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THE MA003ST TELEGRAPH: MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1894.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
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year; every flay except Sunder, tt.
on s car load of chickens be a* well
worth making aa the profit on a car
load of watermans} It could not fco
«a uncertain as shipping melons. '
If the proposition to raise chickens
enough to supply Macon tv.thin a m
dins of twenty miles around ua la not
practiced, then why la It not? We
wouid really Ilkn to know.
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MAJ. BACON’S BACK.
It really begins to look as if Uio nom
ination of Maj. Bacon for the sonato
will havo boon conceded by everybody
before the caucus meets. Possibly b>s
may be the only name presented to
that body. In anylng this, we do not
Intend to reflect in nny way on tlio
candidacy of Uio other gentlemen who
have so far figured In Ui« race, but
only oxprraa an opinion bused on the
reporta sent out from Atlanta In regard
to tlio relative strength of the four. If
these reports, showing the great lead
which Maj. Bacon baa attained came
only from his friends they might bo
subject to the suspicion that Iris
friends see merely what they aro anx
ious to sew that they aro easily do-
t-e.ved; that the facts of the situation
ilo not Justify tbe'.r claims, But us a
matter of fact, tho opponents, as well
as the friends of Maj. tUcau, admit
lila lend, and whilo sotuo of U!s oppo
nents still claim to teo confident that
In aoino unexplained, Indefinite way
bo is to fall of election, they do not
dony that at thia moment ho hsa tho
necessary strength to elect biui. It
la evident that In their desire for tho
Bucoess of (heir eand,dates they merely
bope Uml something may happen to
defeat Bacon, It is a kind of hope
that la '-incident oven to tho most des
perate circumstances uml Is not at nil
significant of tho facts of tho existing
situation In Atlanta.*
18 THIS NOT PRACTICAL ?
We chanced to bo standing at the
Southern depot a few days ago when
uno of its long freight trains rolled by.
Wo were idly cndeavor.ng to determiuo
tho names of tho groat Hues from tho
ImUals on lire cars and mentally uot.ng
how the good things of every section
found their way to Maoou, when our
attention was drawn tn it spectacle
that wou'd lmvo stooped a colored
presiding elder in tho midst of n
quarterly holleet'.on. There, slowly
passing from v.ew, was a freight car
solidly loaded with coops of yellow-
legged chickens.
Wo havo many of us oommended the
wisdom of the old dsrky who tied her
husband’s bauds behind li.iu before al
lowing htn to vls.t tho poultry show,
In order.to place him beyaud tho roach
of temptation. So It occurred to us,
that railroads not wattling llic.r trains
held up had better double up tho guard
on the ch.ckon cars.
But it also occurred to ua that It
was a strange thing that chickens
should bo coming to Macon In ears,
whoso names wo could only guess at,
wbou wo ore In the heart of a farming
country. If somo farmer from the rich
gram count -os of Jones; Jasper anil
Monroe would spend a day or so hero
going from -freight depot l» freight de
pot, or standing In front of the South
ern Express office watching Its b.g
wagons roll off HUM to ttu» full with
ehlckoa coops, wouldn’t be get a pointer
or two oit the 6-cent cotton problem?
Wc always fool a bo*.fancy in tell
ing a farmer bow to run his farm, sad
we know it sounds much bigger to lie
n cotton planter than a ch.rkcu ped
dler. but If wo could put Into dollars
and coats tho value of the chickens
consumed in Macon It would make a
sum that would open the eyes of many
n planter. If we could put luto dollars
sud cents the net profit from the sale
of ch.ckcns used la Maoou alone It
would bo a sum that would command
the respect of our largest planters.
We aro not urging chicken raising
as a mesas of general relief from low
prices But wo say to a number of en
ergetic men that we offer a sure and
profitable market for all the fowls yon
will bring us. That we would rather
pay you. who trade with us, than send
our money out of our territory. That
you have only to come and see for
yourself &bd pr.ee for yourself to be
sat'efied that It U quite a big enough
thins to be worth your attention.
The chickens we saw at the Southern
were cn route to Florida. Wo are
nearer by a hundred miles than the
shippers. Why should not the profit
New York la one of the must expen
sively governed oillc* In the world.
