed, but the guests had
better appetites in consequence of the
delay.
Mr. and Mrs. Rone had no bridal tour,
but went at once to housekeeping.
George did not find a very pliant sub
ject lor cold-water experiments in bis
second wife. She had a will of her
own, and absolutely declined to submit
to any cold-water doctoring.
George felt personally aggrieved over
her conduct, for he was sure that she
bad symptoms of billiousness, and be
had greac faith in cold water for that
difficulty. Various were the experi
meats which lie adopted to induce her
to try liis specific—she was obdurate.
One night Mrs. Rone went to bed un
usually exhausted from a hard day's
work. She slept like a top, but some
time in the night slie was awakened
by a sensation of extreme coldness.
Sbe put out her head, and lo. there
were evidences of a deluge all aiound
her. She always liad matches under
her pillow-, and she scratched one. Its
light showed her that her bed bad
been moved into the bathroom, and the
water liad been turned on and had
risen to the height of her bed. Every
thing was soaking wet and the water
was steadily rising.
Mrs. Rone was a woman of action.
She knew that George must be at the
bottom of it, and she got a light and
paddled around up to her knees in
water to find him. He was hidden in
the bathtub, peeping out through a
hole at the side, near the top, laughing
at the succ -- - 1:s experiment to give
his wife a hath.
Mrs. Rone’s temper was aroused.
f, the he tub on the otly outside f ? s ‘“ ed and let , lioor m the » f
prisoner in torrents, and in a few min
utes would have been above his bead,
but for the fact that lie bad climbed to
the top of the tub and was clinging on
with both hands to a bar across the
top.
“Let me out, Patty. For heaven's
sake, let me out!” he shouted.
"Not by a long chalk!” cried Patty,
“I want to soak you clean through.
You know you’ve always insisted upon
it that tlie beauty of bathing was in
being well soaked. Make yourse l-b it easy
and try to bear it. It’s all in the cause
of science.
It was cold weather, and the hard
hearted Patty carried the matter so
far that it came near being the death
of poor George, who was beginning to
wfiose teeth chattered ijke
castanets before he VTfis Jet out, He
had ail attack of rheumatism which
lasted for six weeks, and during that
time liis wife had the well which sup
plied the bathroom filled up, and thus
the supply of water was cut off.
George wisely deciding that it was
no use .to pursue science under such
difficulties, has turned his attention to
raising squashes, at which he is very
successful.
But whenever he sees any water Iff;
always shakes his head and sighs,
ably with the remembrance of
“mightbavebeen.”—New York
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An Opportunist.
The late Professor O. C. Marsh,
for many years occupied tlie chair
paleontology at Yale, and who at
death left a scientific collection of
value to the university, used to
in telling the following story:
One morning he was walking
a New Haven street when he met a
gro driving a horse which had a
riously malformed hoof.
“When your horse dies,” said the
fessor to the old man, “I will
you $3 for that lioof if you will cut
off and bring it to me.”
“Very well, sab,” was the reply,
horse and driver disappeared.
Two hours later, when the
reached home, lie found the
who had been impatiently awaiting
for an hour. Handing a
wrapped package to the professor
negro said, “De boss is daid, sub. •5
Heigilt of the Sea Breeze.
Observations as to the height of
diurnal sea breeze are few in
albeit of considerable importance.
means of a captive balloon, sent
from Coney Island a number of
ago, it was found that the
height at which the cool inflow
the ocean was replaced by the
warm outflow from the laud was
500 to GOO feet. At Toulon, in 1893,
height of tlie sea breeze was found
be about 1300 feet, and e distinct
shore current was found between
and 2000 feet. More recently (1902)
the west coast of Scotland, Dines,
ing kites, lias noted that the
would not’rise above 1500 feet on
afternoons, when the 011 -shore
was blowiug.
In thirty years 1,391,070
have come to this country. Prior
1S90 the percentage of women was
than ten, but since that time it
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Gathered at Random,
J Jury Indorses Dispensary.
j Grand
j The Floyd county grand jury in the
general presentments recently made,
indorse the rum shop in operation at
Rome,
: * * *
New Railroad Completed.
