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T1IK WAYCROSS HERALD SATURDAY, JULY 27. 1895.
Beformad Spelfla *.
Same wren jm» ago the German a»>
*tion quietly simplified its spelling by
*tbe knocking oat of Tsrioas superfluous
•letters. Far 80 years a number of Amer
ican enthusiasts have been trying to do
something of. the same kind for the Eng-
ilish language. Before that Webster in-
itated the move, which baa finally suc
ceeded here, to drop the “a’* that is still
retained by the English in such words as
“favour,” “labour” and “honour.”
Webster also made several other admira
ble changes in the direction of shorten
ing and simplifying words, changes
which, although generally adopted in
America, are still repudiated with scorn
by the British.
The changes contemplated by another
school of reformers of the English lan
guage, in addition to simplifications like
spelling words beginning with “ph”
with “f” instead, as “frase” for
“plira.se,” would reorganize our lan
guage on the phouetie basis, or “fo-
netic,” as the new spelling would be.
We would spell words as they are pro
nounced. This was the reform attempt
ed 30 years ago, but which has never
succeeded to any extent. Funk & Wag-
nails, the publishing firm, propose now,
however, to take the matter up in ear
nest.
They have issued circulars on the sub
ject to publishers, teachers aud scholars
throughout the country. In these circu
lars they declare that they will adopt
forthwith into their four periodical
publications the new spelling if a suf
ficient number of those to whom the cir
culars are addressed will do the same,
so that F. &. W. will not be forced to
bear alone the brunt of all the criticism
that will lx* fired at them. The circular
contains a list of the words whose spell
ing i
wl to
he words they will change
slightly are geographical names. For
instance, they will spell Bering sea,
Tibet, Sudan, Chile, Korea and Haiti
as here written. Many authorities do
that already, however. They will drop
silent letters, giving us, for instance,
“re^ei^” foryeceipt Perhaps they will
spell “knowledge” thus, “uolledg. ” In
such words as “dropped” they would
change the “ed” to“t,” thus, “dropt,”
writing words whose final “ed” is pro
nounced like “t” as they are spoken.
This would be a great gain in the line
of brevity. In many other words Funk
& Wagnalls would make one letter grow
where two grew before.
It is not anywhere in civilisation, not
even in America, according to Hr. 2L
Fielding, a writer in Blackwood. It-is
in heathen Burma. There woman is
on absolutely the same footing as man
in all that pertains to law and custom.
There is not a single law that does not
bear equally on man the same as ou
women. Men have never tried to “boss”
them or to say what was fitting and
what was not fitting for them. “No ar
tificial ideals from long past ages have
been held up to them as eternal copies.
It has been left to their own gcod sense
and to the eternal fitness of things to
determine what is womanly and what
is not. ” The result is, says Mr. Field
ing, none is more womanly than tin*
Burmese woman, “pono possesses iu
greater strength all the nameless attrac
tions of a woman. ”
In the higher classes a woman has
property of her own and manages it
herself. In the lower classes she always
has a trade and runs it herself. The
sexes are left to choose their own occu
pations, and “it is rather curious to find
that sewing and embroidery are distinc
tively male occupations.”
The retail trade of the country is in the
hands of the women, and they nearly all trade
on their own account. Just as the men farm
their own land, the women own their busi
nesses. They are not saleswomen for others,
but traders on their own account, and, with
the exception of the silk and cloth branches of
the trade, it does not interfere with home life.
The bazaar lasts but three hours, and tho
woman has ample time for her home duties
when her daily visit to the bazaar is over.
She is never kept away all day in shops and
factories. Her homo life is always the center
of her life. Sho could not neglect it for any
other. It would stem to her a lasing of the
greater in the less. But the effect of this cus
tom of nearly every woman having a little
business of her own lias a great influence on
her lift-. It broadens her views. It teaches
her things sho could not learn In the narrow
circle of home duties. It gives her that toler
ance and understanding which so forcibly
strike every one who knows her. It teaches
her to know her own strength and weakness
and how to make tho best of each.
Tb*r ported with daeped band*
And kUnee and burning team.
They art to a fortign land
After aoxae twenty years—
Met as acquaintances meet.
Smiling, tranquil eyed.
Not even the least little beat
Of the heart upon either aid*.
They chatted of this and that.
