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Fitzgerald Lender. FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. —PUBLISHED BT— KNAPP «to SON. ■ About three hundred Westera cities have the curfew ordinance. — England is dependent for seventy ,, , , - , . , pep cent, of her food anuraw mate-iai < upon foreign lands. The French are wratby at Russia for not sending back the gutis and flags abandoned on the retreat of Napoleon in 1812. I ranee has re- turned to Russia her trophies of tho Crimea. In the last four years statistics show that the consumption of spirits has been cut down* more than one-third and of wine nearly one-half. This decrease is credited by the Atlanta Constitution to the spirit of economy induced by the hard times. Some years ago Stanley calculated the consumption of ivory at 750,000 pounds a year in Europe, 130,000 in India, and 75,000 pounds in the United States; that is, 1,000,000 pounds in a ♦ear; but the average consumption of ivory from 1889 to 1893 was 1,500,000 pounds, of which America took 200,- 000 . Florida probably has a hundred or more survivors of the Seminole wars, for > whom Congress has provided a yearly pension of $96 since 1892, and the money is appropriated. Few sur¬ vivors, however, can prove their cases i for want of master rolls. The State i Legislature .,1, refuses to appropriate $1700 to get . copies . from , the w War -r. De- 'partment. | — --------------- An objection was made in the British House of Commons the other day to the grant of a right of way to a new railroad, on the ground that “the pro- posed railway, if constructed along the lino mentioned in the bill, would seriously injure the scenery of the valley of the Earn and the lake along which it is to pass; and by the persuasive support thereof by James Bryce (the historian), the House was lica t» bin t. .w appropriate committee. ’ Among the countries of the European continent, illiteracy is most prevalent in the Slavic States of Russia, Servia and Roumania, the Latin races in Italy, Spain and Belgium being also very backward in education, while in the purely Teutonic States the per¬ centage of illiterates ismerely nominal. In Switzerland it is 2.5 per cent., in the whole of German empire only one per cent., and in Sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemberg there is practically no one who cannot read and write. In view of the anticipated exhaus¬ tion of the quarries of lithographic stone at Soleuhofen, Bavaria, the use of aluminum as a substitute in en- graving has been suggested, and the German journal Neueste Erfindungen und Erfahrungen enumerates the qualities that may render that metal suitable for the purpose. The Na- tional Druggist, of St, Louis, points litho- - out, however, that there are graphic , . quarries . in . m Tennessee which , . , can furnish immense quantities of stone fully equal, for all the purposes of engraving, to the very best Solen- hofen. When the charter for Greater New York goes into effect the salaries of three of her municipal officers will be greater than is paid to any other pub¬ lic servant, with the exception of the President of the United States. The Mayor will receive $15,000 per an¬ num, which is $5000 more than Gov¬ ernor Black gets. Even the Comp¬ troller will be paid $10,000, which is as much as is paid a United States Supreme Judge, $2000 in excess of the salary of a cabinet officer, and $1500 greater thanTGeneral Nelson A Bli'.es of the United States Army is allowed. The Corporation Counsel’s salary will also be $15,000. J. Y. Blori, the Vice-President of the Noippon Bailway Company, of Japan, now in this country, says: “Our roads are narrow gauge, and are operated in the European style, but we are open to receive improvements, and I have no doubt will gain valua¬ ble pointers on the present journey. Japan has 3000 miles of railway in operation, and the country is quite prosperous at the present time. We are building war vessels as fast as our finances will allow, but Japan is a Bmall country and cannot hope to keep pace with such countries as the United States. China and Russia are com- priing vigorously for our trade, and we must keep wide awake if we con¬ tinue in the advancement which has been made within the last few years.” TURNINC AND CRINDINC. W« have our littlo falllngs-out and nrgu- “And thorn’s very few so stupid that they monts and such, really couldn’t earn And then we make It up again; they don’t Themselves an honest living, it they’d just amount to much. agree to turn. But on ono subject, anyhow, wo’re all of tho By all means try for grinding, but own it if same mind; you llnd Wo all of us don't want to turn, and all do That you can do the turning, but ain't want to grind. smart enough to