Its people pay In taxes, tinder the law,
about forty millions of dollars a year—
aa much aa the people of a score of
the states. But, expensive aa legit!
mato government la In New- York. It
does not constitute -the whole burden
that the. governing machinery Imposes
upon tho people. The New York Sun
estimates the corruption fund paid the
New York police by criminals, In order
that they may be allowed to carry on
tbclr infamies without interruption, at
seventeen millions of dollars a year.
That la to say, the criminals of New
York city pay to the law nfllcors nearly
half as much as, the tax payers pay
for the support of the government. It
ts no wonder, In the light of these facts,
that the criminal clement In New
York has a powerful Influence. Its
contribution of seventeen million dol
lars Is distributed among a compara
tively few men, but they happen to l>e
the inpn to whom the execution of the
law and the preservation of good order
Is entrusted. The larger sum con
tributed by tax payers Is subject to a
longer division, and much of it is ab
sorbed In the payweut of interest on
the debt and other claims u^a.nst the
tax fund iu which individuals con
nected w.th the government do not
shore.. It may be said, therefore, that
tho proceeds of the tax on vice, to the
persons entrusted ■ with the execution
of the law, are very much larger man
the proceeds .ram tho taxation of prop
erty. Why, therefore, should not the
officers feel a greater Interest un tno
preservation of vice than In the protec
tion of property?
Tlio Lexow committee’s Investigation
In New York has brought out a story
of publ.c corrupt.on that has shocked
tho people of the country. Very few
people bad realised that tn this country
persons m authority, presumably of
good character, certainly with power
to benefit or greatly damage inlll.ons
of their fellow-oJt.zens, were them
selves of tho* same class morally as tho
most corrupt of tho criminals with
whom they dealt. It has been supposed
by tho average American citizen that
the policeman and the law breakers
were enemies. Ilo discovers, through
the Investigations of ’this committee,
that the pol.ccman, whether the high-
cat official or the most poorly paid pri
vate, Is tho fr,end and partner of tho
c(1uilnals of New York. The shock of
this revelation 1 has been great, -md ,t
Is probable that It will have much con-
sequence In political results.
But It is probably truo that the city
government of New York is lu uo -vise
more corrupt than tho city govern
ments of n doaeu ether great American
cities. City govormneut iu I’hlladcl-
phln itf more expensive than iu New
York, Tho same thing Is truo of tho
Chicago government. And It Is com-
monly behoved that nli tho methods
which havo disgraced tho pol.co of Nctv
York arc in familiar use by tho police
of the two latter cltlca.
It Ip a singular fact that In a coun
try like ours, where national, state and
area county government >« almost uni
versally pure, municipal government
la almost unlvcmally corrupt. The
causes which produoe this result must
bo general in their operation or tho
effects could not bo so widely evident,
and it Is tlio work of a great states
man to discover what these causes are.
Why Is tt that tu Boston, Now York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, a. Lou.e, Now
Orleans—in tho great cities of every
part of tho country—the pol.co power
la used to extort money from criminals
nqd men. aro elected to ottlco tvho
are known U> be unworthy of treat
when elected, and who of courso feel
themselves free, under such circum
stances, to use the power their of
fices gives them In the way moat profit
able to themselves and their followers.
As these causes are not operative in
the wider field of the nation, the state
or tho county, It ought to be easy to
discover what they are. When that
discovery has been made It will bo
easier to find tho means of brlng.ng
about a reformation.
THE SCHOOL YEAR.
Mr. done* of Midway Aondutny, Sar
dis, Oa., writes a letter to tho Waynes
boro True Citizen, of which a marked
copy is sent to tho Telegraph. In this
letter Mr. Jones recalls tho ract that
tho lait logUlaruro made die scuool
year, correspond with the fiscal year,
changing its beginning from January
1 to July 1. In making UUa change,
he says, the legislature, bya singular
oversight, faded to make prevision for
the extra six months. If this error la
not corrected, be tlxnkx most of tho
country schools will remain closed till
July 1, ISON, and thereby large num
bers of children bo deprived of
school advantages and a respectable
body of teachers be thrown out of em
ployment
We do no; know tt the case la so set
tlous as la described by Mr. Jouce. It
needs to be very much less serious In
order to require tho prompt attention
ut the legislature. If It be a fact that
the change tn the taw .nade by the last
legislature threatens to keep the coun
try schools closed for somo months be
cause of the want of available funds,
the lcffialature ought to act promptly
in relieving the cmborrassmvnt of
the Atuatloo. We thluk it will do so
without any urging, for the value of the
school system has steadily Impressed
Itself upon the popular tuiad until now
every legislator knows that the schools
are among the most precious if their
possessions to .the estimation of the
people. Even a slight interruption in
the regular progress of th« schools
ought to bo prevented, if possible, by
prompt action on the part of the legis
lature.
