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THE MACON TELEGRAPH: THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2T, 1804.
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I Cur correspondent nt Quitman *U1«1
tin tfsho course of tils dlspatcho. ytMtor-
yflay .tliat "'Hi, people of Brook* county,
[ins a Tula, deplore tiio killing of the do-
fcrooa and retain! it is fraying bem
;%t i get? wWitoue irevoretton. The fad*
•xppair to l>o tliat tlio dcstooch k!l)<vl
wvere supposed. to know the whnrrnhuuut
*>f IVarwly tPlks, Inm'a nvunderer.
l®Uny people here my nhn-t they ■will
*» the> utmost dlonis to tariDg the
^•i-m who killed the negroes to trial.”
5 IWhsA our oomapondcsit my* Is, in
"jeffect, srt»t Is said by other oorrespon-
Steals ss to the Juattilmtion for the klll-
pin:; of thee, ncvpws. Mo doubt those
joarrospondcorts ull the -whole truth,
gll.'s men orero killed beanuse tiujy wore
^shoved to Iulto loaonrliedgs of -the hld-
J iw pUco of (t murderer frekmglng to
tlheir race. Thore Is no evidence that
, (till ay, in fact, knew tuna protomet the
mrmlerar. As a matter of fact, It Is
jolrnost oictatn that, having committed
}:' .r.roe, tho murdotysa followal tho
jBvuitpte of most of his kind end left
. ptlo country ss (last ss he could, if he
ydld, then the murdered negroes wore
rot guilty, even of the minor offense
X»r which they were euspootmd, and tutd
•Hone nothing to Deserve jnlnMhanaat
'Jrhn InshtUty of the pursuers of the
murderer, IHke, to And him, though
Wi«y numbered hundred* end searched
mnmgiettmUy In errery direction, makes
V utmost, coots in that ImmedlaCely upon
ith-i orurrmlsRlon of his crime ho loft lho
Inooixtty.
j The Ttflegtsph has sympathy tee the
tfsoling of ouitpsraUon by. which the
jpeigtilsas of wttuoh Mr. Haem must
hut beam animated, bemuse of the
manner of hie death at (he heals of s
Itvopi-bloss negro, -wWimrt hnvtng given
pt In any <waer provoked the fate Which
Overtook Mm, It Is enough to make
Itti-J blood of even. a. stranger boll, that
«*. goad Snd IhonorubD citizen, useful In
this oomnuuiUy snd deservedly level tty
hit. lisSsthbors, slmuld bo shot down on
«hu higfciwgy, -without warning and
Wabout nrovocotion, by a r.ctrro who
reamed la ocmmltttns bis ortmc merely
lho wish so estaMtah Ms repuhtMon ss a
'"tadmia." But wflMo -wti can nlaure In
ikhls (w>iw of exaspemtloo, we have
ho rympstdiy wOnutover tee the spirit
iwthdah led the mob to taka Wio live, of
(Innocent men tor no (wetter reason
fihan thole tthey -were negroes and shsit
was among their aoquahitiUK'ca.
Wo hope that our conwpondent Is
rlsht. and that Uha many cl a sens of
diaries county who wish to so* the law
a-lndiicatod and the rights of peaoeful
.olilaens malnttalned will oerwsvere in
i«!huir determination to so* Hurt the
^Sm-iubara of tho mob are bruustvt to
aouount in the courts tor tho periv-tra-
tlon of this crime. The moral offense
of trl-.ldh ahey era guilty t* very xratt.
-On cold blood stud acting alone, penhitpa
tuot ono Hlnefe mc-mbor of tho mob
eotihl joisetby have been guilty of It.
‘glut lesvtns tho moral question out of
(She aocount, and ooiuridorlng only the
wxfety and prosperity of tho conzmu-
'-titiy, It Is neceeatry (tint A curb should
be -put on tho mob spirit. M Is hnpos-
-rMi tfor any oonumuulty to -he pro*,
(tevo-.ie tn mhluh It hi hnonvn that men.
tube'ller Willie nr black, may be kilted
by a nuntber of tholr nelabbora acting
Koro-hor, and the anurdorera go un*
tpn .lehod. The glory of our ch-Hlza-
klon slid lie cornerstone la the utttvil-
l^InfneM of a good clUteti to abmlon
Ids mt-urul detdro to rritreea bW own
wring, and depend utmn the oourta
and the laws -and that Is to say, upon
the sense of luntlco of bis nelshbors—
wtien he believe* tju-W hie rlirtuta have
-bM invndod by any one. if it become
known of uuy o xnmulrvty that the pro-
jp'.t aro not nvVlinjt to refer euch quo»
Slone to eh* coucw. but wilt take ante
-tls ir hand*, to be settled «t ttie point
j«it tho Wtnohescer or the shotgun,
nu-utlona twtewren ehnm end tttrlr
gtelr .tvga, the wcaWl wig rroogntse that
tliat community is one tn which life
and the rights of property are unsafe.
