Newspaper Page Text
THE WAYCROSS HERALD SATURDAY, AUG. :o. 1S95.
A KO1.A NUT TEST-
It Enable* a SIrU Soldier to IVat a Well
Man In a Twenty-Jive Mile Tramp.
American s'nrsooxifi ami army officers
have for «*nio time been experimenting
with tfce kola nut, with a view of in
troducing it into the commissary depart
ment f f the army, to bo o-c-l in lieu of
ether f.xin force 1 marches wlicre.
there is little or nothing for the soldiers
to ear. Dr. Charles E. \w.dmff and
Lieutenant Harris of the United
army, stationed at F-*rt t-lier'daa, h. ’ o
this spring made experimenTs wh’-h
have shown that in forced tnar lu-.; the
kola nut gives fsjr utt«r ’1 ‘ ■ r I
nutritions purjx-;es tli.u: or<li. ;;i;. i' • i
Both Dr. Wf-odrtifT and L er.teT - .Dt liar j
ris found that thev were less latigued j
from the long walks they took v hen j
they ate nothing hut the kola than wlrfu j
they ate full rations of ordinary fo <1. j
An experiment with the kola nut was
made in St. Paul recently, and the re- j
suit was identical with that of the Fort |
Sheridan officers. A number of the army j
officers of Fort duelling were anxious to J
see the result of an experiment, and so j
the test was arranged. Corporal R. P..
Wyatt and Private M. C. Olson, both of 1
Company F, sr.irtod from the Ilyim ho- [
tel at 8:40 to walk to the West hotel, at I
Minneapolis, and return to the Ryan at i
once. Private Olson was not allowed to
eat breakfast, hut he was given five lit- j
tie reddish nuts atiout the size and shape ;
of a good siz»*l hickory nut, which In
was told foeat slowlvon the wav. Fur
flier than this he was not allowed to ea
any food while making the trip. Cor
poral Wyatt was allowed to eat a good
heart v hr
akfn.-t
and drink wh:
He 1
«*!«<
told he could eat
shed on the way.
regulato his diet
er’s bill of faro
the commissary's
according t.
when the larder in
tent is well stocked.
At 3:50 tie- two n
Ryan hotel from theii
neapolis. In giving tin
trip, which com prised
25 miles in the hot
showed that the kola nut had pro\
more satisfactory diet. Corporal Wva'f
had eaten and drank freely as he felr
inclined to during the day and came in
almost overcome l>y heat and thorough
ly tired and stiff from the long walk.
1 at the
to Min
's of the
f about
they plainly
.valk
ivlio lmt
icki
• it fnllv
from a
regained his strength, was much tlio
fresher ef the two ni*d had suffered lit
tle from hour. Ho said that he ate two
of the nuts on the way to Minneapolis
and two on iho way back, and that lie
sat and -rested-while his companion ate
and drank. H«> said that he never felt
bettor thcij.wheu he returned from the
long tramp, and that ho thought that
the walk had*done him good. He had
not felt the need of more food.—Min
neapolis Tribune.
THEATER CURTAINS.
Costly I>raprri«« That Are l'»rd In Some of
the London Theaters.
Few have any idea of the money
spent by the managers of Louden thea
ters in procuring tho curtain which
hides the t tago from public view, re
marked a well known theatrical fur- |
nisher to a reporter. Take, for instance,
the glorious curtain r.t Sir Henry Irv
ing’s theater, the* Lyceum. That cur
tain, if it co:st a penny, cost at least
1,000 guineas. I am told that 1,000
yards of beautiful blood red plush were
used to make it complete, and for it Sir
Henry Irving is indebted to the Baron
ess Burdett-Coutts, who some years ago
generously made him a present of the
curtain as u tribute to his artistic gen
ius.
A very expensive curtain is that used
at the PTinco of Wales’ theater, Coven
try street, now occupied by Mr. Arthur
Roberts. Its cost was about £000. It is
mado of boiler plate, is entirely fire
proof and weighs no less than six tons.
No fire can get from tho stage to tho
auditorium or vice versa, as the top and
-bottom of the curtain respectively rest
against and upon a solid wall of brick
work. I believe this, as well as other
curtains of tho same kind, was the in
vention of Mr. C. J. Phipps, the theat
rical architect.
