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THE WAYCROSS HERALD SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1895-
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The recent annual national meet of
the League of American Wheelmen at
Awhnry Park shows in a measure how
tmiversal it* the interest in cycling in
all parts of this laud. Nearly 3.000 cy
clists were present, from all over the
Union. It m:iy serve to show the Atlan
tic coast that all of good taste and high
style iu apparel d<ies not reside iii the
east to recall that the club which obtain
ed the prize for being the best dressed
organization on the ground came from
Denver. It may also interest lady cy
clers to recall that the woman who got
the prize a few weeks ago in Boston for
devising the best cycling dress yet in
vented f. >r women is a colored girl, a
light mulatto, Miss Kitty Knox, hand
some and very graceful. She herself de
vised her wheeling costume, “bloom
ers,” not too'wide, coming to the kno<\
leggings, blue outing waist, black ti<\
1CCA.
OKLAHOMA LAWYERS DOING AVERY
■RUSHING EUSINESS.
One Law Firm That l.x|NH>t« to Collect
•2.1.000 In r«« From Divorce Clients
- TbU Vest-Only Tour Week* Necessary
For the Painless Operation.
It is pleasant to recall, too, how well
the memliers of the league at the meet
behaved themselves, as a rule. Whether
th*- racers broke records or made any
startling runs, the public does not great
ly rare. Those are the matters that con
cern the few professional riders and
their backers. But it is in the ordinary,
quiet, all round cycler who rides for fun
and for outdoor e:
is interested, because that is the kind of
riding that the great public itself is do
ing e
vliri
Ther
history of this country an athletic move
ment so widespread or so enthusiastic.
Almost everybody rides, because, like
Frances Willard, almost everybody be
lieves that “the bicycle is the most re
markable, ingenious and inspiring mo
tor ever yet devised upon this planet. ”
The league lias no.w some 70,000 mem
bers.
, Even persons dyspeptic enough to
grumble at the cyclers must admit that
in one respect at least these have bene
fited the country. They have started a
movement for good roads which will be
worth millions to property owners. The
■dt W. is fostering besides a spirit of
good fellowship aud.cgpiradgship among
7fcTjficii.;^rs of both sexes that \yil^ J>e
even better than the good road system
it has inaugurated. In unity there is
strength, Jngeueralgood wilithcre are
peace and IheassuHfioeof power for
great achievement. The league has al
ready done mych f$r its members,
know* how to redres§f h*gaT Wrongs
fjaiagt SueBtfSersi on all their jour-
' neys through this big country they will
find “league hotels” ready to welcome
them, in every neighborhood they will
Jjnd friends and ^r^thers.
tion TshTready powerful enough to in
fluence toy
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* Plea
Pleasant it is to read every clay of in
dustrial plants starting up, of factory
and null employees having their wages
raised and of immense crops ready for
harvesting and shipping in all parts of
the country. The coutrast between this
time and a year ago is as light to dark
ness. Certainly good times are coming
again. Certainly they are here already
in many parts of the Union. Let all i
men believe iu them and rejoice. Let no
croaking rr buncombe reasoning darken
the perception of them. Let all man
kind go to work ur.d enjoy the fruits of
their labors. Let all mankind, too, keep
religiously out of debt and lay up some
thing for a rainy day. It was running
into debt, doing business on a capital
that did not exist, borrowing money
that could not be paid and pouring so
much water into stocks and bonds of all
kinds that they naturally burst which
caused the crash of 1803. Now let us
go to work decently, soberly, carefully,
to repair our damaged fortunes, paying
our way. every ceut, as we go and being
glad that we arc alive.
The death of Stambuloff, ex-premier,
was apparently the worn thing that
could hare happened to Bulgaria. He
was the one man who through thick and
thin had stood up against Russian coun
sels and Russian aggression in the prin
cipality. The political parties there are
6imply two—Russian and Bulgarian, or
anti-Russian. Prince Ferdinand, the Ger
man imported alleged ruler, was the tool
of Russia. The assassination of Stambu
loff is attributed directly to Russian plot
ting. Russia's hand, scarcely making
pretense of being hidden, dealt the blow.
