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VOL. XXVII.
ILL FATED AUTHORS.
Writer* Whose Works Proved Their
Own Death Warrants.
In times gone by monarchs gave
short shrift to the authors of books
that offended them. The Bourbons,
for instance, did not scruple about
paying assassins to “remove” those
writers, such as the gifted Paul
Courier, whose works displeased
them. Nor did the great Napoleon
hesitate at all in shooting or hang
ing tho unhappy author who crossed
Ms path.
On one occasion ho executed the
publisher—one named Palm of
Nuremberg—of a book attacking
him because that individual refused
to disclose tho name of its author.
A terrible fate befell a nineteen
ypar-old authoress of a poem which
was read by no other person than
its writer, a lady of the Empress
Elizabeth of Russia’s court, and the
e/mpress herself. This was Vera
ij’askin, who satirizing wrote about 200 lines
of verse tho empress’
vices.
tjhe In youthful pride and imprudence
tine girl showed the manuscript to
of the court ladies. To curry
f avor with the empress this woman
showed it to Elizabeth, who there
ppon ordered Vera Paskin ?o bo
(cruelly knouted and banished for
Kife to Siberia.
I A poem has even brought about
jthe land-too. death of James its writer, I. and tho in offend- Eng
was
fed monarch, John Williams the
jpoet. Williams, for safety, inclosed
[the [them verses to the in king, an iron who, box always and fear- sent
ling [conclusion assassination, jumped to the
that the box was none
[other When than the an infernal of the machine. real
news nature
of the box’s contents leaked out,
however, James grew so angry at
I the jeers that were leveled at him
from all parts of the kingdom that
he had the unfortunate John Wil
liams hanged, drawn and quartered.
;—Pearson’s Weekly.
A New York Street.
[ “If you ever hear a person brag
ging about his knowledge of New
York streets just ask him to tell
you where Old Broadway is and see
what he “I’ve says,” tried said a man the about
town. it for last
year, and ninety-nine out of a hun
dred will look at you in -amazement
and think you’ve lost your senses.
When I tell them there really is
such a street they begin to guess,
and every guess is in the downtown
district and generally in tho vicin
ity of West I Broadway.
“When tell them that Old
Broadway begins at Manhattan
street and runs north for five
blocks, stopping at One Hundred
and Thirty-third street, they aro
surprised. I’ve tried this with per
sons living within a few blocks of
this street, and the name is just as
much a surprise to them as it is to
others. Every one seems to think
Old Broadway is simply a New
Yorker’s affectionate way of speak
ing of his famous street and can’t
believe that the name really ap
pears on any street corner.”—New
York Sun.
Flowers and Scents.
“Identically the same scent,” says
a writer, “may occur in plants be
longing to widely different families.
For instance, the distinctive smell
of violets occurs also in the snow
flake, the stocks, a spurge laurel
and the blue water lily closely of the Nile.
On the other hand, allied
plants may emit scents differing
greatly in nature and appealing to
the tastes of different insects.
Among the spurge laurels one spe
cies smells of vanilla, another of
violets, another of lilac and yet an
other of cloves. Flowers which ex
hale the delicious smell of honey in
the comb appeal particularly to
bees, butterflies and the moths
which fly by day, as the humming
bird, the hawk moth and the gayly
colored burnet. The coarser and
more powerful scents of the haw
and elder are the special al
lurefftent of the beautiful green rose
beetle and other flower loving bee
tles, while butterflies leave this class
of scents severely alone.”
The Message That Came.
Professor Peepup was busily en
gaged with his massive new micro
telescope, making observations of
the movements of various planets,
when the shrill tones of a feminine
voice interrupted him. the
“Bless me!” muttered pro
fessor hastily. "I do wish I could
be left to study in peace. I shall
never be able to fathom this matter
of a message from Mars unless”-—
“Oh, hut it’s come, love!” said
his young wife, who was just run
ning to meet him.
“Come! What has come?” que
ried the professor in a dazed tone.
“A message from mar’s!” ejacu
lated the delighted “wifie. “And
mar is coming to stay with, yah us for
ever and ever. Aren’t glad,
Magazine., '
WAXMAKING INSECT.. j
A Novel Industry Pursued In a
Part of China.
At the far side of China, whero
it almost penetrates the secret of
Tibet and is itself very much of a
secret to the rest of the world, the
natives conduct an industry which is
novel in many respects and involves
a pilgrimage of great length every
year. It is the raising of insects
that makes wax. The wax is used in
many parts of China for making
temple images and candles covered
with odd raised characters.
The female insects are about the
size and shape of shoe buttons. The
males arc like miniature beets in
shape and a quarter of an inch long.
The insects have a peculiar charac
teristic. They will not secrete the
wax in their birthplaces. So about
May 1 of each year the wily Chinese
take them from the branches of the
trees where they were born and
porters carry them many miles away
across the mountains and rivers.
For hundreds of miles they are car
ried to a part of the ccfuntry where
grows the flowering ash upon which
they delight to feed and to deposit
the wax. There are thousands of
these porters in the province of Szc
chuen.