JNVC only will ltomUrmnsa and capital
gr«M It. but ptottl oKlzens already
Khar* will, as eoon a* oonvcnlant, seek
In ether communities a safer place Be
Brt.
I • . affair (a Brooks county Is (l»
creditable, not onfy to that county
but to -the state, asst we bope Chat the
mats uitborttlr* win. to tha extent eg
t’i-1 .illllt-v, enforce the *a-w. and In
(wing #o manlfem tbHr abhorrence
nietbods which bave reaultod In
Ue n i-order of three innocent men.
» a PBouxana LvmoAmoN,
- The Augusta Chrcckt* say*:
* 1 Now It atrtkea ua that we are begin-
blng to see dayUcht ahead for the hog and
boniity farmer. Hera are dealers tn Xu-
g'-sta ready to handle train tor tha farm
er, and th. banka make adtnanees upon
II ia Valdoats a packing eatabtlahment
I* to ba atarud up which will cure dftr
hosa a day, w1U try out lot pound! of
tard In two mtnuua and wtdeh furalOta
a murtpid for all tha bags our fewasn
tn nbaUI the. xre too many bogs
offered for the capacity of the plant. It
will take very little time to enlarge It, or
start anotbor packing celnhllahment, so
that the market for the farmer's pork is
provided. Our livery stables snd mill*
and coirtmJjtnloa housee nro buying Ooor-
gta grain every day. Instead of getting It
from tint Weet, as they havo done In
former yenri."
It Is no doaht true that the excess!vo
devotion of Southern tflmmcns to cotton
has been due In some degree to the
difficulty -7t markutlnt; r.Uu-r ctbps.
T!ic fanner la (he W.ttt has boon, cer
tain that nt ary t'aaa ho carried wheat,
ar com, or hoet, or liny, to ttie market,
he -would find buyers eager to neka It
and pay (bo cash, able has not been
true in (bo South. (Hero itluo fanner
who brought snoh ertlcloe to market
was obliged -to rtearch far a purclmsfr.
Ttiero wus, la (bet, tto m-ttket for him
except in (ho general of that
term. There wns nobody In tho busi-
new of buying com and tt-tte and meat
Oat ttvi reusooi ithslt Ithcso articles svoro
gonorony supplied from- the West Tho
local supply mtas so mnaU as not to cre
ate X market. Tho change Indicated
In (ho ertniot from (tie Ohronlole’e nr-
tide which .we lisvo given .wo regard ss
a very hopeful ono. When It Is posel-
bio for (ho flouthcnn farmer (a And ns
ready and ns eogcr a market tot other
products os for cotton, it win be rosier
and more jwofltahlo for him so diver
sify Ills Agriculture. Wheat and corn
and hogs will be money crops, ns well
ss column. But (ho supply must econo
before 'the market can bo created, end
we hope ttnaitltha experience of tho lest
year with flvotsont cotton -will Induce
our farmers <u> produce ititit supply.
Tbcty <*tn bo sura diet after fl. little
while, if they bring corn, wheat, otc.,
to (he market, .tha t there will bo people
ready -to buy tbom-whofle business
will bo (to buy 'theinir-tind ho pay cash
for (hem ait tho hlghcrtt rate at which
there is a prospoet of prollt.
Major PJngreo of Detroit, Mich., is
a, not*bio figure In tNoditvwestern poli
tics. During the Inst (hreo or four
years be hoc flgural as itilto inoet sensa-
tloual of 'Michigan poUtlolans. But ho
sooms (o ba In (ho unhappy omo of n
man who having sought for fomo lias
acquired notoriety. But Ihoufji Mayor
Btngxeo is notorious os a politician, bo
has tils rights ss a man, land (he Tele
graph, which has rooonitjy -unintention
ally done him on Injustice, is wudy to
undo it «s tor M pomlbto when re
quested (o do so. A few days ago tho
Telegraph prldted a su*y sent ouit In
the press dl^patchc* to the -effect -that
Mr. FJngreo bad poisoned two (too car
riage horaes to save (be cost of feeding
them during (he winter, end. in fivror
of a general slaughter of homos in
Michigan, TVs havo received a letter
from Mr, riucrco, in nvhlch he dc-
nounova UUs atory «s a base tobrlcn-
tloo, send In .which he gives tho clr-
cumtMaiuvw under Which ha did actu
ally chlorefottm Itiwo liorem ibdkxiging
to him. Tlicy were old and InAnm, ono
of (hem twenty-nine y«xra oil, anil tho
other unaWo to walk, nod his purpose
was to relievo Mioim of a mtscrablo ex
istence in,(bo kindest why.
SHORT TALKS
WITH MANY PEOPLE.
Christmas night in the Tologniph’a
oompemtug room.
tflug No. -1 to imkeutp—“You say, the
Oluluoso iMvmtetl fliunrackeraj"
Mnko-up—'"Yes."