The fact that Ferdinand sent sympa
thetic messages to Mme. Stambuloff,
while he made no attempt to hunt down
Stambuloff's assassins, is enough to con
demn him forever in all minds that ad
vocate honesty, manliness and fair deal
ing. The murder of Stambuloff was a
horror. At the same time he himself
was a man of blood and violence and
would have stopped at no means in his
power to rid Bulgaria of those whom he
deemed to be her enemies.
If Russia insists that Japan shall
withdraw her troops from the Chinese
mainland before the war ibdemnity is
paid in full, then Japan will have to
either fight Russia or put down a whole-
tale rebellion at home, A war with Rus
sia would be preferable to the other al
ternative, but war with Russia would
almost certainly involve the other Eu
ropean powers—at least it is hard to see
how this could be avoided. It is very
possible we have not yet seen the close
of the war in the orient.
A man with a ticket to Arkansxs
City, Kan,, and a cosmopolitan air
alighted from the train from the east
and after breakfast sauntered to the
office of the ticket seller and asked for
a ticket to Oklahoma. In reply to the
question what particular part of the
land of the bandits and sandstorms he
desired to visit, lie replied that it made
no particular difference to him and re
marked to the ticket seller:
“I am from New York, seeking a di
vorce, one of the while-you-wait-and-
without-pain kind, so you will please
ticket me to some quiet point where the.
divorce mill always grinds and never
tires, and I will try to do the rest. ”
The journeyings of divorce seekers to
Oklahoma are simply astonishing. On
the through trains are to be found
numerous passengers who are silent and
indifferent to all local surroundings.
A member of a legal firm, having one
member in each of the three largest
towns in the territory, informed the
that the public ; correspondent that his firm would at the
present rate collect $25,000 this year
from divorce clients alone. In Guthrie
there is a large hotel which makes a
specialty of this class of patrons, and
its guests are designated as the divorce
colony. Special hotel rates are secured
by the lawyers for their clients for the
four weeks necessary to the quick and
painless operation of divorce. Many of
these visitors are registered under as
sumed names and are credited to almost
any other city than the one where they
reside.
The romances resulting from a four
weeks’ sojourn in this colony are almost
as varied as they are numerous. One of
the most exciting shooting incidents iu
Oklahoma City in recent months was
between a Buffalo sporting man and the
lawyer who had just assisted his wife to
procure a divorce. While attending some
of the early spring races the man from
Buffalo learned that his wife was visit
ing Qklalioma City. Thinking that it
was about time she returned home, be
suddenly landed in that wild and woolly
town. He quickly le:*n§£ that not only
bod his wif$ secured an absolute divorce
from him. \>ut, further, thftt *he and the
lawyer were to be period on t£g fq}>
low.bg day. The Buffalo mAh went gun
ning and is now iu the hospital, where
he is rapidly ^covering from a danger
ous bullet wound, while the newly mar
ried couple are hovering about the Gold
en Gatej
The iaw under which the territorial
courts are organized is both peculiar and
practical. The probate Judge issues all
licenses to marry and also superintends
the divorce mill, signing all decrees of
divorce. In some counties, notably at
the territorial capital, the probate judge
purchases his marriage license blanks by
the hundred and his blank divorces by
the thousand. This particular judge has
several times made the mistake when
applied to for a marriage permit of ask
ing the applicant whether he had yet
consulted a lawyer as to the specific
grounds on which he made his applica
tion —New York Sun.
Is There Any M Po«r Hundred?**
One is glad to learn from eo good an
authority os Mrs. Burton Harrison, in
The Cosmopolitan Magazine, that the
existence of any real Four Hundred such
as are supposed to constitute the head
and front of New York high life is, to
say the least, very doubtful. The al
leged Four Hundred are a “limited set
of ultra rich Americans,” who are pat
up as social models for the re>t of the
country. Some of these do not c:v:o
for the absurd pedt-staliug, otiieis take
themselves seriously and ucc. ;.t ;!* pub
lic notice nun the fiatte y as «»n:r toe
due of their superior i:-.eti;s. A v.vrua::
of this hitter division j.-.t long
since, according to a story told by A....
Harrison: “Really, r.u\v th..; s. y in
New York is getting so large, one :;,u: t
draw the line somewhere. After this I
shall visit and invite only those who
have more than $5,000,000.”