; ! The Flint River and Northeastern
railroad has been completed from Pel
ham to Ticknor, a station on the Geor
gia Northern, near Boerun. Only a
i freight schedule will be operated over
| the new road at present.
j j Park and Mobley Reappointed.
j J. B. Park, Jr., of Greene county, and
j J. H. Mobley, of Harris county, have
| been reappointed as. directors of the
state experimental farm, located at
Griffin, Ga. The appointment was
made Saturday by Governor Terrell
The terms are for five years,
j
Cotton Bale Sold for $121.10.
All i oca j records since the days fol
, j OW j n g the c jvil war were broken at
Columbus one day the past week, when
Q g B of Hamilton, sold a bale
, ... ^ _ c _ ? , f _ °"
* 121 10 net J* The cotton was P ° Un stamed 8 .
-
and classed Iow > but nevertlieless
brought 15 1-2 cents per pound.
May Borrow for Legislature,
Governor Terrell stated a few days
ago that it was too early to state defin
itely, yet he thought that it would bo
necessary to borrow money with which
to pay the legislators during the com
ing session. Last year it was neces
sary to borrow $50,000 to help defray
1 the expenses of the first summer ses
| sion.
* *.
! Paeolet Mills Close Cown.
; The p 2coIet Manu(aclurI company,
whose pmntat^ew Holland consumes
annually 30,000 baies of cotton and em
ploys about i- 000 hands - closed dowR
; Saturday for an indefinite period. The
j company manufactures goods and the
high price of cotton is the reason for
closing down. The idle forces will
suffer, and the community will be hurt -
j
Black’s Tribute to Gordon.
Commander in Chief John C. Black,
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
j has written a letter to Colonel James
P. Averill, of O. M. Mitchell post, G.
A. R., of Atlanta, in winch he express
es warm approbation of the r.esohi
, | tions relating to the death of General
I John B. Gordon, recently adopted by
1 the post, and his admiration of General
Gordon as a soldier and a statesman,
*
Tocmer is Greatly Interested.
A Washington dispatch says: When
. the Sibley bill to prohibit the purchase
by the government of convict made
goods was the subject of a hearing be
fore the house committee on labor, W.
M. Toomer, of Georgia, who said that
he held a contract for the labor of
convicts for five years in that
opposed the bill. Mr. Toomer said
the state received from $220 to
a year for its convict labor, and
j this money went into the public
1 fuund.
. * * *
[ Have Money to Loan.
Farmers of Carroll and Heard
ties, Georgia, and Cleburne and
dolph counties, Alabama, who
heavy crops from their wagons
the streets of Carrollton, are
ing handsomely from their crops
| cotton which have been held.
cotton reached the approximate
I o 15 cents per pound, unheard of
j serves of cotton have been hauled
f or the past week, and an
fund of cash for the section is
; deposited,
* *
No Former Jeopardy.
The plea of former jeopardy
j . Q the case of j B oiiveros,
cashier of the Atlantic Coast Line
Savannah, and charged with
after trust of about $5,000, was
ruled by Judge George T. Cann.
He said that the late Judge
Barrow had been moved by a
necessity to declare a mistrial.
, Barrow had declared a mistrial
cause he had expressed an opinion
, cer tain evidence The next day
j f oun d be was wrong in having done
Unless the supreme court
Judge Cann, the cast must go to
I State to Sue Railroads,
j /attorney General John C. Hart,
the request of the railroad
of Georgia will file suits in a few
against the Southern railway and
Seaboard Air Line railway for
on part of hose companies to
with the orders of the railroad
mission.
Some time ago the roads were
ed by the commission to construct
pots at certain stations on their
but so far the railroads have
the orders of the commission and have
taken no steps toward the erection oi
i lbe ba ^ d * Qgs v,b * cb they were ordered
to construct.
* * *
Fire Bugs Caused Elfcertcn Blaze.
j The debris of Elberton’s big fire is
j being rapidly removed, preparatory 10
i rebuilding the burned district. Colonel
T. M. Swift has already placed an or
j der for of material his block, to repair and the O. injured
fronts W. Jones,
who owned the block burned, is pre
paring to haul material to rebuild. The
i firms who were burned out Lave made
j arrangements to open up again in
new buildings.