A GREAT WEEK.
The Dixie Interstate Fair enter* to
day upon Its most important week.
The Telegraph tan promise to its
friends in every part of Georgia tin
beat thow the state boa ever seen, if
the/ will come to Macon dm-nr
•v «k. The exhibit* at tlta fair are
really remarkable ,n Ufa’.r c,„„,
cess and extent. At no fair that wc
have seen ia Georgia nave they been
anywhere near so complete. A day vt
two, even several days, might be r.ieni
among them with pleasure and profit.
Outside of these exhibits, the man
ager* of the fair havo provided for the
amusement and entertainment of v s-
Itors such a programme ns waa never
seen In Georgia. It combines amuse
ment with instruction, and the man
who cannot during this week find
amusement and plenty of it ’u Macon
Is either very dull or has worn out his
capacity for enjoyment.
The inaugural address of Governor
Atkinson was entirely creditable to
hint. It Is the speech of a uua who
has a firm hold on the principles'which
should control legislation and ituldo
government la this state.
Sir. Allen, who has been Interested
iu the Macon Telegraph for qulto
a while, bits bought a controlling in
terest In that paper. He Is one of the
best all-round newspaper men in the
state.—Rockdale Bonner.
Mr. A. A. Allen, tho brilliant editor
of the Macon Telegraph, Is making tho
old paper more worthy of success than
ever, s.nee it has passed entirely into
his hands. He Is doing more than
achieving suet-ess-he Is deserving It.—
Meriwether Vindicator.
ENGLISH REFORMERS.
Thay iCome to tVmorloa to Elevate
the Negro.
tilled by his victim. What more ts
needed?
I am no advocate for lynch law,
hut people abroad must not suppose
that the South te finest with large
dues and telegraphic communication
everywhere; neither must they suppose
that the Southern white men are bar-
harians, thirsty for the negro’* blood.
They are a law-abiding people, intelli
gent and splendid citizens, filled with
the true spirit of Christianity townrd
each other. A criminal cannot very
well get away In England, the law
can be enforced much quicker where
elerraphle communication Is every
where. Give a negro criminal a mile
stunt and alt the queen’s horses and
men, and Uncle Eam’s detectives to
boot, could never find him tn the Im
penetrable Southern swamps.
Philanthropy may bold up It* holy
hands, moral refee-mer* may speak for
the rapist, the military riwy be time
tnd again oiltad out to protect the
fiend and succeed In keeping back the
infuriated citizens, but nothing can
stop lynching but the negroes them-
-elves renouncing forever the coward
ly and fiendish attack upon white wo
men and children In America.
The colored question In the South
will settle Itself, if left alone by med
dling fools who live thousands of miles
away and don’t really know anything
about It. For thirty years the whites
nnd blacks have worked building up n
country devastated In a terrible war.
They understand each other and each
In hie own sphere of action will event
ually make the South Blossom ns the
rose and the envy of she civilized
world.—By an Englishman In wndes-
borc, N. C„ Messenger. .
«HORT TALKS
WITH MANY PEOPLE.
Jim Shaw, ho pomtlnr traveling pas
senger man of the Central, came In yes
terday from Savannah, ami lie tolil me
last night that a large delegation would
be up from Savannah on Wednesday,
lie expects a crowd of several hundred
people from Savannah and says the
majority of them will spend two or
three days at the fair. Several Savan
nah horses are hero for the races and
considerable interest is manifested ia
their work by Savanmth.am CuL Cbas.