Perhaps tho most beautiful theater j
curtain in Loudon—where the finest
curtains in the world are to be seen— 1
are those at the Lyceum, to which I j
have referred, the Palace Theater of
Varieties, and the Savoy. The Palace |
curtain is a real work of art, and Mr. i
D'Oyly Carte must have lavished a
small fortune upon its make. It is a i
bountiful dream of gold and varionsotli- !
er colored silks, and something like CU0 l
square yards of silk were used in its j
manufacture. I am told that the director |
of the Paris Opera was almost- thunder- i
struck when, during Mr. Carte’s produc- ;
tion of “Ivanhoe,” he saw the curtain i
for the first time.
The Savoy curtain must have cost j
£300 if a penny, its material being of j
tho finest gjltl plush. Another expen- ■
sivo curtain was that bought by Mr.
Charles Wyndham for the Criterion. It
cost over £120, being mado by Maple. 1
M<>st of tho other London houses, and
probably all the country theaters, con- j
tent themselves with the old fashioned ;
curtain of canvas, sometimes with a j
tains painted uponSt. The cost of these
WAYS OF BUSINESS, i swinbuhne-s latest.
fHE MERCHANT WHO CORRECTS
CNLY ONE KIND OF MISTAKE.
take* Here/*
No one perceives tho wisdom, and in- '
deed the necessity, of accurate bt»ok- j
keeping more fully than your humble I
servant, who can't keep books to save
her life and who finds herself approach
ing dementia every time she endeavors
to balance a cash account. But why in
all bookkeeping systems, from banks to
the smallest retail shop, is it iuv&riably
the customer who gets cheated if any
body? Tell me, ye winged winds, which
o’er my pathway roll! It is useless to
contradict and say that it isn’t. Th-?
j i Rinsing Poem by England'* Create*
If there was ever any .possibility n:
! Algernon Charles Swinburne’s being ap
' aointed poet laureate of England the.
; possibility has been destroyed by hi
! xdd and ringing poem on Groin we 11’
! Wat
The
the
not count against tl
ing instances. I 1
pathetic account b;
never goes shopping
sand
‘ millions of oppr.-s
:ve lately read tin
some reclnsc. wh
. of the blocdthirst-
ho take more change than is
due them and stalk out, leaving no ad
dress behind the:#, little recking the
sufferings of the poorly paid employee
who has to make good the deficit out of
his or her own pocket. Fudge! No such
mistakes occur, or, if they do, they arc*
rarer than fresh vegetables on a country
table. In all large establishments there
is a hawk headed Horns at the “desk”
waiting to pounce on a mistake in the
customer's favor of 1 cent, and many's
tho time every one of us can testify the
little slips have been returned to be cor
rected of mistakes to our credit, while
we fumed.
Thank goodness, there are instances
in which the sharpshooters have wound
ed themselves. Once I was on a “sound”
boat going from New York to Fall River,
and tho man at the desk gave me a
bill too much in change when paying
after supner. There was something of a
crowd, but that mistake would have
dashed back and said, “You’ve made a
“Can' .*dp that,” said the lordlv
clerk. “> over rectify mistakes here. ’’
“Oh, you don't?” retorted the head of
the party. “Well, it will cost you
Do you want a fit?
Do you Want styles?
Do you want durability?
Do you want new goods?
Do you want 1st class
ClotlTing?
If you say yes and mean ifi conic right
Along and get it together with
•a hat, cap or a shoe.
EVERYTHING IN THE FURNISING LINE.
Now Remember for fair values and fresh
Goods we are in it.
W ay erossClothingStore,
THE LEADING CLOTHIERS-
Suocesssors to Franlx. o. Owens,
Right
A CYCLONE LOCOMOTIVE.
Great Thine* 1-'
of the Je!
rCea-
liug this -
of <
1 fi'Ol
to £200, aeco
work put into
gaged to paiui
■ding
out
have given us
u never rectify
r for once. ”
on the sequel,
I only remem-
THEY WON THE RAISE.
. I dare
Tho I»ln
» Wo
Satisfied Tin
Their
l:o got his
i Wu
BICYCLE MANUFACTURE.
It<* Manufactured Hero Next Year.