grind.” t’vo heard about kind— a grindstone of a labor- When think father things talks, ho says It. He likes to saving out. It only takes one person to turn It and to X see him smiling, sometimes, at the things grind. he thinks about. Sfou work a trondlo with your foot, thesame When he comes in how from the plow-fleld, he ns mother sews, , don’t toll you ho aches, . Ami a fellow don’t mind turning when he’s Hetellsyou birds, something beasts, queer snakes. he’s sten, of grinding, I suppose. or or But ours is not that kind of one; it ain't that It’s only in the winters we have time to go wo’re asleep, and el- to school, But money’s scarce and hard to get, But we dig at it, I tell you, and I hope I’m bow-grease is cheap dozen elbows that not a fool, Where there’s a half a And the thing wo talk .the most about, tho are half tho time in sight, thing we hope to do, though mother puts on patches, I roekon, In a race that’s free to every one, is what every night. I’m coming to. "Boys,’ father said, tho other day, “ono We’ll keep our eyes wide open; if we’re thing you’ve got to learn, only (it to turn, We can’t all do,the grinding, for somebody We’ll that's look the for the we’ll best way learn. there is, and must turn. one Of course I’d like you all to be as smart as But think how mother and father’d feel, if folks are made, that will be, I’m That they should single one day they find had But it isn’t very likely you enough every to grind! son was smart . afraid! Vandegrift, Youth’s —Margaret in Compnuion. v <^> w 2 In Love and War. tly HEN Charles was mm that thirty he he had decided gone to school long enough. His father had arrived at that conclusion I yPI; years before, but the son’s indomit¬ able determina¬ tion to conquer at least the rudi- meats of his profession before he ^onld enter upon active practice made him deaf to all paternal entreaties to return home until one morning be waked up to find that his thick bronze beard had. developed several actually gray threads. Consequently, one fine spring morn- “S fj l llomestead; a mo dest, little gilt sign bearing the simple words, “Dr. Charles Dayton.” first He He didn’t “take” at wore short coats in direct opposition to all former ideas of the professional man’s and he didn’t seem to remem- ber anybody whom he had known in his youth. graver things during his absence than remembering who was the sister to his Sunday-school teacher and who mar- Ged the youngest of the Barker girls., But after a year or so of doubt they began to. understand him, especially when his superior skill had saved the darling of nearly every household in town when the scarlet fever threatened to fill the tiny graveyard on the edge of the hill. Dr. Charles, as they learned to call him, had an additional trait in his favor; he knew how to neglect each and every woman in Blissfield with equal severity. Not that women enjoy develop being neglected, but they always a sort of respect for a man who doesn’t stoop to them, providing he is consis¬ tent in his frigidity lo all the women in the place. At the end of five years two things had taken place in Blissfield. Dr. Charles w-as the idol of the town, and young Tom, the baby of the Dayton family, was going to celebrate reach- iu g his majority by taking unto himself a wife. It was an awful mistake, thought the Tyi 10 ] e household when the downy- cheeked Tom stood up in blushing bravado on his return from his junior year at college, and persisted in his statement that he was never going to sc ij 00 i aga i n . For that fall lie was to become the husband of the dearest Hi¬ tie girl in all the world. But reason settled upon them, and the only stipulation was that a little maiden should come for a visit to the family of her future husband some time that summer. One morning late in July Bliss Day- ton and her younger brother set out for the East, and returned a week lat¬ er with the tiny lady, who was in a pretty state of nervousness at the strangeness of the situation. Dr. Charles was out in the country at the bedside of a patient, and wbeu, after midnight, he stumbled in, drip¬ ping, splashed with mud after his long ride in the storm and sick at heart (his patient had died in spite of his efforts), he had forgotten all about the expect¬ ed visitor till he caught sight of a lit¬ tle sailor hat and a pair of crumpled gloves on the table in the hall. It seemed so very odd to find any¬ thing so young, so daintily feminine in this staid old house that ho stood long in the dimly-lighted the hall, absent¬ ly smoothing out tiny gloves, pressing each finger in place and not¬ ing with an indulgent smile that a button was missing from the left wrist. Dr. Charles slept badly that night and awoke with the sun in spite of the late hours of