E. Stulls, ttie well-known Savannah
horseman, owns several of the tost
ones at the park and he Is here In per
son to look after them. Jim Shaw says
some of these Savannah horses are go
ing to foot the people—hut he has no
tip- to give away. N
Tho result of Ida Wells’ trip to Eng
land Is a committee sent over here
from that country to "investigate and
denounce lynching In the South." They
come armed with Indorsement!! from
clergymen of every denomination tn
England. Such a galaxy of moral re
formers coming on suoh an errand I-
utterly useless. What good o<m they
do? Very little Is known In England
about the negro. That he Is black
Instead of white Is about all 1 h -v k .
of the colored gentleman. Partly on
hearsay nnd partly from Imagination
they believe that the Southern negro
Is a poor. Ignorant, deluded, down
trodden wretdh, half-clothed', half-fed
and made to work aa a slave, although
Ids freedom has been granted; that
the white man hates him with n re
lentless hatred; that every crime Is
his dood, and th'ag law allow* a mob
of whites, to hang the poor wretches
without trial. He te made to work tn
chains on the nubile roads nod blood
hounds are put upon his track If he
runs away. His education Is entirely
Ignored and his children are brought
up In Ignorance and vice. They also
believe that the black man has got n
«oul—<» rudimentary soul—and that a
little moral training would transform
him Into an angel of light.
The South Is quite willing for an
Investigation, but advises the. hatch of
moral reformers not to atay up North,
but to come down to Dixie, where
possums love to roam, nnd where they
am "hear those darkles singing" and
see "rsxor* flying through the air.
You will be welcome. The Southerner
la not the barbarian you have hern
taught to believe. Ten years’ expe
rience In the Southern states teaches
me that the Southern negro Yepresents
the laboring class In the South and
that he Is the happiest mortal upon the
face of the earth. He never suffers
the pangs of hunger, brought on by
want of work, as do laboring men In
other countries. He can always get
work when sometimes s white man
oannot. A "negro tramp" out of a
lob snd cannot get one Is very rare.
A negro Is forever frolicking, end they
wear then as good clothes as do the
laboring men In any country. He
works when and where he pleasea. Aa
for the white man hntlng him, why
doesn’t the darky leave the South,
and when sometimes he does. Why does
he Invariably find his way back to the
"old boss?” He Is not oppressed by
the whit# men as laboring. classes.are
In other countries, and hta children j
are educated largely at the white
Senator N. E. Burris came down from
Atrnutu Saturday night and spout .nun-
day wltli bis family ,a Ute city. There
Is uot the least doubt, he says, about
Maj. Bacon’s election. They can put
tno or three uioro men In the race, he
thinks, and still Maj. Bacon wjt bo
the next Cinrtwl States senator from
Georgia.
Capt. Jere Hollis came back from At
lanta last night, where he went in tho
Interest of ms candidacy for priue.pal
keeper of tho penitentiary. He told
me last night that he wouldn't swap
chances with any man In the race, al
though ho'n not at all certain of hn
appointment.
Lioveraor Atkinson has agreed to
give Capt. UolliS and his friends a
bearing on Tuesdy morning, and a
number of Macon peoplo w,U go up to
press his chums.
There are several others In tho race,
among them Jake Moore of Rome, one
of the best known sheriffs In the state,
Joe MeAfeo of Canton, Jim MoDultio
of Ilawkinsrllle, George Stapleton of
Americus and Muse Hollis of Tolbot-
tou. Tiie latter Is n second cous,n to
Capt. Hollis and neither know of tho
other'# candidacy until they met in
Atlanta.
Well posted parties say the race is
between Capt. Hollis snd Joe McAfee,
with Jake Moore a strong third.
Maj. Bacon’s home folks will be In
evidence m Atlanta today. I heard a
number of pronunofft citizens say yes
terday that they Intended going np at
11 o'clock today to put In their oars
for Maj. Bacon. They all oount on b,m
for a sure winner and they want to
add liter own labor to the already well
d.rected efforts being made In his be
half.
Speaking of MnJ. Bacon’s race, *1
heard a Macon citizen Just In from At-
lnnta yesterday say that Judgo A. L.