It is estimated that last year (1804)
over 200,000 wheels were manufactured
by the different companies engaged in
their production. This year, with great
ly increased facilities and improved ma
chinery, together with a large increase
in the number of producers, the product
will reach in the neigliltorhood of 400,-
000 wheels.
What it will be next year can only be
guessed at, as this year’s business has
been dwarfed and held in check by a
positive inability to supply the unparal
leled demand for wheels of every de
scription.
New factories contemplate entering
this seductive business. Additions are
being built to old factories almost equal
to the original plant, stocked with the
most intricate and up to date machinery,
which before March, 1800, will begin to
xmiko :m impression on the trade that
will carry the production to a possible
700,000. This, with every foreign coun
try with an intelligent population al
ready knocking at our doors for n share
in this distribution, even in blocks of
600 to 1.000 wheels at a time from in
dividual buyers, will, we prophesy, even
with the grand total above suggested for
a year's production, leave us in Novem
ber, 1890. with few if any wheels to'car-
ry over into 1897.—Hardware.
J dnyj not long ago, I w.s at a furnishing
j shop in State street, Chicago, buying a
j e<l tho man with a $2 bilL Ho swung
I over the little birdcage on a telegraph
j lino and it came swiftly back with a 50
| cent piece. Seeing another tie for that
i price, I handed back the change and
. . j was about to leave, when a voice came
tr.ct, l from t j ie c i ova ted desk at the other end:
! “Hi! This half dollar is counterfeit!”
j Although it was a public placo and I
j am a retiring lady, I burst wildly forth
into a clarion shout of joy. It is so sel
dom a modest customer has tho chance
! of beholding a natural enemy caught
Once when the miners of a big anthra
cite mining company wer e desirous of
receiving increased pay an effort was
made tp induce tho local officials in the
mining country to make such repre
sentations to the president of tho com
pany as would produce the desired ef
fect. This was unavailing, liowevi
efforts in other directions
until tho directors offered to meet
delegation of the miners in New York
city and discuss the situation. A dozen
cf the brawniest miners in tho region
were selected as delegates—great rugged
men, who would certainly make a fa-
voraMe impression. The-men met the j “uTwaown qutekiim* Thomortifioa"
officials and stated their case, whic
was that at the prevailing rate of wages
they could hardly get enough to eat.
The matter was held under advise
ment, and the conference adjourned to
luncheon. Then came the most amazing
display cf appetites that lias ever been
seen before or since, and the colored
waiters turned pule as they saw a dish
intended for the entire party retained
by one man. who speedily made away
with the conteuts. Each man seemed as
ravenous as though he had not eaten for
a week, and tho caterer was at his wits’
! ends to provide for them all.
I At last, when every portion had been
J eat< u and nil fer- < d inclined fer more,
i a g’5..:t whose uat.vv j.-to v:is South
VV .:« cried out : “Don’t you worry
j aVr-.f no more fancy things. Bring us
and
t all right.’
Family of Riff Men.
There was a reunion of the Coleman
family at Tioncsta ono day hist week.
Harmon Coleman and his wife are the
father and mother, and they are of only
ordinary stature. But their sous are ex
traordinarily big men.
J. F. is C feet 6 inches; Henry, C feet
2 inches; William, 6 feet 3 inches; J.
E., 6 feet 5 inches; S. W. f 6 feet 3
inches, and Frank, the short one of the
stalwart family, exactly C feet These
measurements were all taken in stock
ing feet. The total height of the entire
•eMet collectively is 37 feet 6 inches.
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
An Ere Sells For 1835.
An egg of tbe great auk has come in
to the hands of Mean*. Jay, Regent
street, for 166 guineas. The specimen
was taken in Iceland 05 yean ago by a
St Malo shipowner, who bequeathed it
to the Comte Raoul de Bernes, whose
collection was purchased by Baron d’Ha-
monville. It is slightly cr&ckedv'bat in
coloring and texture Is said to be unique.
—London Telegraph.. j ? i-f # k .
This Is a Great Earth.
▲ Georgia man tells a stay of his
cucumbers that is lyu-d. to believe. -He
says that within three hoars after the
■reds were planted tbe Tinea were up
and producing pickles, ready barreled,
ao rapidly that they have to be shipped
at the rate of six carloads a day.—At
lanta Constitution. x
A NetUar Em.