The nothings that make up lifat
She in a Gainsborough hat
And he in black for his wife.
a she had leaned to his kiss,
uce he had known her tears.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
A BUSINESS ROMANCE.
To Keep Cool.
For four years St. Louis and Denver
have been keeping cool by currents of
anhydrous liquid ammonia that flow
through mains ns gas and water do and
refrigerate food, air and people, if they
desire it, in hotels, markets and private
houses. Like most new ideas, this took
root in tho west first. Tho present sum-
_ mer the system has been adopted by cot
tagers and hotel keepers at Atlantic
City.
It is tolerably certain that ice will be
Bnpplanted as a cooler before many
years, either by anhydrous liquid am- j
monia or by a new preparation known i
as carbon dioxide. It is produced by j
calcining liim
soft coal. It is a gas as first formed, but
can be compressed and liquefied. Then
tho plan is to pass it also through un
derground pipes from a central plant tc
nouses, hotels, meatshops and any oth
er place where it is wanted.
The carbon dioxide may be sprayed di
rectly upon meat which it is desired tc
refrigerate. It is said to sour milk, how
ever. And when the temperature is boil-
Changes In the Grain Trade.
Wheat in tho Chicago market fell from
an average of £1.11 **»' a bushel in 1892
to 49 cents in January, 1895. This was
of course largely due to the opening of
tho great wheatfields Jljg northwest.
In Tho North American Review Mr.
Egerton R. Williams calls attention to
tho fact that however much wheat is
consumed at home it is the price in for
eign markets that inevitably decides tho
price at home. “The surplus of export
ing countries mgsj &I\v%ys determine
homo values.” England, the greatest
cmwgjner^fixes the price o? American
wheat andTxilon and even of American
railway stocks. That is because sho has
so much ready money.- The ocean tele
graph brought nearer together the im
porters of breadstuffs and their export
ers. This had the effect to let all the
world know where there was a scarcity
and where a glut of wheat. One result
was that the time honored custom of
selling and buying grain and flour
through commission merchants is now
almost obsolete.
“In the latter part of the sixties” a
system was quietly inaugurated which
revolutionised the whole system of buy
ing and selling grain. That was dealing
futures”—buying and selling grain
— in hand for future delivery. This
»°! ! to 118 thought very wicked indeed.
It is now recognized as a perfectly hon
est and legitimate transaction and has
becor^ejhe steady practice. Only for it,
Mr. Williams declares that the disas
trous effects of the crash of 1893 would
have been much greater.'
The collector of customs at San Fran
cisco does ill to make that row against
tho admission of Zanto currants freo
indoor
ing hot outside it is expected to be able j from duty. Ho will win tho enmity of
by either one of these methods to cheat, all the boarding house keepers in this
old father tun out of lrs innings and J laud of light and liberty. Who does not
depress the mercury to any desired point j cherish fond memories of rice pudding
with Zanto currants in it 305 days in
, the year? Still in his Eustachian tubes
; sounds the music of the sand ho gritted
J in his teeth as he chewed those horrid
i Zaute currants. He may have been wed-
) ded many years and had for long a snug
j home of his own where Zante currants,
( if they are ever used, have always the
j sand completely washed out of them.
• j
It Is the True Story of the Itl!*e of s Hum
ble Young Mao.
A young man who was working as
clerk in an importing house had occa
sion frequently in the course of business
to call at a certain large manufacturing
establishment. The head of the concern
took a fancy to him. One day he asked
the yoqpg man what salary ho was get
ting, what his chances of promotion
were and so on. He was told and then
said to the young man that he thought
there was a better opportunity for him
in his office than in tho house where he
was then employed.
The young man replied that he should
of course like to better himself, but
that bis engagement would not permit
him to leave for some timo to come.
Tiro bead of the house said lie thought
ho might induce his employer to let
him go. ' He accordingly wrote a note to
the senior partner of the importing
house, with whom he was on intimate
terms, saying that ho had formed a lik
ing for the young man, that he believed
there was a better opening for him in
his office and asking that ho be released.