(Slug 4—"Then 1 libpe llio Japs will
•wipo every d-d one ot shorn from the
to on of the canth."
"Icoal travel over tho Southern luis
boon very linmy fan the past Tow
days," wild Mr. Alcoy tomo yestenluy.
‘This, of oouree, is nl»no«t wholly due
to (ho boll,lay seanm. It is nlwsys
huge during CbrlHtnins week, lint lias
been immiuBj taiw>i this y.vir. Wo
are not currying soy great number of
through l*»*»isigers Just yet, but this
ulus* of buslnow w-lU njutorinlly pick
up In -the Heart, few itijw. Tho oiKMiitig
of mveml btg hou-ls I n Florida .will nild
to our (Mwlnoit*, -while Uie extremely
■"hi Wrttiher in die fs'orth will make
many pcvvple hurry down this woy."
I sa w Bob Jamison on tho otreet tho
other day und enkol him nviiat ho knew
hIkwio -the Dixie Intcratute Fx 1 r,
•'Well,' hosa'.n, “I don’t know anything
about It. But there are * good many
pooplo In the auto of Ucbcgln tha’t
seem tie think that I do. I am nlmoat
delly receivin'* IvUera sskln* when
tbs prouplum* will bo paid *n,l -when
Uie dTlonuu will bo lusu :J, and ss very
tow oS them encloso sts-nins ter reply,
tt Is no snvall (ax fer poatags. M
By tho way, wliat la the rroaea throe
dtplemna ivuiimb be liMutil? There U
as mudi an cMIgatlen there ns there Is
for tho money premiums, atul ns they
hive (ho dli4onws on hand and tho
{tuna have Ihvw mid tor, wily should
those end tied to tinau not reeciva (That
lw-notlt (hoy inoy derive from them.
What say (he gen demon of tha Ma.-.vn
JtXPDSklon Cempanyt Buwsvrofl they
here to gv> Just a little Into thoj pock-
ott tor tbs small cost.
One of the moat autistic actors In the
comedy of "Docrus," preeautMl at the
Academy of Mwte last emtong, was
T. Aldrich libber, tha fernutx high bar
itone, to srkroe stngli*! was dun the
IxviMiUrlty of "Jtftor lho Bait,” “Mol-
He’s the Olrl tor Me" and the “Old
Broken Gate." Mr, IjUBey’s Binging Is
moat remarkable, hi* roico being per
fectly sympathetic and ouWrated to
the highest degrea One of Mr. Ixb-
bey’a hit* toot errentng mm "The BereaP
-va Melody," a song written und com-
ptamd (ty hlmaelf. It Is a One eoog and
was tMauxlfuhy snug. Mr. libhey’s
new {-mg, which h« -will take up In a
few weedos, Is tori tied “Onmradro
sun." and was smtton by FWix Mc-
Olennon. who wrote the tong about
“Oonuudee" betore they bemme “etlU."
Many Maooa people heard the eoog. I
roidesatand that Ur. lAhbay la tn lead
a muetoal coznady company of hla owu
next setaon. H<* wife, Mis Kata
rraynr, will ptay hating eonbretto
role* with him. She la a (nlcntcd young
woman and played die role of “ Dor
cas" Tory chanrangjy tost night.
That ores a mighty mean thief who
entered Oapt. lVrrotfa room ut his
hoaidrag-hoUH* the caber ot&rt tuvl
stole all ot to* clothe* except one pair
of font* end a tost samnfcr'li Straw ba*,
btJtnoaym In lho -wodQ oould zxko each
a rulamity caalcr than Copt. 1‘arrott,
and wbca bo appeared on the tetreet
next day wearbig u straw hat and his
friends begun chatting him he would
pretend to wipe the petaptrahon from
lMs brow und protend thoX he wu# wear
ing It bocauso tho wtakher wss hot.
But to mo (he captain told the story
of how tt happened, (laid ho: "Lt was
about 3 o. in., and I wus pcuorfully
dreaming (bat cotton was nrorth 111-3
com*. I’rcecntly I beard Hie da>r of
my roam gently squrok, and, without
opealng my earn snd still half nslsep,
I hnlf dnamort, half thought tint some
kind frioid'wpn iwepariiig to do the
Santa Ola us act by leaving mo a check
for n. hundred or lining uiy good sock
with free silver, so I Just lay (here anil
lot (hem go ahead, thinking that If he
saw rue looking at him ho would run
away and leave me nothing. Finally,
bowovor, iwhon I Judged lift was leav
ing (he room, J divl.ded to take Just
ono squint ftt bun ho as to knmv who
Huch e kind friend -was, but, bless my
soul, InKtead of a -friend I Kiw a big
black mgro dlsxppcnring tfirougli tho
dnorwny with every nag of clothes I
hnd. Tn nnotticr (moment I mas in hot
pursuit, but (he coon hod tho start on
mo ami got nmtiy. Ha dropped one
pair of pants, however, anil, fortunate
ly, my BpeotsclCH ware In the pockot
Yes, ho got my overcoat, two suits of
clotbm, -my hat nrul sen-oral other nntt-
clro of a.p|Kircl, Jsrt left no old doitby
hat (hat did not bdlong tn me. This
old straw Is a little out of smson, 1 ad
mit, but I want to -maloo (he !>oys think
I nm wearing lb for comfort.” Tho
thtaf has cot Iwen captured.