Miller Is the finest campaign manager
in the state. Ho wouldn’t let me use
his name, but ho weut on to Ray that
Maj. Bacon's raoo could not have bi>en
placed. Ja hotter hands. Judge Miller,
he says, .s popular with all who go to
Atlanta and Is known to nearly every
prominent man In tho state, and ho Is
doing tho work of his Lfo for Maj. Ba
con.
man’* expense. When on* oopaMera
the ahort Urn# that has elapsed since
the emancipation. Die neffre record
shows a remarkable advancements!
shows * remantante »nT»nw»i"i»»
under th» htkh clvlllx.vtlon that always
characterized the Sm'throo.
The attachment of the negro to hi*
mauler, end the mutual heneWs r-
suiting therefrom cause* jnuoh oewur*
toward* the South, for 'the baPPY-go-
lucky nftgro In 111* hwrt of
know* that the fkrotkwn white wan }• j
hfi, friend, If he only conduct* fclmeeU .
P Tht r ’cl'11l»ed world I* getting lealoua
- the •■Snwnv Month." Down here all
I of the "Pnravv South."
In contentment nnd oroce. eomoorod to
what It 1* .IssWhere. Rtrtksn andJsbor
trouble* abroad, breeding with a fecun-'
dltv terrible to contenritate. destitution
andpaunerbm For voire the meddl.ra ,
| covetous h«rta have longed for thta ;
Nabdkh’s Vineyard, and now Judge i
Lynch has bann resuscitated and held
up before tho eye* of staid Old England. |
who. In holy horror at the tsteo of woe.
thinks to get o finger tnthe ole or re- |
form lrion by deoouncliw lynohnr. The
South, of course. hs« Its criminal*: no
country Is exempt from them. The crim
inal. be he black or white, baa a Just i
■ .it a Htkn aIhII nnthrie • ■ ,-wa a* r>> t
tribunal here. The civil authorities are
vigil mt In bringing criminals lo jutalee. )
The cornsrdltr nnd brutal crime of ran* ,
la puaWied with death. Thl* crime can
not be compared with murder, forth ta j
the moat atrocious and dribolloil of |
all crimes. And when perp« rated by
a fiend la human form on a child, no
nun with true chlvalrtc blood of the
A PROSPEROUS FARMER.
Between Woodbury and Greenville
Uvea one of the must prosperous farm
ers m the state, and if cotton should
go down to 1 cent- per pound it would
have little effect on bun. The gentle
man retorted to Is Mr. Tom Ware, lie
bos his barn and cribs, filled to over
flowing wjth corn, fodder, bay, eta.,
uu which te feed his stock, and will
have a largt quoutdy to sell next sum
mer whim prices advance, as .* always
the case every year. Mr. Ware has
mere peas than he can gather conveh-
ltmly, aud la having thia crop picked
oa halves, in his cellar will be found
an abundance of syrup on tap, half a
dozen barrels that havo just been
plaocd there, with the prospect of mak
ing i.oou gallons more. Besides har
ing a number of hogs to supply h.m
with meat the coming year, a yard full
of chickens, turkeys, and, iu tact, ev
erything that a nun can raise at home
he has it. This gentleman is a model
farmer, and J all would follow ,n his
footsteps and quit raising cotton you
wouid no longer bear the cry of banl
times.—Woodbury Messenger.
otn rant until mat innocent one be
aveng'd. Now. the question arises:
Why trot Wt th« law tike lia course?
Brine a citizen, the criminal is entitled
to an trarartkal trial. What man would
lik* to net hi* *t*t*r. daughter of be- ;
troth#4 testifying tn ooen court to this
diabolical outrage on her person? Tho
crosiled court room filled with negroes
and white men. tiataolnx with Itching
ears to the minutest detail uecmaarS'to I
convict. The nrlaoacr. innocent until
proven Mfibr> mvloyhur Ms notoriety to
hi* Mart’s content. Woman, pure nxd
Innocent, exalted hr Christianity to her .
proper aohare. aaaaukad and dragged
In CM dust by a black fiend, ts com
pelled to stund this terrible strain on
her mfcid. »nd tail how ahe fought, for
har honor, tha blaok-hsurted -brute-
whoa* necdi-di dutch stifled befVrisa
In rite slteat wood*.
Now. Judge Lynch is vary particular
who he hones. Lvneh law doe* not
tang a man on suspicion. He ts idea-
IN THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY.