Such is “high life” in America.
Perhaps, however, mere wealth is
getting so common in this country that
the swell set will be obliged to find
some other way to distingish themselves
from the common herd. In that lies the
real hope for society in this country. The
The Coloivd People** snow.
The World’s fair at Chicago had a
Woman’s building. The International
nnd Cotton States exposition at Atlanta
will have a Negro building too. In
it is to be gathered from south and
north a display of articles industrial, ed
ucational aud artistic, showing how far
the colored race has traveled on its road
to enlightenment. To those* interested in
the development of the black race the
display will be full of suggestions and
information.
An interest almost pathetic attaches
to some of the exhibits. In the Negro
building, for instance, will bo a beauti
ful boat. It was made by a black man
who got all hisexjierh ace it» boat build-
Still a see
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the
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ho
[.boat. Vario*
1 displays of t
; colored peup
j Atlanta dr.r:
j much to sa
•h interest
.mid He is
it a h 'tel i:i
vals between
structed this
,1 schools will wake
k. There will be a
A Head of All
nal c
i at
Iti
* of all the
mere vulgarly rich will in time find that j presses to be held during the exposition.
they cannot draw the line anywhere
the line of the millions. Wit, cultivated
brains, innate refinement, the gentleness
of manner aud the beauty and goodness
that come from within outward—these
will in time constitute the genuine so
cial power iu America. When that time
comes, the schoolmistress who possesses
these requirements will bo more of a
leader in “good society” than the wom
an who has nothing but her big diamonds
and her castle at Newport to recommend
her.
To Bring Peary Home.
The stanch little steam barkentine
Kite, on her voyage from St. John's, N.
B., will reach the coast of Greenland
about the middle of July. She will then
steam l . u *loug tbe Greenland coast,
stopping j.; Godhaven a week. She car
ries an assorted lot of professors of zool
ogy, geology and botany, and these will
make their st .idles and bring home val
uable speck:;, v for their various muse
ums and laboratories. At Godhaven the
professors of geology will study the gla
ciers. Then the Kite will proceed portb-
ward to the winter quarters of Pe%fy and
bismen at toglefield gnlf.
P&uy promised, if att^e, to be at the
station on jnglefielg gnlf not later than
the middle of August. There the scien
tific men will make still farther studies.
About tbe 1st of September the Kite will
come back from frozen tone to lands of
sun.
It is to be fervently hoped that she
will bring Peary aud his brave attend
ants with him. He had only two—one,
Hugh Lee, a plucky Connecticut lad
scarcely out of his teens; the other, Pea
ry’s faithful colored servant, Matthew
Henson. With these and his dogs and
sledges, the intrepid American hoped to
finish marking out the northern coast
of Greenland, if not ultimately to reach
the pole. The almost phenomenally mild
winter iu the northern regions will be
greatly iu his favor. By Sept. 15 at fur
thest wo may look for the Kite’s return.
The lines along which the negro race
will develop are as yet unknown. Thus
far they have been merely imitations,
not over successful, of the white man.
Bat the negro certainly has a future of
his own.
The black sculptor Edmouia Lewis
will have some of her marbles at the
fair, notably a bust of Charles Sumner.
Atlanta lias a very creditable colored
artist who will exhibit seme of the work
of himself and pupils. If we might
make a suggestion, it would be that the j
race show what they r
especially.
New Goods and New Styles
i^i^fvsfveJUST RECEIVED
Second Shipment Straw Hats-V®)
Now in at Reduced Prices-^)
Large Pine Gents Furnishings
Inspect Our Stock You Will Be Satisfied.
W ay cross Clothing Store
THE LEADING CLOTHIERS-
Succcsssors to Frank. C. Owciiti.
Reforesting the Lands.
The state of Michigan can show some
specimens of lauds rendered worthless
by reckless timber cuttiug which caunot
be excelled even by the desolate defor
ested regions of the shores of the Medi
terranean.
Fifty years ago the peninsula had
hundreds of thousands of acres of valua
ble pine lauds. By a process of ruin and
fire known only to the western Ameri
can backwoodsman many of the lands
have been stripped destitute of their
valuable trees and turned out bara
Tbe soib deprived of it” timber was go
poor aud T>arrln thaF the owners* did
not consider it worth paying taxes on.