It is generally thought at present
that the fire was of incendiary origin,
as when it was discovered it appeared
to be in the rear of three stores de
stroyed at the same time. Some be
lieve it was caused by burglars to
er their tracks.
* * *
State’s Cotton Is Sold.
Chairman J. S. Turner, of the state
prison commission, is very much grati
fied over the high price at which the
state's cotton sold a few days ago.
There were 305 bales raised on the
state prison farm this year, and they
were sold to George Smith, a Milledge
ville buyer, at an average price of 15
1-2 cents per pound. This is a total of
more than $23,600.
The foregoing figures are in striking
contrast to those received by the state
last year for the cotton raised on the
farm. There were 450 bales raised
last year, and it was sold at an aver
age price of a little more than 9 cents,
the total amount received for the 450
bales being about $19,000. The money
received from the sale of this cotton
is turned into the state treasury. By
the raising of this cotton annually the
prison farm more than pays the ex
pense of operating it.
* * *
Agents Named for Gordon Fund.
More than $1,000 has already been
subscribed toward the memorial monu
ment to be built in Atlanta to the
memory of General John B. Gordon,
and that, too, before the committee in
named to solicit subscriptions have
gone actively into the field.
President W. L. Calhoun has com
pleted the list of agents named to
represent the John B. Gordon Monu
ment Association in the various south
ern states, as well as the committees
which will be requested and authorized
to canvass for subscriptions in the va
rious cities of Georgia. The agents
named to represent the association : n
other southern states are authorized
to associate with them such commit
teemen as they may see fit to canvass
their respective fields, and they will
be asked to report to the central com
mittee in Atlanta at such times as may
be most convenient and suitable to
them.
* *
Held Cotton for Twenty-Two Years.
Homer Williams, a cotton buyer at
Vienna for E. L. Harper, of Cordele,
purchased there a few days ago three
bales of cotton from D. B. Leonard
which were ginned in the fall of 1881.
The three bales were just twenty-two
years old, and were probably the old
est in America. This venerable lot of
fleecy staple graded as good middling
and sold at 15 cents.
Cotton in 1881 was selling at a low
figure, and Mr. Leonard stored three
bales away in a little house in Vienna,
declaring he would hold it until it
brought 15 cents. Though it seemed a
hopeless task, he held out in his de
termination.
* * if.
College Arranges Agricultural Course.
The Agricultural School of the Uni
versity has arranged a two weeks’
course in Agriculture, February 8-20,
•
for the special benefit of farmers. Tne
lectures and experiments will be held
in the Agricultural Hall, free from any
interruption from the regular classes
of the University, and at hours con
venient for many farmers who come
from home each day. The lectures are
absolutely free. It will be a two weeks’
institute in Agriculture, open to all
the citizens of the state interested in
that subject. The most expert lec
turers on agricultural subjects will
be in atendance. Ample opportunity
will be given for questions for practi
cal study of the cotton plant, the
plant, for examination and
of the best types of cattle and
Every afternoon from 2 to 4
dairy will be running where
and their wives may see and study
best processes of testing the
separating the cream, making the
ter and preparing the same for
Those who can stay the two
can get hoard and lodging for the
tire time for $10. Below will be
the different subjects to be
the lecturers and the date of each
ture.
Monday, February 8th—10:30.
ing a cotton crop. Prof. J. M.
son. 11:30. Fertilizers for cotton
their application. Dr. H. C. White.
Tuesday, February 9th—10:30.
ing a corn crop from preparation
soil Jo harvest time. Prof. J. M.
son. 11:30. Insects injuring the
ing crops and mature ear. on „
control. *
Dr. J. p. Campbell
j Wednesday, February, flth
j Cotton improvement by seed sele>
and plant breeding. Prof 5
J- M. u
son H;30 Types and varietig:
cotton, which have given the hr
sults . Direct or R. J Reddin*
j Thursday ’ February l:1th-— 11 ,
j Director Types of cc rn best suited f Ge^J ^
R. J. Redding. n ;30
selection "
and plant breeding ,
means of corn improvement. Prof
M. Johnson. r
Friday, February 12th—10 :30 y
keting the cotton crop, Institute!
rector Harvie Jordan, 11:30. ji rJ
judging—laboratory work. Prof,
Johnson.