A change has oomo upon the field of
the Valdosta Telescope. It Is no longer
Miss Florence B. Williams' paper. It
hasn't been. Indeed, s.nee -,t changed
its pink dress for a white one. The
lay.ng aside of tho pink might have
warned readers that something had
happened, or was about to happen.
But nobody .mag.ned that Miss Editor
Williams bad beoomo Mr.-. Editor
Brandy. That, however, ia the status
.•jranuy. lira, notvever, u tne status
of affairs. Mr. Ch.-fi-les Brantley and
M ss Williams hod been associates ;n
eddmg the paper for some time, and
while they wrote stralghtont Demo
cratic leaders, scored the 1’opuUsts,
free ellverites and Republicans and
boomed Turner for the senate, they
found time to fall lu Iqyo with each
other ,n the good old-fashioned way,
and on August 8, In Atlanta, they got
married. The Telescope will continue
under the old management, though
with a somewhat different firm name
of cd.tora aud publishers, and Miss
Williams, that wa«. Will write at in
terestingly of polltleal affaire as of
yore.—Savannah News.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov’t Report
Powder
AB&OLVTEEY PURE
HOW IT FEELS TO SUFFOCATE.
A Diver’* Struggle for LUa In Eighty
Feet W Water.
Here ia on autobiography of suffoca
tion.
The victim 1* William Olasen. who
waa eighty feet under water la a diving
suit waea the air hroe broke and e-hut
off hta supply of breath. He was trying
10 att,ich a hawser to the anchor which
the blx steamer La Touralnc last off
Quarantine a tew weeks ago. Olssoa
v^i hurriedly brought to the surface
and soon after taken to the Long Island
Ooke.,-e Ho.-.p:tal in Brooklyn. He was
well enough to leave the place a few
day* a«o. and Jtiat before going away
he related hie amazing experience to a
Press reporter. His story la aa follows:
"I had been working raher hard, and
round myself ahort of breath. I straight
ened uo and signalled for a little more
air. I noftced from the sound that the
wheel* above were going round very
fast, aa though the men above had diffi
culty In sending me what little air wo*
comlnrz. Then I got the. signal to m-ake
ready to come up. At the same Instant
I was jerked off my feet by the tighten
ing of the life tine. Quick as a flash tt
aeeaned.mil the air stopped.
"Oh. such a feeling!"
"I seemed to be hours coming up. It
was realy but a few minute*—not over
two. I am told.
"My first sensation was a te/r|b!e
smothering feeling in ’my chest. I could
not breathe. Mv breast felt aa If it
were being saueezeil In on enormous
trip hammer, which was grinding.rov
bones Into my lungs. Then ajl the
blood in mv body seemed to rush to my
head, my eyes seemed to start straight
out from my head, until I could nee
them about two feet away, although
everything wus bl-ack around'nie. The
top of my head felt as If if were about
to blow off and let out a tide of 'some
thing which seemed to come from my
feet, my bands and my inside.
“My neck felt-as if a big, thick rope—
thicker than It tvas wide—wa* being
drawn tlgnte. tighter, oh. so vehy tight,
around It. The back of my heck Stif
fened so that I felt I could hot move
my head. It seemed to me that I tried
to move my head and my nock struck a
knife that seemed to go clear through
my neck and circle around my collar
bon*.
"My collar bone thus seemed to be
pressed way down into my lungs, and it
felt as If that big bone was a double-
edged sword reaohelng from one Kho,Ud
der to the other over my chest, then
circling round over my back. It seemed
to swoop out my heart, lungs and other
organs. I did not feel any pain In those
organs, though I realized that I was
losing them.
"My throat grew dry and hot. so hot
that it seemed as if I had a raging fire
tn there, and it seemed as If the heat
from this fire rapidly went clear
through my head and out through my
ears and nose.
'Then the darkness began to be lit
by many stars.
“I never saw so many stars before.
I could sec millions and millions of
them, and each one of them seemed
to shoot each of Us five points clear
through my head.
"I could feel that I was moving up.