the night before. Some way the first thing to come into his mind as he opened his eyes was the rumpled, tiny, buttonless glove in the hall below, and the more he tried to throw off the memory the closer it clung to him. When he reached the lower hall he found himself again by the little table with the little hat and gloves, and he put out his hand with a touch almost caressing. Just as his fingers met the pretty feminine trifles he heard a fresh young voice just behind him saying: “I’ll take these, if they are in your way. I forgot them last night. ” Dr. Charles wheeled about guiltily. There, on the lower sten. was a voomr girl, looking straight at him from the most baby-like blue eyes ever lighting the face of woman. Dr. Charles, later on, in analyzing his feelings, realized that he had ex¬ perienced three distinct sensations at- the first sight of her. First, that of the critic, in which he was amazed to see here in the actual flesh the girl whom he had always be¬ fore thought existed only in senti- rueutal novels. Secondly, as the physician, who frowned at the extreme slightness of the figure, the frail wrist, the tiny neck. And lastly, as the man, who wanted to take her close in his arms, to kiss her, to love her and to call her his own. “I really must beg you to forgive me, but a young lady is so rare a pleasure in this house that I was over¬ whelmed at my good fortune.” Finally, gathering himself together, he walked over to her, and, taking one of her hands in each of his, he said, gravely; “•You are to be my sister, I suppose. I am brother Charles.” Eloise was herself again and smiled charmingly as she said: “I knew you immediately. I’ve known you for a long time, I think, for Tom talks of you all the time.” She was most delightful, Dr. Charles confessed, but some way it rankled that she should accept him so much as a matter of course. He would have preferred her to look upon him more as a man to be studied rather than a problem already solved. What a fool he had been to call her his little sister. He didn’t want to think of her as a sister; he didn’t want her ever again to speak to Tom in that familiar way, as though everything was settled. Then he deliberately drew her close to him and kissed her fairly on her smooth, white forehead. She strug¬ gled away with a little cry, while her face grew deadly pale. Then she said, with a nervous, hurt little laugh which sounded pitifully like a sob: “Of course, since you are Tern’s brother.” When he came down to breakfast he found the family at the table, but Tom rose with a strange new pride to pre¬ sent his lady love to his fine big brother. Then the physician said, in a grave, calm tone: “I met Eloise in the hail this morning. I kissed her.” If consternation had been in her midst before, it now rose to a terrible pitch. Tom’s fingers clutched the edge of the table, and he drew his breath sharply, when little Eloise, with that tact which heaven sometimes sends women in tlieir times of peril, answered: “Yes, and he called me his little sister. He isn’t much used to kissing a girl, though, I know, for he did it so queerly, and—he kissed me on the forehead, Tom, while you always choose my lips. ” It was an awfully bold thing to do, but then it is the lightning flash which clears the sky. The lover wavered, tried to speak once or twice, and finally ended by bending over and saluting the little girl squarely on the lips. “There, sweetheart, we’ll show him how it is done.” And the amazed Bliss Elizabeth ejaculated, “Mercy me!” so loudly that the whole party went off into a nervous but steadyiug laugh. Dr. Charles took up his medicine case and hurried down the street the instant that the .meal was over. He stayed away for three days and nights, but when Sunday came he appeared among them as usual, apparently as grave, as; preoccupied as before the tiny Eloise came to Blissfield. He did not accompany them to church, but as he watched her by Tom’s side, dainty in the snowy muslin gowns she wore so much, he turned away with a mighty purpose in his eyes. From that instant it was fated that Eloise should be the wife of the man who didn’t know how to kiss her, instead of the gay-hearted boy whose privilege it now was to claim her as his own. One morning, when Eloise had been laughing with the family on the shaded lawn, a telegram was brought her an¬ nouncing the sudden death of her father, and so Elizabeth and Tom started suddenly away from Blissfield with their terror-stricken little charge. Tom decided to return to college, but he stoutly refused to go back to his former school, which was near Eloise’s Lome, but chose instead a seat of learning farther east. Finally ono February morning there arrived a short, unhappy note, in which poor Eloise