It is a strange procession which
strings out from the Chienchang
valley in May. Each porter is dress
ed in a rain coat of straw, which
makes him look very much like a
sheaf of grain. Ho carries two bam
boo baskets fastened together with
curved sticks. The sticks fit over
his shoulders, one basket being be
fore and the other behind. His bur
den consists of gourds containing
the insects. The ■females aro almost
ready to deposit their eggs. There
are thousands of insects in the
gourds from and wrapped in leaves picked
the wood oil tree.
It is nightfall -when the porter
sets out on his journey of 400 miles.
Ho carries in one hand a lantern,
for he must do all of his traveling
by night. The heat of the noonday,
sun might cause the females to lay
their eggs prematurely. Along the
rude roads he swings through the
night, his lantern flickering as it
sways to and fro. Now he passes
through a silent village or city with
out stopping. The gates have been
left open for his pa ssage in order ,
that there may be no delay. At
last over his right shoulder the hori
zon begins to grow light. The birds
are few tumbling out of their nests with
a sleepy notes. As he drags liis
weary feet along, the hilltop grad
ually brightens into a flaming red
and the birds are singing. Now ho
seeks out a cool, shady retreat,
where the basket may be protected
from the heat and ho himself may
curl up his tired limbs until even
ing. So the porter travels his lone
ly way night after night until he
reaches his destination.
His journey ended he immediate
ly goes to his master and delivers
his burden of gourds. At once the
leafy bags are tied on the branches
of the ash trees, which aro only five
or six feet high. A blunt needle is
pushed through the leaves in each
bag in order that the insects may
find their way out. Once they have
left their case they creep rapidly
up to the leaves of the trees and be
gin to feed. In a couple of weeks
they scatter along the branches, and
after a short time the eggs are
hatched and the wax is being de
posited on the twigs. By Sept. 1
the trees look as if covered with
snow. It is a snow, however, not
amenable to the temperatures which
wipe branches out ordinary snow. The
are then cut off and their
quarter of an inch of pure white
coating is scraped off. The wax is
heated, strained and turned into the
molds.
Besides being used for illuminat
ing purposes this wax serves as a
polish for furniture and is used for
imparting a gloss to silk. The in
dustry is said to have been originat
ed 200 years before Christopher Co
lumbus 6et his foot on this conti
nent.—New York Tribune.
Bacon’s Rival.
Two German clippings appear
among the items in a playwright’s
scrapbook. They are from a Vien
na paper dated January, 1889, and
the first one, translated, says:
“We strongly advise our rea djM
to see the amusing comedy,
Merchant of Venice,’ now beingj
formed at the Star theater. J J
author, we believe, is Orilipa
The second clipping says: j
ly “Mr. state Editor: in Sir—Will early issue you of %
valuable an that ‘The Merchant ydluj
paper
of Venice’ was not written by GrilK
parzer, but by me—William Shake"
speare.”
To this is appended an editorial
note:
“We were wrong, it appears, in
attributing ‘The Merchant of Ven
ice’ to Grillparzer, and wo trust Mr.
Shakespeare will accept our apology
and correction.”
The negro lias undounflM sl^H
very strong inclination to
the day and to spend the
gossip, dancing or singing. On
account lie is often a nuisance
his has neighbors, especially when
a wake. As' his home is often
nothing more than a single room
about eight feet square, the funeral
party is conducted in the open yard.
Here congregate 50 to 100 people,
who begin the entertainment with
hymns, going on after midnight to
songs and guliics and often winding
up toward morning with a free
fight. Then there is the cumfoo
dance, one of the finest institutions
in the world for producing night
mare. Two men beat drums with
the hands, the one instrument pro
ducing a tumtum and the other a
rattle rattle, almost without inter
mission during the whole night. At.
intervals of about a minute the par
ty utters a weird cry in some Afri
can language which startles you as
you lie in bed vainly trying to sleep.
As hour after hour passes your
house appears your* to vibrate, the bed
shakes and spine feels as if
made up of loose segments. How
can the drummers keep this up for
ten hours? And the dancers? With
the latter exhaustion alternates
with the renewal of the orgy. One
set falls down and another takes its
place. This and other dances are
connected with obeah, the witch
cult of the African.
Every negro and most of the col
ored people have an innate fear of
the obeah man, however they may
deny it to the whites. One of the
latest developments of this supersti
tion was brought to my notice in
connection with a cricket match.
The East Coast Invincibles and the
Admirable Creolians were to play a
match, and from a few words drop
ped by the captain of the latter it
appears that he was sure of victory
to his side because a notable obeah
man had oiled their bat.—Saturday
Review.
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Where Charity Begins.
The public spirited lady met the
little boy on tho street. Something
about liis appearan ch halted her.
,She_sfegr ^t him in : tsi- 4 )carsight
ed way.
The Lady — Little boy, haven’t
you any home?
The Little Boy—Oh, yes’m; I’ve
got a home.
The Lady—And loving parents?
The Little Boy—-Yes’m.
The Lady—I’m afraid you do not
know what love really is. Do your
parents look after your moral wel
fare ?
The Little Boy—Yes’ni.
The Lady — Are they bringing
you up to be a good and helpful cit
i-ZCn. ?