Tho next day tho young man cam© back
with a letter in which his employer,
while expressing regret at losing his
services, said that ho recognized the
larger opportunity offered him, and,
he didn’t want to stand in his way, re
leased him. The clerk went to work in
his new position and so confirmed his
employer’s good impressions that his
promotion was re.p^d. Ho went from one
responsible position to another until he
Was next to the manager of the house,
A short time ago the manager died, and
“our hero,” now no longer a young
man of course, bnt still in the prime of
life, took his place at a salary very
nearly if not quite as large as that of
the president of the United States.—
New York Recorder.
Customs of Polish Women.
In Poland princesses and peasants
wear around the throat several rows of
hnge coral beads which are.supposed to
be lucky—the bigger the beads the great
er the luck—aud the dingy looking mer
chants of the “Zwierjenetz” (Jewish
quarter of the town}, at Cracow, realize
small fortunes from the sale of these
coral necklaces, for a Pole of the loWer
classes will almost sooner go without
food or without her beloved “vodki”
(brandy) than forego this cherished or
nament. The “grande dame” is so loath
to separate from her lucky beads that,
when donning evening dress with its
paraphernalia of pearls and diamonds,
she carries them in her pocket or in the
inside of her corsage.
While on the subject of Poland, I may
add that the orthodox Jewesses there—
with whom the country literally swarms
—are easily distinguished, apart from
any physical mark of race, by the silken
wigs which they are forced To adopl on
the morrow of their wedding day. Their
religion exacts that on the wedding night
the tresses should fail under the bites of
a pair of silver scissor.^ and tlie Inass’a*
ere is so complete that, shorn close to
the scalp, they conceal the skull under
a hideous construction of coarse silken
strands, highly ornamented in most cases
with bands of black velvet sewed with
small pearls and turquoises —New York
Tribune.
Lml Blanks,
The following is a partial list of legal
blanks that can always be found at the
Herald office: ——
Attachment. - »* -* >i *
Short Deed.
Warranty Deed. 4 ’ 1
Articles of Agreement for Warranty
Deed.
Summons for Garnishment.
Possessory Warrant.
Bond for Title.
Garnishment—Affidavit and Bond.
Mortgage.
Mortgage on Personalty.
Timber Deed.
Justice’s Court Execution.
“ “ Summons.
“ *• Execution for cost.
“ “ Fi Fa.
Bill Sale, Persons lty.
Superior Couit Execution.
Receipts, Drafts, Checks, Iron-clad
Notes, etc., etc.
Any blank that is not on the above
list can be printed at a few hours notice.
Did You Ever
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your
troubles ? If not get a bottle now and get
relief. This medicine has been found to
be peculiarly adapted to the relief and
cure of all Female Complaints, exerting
a wonderful direct enfiuence in giving
strength and tone to the organs. If you
have loss of Appetite, Constipation,
Headache, Fainting Spells, or are Ner
vous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy
or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric
Bitters is the midicine you need Health
and strength are guaranteed by its use
Large bottels only fifty cents at A. B
McWhorter and B. J. Smith’s Drug Store
A congress of representatives of the
Irish people is to meet in this country
before long. It is not quite clear wheth
er "representatives” means descendants
of Irish and those having more or less
of the blood of the old country in their
veins or not. If it means those whe
share the Irish blood, what a great com
pany will go up to that convention. Of
even the old families, so called, in the
United States there are few who have
not had one or more Irish ancestors.
The Irish blood may have entered a cen
tury ago, or only a generation ago, bnt
it is there mingled through and through
ninety-nine-hundredths of all the peo
ple in America. Many of our best news
paper men and lawyers are of Irish de
scent. The American is quicker, shrewd
er, more nervous and lively than the
Englishman. This may be partly owing
to climate. It is also partly owing to
the very large infusion of Irish blood
among our people. The Knickerbocker
is slow, blond and sleepy eyed. The
Irishman has bright red blood and a
dancing eye. The blood of the two is
mingled into cue current in thousands
of Americans, and the cross is a good
one. The American people have been
great gainers from the admixture of
Irish blood.
Yet still in nightmare dreams will come
back at intervals the old grinding of his
teeth when in a boarding house he ate
rice pudding seasoned with Zante cur
rants.
New Jersey is going to move on con
gress this winter. The Direct Legisla
tion league of that state will petition
the Washington body to so amend the
United States constitution that state and
national laws shall be submitted to a
vote of the people before taking final
effect. It would have been eminently
satisfactory if the late income tax law
could thus have been submitted to the
whole body of voters, so that it would
have been known exactly what the peo
ple thought of it.