begged to come to is visit the Dayton family. “Mamma at sister’s, whose baby has the scarlet fever, so they won’t let me stay with them, and it is so lonesome here in this big house with no one but the servants. Besides I want to talk to you about Mr. Thomas Dayton.” Dr. Charles’s heart leaped for joy. This formal “Mr. Thomas Dayton” spoke volumes. And so the little girl came to Bliss- field the second time, and reached the Dayton home on another stormy night, this time to be welcomed by the beard¬ ed doctor standing by the glowing fire and holding out both his hands. Sim- pie Elizabeth the next day told him all Eloise’s confessions of Tom’s neglect, and added: “She puzzles me, Dr. Charles. She doesn’t seem to be half so broken- hearted as I expected. I really think that her pride is hurt worse than her affections. And I thought she loved him so.” The climax came ' when a whole week passed , without ... a letter , ,. from f m m Tom, and , Eloise, setting her white lips and blinking back her tears of mortifica- his engagement The speed and eager- ness with which he accepted almost °t-> "i t:l a " 1 ’ , Ae°\‘S™ rv sara^as t _ • + i in mg i a ew w ee vs ago. As his eyes fell on Eloise, half broken, halt radiant, there sprang into them such a light as made her drop her own. She realized that Elizabeth >»;VS s^rs, a hi r"\ s? “SbS -T. and yet, somehow, she never was so happy before. “You are free again, Eloise?” He had taken the little left hand and turned it till the firelight showed the bare third finger. And poor Eloise could only eay a little half- sobbing "Yes.” “Then,” said Dr. Charles, solemnly, “I may ask you to give up that free¬ dom again and to teach me to kiss you as Tom did.”—Chicago Tribune. Peanut Oil. The peanut is coming into greater prominence every year, as a factor in the world’s supply of things needful, and there is hardly any limit to the predictions of the uses to which it may be put. At the same time, the terri- tory in which it may be grown is rapidly extending, and it is not too mueh to hope that it soon may become a really important crop in this country, Peanut oil is now highly valued in Europe, and peanut flour, said to be extremely nutritious, is used exten- sively in Europe, especially in hos- pitals. An oil factory, with a capacity sufficient to use five ..tons of peanuts daily, has been established at Norfolk, Va. In a prospectus issued by the company it is calculated that the re- ceipts from five tons of peanuts will amount to 235 gallons of refined oil, at one dollar per gallon; 175 gallons of crude oil, at fifty cents; 3680 pounds of flour and meal at two cents, and 33,00 pounds of stock feed sixty cents per 100 pounds, making the total gross re¬ ceipts $415.90 per day, which, it is es¬ timated, would give a yearly profit on a five-ton factory of $10,725. An Air Jam. A curious state of things was ob¬ served in the tunnel of the under¬ ground railway of Budapest on account of a lack of ventilation. For a stretch of more than two miles there is only a single ventilator, which is entirely insufficient, and the trains running through the tunnel compress the air within like that in the gun barrel of a Zalinski dynamite gun. It is stated that on several occasions the cars were raised bodily from the tracks by the pressure of air and gas and thepassen- gers were almost suffocated. Steps have been taken t-o increase the Bum- ber of air shafts, so that there will be at least ten of these in each mile, and very large exhaust fans will do away with the danger of insufficient ventila- tion, which now renders the employ- ment at the same time of the two cracks in the tunnel absolutely danger- oils.—Science. -—- Found Kkbs of tne Pearly Nautilus. Dr. Willey, who over two years ago left England for the south seas in search of the eggs of the pearly nau¬ tilus, the only living representative of the great group of extinct animals know n as ammonites, has been reward¬ ed with success. He has ascertained that these creatures are trapped in baskets by the natives of some of the Blelanesian Islands and used for -food. Last summer Dr. Willey, in Lifu, one of the Royalty Islands, captured the nautilus in three fathoms of wafer and constructed a large submarine cage in which to keep the specimens, feeding them dailv, and by December some of tho nautili had spawned in the cage. Each egg is as large as a grape. These investigations have been carried out by grants from the Government, dis¬ bursed according to the recommenda¬ tions of the Royal Society. Russian Landed Estates. Nowhere in. Europe are landed es¬ tates so vast as in Russia. Striking evidence thereof is furnished by the will of General Blaltzeff, of the Czar’s army, who bequeaths to his heirs, in addition to other