In tliat way many thousand acres of the
denuded pine lands have fallen back in
to the hands of the stata
A proposition has been made that the
state enter on the work of reproducing
the fair forest growth that once covered
the peninsula. Experiments show that
the valuable white pine and Norway
pine grow readily in the deforested
ground. If planted and taken care of, tbe
young trees will become valuable for
timber once more in about 40 years.
It is a work well worth entering on.
Forty years is not a very long time in
the life of a state, particularly a hus
tling state like Michigan.
Right
To Buy Goods
Is Where TheyHave
The Largest
THE GRACE Co
FILL THE BILL.
Dry Ms, Groceries and Sloes.
Stock,
Variety,
Business.
Will Tench Toa<l* to Kill Bnc*.
By the steamship Mariposa, which
arrived at Hawaii recently, Commission
er Marsdcu received 800 horned toads
from San Diego. These toads were pro
cured and shipped by H. P. Wood, the
Hawaiian consul at San Diego. The
toads were imported with the hope that
they will be of service iu thinning°ont
the various Japan bugs.
Though these reptiles are called toads,
they are iu point of fact a species of liz
ard and have a wrII developed tail. It
is the intention of the commissioner to
put the toads through an educational
course before liberating them. The pub
lic arc invited to help in the good work
by going out after dark and catching a
number of the bugs, then take them to
the government nursery, on King street,
aud have the pleasure of seeing them
devoured by the toads. Another consign
ment is expected on the next steamer. —
Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
We have been told for years that there
is a considerable quantity of gold in sea
water. Professor Hunicke of Washing
ton university, St. Lonis, says the quan
tity amounts to from 2 to 4 cents in a
\ou of sea water and claims he has dis
covered a process for extracting it so
cheaply that at a cost of $1 he can pro
duce $10,000 worth of gold. If this be
true, it will not be long till the ship
companies will liave to throw aside their
huge, heavy draft steamers and build
smaller ones. Drying up the oceans to
get the yellow metal out of them is not
exactly grabbing up the bricks from the
golden pavements of the New Jerusa
lem, bnt it is next thing to it-
For the year ending June 30 the Unit
ed States exported more than $50,000,-
000 worth of breadstuff® above the
•mount exported in the year previous.
Tlu> Strength of the Repnblie.
The fiscal report of United States
Commissioner of Education William T. j know aud did
Harris reveals an increase for the past
year of over 430,000 school children.
This is one cf the best signs of the
times. A republic which can boast such
a recruited enlistment to its grand army
of 13,530,208 public pupils need not
worry because it has a standing army of
only 25.000.—Philadelphia Record.
iv<l with the starlight above 1
nth Iht* night all about. «to»r
with the rose*' perfume.
Professor Huxley was the one who
gave to the nineteenth century the word
“agnostic.” It has been perverted to a
far different meaning from the one he
first intended, however. Originally an
agnostic was simply a man who did not
profess to know any
thing about a future state. There might
or might not be one—the agnostic mod
estly held his peace on the subject. But
those who call themselves agnostics to
day are often as dogmatic iu their re
fusal to learn anything new as the mos*
bigoted aud prejudiced theologian eve*
Thcrt- b*
spare for the liar re.
Er.t veu kuow that tonight we must part
And now is the time for romance, dear.
For thi- pbnilings and pangs of a heart—
Of » heart that has loved you in vain. dear.
Through .."nine ar.d lowering skies.
And hit* learned to know pleasure and pain
Ip the light of roar wonderful eye*
1 e*t. love yen despairingly yet.
And von hem* I*M forgive and forget
Wua the lev.- that yon gave ip* sofaise. dear
That tt U fore it eon Ml bloom V
V-u*t it die as the wail of the waltz, dear—
Dio* here iu the arms of the gloom?
Well, leave me if leave me you must, dear.
To return to the whirl of tbe dance.
I can part from von only ia trust, dear.
That your love reawaken perchance.
Goodby. Is it easy to say, dear.
That it comes to yonr lips with a smile?
