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I THE MA003ST TELEGRAPH: MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1894. THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR AND WEEKLY. Office 569 Mulberry Street. mis DAILY TELKORAPli-Dsllvered by carriers In (be city, or mailed, postage tret, 69 cento * month; 11.55 for thru monUiii Sue tor olz months; V tor one 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. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. (THE TELEGRAPH-Trl-Weekly, lira- days, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuts- days. Thursdays and Saturdays, three month*, tl; six months, 12; one year, tt DUE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH—By mail, ons year, ft , {THE WEEKLY TELEOBAPH-By malt ona year, 11. SUBSCRIPTIONS—Payable In advance. Remit by postal order, check or regis tered letter. Currency by mall at risk of sender. COMMUNICATIONS should Da addressed and aU orders. Checks, drafts, ate., mads payable to THE'TELEGRAPH, Macon, Om PUBLISHER’S NOTICE. hre being revised end to arranged at to insure prompt and early delivery. The recent changes caused by October remov- uie at eubacrlbers end a targe addition to the list hava caused some trouble among the carriers. Subscribers will pleaao notify us when they tall to rt- celve their paper*. 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. 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