property, no less than twenty-nine mines, fifteen oi which are of the first importance. They afford employment to more than 60,0*00 workmen. The properties only person in Russia whose mining exceed those of the Maltzeff estate is Elim Demidoff. It is officially declared that the bu¬ bonic plague exists in Jeddah. Arabia. Q ill hst ■ kr m IP m //i.i Ml ML I §51 #J V ll rk i • i! * I c'JIffi 13 >■■■ £5 NT:'' a Where Women are Muzzled. Muzzles are used on refractory wo- men in the penitentiary at Cologne, Germany. Last year a muzzled girl was found dead m lier cell. It was alleged that death was due to authority suffoea- Gon, and the persons in were charged with manslaughter, but afterwards acquitted, Dresden Gowns. It is almqst obligatory this year that ? our glove3 match J™* P™*? 1 “ ad the fl flowers on your hat, and if they flowers on your dress, ’ ^ t 7° u wl11 be 80 mucl1 the better ^ ‘S./whiWstriped’ /scattered sfikfTitb roae8 in Dresden effe( over it. Now fancy this dress trimmed *«• »>,;“,«”»?-j , saSfi all colors, ’. with taffetas to match; and J g]lade there ig a 1 ir of . ° N seleot , , , ba , of * wblte , ., , . b ° w a ;, cul ^’ Wl K . = , o“VS u - *■> *»<■ ■“ *“ ^** - a pink parasol. Married in Her Bicycle Clothes. While Justice Hart, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sitting in his office late Tuesday afternoon, he was aroused from his meditation by a ripple of laughter at'his office door. A company of three young ladies and an elderly gentleman entered. The girls each wore a neat bicycle suit, with short skirts and a cap. One of the merry wheel-women announced that she de- sired to be launched on the sea of matrimony, and to have her name 0 h ange d f rom Bliss Martha Elber to yt rs Charles T. Wilkes. The justice looked out of the door for the would- ] )u groom, but the voting lady pointed to the elderly gentleman. The bicy- c ; e bride was about seventeen years 0 ] dj w bile the groom appeared to be thirty years her senior. The bicycle bridesmaids giggled, the bicycle bride blushed and the old gentleman looked serious, while the justice performed the ceremony.—Chicago Tribune, Her Fine Jump. Six feet and one inch is a fine record for a running high jump, and for a woman it is extraordinary. It has been made by a seventeen- year-old Brooklyn school girl. The world’s amateur record is at present held by M. F. Sweeney, with 6 feet 5j inches, Ten years ago the best man conld not beat the jump of 6 feet 1 inch, made by Bliss Louise Brooks. In 1887 the record for the United States was held by E. W. Johnson, ivitti only 5 feet 11 inches. Bliss Brooks is the daughter of George W. Brooks, and is the cham¬ pion feminine athlete of Adelphia Academy. For eight- years she has been a pupil in that school, and an enthusiast in athletics and gymnastics. She easily carries off the palm as the best all-around athlete in a large class of girl gymnasts, and her powers and endurance, her grace and agility, are simply marvelous, Bliss Brooks comes of a family of athletes. She is the only daughter among six children. Her five brothers are all athletes and her eldest brother was a champion of Amherst during Bliss his college life. From a tiny girl Louise loved outdoor sports better thau the pastimes usually sought by little maids. Tops, marbles and ball were her toys instead of dolls and miniature dishes and housekeeping utensils. She learned to throw a ball like a bey—a clean, straight throw— instead of in the curiously lame fashion which most girls adopt. She grew a sturdy, straight-limbed maiden well-developed muscles. When she went to the Academy she took to the gymnasium as a duck takes to water.— New Orleans Picayune, Slie Has a Flourishing Business. The question, “What shall Ido to earn a living?” asked so often by lvomen, was answered the other day by two young women in New York, very much to their own satisfaction, and profit. The senior member of the firm (who was a belle and social leader in her native State two years ago) went to New- York and cast around for some- thing whereby she might earn her own bread. A friend of hers, another capn- Me girl, remarked that the ladies of New York looked much better on the streets than in their evening gowns. “They look fairly well so long as they stick to silks, or satins, or heavy mate¬ rials, but when it comes to muslins and laces they don’t seem to know how to have them made. It is a perfect shame the way they waste their beautiful material s. A h, if w e only had their beau¬ tiful goods, couldn’t we make lovely gowns of them!” The other girl began to think, atid iti a few days proposed to her friend to form a partnership as designers of evening and summer gowns. Together they made several rough colored sketches of muslin