ANTE-BREAKFAST SMILES.
ti
let tbe aims be lofty _ »
"Wbidh anlmaie your aoulj
H?Kh am the etar of evening—
(Hlxh OB tho price of ccel.
—Betrolt Free Press.
Ho—Darling, *wlll you loye me when
I’m gone? She—Yea, If you are not <00
far Kone.—DOttidon Tid-Bltfl.
'A'-contemporory speaks of the lag
cw commiUeePs ’‘herculean kick. well.
Isn't this the Hcaeon of the missile toe?
—New York World.
- Johnny—Pa, what in rmmnt by an
author’ll fugitive pieowi? Pa—Tho
pieoee th*at g&t away with his time
and money.—nBoeton" Transcript.
Angry Patooair-Thoro'H at least a
couple of pounds of b6ne tn this nJ-
leged steak. Waiter (genially)—Oh,
well, sir; no “extra charge lor that.—
Chicago'’Record.
called to &ee (Mrs. Grimm and ehmv
her my now Mi" “Did she ask you
Uiefpilco <>t mV 9 “No.” “Dear me, I
■wonder what ubs Is offended iibout.’’—
Chicago Intcr-Ocenn. »
Th Landlady—I’ll (have to npotoglzo
for {lie presence of grounds In the cof
fee this morning. New Boarder—It’s
too w«Tk to stand) tho strain, I sup
pose.—Buffalo Courier.
“I really heard," ecrid 4ho major of
a: man who eoM hi* vote for a gallon
of whJeky.’’ “Shocking!” • "Yc*. If the
suffnage of a free-born American citizen
is not worth a barrel, smash, my bea
ver 1“—Atlanta Constitution.
Mrs. Watts—What doe® this paper
moocK by saying that Col. Bluegna.su
iMtibited at »the banquet 15 hla profes
sional capacity? Mr. Watts—As near
as I can figure dt tout, the colonel’s pro-
•few»IonaJ capacity* is about three
quarts.—Cincinnati Tribune.
“ LITERARY NOTES.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons of New York
will mwrrr jiave ready, and put on sale
a work entitled “The Currency ann me
Banking Lawn of Canada!.” It is tho
work of William C. Cornwell, whoso
address on Canadian banking currency
three yours ago ut New OikBM seems
to.(havo had its effect on the minds of
American ban kern and caused them
to cxumlno tho Canadian K>*stom. This
Is evidenced by tho fact that at their
convention at Baltimore lout Septem
ber itho Latikern drew up a scheme for
a new—curranoy law. Tho book will
doubUees provo very iutereetlng read
ing to every person who feels as in
terest in tho country’s finances.
The Christmas number of the South
ern Churchman* Abuued at Richmond,
Va., o^.the 2lsC' waa Oxe moat credita
ble holiday ir^uo ever made by a
South-rn church pupcr. Tins Southern
Churchnmn Is tho oldest church paper
In the United States, having been
founded in 1835. It to distinctly an ex
ponent of tho Episcopal church in the
South, and should prove & welcome
REINCARNATION.
For tlio benefit of tho«o unacquaint
ed with the Thcosophio meaning of rc-
incarnattc«n,"Tlld subject of this article,
tl\o writer will explain; It Is tho idea
of re-birth. It teaches that man la bom,
liven, learns, suffero und dlc«; paiws
through n period of rest in a spiritual
state and Is reborn dnto tho world to
Uve, lt*ir» and suffer again.
Tho Idea, ulthough new to the West
ern world. Was taught and believed by
ohe philosophic xnimls and aagiti txf nil
aiRMt fUttcOS by Jesus and his apos
tles, and from tlien on down through
the early Christian,* mediaeval and
modern times, thero lived many (great
acuta well versed ia mystic loro anil
ocoult wisdom who avowed it to bo the
ono ruy from tho light of truth capable
of dissipating tho almost impenetrable
darkness in which the life of man Is cn-
ahrouded.