Iii spiteef the fact that George Moore
pretends to make himself tbe hero of
bis novels his friends say that he lives a
most humdrum existence, the most ex-
ritrng advru.r.rvs of his daily life being
tbe t-rting »•? shrt-e meals a day.—Bos
ton Herald.
e was procured, ;iu*! tho directors
with awe as if speedily disap-
As the last crumbs were di.<ap
r the officials l»»ld a hurried con-
•:i. and ufr»r awhile the president
red: “Gentlemen, wehavedccid-
cu-ede your claims to uu advance i
of 10 per cent, tor v« e are certain that
at present you can scarcely get enough
to eat. Nothing but this pleasurable
mooting could so fully have convinced
us of your needs.” The delegates have
not yet wearied of telling of the amaz
ing display <*d gluttony which they al
lege was preconcerted for the express
purpose of creating the impression that
it produced.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Market Quotations.
“Sir,” said the .uuigmnic alderman,
“are you not aware that, were I to vote
fox your measure I woaid bc ea.oedyo
the condemnation of uil the jxkxI eiti-
ens in my ward? And that sort of
thing.” he added, lowering his voice,
“comes pretty high, you know. ’’—Indi
anapolis JunruaL t
t
Tbs Modern Dsaibtcr.
“I wish to ask your permission to
pay my addresses to your daughter,”
said the old fashioned youug man.
“All right,” said tbe old gentleman.
“If I can g**t her permission to give you
my permission, go ahead. ”—Indianapo
lis Journal.
The man wbo does not overcome ennui
by occupying himself soon tries to fly
from it by intemperance. The idle man
is almost necessarily vicious.
EtntatHa i>M»n m uti cum.
Among tbe slsng terms used in com
menting on tbe Horr-Harvey debate are
“mouth industry,” gabfest” and “jaw*
Smiths.” Nothing beats American slang
for accurate description. —Waterbary
of the salesman serving me
something to see. It did me good for a
whole day. Sending a counterfeit half
dollar cheerfully and with promptitude
in change and repudiating it on its re
turn the next minute 1 It was a sharp
game and a little too sharp.
Everybody who shops much knows
that it is next to impossible to get a
“returned” article credited, or, indeed,
called for. If yon take two rugs on ap
proval—I mention rugs because you
cim’t very well return them by hand—
and state clearly and plainly and over
and over the price of the one you have
kept and the ono you wish returned,
you are more likely than not to find
both on your bill tho next month, and
yon aro likely to find tho rug day after
day littering your hall unless you tele
phone twice a day and end by flouncing
down yourself in a rage and demanding
its instant removal Of course if it is
kept long you are charged with it, any
way. The ether night, when it was very
I hot, some friends of a lady in moderate
circumstances dining with her suggest
ed a drive in the park. One of the men
telephoned for a landau, and at the end
of the drive paid for it The next week
the bill came in—to the lady. Now of
course this was an accident But why
doesn’t the other accident ever happen?
Why should thousands of bills come in
to be paid twice, while by no oversight
or bad management does a bill ever get
forgotten or overlooked? Money getting,
grasping, greedy generation of shop
keepers! Business is business, if yon
like, bat business need not be a cut
throat, bloodthirsty system of demand
ing what is not doe, need it? Must it be
in this way that men grow rich?
It is because only one kind of mis
takes occur that one is justified in think
ing that only one kind is guarded
against. The customer has to look out
for himself and the shopkeeper too. The
shopkeeper only looks out for himself.
As for the breaking of promises, the
palm delays and the superb independ
ence of “purveyors,” words fail me
when I attempt to depict their aggrava
tions. Success breeds contempt, it seems,
and the only way to get a thing done
promptly is to patronize a little up town
place where they can't do it.—Mme. ■
Lorgnette in Chicago Post
The iron trade is the zeal index to tbe
prosperity of all trades. When iron
products are rising in tbe market and
their sale is brisk, other products are
brisk, too, and prosperity smiles. The
advance in tbe iron market began the
xuitidie of last May, and it has gone far-
Vari ibcufiillf ever since.