As I neared the surface, ‘he fearful
pressure on my head and chest eased
a little. I felt relief, though the dirk-
pesa was just as black and tho Otars
"When T reached the surface I was
Just as flickering.
dazed, but was conscious. I knew what
was going on all the time. I could
fell that the men above who were
turning the wheel were making des
perate efforts to get me out of the
water.
"When' I reached the surface and
the face glass was removed. I took a
long, deep breath. Nothing I ever had
In my life seemed as sweet and as nice
as that first breath. It seemed as If I
ooutd not get enough of It.
"By that lime the stars had disap
peared. I could get a faint gleam of
light, though I could not see any
thing.
"The smothering sensation was
gone. My head felt ns big as a bal
loon. My eyes no longer seemed to be
outside of my head, but Instead seemed
to have been shoved nway tn.’ I could
not open them. The flesh around them
seemed puffed out to Where the eyes
were when I was under the water. It
was broad daylight, but the sky
seemed to be very cloudy, as If a big
itorm was coming on. My face was
stiff and sore. The pain then was In
my neck snd shoulders. My eyes
smarted dreadfully and I could feel
that blood waa dripping from them.
In a Short time I could see a little day
light, but It hurt. I knew my mouth
was full of blood, but I could not taste
It. I coughed up a lot of tt.
"The men worked over me awhile
and then took me to the hospital. It
was a frightful experience. I’d rather
die right off than go through It again.
It would.be easier, I ifhlnk.”
Mr. Olssen Is a strange-looklce
•peclmen today. His face Is black In
apots and blue In patches. Deep black
circles surround the livid, blood-red
eyes, which seem to project In demon-
llke fierceness. The skin on his neck,
ebc«t and shoulders, especially at the
back of hta head. Is terribly discol
ored. The whites of his eyes are fear
fully bloodshot. It win probably be
weeks before they wilt become white
again. The eyelids, although a deep,
dark blue, are elowly regaining their
natural color.
Atogether his was a remarkable ex
perience and one from Which onlv a
man of extraordinary vitality could re
cover.—New York Press.
HE WAS A GREAT RUNNER.
Physically Defective, WllUe Day Had
Both Speed and Stamina.
William D. Day, the athlete, who. a
victim of drink and cigarettes, com
mitted suicide, was only SI years old
and o Southerner.
Day was universally known as "Wil
lie" after he won the cross-country
championship of America on October
J, 1SSS. If was a grand performance
and made him famous. The distance
was ten miles, and hta time, a new
tn 20 minute* lu** 27 1-5 seconds be-
record. was 52:33 2-5.
He covered, a week later, four mile*
hind the beat amateur record held by
E .C. Carter. Hta record for tenmlles
Is 1:18 2-5 slower than that made by
Wj O. . Griwgo, the English crack.
George saw Day’s race, and said that
it was a more creditable one that which
was In the games of the Twelfth
gave him hi* record.
. — on the track
Day’* first appearance on the track
Regimens, on December 17. USS. He
finished third In a mile and a h"‘
race. A short time afterward he won
a mile handicap in Madison Bquf
Garden, starting from the 100-yard
mark.
His first Important victory was tn
the Pastime Athletic Club’s droeo-
country run over the Port George
course, on February 2L HSS. Thl* win
made him talked about os the probable
coming cross-country champion, and.
aure enough, on May t of that year
he won the title. Less than two weeks
afterward he won the three-mile run
at the New Jersey Athletic Club
grounds in lifl 4-5 from .4 aerate*.
H'.s remarkable two-mlle steeplechase
triumph it the Staten Island game*
me tame week was done In 10:41. On
June 12 he ran second In the three-
mile run at the Amateur Athletic Union
championships. May 17, 1890, he ran on
and a half miles in 7:03 4-5, which is
the -best American record. The same
day he ran one and three-quarter miles
in 3:181-5. Tills still stands as the best
time for the distance.
HJs other records at greater dls*
1 tances are: Sfay 17, 1S90, two miles In
9::i3 3-5; ilay 30. 1S90, two and a half
miles in 13:10 3-5. and two and a quar-
I ter mile* In 10:53 4-5: same day. three
; mi.es In 14:39., February 10. 1890, he ran
three miles on a board floor In Brook-
1 lyn In 15:13 3-5. He rau four ml.es
1 In record ■tithe November 16. 1839, mak
ing the distance In 30:15 4-5, hta time
at taree and uiree-quarter miles being
19:01. also a record.