The following me a few oO^the ar-
gumenls on whloli tho belief is based,
and which may auggvet a line of rea-
i*>nlng by w'hdoh the investigator will
bo able to satisfy (himself us to tho
probable «truth or fallacy of Urn doc-
trlive. In common .with all other reli
gious bcdM, Lh.«o anters teach tha t man
Ja mi infinite being, that he never was
not, nor shall he ever hereafter owise
to be. That the degree of eensdousnss
be hem gum-tl, the familiarity he
ovJnoee hi the \we Of his different of-
gsuw*. of sense, of locomotion, of Vu*>r
aqd front tho carhest years of Infancy
the intuitive possession of scientific.
msMhanivxil and sirtistio <cnowledgo,
that K ts not potMhte for Mm to have
gained In the few short yean* of hm
life, oould only have been gained by
nwtiy lives on earth. That tho present
perfection of th*» human animal, vivi
fied an decontrolled by the mind, is an
cvtAilkn w from the lowest forms
of Mfo—an evolution occupying count
less ago* of tlm \
They olao aver that lt Is the tendency
of nature to repeat her aotk^rs, at*?
nate activity and Inactivity, exhaustion
and iveuperation; night fio&lown day,
winker auramcr, with hahituiti regulari
ty, a tendency thut is a law Infallible
aivt unalterable, a law from whose
operation neither any part of nature
nor man ia exempt. He posses through
a period of activity on earth, of min
gled joy, Borrow, hardship or «u*\ of
kvwoivgi\ - fcn^ l^Sor. gnowTTtbre-gatfiKlif
oxpericncea, emMng eoTT-conuclouanew
fnan ^ootiaobxisncta until at test, re-
hved t>>' d«ith. ho enters upoQ a peri'll
of rret and recuperation, mwimllatlng
tile knowledge gained in his recent
earth life and pr-.iaring fon re-bArth.
finally entering quo another period of
actin^r. thus fulfilling the law of
ettusattaaa in every detail; expiating
the ofret-ri of post caua^a realising
former ideals and aspirations, tnarut*
ing part isutox and Ci<uau* new ones,
reaching out toward etill higher Ideals
and aonxiftaf still loftier aspirations,
praam* onward toward his flrail ItK'ra-
tlan, toward the goal which these ffc-ta-
teni penolajm (a perfection, the toi-
premocy of spirit attained through suf
fering, gome, mortiflcstiirvn and crud
fljdon during many Uvea on many
giobce of the now purified good man
A JWitf-oormdrrun bdng, pom^med of
divine knowledge, of God-like attri
butes, the pilgrim return'd to hla own
from which he shall go out no more
The logic, the grandeur, the sublimity
v a, .'-n a conoepd.m ia beyond the
pow^r of human thought to grasp; It
affords a rwiHomble expianu-tiim of all
che seeming Injustice and inequalities
that exist among us, which maJTe <Tur
few short years of life an eternity of
pate; farmer obstacles sink Into trifles,
Ilf©* JuRfizon before us and behind us
is lost ia eternity. With expanded 000-
sdousn-^e and renewed courage Je«t us
press on, lending aid *to tho weflk and
assisting the fallen brother to regain
•diat^whloh he haa lost F. T. S.
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Tirade be»tJweeni Franco and. Algiers.
WJiicJi In 1830 amouted <0 12,000,000
.franca and In 1850 to 74.000.000. had
riseni it> 418.000,000 francs In 18&3.
fiomti erf Una London papers nra get
ting ready to publish an early edtion
whJdh may neadh all ImiporfajH places
in the provinces In dime for breakfast.
ThdDuko of Argyfle is engaged to be
married again, according to the Realm,
ot which Lady CoUit Oumpbell is ed
itor, atois time to a canon’s daughter.
HJn late wife was tlie daughter of a
blsfiop.
In a murder itrial at*Dl«seldor/r hutely
4he Jury,after being itxeked up, made Mb
way out through a window an/1 went
lb a saloon, where it agreed on a ver-
d-lcJt. The result is un. BCKPMft tfor a new
trial.
0 to to •
At tho onefliundred'th (panfonmance of
Wagner’s ’Mteaterslnger” at <4ie Resridn
opera house, which occurred recently,
Ilcrr Btitz, the “Hans fiachs,” was the
only memlbtea* left of itho cast of the op-
onai when it wras given tfcxr the first time
in 11870.
• • • •
Golf, On Whs (report af 1the Chinese
officials nenlt tto InvestlgatJo *the game as
it has Ibeenj takJcn up by 'the English
ctum/immities in Ohlmo, is Whe chase of a
HtJtile magic bullet with dubs. The
bullet, when ttiho pUiyiem get power over
lit, disappears in a email hole.
RIfitoil’s son; aiancherio Gtorgi Capra-
nlca de* Grillo, was reotofly married nt
Rome. It Is Owenity years now since
tho actress, now 74 years odd, withdrew
from llhe stage, itlhougn efJie (has ooca-
rJonally rdiippeared to perform “Lady
aiadbclth.”
In six mon'ihs of bullfights this year
In Madrid alone, iBeflve men were dan
gerously -wounded and uwo killed, one
of them the flumoun espada, Espartcfi^.