On tho stroke «.f 6:12 o’clock every j
evening there pulls oat of the Jersey
Central station, i:» Jersey City, a new
stud huge locomotive which can ran a j
mile in 30 seconds. This monster arouses i
such interest in all who catch a glimpse )
of it that every evening a crowd of men I
and women—passengers by the various
outgoing trains—gather around it and j
gaze on it with amazement. Even the !
engineers and firemen from other train.*?. I
show an unusual interest in it.
Tho engine is No. 385 and was built 1
by tho Baldwin Locomotive company of
Philadelphia for the Philadelphia and
Reading, under contract to make the
from Camden to Atlantic City, 90
•s, in 90 minutes. It is running
temporarily on the Royal Blue line to
Philadelphia to get ready for service.
It is a compound engine, built on the
English model, with a small smoke
stack, and is the only locomotive of the
kind in existence. In its general appear
ance it impresses one as being much
larger than it really is. It is higher
than the ordinary locomotive, but by
actual measurement it is an inch less
in length than engines of the biggest
type in use. The driving wheels are the
central feature. There are two instead
of four, as is the rule on other passenger
engines. Instead of being at the back of
tho locomotive they are in the middle
and directly under the cab.. They are 7
feet high.
The engine is equipped with a Wooster
firebox and burns very fine buckwheat
coal. It is run under 200 pounds steam
pressure and uses the steam twice, for
high and low pressure, which insures a
saving of fuel and water.
This locomotive is expected to rev
olutionize railroad transportation, and
its trial trips are being watched with a
great deal of interest by railroad men.
—New York i?uu.
It is claimed that the falling off in
internal revenue receipts this year is
partly owing to the failure of the corn
crop lafet year and the consequent small
amount of whisky that was manufac
tured. Jrtill the leading distillers of
Kentucky have decided to make no more
whisky in that state till July 1, 1896.
They have of stock still on hand and
unsold 85,000,000 gallons. Whisky is
not scarce, it seems, even though the
corn crop did fail last year.
To Buy Goods
Is Where TheyHavi
The Largest]
THEGRACECo
FILL THE BILL
Diy goods, glories and Sloes.
Stock,
Variety,
Business.
This is certainly going to be a year of
great prosperity. Perhaps even farm
lands will look np in value before it is
over.
Have or have not the masculine bicy
clists who wear bloomers appropriated
women’s garments to themselves?
Some one says that, although it is sad
to see family relics sold at auction, the
most painful thing under the hammer is
generally one’s thumb nail.
The sound of a bell which can be
heard 45,200 feet in the water can be
heard only 456 feet in the air.
$200 Offered Free!
Dsa* Si*The time for which you deposited
$ioo three sooths ago to-day as a forfeit under
isasssnXKfisfiss'ffiffiaii
College south of theOhio Rirer, ifyou
Uiekow ia the Fi
YEARS. Ims this day expired, sad. aodemmad
harinr been made, the same is now held subject
to jour check. Respectfully,
W. F.Baxo, Cashier.
IV. B-—A certificate of deposit for the above
was published in tbe daily papers of Kashville.
the CiMrinnetti AtU
Am, and thirty thousand circula:
colleges three months* time to mt
wOUDmUy America*, April 7,1*5.
fo WHteRu5F.^FJD*ACtt«W r ,»MbviIIe, Tena,
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
fermentation. It is not injurous, ds it has
been tested by the most emenent chemists.
FILL LIKE OF COLOITES SOPS M STOCK.
Perfumery, the Choice Selection of the
Best Perfumers always on Hand.
Oasli Drug Store,
S. PAINE, Manager. Next dooi to Rank of Wgycros
Geo B
O W BNSEBXiOOK, Waycross, Oa.
DIAMONDS, * WATCHES,
F=nse jeweLRy. so.
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), HUNTING OUTFITS
I also employ a fine watchmaker, jeweler and engraTer. All repairing, en-
graring, etc., warranted to give satisfaction. Order, by mail promptly attended
to personally. ... / *' * * '' '
W. A. CASON,
DEALER IN
Groceries, best Grades of Coffee, Su
gar, Teas, Hams, Butter, Lard and
)fine Sgrups, Hag, Grain, Bran, etc,,
Pratts Chicken, Horse and Cattlefood.
SPECIALTIES.
Fine Butter and Flour.
NEAR COURT HOUSE SQUARE,
Waycross - G-e orgia