No, thank you. 1 think 1 will stay, dear—
Alone here and smoke for awhile.
—Guy Wetmore Carry 1 in Jfunsey’s.
The long distance electric railway
will be liei-e iu less tliau a year. Tli#
older compauies are quietly aud care
fully experimenting on the substitution
i of electricity for steam, while a new’
j company with a capital of $200,000,000
j has already been incorporated for the
J purpose of constructing an electric rail-
| way from Chicago to New York.
In unity only there is strength politi-
| cally. This was what a famous Demo-
i cratic statesman meant when he advised
1 his party to get together.
j One element of discord and danger is
I removed from the republic of Brazil in
i the death of ex-President Floriano Pei-
’ xoto.
( In spite of the hard times the popnla-
j tiou of this country grows at the rate of
j 1,500,000 a year.
“Bicycle riding,” says Mrs. Lease,
I **is the next thing to haring wings. ”
' There are people who need to go and
have themselves disinfected morally.
The hard times have brought down
the price of reading matter at an un
precedented rate, and that is one great
benefit anyhow. jThia is the era of cheap
books aud newspapers, and now the
magazines are putting down their prices.
When the 2 ceut newspaper was first
proposed, it was an innovation that was
looked on with doubt, so far as its finan
cial success went Now we have not
only the 2 ceut but the 1 cent newspa
pers, and some of them are making great
money in the large citi&“. The cheapen
ing of paper and the invention of type
setting machines have brought this re
sult Munsey’s and McClure’s maga
zines, aud recently the larger Cosmo
politan, have fixed their price at 10
cents a copy. There are left only a few
of the leading monthlies that still keep
up their price to the war rates, and it
looks as if they, too, tunst in time join
the processiou that goes iu for cheap lit
erature.
There is a good prospect, judging
from the report of Consul Tingle at
Brunswick, Germany, for a paying trade
in horse meat with William’s empire.
Mnch norso l*eef is already consumed
in Germany, and the appetite for it
seems to be growing. Old and woroout
horses are sold to the butchers aud
bring each an average of $35. The flesh
is sold both fresh aud smoked. This will
be a good way to get rid of the surplus
scrub horses that have been thrown out
of occupation by the trolley and bicycle
in America.
The man who wants a drink in an
Indiana dramshop must henceforth take
it on tbe ground floor, without music
and with no curtains between him and
the awful glare of the public gaze. If a
man’s wife or small sou or beloved
pastor desires to look on while he im
bibes a whisky sour, there can be not
even a newspaper to hide him. This is
the terrible part of the new temperance
law iu Indiana.
Altefermentine,
FOR PRESERVING
Fruit, Cider, Milk, Butter, Tomatoes, Catsup and Pickles.
Its use does away with labar, is profitable and
economical. For cider it is unsurpassed. Stops
formentation. It is not injurous, as it has
been tested by the most emenent chemists.
FULL DUE OF COUPS SOUPS IS STOSS.
Perfumery, the Choice Selection of the
Best Perfumers always on Hand.
Oaslx Drug Store,
r. 5?. PAINE, Manager. Next doot to Bank of \\’?yeross.
Geo^-Xk° Um an s
OWEIiTSlBIiOCK., Wayoross,]Ga.
DIAMONDS, * WATCHES,
FINE J6W6LRY, StO.
Carry at all times a collection of the Finest Organs
and Pianos of the best make, to be sold at living rates
on terms to suit the times.
GUNS, AMMUNITION (fixed and loose), BUNTING OUTFITS
I also employ a fine watchmaker, jeweler and engraver. All repairing, en
graving, etc., warranted to give satisfaction. Orders by mail promptly attended
to personally.
The United States department of agri
culture has a new seal, and it bears the
device of a shock of com. That is well
Corn is the good, great and beneficent
agricultural product of this country. We
could get along better even without a
president than without our annual com
crop.
The leader of Washington society now
appears to be tbe wife of Senator Cal
vin S. Brice of Ohio.
W. A. CASON,
Waycross, Ga-
FfJsi, Fauy. and Family Grossrie
Ao State Goods.
Best Grades of Coffee, Sugar
Syrup, Hams, Butter, Load, etc.
Always On Hand.