During 'two same period irour other bull-
ThJ*3 merit's of a ne.w fco-ke furnace otf
novel aiid interesting oon^trucition have
been tho subject of rihnsflttentbie inves-
ttfgajtioni (by ortgiinSedliB abroad—an Inven
tion wrldoh, tflrom rt;he various aooounCs
puWJShol In tthe foreign fournais,
would eeem likely to creato a decided
departure iln tthe <coke-makIn.g industry.
It is describe<l ns a revefiberaUng f ur
nace, capable of producing ooto? from
a coal very murih Inferior in quality ito
wh'aJt has generally (been used for die
(purpose, and, tn the matter of cost, the
now method Is saidi to show hn econ-
on>y of 60 cents par ton, as compared
with Wie cast required by ordinary
means. Some of (the largest and most
Important cautery companies, lt to suid,
one laying down, -tllieee now f urnaces.
• • • •
A very notable achievement in meftaJ
working processes was announced ce-
oonKly by Itho veloolpedle car company
of Throe River, QIlch. t in the pnoduc-
tkxm of ttho wheefls of handcars from a
single sheet of steel, with clocidedC ad
vantages Ini nhe result. A sheet of tfhe
proper ihlokness «to dnsure aufllcleni
trengnh 4b Shleareid <o circular phapo,
and putinf through a eerlee of forma-
tlw prooeases, to bnotqbt to the desired
shape, Itihc cetiiter being corrugated for
thio puiqpotfo of securing ineneaeed stlfr-
ness. A hub, droptfbrged from a single
pl«oe of Houghened steel, to then riveted
In place, whdeh operation completes Itho
whwl. Tho result to a wheel of excep
tional lrghtneee, ua well ns aticngtib. and
a distinct addition to itho artlolefc made
In this line.
• • • •
The Maine Sportimens’ Fish and
Gamo tVseocioJttoin to agiftfiitAng a chkmin
in ttho laws relating ito fidh and game
In rthat Bttoitc. at Is wuggestvxl (that it
shall ibe manic unlawful to kill a cow
moose alt any time or a moose wilhout
horns or a spike-homed moose. In
creased (penalties for violations of tho
game laws, and heavier penalties for
'tiho dogging of deer are aJtoo urged. The
asHOcAaitilion also suggetsta that tho
amount of minion or trout to bo takpn
by any one angler be reduoed from,
fifty Ito twenty- five poimda, and that
each hunter be reanrfeted to the klUlnuf
of one Jbut] moose, onto buck deer, and
ono doe. {0t to estimated that the nor
mal number of deer In uM.iiinc nmounin
to 12,000. Of Whece about 5,000 are killed
«di year. With a irltte more prottec-
tion lt to eeltl malted that »;he increase of
tho number erf deer iwKLl be gradual and
contain.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN.
Fact or Fiction About Two GroaJt Fair
Awards.
Newspaper paragraph, denounces ns
“false”.the cloton of.® Qxiklhg powder
oocnpan yto on oiwtttd at nhe World's
Fair. ‘What can tt mean?
Certainly not Dr. Prices. Why? Be
cause, as the records show. Dr. Price’s
exhibited, competed and received tho
highest vwnatt ,bbth. at Chicago and the
California. Midwinter Fair. Tho award
In California Included gold medal. The
official «*x>a.mlnors pomounced it
the strengytot, W»o purest, the most
wholOBomo and efficient of all t-he
bak+ug yrfowders. Its tk&6 to confidence
is unquesti»m*ed.
Can it he the manufacturers 6f a
New York powder fictitiously labelled
•Absolutely pure” who aro making
“false” vflaJms? That would be B^rcliige,
Indeed, inasmuch us they were not
even considered in the awards.
Was it nmrnonfa. in the New York
powder that prevented Sts milkers
from competing? If cot what?
ROMANCE OF ARNOLD SABLE.
Arnold' liable, said to be of Louisville,
has brought suit in the courts of New
York to recover the llon’ii shari? of h
large estate. In the affidavit Mr. Sa
ble tells n romantic story of how he
come to cktttn a million or more dollars
left by a man who ho* bMQ known in
Paris for ta*enty years past os “tile
Sugar King." This man, before the
war, was^i'tiouthem planter and made
a great fortune in LouUlazm raising
sugar cane and cotton.
When the war broke out Alexander
Piyue, the eugtir king, t^mvorted a
great part of his plantation in gvMd
and railed ior Europe, with a wife hikI
three daughrors. Ills plantation man
ager took cliorge of what remained oi
the estate ami worked it t\+r many
years. Ifto.son to now In charge, the
property being 'located a fesnYulos up
Th*‘ MtoeMss»i>pl Valley and easy ot ac
cess to New Orleans. Mr. Sable ex
pects to prove tint he to the lawful
owner <Of Sou thero pkvntulon and
a greevt more eff vakutbfe property
left by thtr sugar king in rarto.