Saturday, February 13th— 10:3
1 12. Farmers’ question box, condud
by Senator Harvie Jordan.
Monday, February loth—10;i
Types of beef cattle. Prof. J. M. Jr^
son. 11:30. Common ailments of I,
animals and their treatment. Dr.
E. Jago.
Tuesday, February 16th— 10 : ;
Method of improving cattle. Prof
L. Willoughby, 11:30. Food crops
hogs and cattle and their product:
j Prof. J. M. Johnson.
j Wednesday, February 17th—10;
Economy in meat production, p
C. L. Willoughby, of the Experim |
! Station. 11:30. Principles and pn
tices of stock breeding. Prof j
Johnson.
Thursday, February 18th—10:30: • I
\ 11:30. Stock judging—practical fig H
onstrations from the animals, p-,
J. M. Johnson.
Friday, February 1.9th—10:30 aj
11:30. Slaughter tests and cari i
demonstration. Prof. J. M. Johnson! thesed
Any citizen interested in
jects is cordiallyl invited to attai
Farmers from a distance will be giJ
every aid in securing boarding plac®
DASTARDLY WDiK OF A HDD.
Defenseless Woman and H er I title Dai'fBk
ter Br fined Wilfi Hatchet,
When George J. Shields, reaei^B a x I.,
known young business man,
his home in the heart of Roanoke,i'jH
at the luncheon hour Saturday
found his 3-year-old daughter, MildreH
lying in a pool of blood on the woaaMj
tio.i hall floor, with two ugly
on the head. ^B ^B
Following blood stains from the
ing room to an upstairs chamber,
found his wife lying in pools of bid
on a clothes closet floor, with a
throat cut from ear to ear, and H
head horribly hacked. Mrs. blackafl ShieiH
I managed to gasp: “A large, asfl
gro man came through the kitchen
attacked me in the dining room.”
Besides this there is no clue to tfl
| criminal, Mrs. Shields had been of
| raged, after which her assailant dei
: her several blows on the head draggJ v. U!;|
hatcliet, fracturing the skull,
her upstairs, where he cut her thw
with a razor and threw her into oi thj
closet, fastening the door on the
j side.
[ The little girl was struck to hul
| her cries. The dining room floor wi
i covered with blood and showed the?
: had been a terrible struggle. The da
j tors entertain but slight hopes for tfl
| recovery of either the mother or tragei] chi!'
j 1 When the discovery of crowd the of c'j
was made known a large
izens gathered in the vicinity office^ of tij
city jail, v;atching to see if the
carried any one into the building. 1
8 o’clock Saturday night this croi
numbered more than 1,000 men.
Mayor Cutchin ordered Capt-8
Francis, of the Roanoke Blues MiiiGij
Company, to assemble his men as
precautionary measure, The soldie
kept guard all night.
A later dispatch stated that Mi
Shields and her daughter were s«
I alive Sunday night, but physical
say if they recover it will be a miracl
Thus far no arrests have been mad
and there is no clew to the identitj 1
the assailant. The Roanoke Light B
fantry and Roanoke Blues are ag!
sleeping on their arms, and will 1
be disbanded until the guilty mafl
! caught, or all probability of an oi
j break is past. rowa
| The city council will offer a
of $500 for. the capture of the n
! and this amount will he duplicated
the state.
GENFRAL RFYE5 iS INNOCENT.
Disclaims Any Knowledge of Confer,:p:st
War With United Staten,
I General Raefel Reyes, special eiff N)
from Colombia, who is still in
;
1 Aork, G iat; b said * country Sunday regarding about t o ic s*.m. r .j
i s was
! army against Panama:
i “If Colombia is thinking of going
war I know nothing about it and b*
nothing to do with it.
Robber Herman Given Thirteen Year*
A dispatch from Manila says: 5®
Herrman, the ex-inspector of consta,
lary, who robbed the government.
been convicted and sentenced to
[ t een years’ imprisonment.