Athletes and trainers were always
puzzled over Day. Physically he d.d
not look as if he could run a mile at
anything approaching n fair gate, and
he seldom did regular training. He
weighed about 112 pounds In racing
fon and was 5 feet 5 "1-2 inches In
height. f
STRENGTH OF THE SWAN.
We all kow the tradition about the
power of a swan’s wing—that Its blow
will break n. man's leg. I questioned
n man who has much to do wi th swans
about' the credibility of the tale, and
be told mo that he, for one, was ready
to believe It, and thought that any
other man who had received such n
blow from tt swan’s wing as ho had
suffered would be likely to believe tt
also. He was summoned from hta cot-
tttgq by the news that one of bis cyg
nets was In trouble. A boy had been
amusing himself with the elegant
sport of giving the cygnets meat at
tached to a long string. When the
cygnet had swallowed the meat well
down, the boy would pull tt up again
by means of the string. It was great
fun for tile boy. and the cygnet .was
unable to exprt&s Its feelings intelligi
bly. On the occasion tn question,
however, the lump of meat stuck. It
•would not come out; and the boy. fear
ing consequences,had let slip tile string
and hotted. The cygnet did Its best
with the_string by swallowing several
yards of It. but began to choke before
tt got to the end.
At this Juncture my friend was sum
moned to Its aid. and simultaneously,
ns It appeared, the stately parent of
the cygnet, who was swimming on the
pond close by, perceived that some
thing was amiss with its offspring. It
swam to the bank and commenced
making tts way to the young one’s
assistance. But the swan’s method of
progression on land ta as awkward nnd
slow ns on the water It Is graceful and
swift. The awanherd was first to
rnich the cygnet, and, soon seeing the
trouble, had calculated to remove it
before the parent came up with him.
But hta calculations had underrated the
length of the string or the pedestrian
speed of the swan. Just as he had
succeeded- tn extricating the lump of
meat from the gullet of the distressed
youngster the old bird caught him a
blow with hta wing on that part of
the person which Is most exposed to
attack when a, man is stooping nnd
the onset Is made from behind.
He was knocked over on bis face,
and continuing the lmnetus received
from the swan hv scut’Uhg over the
graw on hlg hands and knees,' wne
able to escape from the bird’s furv.
which was soon transformed to sollol-
tudo for Its little one. But the blow
had been sufficiently powerful to make
the sitting posture uninviting for sev
eral day® and to Incline him to give
credence to any legends about the
strength of a swan’s wing.—Macmil
lan’s Magazine.
W. P. Drop, druggist. Springfield,
Mass., writes: “Japanese Pile Cure i>as
cured lndv seven years nfll'cted: could
not walk half mile'In last three vea-a;
now walks nny distance.” Sold by
Uoodwyn & Small, druggists,
A REMARKABLE CASE.
lfrom 'Henderson-
yb'c of the birth of the most remarka
ble infant ever heard of. It was born
‘he earlv psrt of this week, and Its
father is 70 and Its mother 69 years old.
The parents are prominent people, nnd
the ages are well authenticated. Tha
mi^tcnl reports tell of no sfarWnr esse,
nnd the local traditions of this section
halt at the age of 55 .for maternity, Suoh
malt tern are not usually subjects for
publication, but this te likely to be a
rare of world-wide tame.—-Greenville
(S. C.lNews.
Poisoned
LOOD
Is a source of much,suffering. The
aydtemshould bo thoroughly cleansed
| of ull Impurities, and the blood kept in <
a healthy condition. 8. S. S. removes
. CHRONIC SORES.
* Ulcers, etc., purifies the blood, and <
bonds up tno general health. It is
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I m Ira P. Stiles, of Palmer, Kan., saya: i
"My foot and leg to my kneo was a
running sore for two years, and physl*
.-at. -------- * Aftgp
clans said It could not bo cured.
I taking fifteen small bottles of S. S. 8 j
there is not a Bore on my limbs, and I '
v —>figwlea8eonllfe. Iamscveuty*
s old, and have had my age
i renew* 'At least twenty years by the
use of
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