Th< augur king wns killed on a moun-
tain-clfmbmg expedition tn the Alps
about five years ago. His three daugh
ters^ <wo of them married to. Austral
ian ncNemeo arid the third and young-
cot being the wife orf a French artist.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Absolutely tore
also claim the estate left by their la
ther. „
dir. Sable, in his affidavit, alleges
that he is the omly lLgilimaRj"Stm'of the
late 'sugar king. He declares that his
mother met Mr. Payne In New Orlodns
and married him thirty-seven years
ago. She wjs the daughter of a the
atrical manager of that. city. Her pa
rents were lost In a steamer that left
New York for New Orleans about 1859.
Her Either used to make regular trips
to Ne\V YOTk, to Either together com
panies o‘f players for hi« New Orleans
theatre, there being no railroad so far
South those days.
Mr. Sable goes on <to say that Mr.
Bayne met bis mother and legaJIy wed
ded her in Now Orleans; Chat he wan
bom and was the only offspring of the
union, and that ithe three women in
Europe were illegitimate children cf n
slave who was -born on Ms fither’s
plantation. Then the affiduwlt goes on
to say:
“On my father’s pOan^itton was born
a girl of negro extraction In part. She
was th'.» daughter of a fuIl-bloal»d ne
gro woman and a white man, the su
perintendent of the plantation before
my father came into Ms possession.
This mulatto girl was about 28 y?&rs
of ego when my mother married my
father In New Orleans and took up her
home on the pjanta-tkm. After I was
born, I learned from letters -letft by my
moher's sister, who died la New Or
leans two years ago, that my father
proved unfaithful, and my mother dis
covered his Infatuation tar tho slave
gfrf. She wrore my aunib that she
was determined 13o leave lilm end re
turn to Now Orleans. Before she could
do this, though, I was stolen from joy
mother’s apartments, undoubredly bv
the slave girl's mother, who was aid
ing her daughter to fascinate my
father. „ .
”My mother employed detectives and
In documents I have recently secured
from my aunt’s counsel in New Or
leans I am fu r .ly convinced ths plan
was to destroy my (life. Mv failier and
mother eira-nated—my another goir;g to
New Or Wans, where She died nt my
aurr’s 1 < me in 1865.
“.My cunt, after spending a greater
part of her little fortune left by my
grandfather on any another's side, dis
covered that I had been carried to
Louisville, Ky., by n Jewish peddler.
This yedd er, who .adopted <no into his
family, and whoso name I now bear,
had traveled for seven'll years through
out the ttoiMhern states with a pack.
ITe made affidavit an to all the facts
concerning hto adoption of me, and
closely ptoveld that the mulatto girl
had bribed him *to carry me off. alleg
ing tliat I was her Illegitimate off
spring. A superintendent on my fath
er’s -plantation <aVao hhs recently given
mo evkienoo of my Identity, If more
such wns needed.
4 'I have convincing proof that imv
tflaltfher inatnUloa Rfela mulatto «lrl in mv
nnbtihoT’fl aoartmento amd that threo
ohlldnon. rill ri-rls. were bom of hto un
holy urilcm. mv imathier not havtac been
divorced or logallv iMIltM. _
■MV. Sable then ooritinues with «. ttxn«
staitrrcnritJ taHvUmg proof of his birth and
the desertion erf hte mother by hto farth
er. (He «uvs ithat at *tihe close of vne
iwsir his father Was living in Baris wvth
his three daughters and his wife,
whom ho had educated In thlo Rncuvsn
Qanucuage. . , , .
In Parisian circles the Bugar kmg off
Louisiana was bellevorl to have wedded
r iSoanJtoh -idrl in New Orleans. ~ His
dxusrWfcem’ beau tv ibeca/mtoi ithe talk of
the highest circles in Europe, fund «t
W’aa not long before two of tthem warp
hamxllv married. Tbev now live in Vi
enna. arid more 1n itho bettt social cir
cles. The names of these 'two women
have «not been brouehit Inlto <Che case
Vet. tho Child daughter putting In ithe
defenae. Her husbaud. who to a lead
ing wirtralt loain'ttor tait Lvtxns. to said
ito ibo on Itho OOtnt of coming to this
country to clear ut> lito wife’s narent-
age. (Ho Is a memiber of a Parisian
family tif roromlnonce. and Ids relatives
are asking him to divorce hto -wife.
iHla (first atot) «to bo made rn n. logal
way wi ll bo >a rndtion ttxv Lojwver Mur-
Phiv. 9m the United Starttoa courts, to re-
Btinadn ithe augar kinig’s danighbere from
oam-onting the Qoilthom (plainta/aon into
c.'uh or In auv wuv dtooosing of tholr
dathlar’B estate until other aotionn can
be brought to ©rove itho lecaiiltv of tho
claihn of Arnold Sable.