gowns, which they took to some of their more fashionable acquaintances to see what they thought of them. In almost every instance they received orders for one or more gowns. When these orders increased sufficiently to makp the ven¬ ture safe, they began work in earnest. They employed compete-it French dressmakers and fitters, and opened parlors, where their designs and sam¬ ple gowns are shown. Their custom¬ ers select their designs and materials from samples shown by the firm, and they guarantee a perfect fit and finish. As they make only one gown after a design, tlieir patrons are certain that no one else will have a garment just like tlieir own. Besides building up a very flourishing business in New York and the vicinity, they have been offered good salaries by several of the large houses which make a specialty c! stylish, ready-made gowns and waists as de¬ signers.—Argonaut. Literary Blondes. Among the women prominent in the literary world to-day, it is interesting to note that many of them are of the delicate blonde type. Marie Corelli, whose books sell enormously, and are translated into nearly a dozen lan¬ guages, including Arabic and Hindu- stanee, is distinctly petite, with a fragile figure and a mass of curling, reddish gold liair, under which large, dark blue eyes look questioningly. She was born in Italy, but was adopt¬ ed in early childhood by a London, physician, the father of Eric Mackay, the poet who, like Byron, ‘ ‘awoke and found himself famous” on the publica¬ tion of his volume of sonnets—“The Love Letter of a Violinist”—which gives him high rank among the young¬ er Victorian poets. Corelli lavishes unbounded admiration upon his work, and frequently quotes his poems in her novels. In the “Romance of Two Worlds” she’has made copious extracts, with warmest laudatory comments, from the “Love Letters.” “The Ro¬ mance of Two Worlds,” by the way, has the distinction of causing her most gracious majesty, Queen Victoria, to forego part of a night’s repose, for her royal highness refused to go to bed until the last chapter was finished at 2 o’clock in the morning. One of Marie Corelli’s eccentricities is a dis- like of being photographed, and an- other is a determination not to marry —a decision which a good many men have vainly sought to change. She has made a fortune by her writings, so can afford to be independent. Frances Hodgson Burnett is also a blonde. In one family of her friends she is called by the caressing pet name of “Fluffy.” She is delicate in color¬ ing and has a mobile face, rather seri¬ ous in repose, but lighting up into charming kitmorousness of expression when among intimate friends. Mary E. Wilkins is another blonde, small in stature and with a face earnestness recalls her own “ Ne\v, ■ land Chandler Nun.” Moulton’s—one One day at Miss of liaH L^H mous Fridays—in a group whic^ffP eluded several noted people, among, them Miss Wilkins, Julia Marlowe conversatiod ancU Oscar Fay Adams, the drifted into reminiscence, and, wit'"* good deal of laughter, confess! were made of childish sins. A Wilkins related her one falsehood a smile, it is true, but in a way H clearly showed the sensitive consB ness of her nature. Once, wheiB small, she strayed into the diningH tl before dinner, and climbing up table abstracted a few grapes. ■ mother, coming in soon after, noB a slight disarrangement, and aske® child if she had taken any grol Hastily the little one answered, “'n™ mamma,” and the matter droppeM All the afternoon, however, the falser hood sat heavily on the child’s con¬ science, until in the twilight she threw her curly golden head upon keg mother’s lap and soboed her confess sion. .J Novelties Dry Goods Counters. * on , Chiffon veils for travelers. Polka-dotted foulards again. Plaid silk string and stock ties. Fancy piece-silk and ribbon belts. Lace insertion of the entre-deux or- Polka dotted cotton waists of brigh red. Thick floral wreaths for midsummerj hats. Panama sailors of every possiblJ shade. 1 Shirt waists in the familiar polka* dot patterns. Toques of flexible straw for middla| aged women. * Narrow embroidered turnover lawn and batiste collars. Large collars of lace and embroidery for children’s wear. Full vest fronts of white mousseliue, pearl embroidered. Small-figured taffeta frocks for girls of five to ten years. Brilliant red pique figured in white for dresses, vests, etc. Guimpes of tucking alone or tucks and lace for small girls. Cerise chiffon for accordion-plaited gowns, waists and hats. Velveteen suits for small boys’ act¬ ing as pages at weddings. Tulle wedding veils edged with point or Valenciennes lace. White cloth jackets embroidered in gold braid for seaside wear. Large hats having a straw crown and brim of chiffon frills for children.