The Twentieth Century comments
tartly aud tersely cm the marriage of
Lord Sholto Douglas, second son of the
Marquis of Quoensberry, to a waiter girl
in a “ low restaurant. ” The writer in
The Twentieth Century finds that by
this marriage the Queeasberry family
has acquired one member who earns an
honest living, and who is therefore a
person to be proud of. He congratulates
the Queensberrys.
A million silver dollars weigh 80 tons.
Maxinkuckee bas spoken. It has set
tled the financial question. It was done
when the Indiana Midsummer Dem
ocratic Editorial association in conven
tion at Maxinkuckee assembled decided
that it would be unwise to make any
declaration ou the money question at
this time.
The man who is tired of city life and
wants to make a good living in tho coun
try could not do better than to get a
farm and go ; to raising beef, pork and
mutton.
i ijSz
A firm is said to have risen up to
fight the great. Match trust, so called,
and manufacture opposition products.
tH there be light
Valuable Land For Sale,
W e have for sale between five and
seven acres of land, lying high and dry,
making beautiful lots for some man who
wants to build uice tenement cottages, or
several men who can band together, buy
and divide and build homes fer them
selves, lying near the barrel factory
south of canal, in New Way cross, bound
on west by Sweat street, on the east by
Moiton street. The property must be
sold in thirty days it possible, and will
go at a bargain to cash purchaser.
Splendid lot, 55 by 115 feet, on
Reynolds street, near Gilmore street, for
ale cheap,
Pep.ham & Freeman,
Real Estate Aleuts.
Dr. S. TV. Bourquiue says he has
used Dr. Williams’ pills for diseases
of the Kidneys and Liver aud they
are giving general satisfaction.
trend once if it
Philippe gave him
red, “Yes, 20,000
iking well of him
rland. ” Moutrond
Montri
Raikes asked Mo:
were true that Louis
a pension. He ansv,
francs a year for spe
in the clubs and in Eu
before his death went through the form
of a conversion and made his peace with
the church. When the priest asked him,
“Yon probably in old times uttered
many pleasantries against religion?”
“No,” said lie coldly, “I have been ac
cused, and justly accused, in my life
time of many vices. I have never been
accused of being an imbecile. ”
Moutrond was an inveterate gambler.
One day he had a quarrel with some
people he had been playing with at
cards. He flew to Talleyrand in a state
of great agitation. “Would you believe
it,” said he, “they threatened to throw
me out of the window?” “I have al
ways advised you,” said Talleyrand
very quietly, “never to play cards ex
cept on the ground floor. ”—Sau Fran
cisco Argonaut.
Elen
r Girl
There are three buildings in Philadel
phia in which the elevators are exclu
sively run by girls. They are the Wom
an’s Christian association’s big building,
at Eighteenth and Arch streets, the
Girls’ High school aud the Normal
school. In the firs; building all the em
ployees are women except the engine*)
and fireman.
All the world—that is, all of it ex
cept New Zealand—is suffering from
hard times. Yet even with commercial
depression everywhere the depositors
the French savings banks increased S. 1 ? 1
in number during the year 1894, and the
deposits increased in tlie same time £1,-
200,000. The French are the model
money savers of the world.
w
I have been appointed to act as agent ir
the counties of Ward. Clinch, Fierce, Ech
ols, Charlton aud Coffee for the
Southern Land Industrial Go.
They want exclusi
on lands, stores, fa
sell your property, i
Call to see me and list
At Wa,
•tories. Mills «
’at all. on con
W. w! Siias
0--S Clothing i
Waycr.
Mason’s and Lightning Fruit Jars,
Tin Top JELLY Tumblers,
Tin Cans for Vegetables,
Granite and Porcelain Lined Pre-
servingKettles,
Fly Fans, Fly Traps,
Cooiei*.-
Fishing Poles, Buel’s Bobs, Phantom Minnows,’
Genuine Carlise Hooks, Braided Silk, -
Linen and Cotton Lines, Flax on spools, in fact, <
the finny tribe.
Rubber and Canvass covered Hose Zinc aud Copper Bath Tubs, Galvanized
Pipe and Fittings. Gurney Refrigerator—-attractive in finish, and takes less^icp.
than any other make used. The ladies W0 Invited to tall and inspect them.