’Mr. Sable’s name cannot be found in
the oPtv dlroatory. a®wl nothlg could be
learned about him last night-—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
DRAWBACKS OF A SLACK EYE.
It Inspires Humor and 1 Brings Varied
btificry Upon Ita Owner,
Unfortunate, Indeed, to the lot orf the
young mtm with a (black ctye. In addi
tion to the fact that Dt to black and
wtfEI prevent his appearance in refepeert-
able Boderty for a time, aro the many
explanations which he brie to Invent Cor
Che curious who want to know how he
got it Then Ihc has to dUamd no end of
banter!my, insinuating smiles, hypocrit
ical Bjinpathy, and Jthe sutures erf men,
women and children wherever he goes.
The young man in fids case got his
b'Juck ctyo la tohe manner In wftticlt the
general pubiife believes 999 out of 1.000
black eyes are received—that is. from
the fist ot another young man dellvnered
straight out from (the shoulder. At the
rime he received it there waa no meana
of retterf at hand, and he -was in no
condition to «vk It after receiving Uhii
blow that began a new course tn as
tronomy -fior him. -So the went home and
comtenfcTU hinuti&f wlith a&xplylng hoaxed
to it for the host of the night. JM
lived ‘In a boarding house, and -when ho
went down 10 breakfast In the morning
he wore a handkerchief hound itlghrtly
ftTound his head. «o ae to conceal Gie
black aye. This did ubt pravtot the
bcu-rders from Inquiring in unteon:
“Wtere did you get ihat black «ye?'
Tlie young than Hushed crimson, and
on he looked amuiul the grkunAng crowd
ho saw (tia/t he would hawe to tail a
pretety stmlgh-t etory.
“I don’t know wtKiither iVo black or
not. he atorormnrd, “a-Giough It foeto
as Vt 0c wns. You Bee, I gok m late last
night, und in 'the darkness diumMed
agalnirtt the tent rack. I didn't like to
wake anybody up, and just pvit some
hot whiter on it”
“Why didn’t ybu hk the hat rack
firat?” asked, cos 1 ! orf the skeptic*.
“I fried to, but— 1 ”
‘Tho scoundrel got the drop on you,”
put in another boarder.
“W’eM, he did. hurt—”
“I Buprttse he’s gait a pair orf ’em.
eh?”
"W'eH, *: here’s no use denying Ift, fiei-
lowu,’’ whimpered the young man. “I
old have a run-in with a gang, but
they w*re five 10 one. and after I had
knocked three of tiuVn down -the other
two <*'ii M me ajnd ihat onded It. 6ay,
what’s good to take.U right away?”
“Let’s oee It,” demanded the board
ers. and the young man was forced to
undo rhe btradsge. Ho dtoctawed a
swollen mam co the right vide of his
face whtah rivalled a Thanksgiving
Lxx-ba!| fleM ter.' coloring. In tbs cen
ter a guity kttie pupk of an eye tlaHhid.
MiirTnumlml t>y toe crimson of Harvard.
Snadlng off bn. toe oheek was che or-
tunge bu(mounted by black ombl«*ntuic
of Pitoxxon. whSe too blue of Yolo
was prolccninam.
“A «r.n{>o(4um orf college ot4ors.’’ cried
ana uf the (bctitdera. Suggestions Cor tv
fe*f were then in oilier.
“Try a piece of raw beef.” was oae.
“Or a nw oyster.” win another.
“Hot waAer and extract of witch bar
zel."
"Epsom oalU and hot vrater will take
dhc biooitorijit omt of -the eye.”
"Have it painted.”
“No; havo li out-with a trazor and let
ft 'Meed.”
“Giek a leech.”
The jKoaorfinan carefully nofed oil the
suggestions, and ae a dlet?u«5lon arose
about the m»v>t cfilcaoi'out4 remedy, de
cided lo visit a black e>X’ doc'.or. Atv:r
nil thet fbi>arder» had gone he bnndaced
up his eve and went. in. search of one.
“Noa r , itf you h:td only come to me « n
soon as you received It, I could have re
moved it dn an hour aind a ha«f.’’ said
the black eye apcotolfitt, “Or if you had
come within twenty-four hours ntfb r-
wards, I ntigCA have a ctianoeof remov
ing h. As 1)L te. It witi take a -week."
The young man had hik» eye washed
and (bathed *for a oxtiple of hours wy.«h
hot water and lotions a<nd ileclaned u.km
he (Mt batter. The swiling was re-
duccnl aomewhaK, and he it'hough't 'that
With the heto of .a iltitie fle«h jpulrn and
CLffioio white he could face his hefjt
girl that >e\'ening. tJurely. he thought,
she would believe any etfory he to'.d
atwu't ik. But she was a.t> skeptical a.j
tho rec^, and after fltotetntaft ito hto plaIn
ti vo story aJbout his encountor witli the
haft rack, raid: ‘
"Now, really, Charles, who did i't?"—
New York Bun.
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