Agents for Rock Roofing—best laths world. Cheaper and more durable
than tin or iron. i
Watt-Harley Hardware Co,
JUST IN ALL THE
^sSLatest Fads
BELT PINS, BELT BUCKLES&c.
OLIiZlT BROS,
Commission Merchants.
Southern Fruits and Vegetables
a Specialty.
335 Washington Street.
Cob. Harbisox Street. - - New York.
Rererence: North River Bank.
J. w. FOLSOM.
SAVE YOUR TAGS
For premiums of Celebrated Missin
Link and Early Bird Tobacco. Sold bg
all merchants.
M. Ferst Son & Co. Sole Agents.
Repp.e$exted By
JEROME STRAUSS.
J S. WILLIAMS,
Attorney at Law.
WAYCROS8, - - - GEORGIA
she & iillipi,
^7ITai* i, GEORGIA.
m | k\\ Kinds of Country Produce,
METILIC AND WOOD GASKETS.
When those three girl babies that
President Cleveland now has on his
hands grow to be young women with
beaux around, he will find that even the
congress that died March 4, 1895, was
nothing to them.
ill Grades of Wood CcEns, Kobes &>
Hearse, with or without Ho.se and L'riv
$5.09.
Order through responsible p&rti-
Wn. PARKER. W* cr
PEARL SETS FOR ,
LlDiff Waist; Also I STERLING SILVER.
OCR TWO HUNDRED
LADIES’ READY MADE WAISTS, NEW CUFFS
AND BIG SLEEVES, JUST IN
Cess than xfou can mal^e them.
FANCY CAPS for children just in with gold
and silver bands.
New NEGLIGEE SliL-ts*.
Detachable Collars and Cuffs. SEE THEM.
Best Lin© gf N EGKlflAEKR.
In tlie City,
BRAD WASSON„
The Leading Dry Goods House.
MILLINERY PARLORS
miss Sallie Dekle,
Fashionable and Experienced Milliner.
Fourth door above T. E. Lanier’s Jewelry Store,
Waycross, Ga.
Has a full and complete line of
Hats, Flowers, Ribbons, Ruches,
And everything to be found in first-class establishments. Patronage solicited and
.Satisfaction Guaranteed.
3PLA.NTT + SYSTEM.
71 Time Tatole 71.
To take Effect 12:01 a. m., Sunday, June 2, 1895
Read Down.
Read Up
Daily Ex Daily
cept Sun
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Stations.
7 20 l B. & W. Shops
3 00! Brunswick
8 CO; Southern Crossing
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..11 Mile Turnout..
Jamaica
..Waynesville .
Atkinsi
8 00 f 9 04' Lulaton
8 10; f 9 12 Nahunta
8 24 : f 9 30 -.Hoboken
’ 8 40 f 9 38 Schlatterville
9 00, 9 55. Ar Waycross Lv
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9 16 10 40j Lv Waycross Ar
f 9 44 f 10 55 Waresboro
f 9 54 f 11 13 Millwood
f 10 11 f 11 20' McDonald
f 10 19 f 11 35- Pearson
f 10 29 f 11 42 Kirkland
f 10 33 f 11 51 98 Mile Post
f 10 38! f 11 54 1 Gray’s
f 10 56j f 11 57- Willacooehee
f 11 OS; f 12 15‘ Alapaha
f 11 15: f 12 28) Enigma 1 f 3 36;
f 11 15 f 12 35 s Brookfield .. f 3 27;
AM s 11 30 s 12 50 Ar Tifton Lv j 3 10;
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6 40: f 12 05j f 1 24 Sumner \ f 2 32i
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7 43 f 12 20 f l 38 Isabella -f 2 17
* 15 f 12 30 f 1 46 Willingham | f 2 0.8
8 45J f 12 42 f 1 57! Davis f 1 57
9 20i 12 59 2 15 Junction 1 40
9 30 1 05 2 20 Albany 1 351
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P. M. A. M.
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.. .i, and all points north; also Tampa aud St. Augustine.
To points shown via Tifton^through Pullman car service on both day and night trains
Reclining chair cars between Waycross and Montgomery via Thomasville.
B. DUNHAM, GEO. W. COATES. B. W. WRF.XX,
Gen'l Superintendent. Div. Pass. Agent Pass .Tr’ffic Managr