The Little Boy—Yes’m.
The Lady—Will you ask your
mother to come and bear me talk
on “When Does a Mother’s Duty
to Her Child Begin ?” next Saturday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at Lyceum
hall ?
The Little Boy (explosively) —
What’s the matter with you, ma?
Don’t you know me? I’m your lit
tle boy!—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Origin of Dollar Mark.
“Every American knows the
meaning of the dollar mark, but in
the urgent quest for that which it
represents few ever take time to
learn its origin,” said a hank clerk
the other day.
“After a careful search of several
books,” lie continued, originally “I have found
that it was the figure 8
and was first used to denote dollars
by Alexander Hamilton. This gen
tleman, it is well known, lived for
a number of years among Spanish
people, and it is from them he de
rived the use of the figure as a sign
for our dollar. In a Spanish dollar
there aro just eight pieces, and
when prefixed by a Spaniard to a
number it signifies so many times
eight pieces. The two lines were
afterward drawn through to disti i
guish it from other figures.”—N< JS
York Press. M
Miraculous Eggs.
A correspondent calls to
A incident in the life of rafl Prgij
V
nv
thc5H
rushed lmmc
had " 1
She found themfi
fresh, and the wizard
of his sovereigns.
ildhoodJ^M iat,
easi
number __ of deaths!
A child with whq.. J»^h
should be ns strictly isolated as if
he had scarlatina, and it is very
w r rong for a mothJpto take her in
fant with this discrase on boats or in
cars, where it is likely to carry in
fection to others. An older child"
should be allowed kept away from school
and not ?lueh to play with otlTer
children, except as have al
ready had-the malady.
It is usually easy to recognize
whooping cough after tho disease is
fully established, fbr the paroxysmal
cough, child’s going on and on and on until
the breath is all hut gone
and then succeeded by the long,
noisy inspiration, is unmistakable.
The disease n-ies so greatly in
severity in d ' Ant cases and in
different years that it has been sug
gested that it wo^ld fee be wise to ex
pose children to infectionGn a
year when its cou^e was mild. But
it is a very serious thing to expose
a child deliberately to the dangers
of any disease of this nature, for
even in a year of the mildest epi
demic an individual case hero and
there will be severe and even fatal.
When it is s d.tha! over seventy
drugs have been recommended in
the treatment ol whooping cough it
may be assumed that none of them
has been found very efficacious. This
is not to say that much, good may
not be obtained from certain medi
cines, such as qimmno and belladon
for example. ’ At the main
na, re
liance in the mans ( ;ement of a case
of this disease is f i hygienic meas
ures. Ij
Although fromjBjji tho j*y ient p|t must be
kept away and from
other childjtaSJiJyrJ'I Mon Igfjatse. no ac
count be • Fresh
air nvlitdKszSmmM £*! Hlgheit agents
air
'
coimti^Hii p....... u U t
the c, n 0 ? u ,' +
doors all day a “ , be forced , to
inhale dust and smcMe. In stormy
weather, when onefmust perforce
stay should indoors, all be the wide playroom fopen, windows and the
bedroom windows fhould also he
open. i
The food should be plentiful and
nourishing, ach rejects and whenever meal the the patient stom
a
should have another at once—at
least a glass of mitA and some bread
and butter.— Youth’s Companion.
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Color of the Pride’s Gown.
It is interesting; to note that the
choice of white fqtj wedding dresses
is comparatively a modern fashion.
The Roman brides*wore yellow, and
in the most eastern countries pink
is the bridal color., During the mid
dle ages the renaissance brides wore
net crimson, and Tudor and most^of qwivns our Plantage- married
were
in this vivid hue.^vhieh Brittany, is still pop- the
ular in parts of where
bride is usually d-essed in crimson
brocade. It was; Mary Stuart who
first changed the r olor of bridal gar
ments. At her marriage with Fran
cis II. of France in 1553—which
took place not before tho altar, but
before tho grhat doors of Notre
Dame—she was gowned in white
brocade, with a train of pale blue
Persian velvet six yards in length.
This innovation caused quite a stir
in the fashionable world at that
time. It was not, however, till quite
the end of the seventeenth century
that pure white, the color hitherto
worn by royal French widows, be
came popular for bridal garments
in England.—Church Eclectic.
Not Too Good For the General.
jtfHttblated BHtjgftH. he of GenerAJflfci JE–tS'S*’! ing
once
HPHONE.
Hfl^in ■KWr ft fser or batl.le
its full outfit of
big item Hags must be
an official of the na
^^H^rnink ^Jrtment of recently how remarked. vessels,
Mp; many
and small, there arc and that
BPsiy one has to be supplied with
250 flags, which have to be renewed
' every three years! The annual cost
is about $60,000, and a hundred wo
men are kept busy at the Brooklyn
• navy “The yard the year around.
. fiaborato * foreign flags are rather
as a rule, especially tho
American republics, and their cost
is consequently considerable. Each
ship must have forty-three foreign
flags ard constantly on board, the stand
size being 25 by 13 feet. The
cost of making one will depend up on
tho design. A simple flag, as that
of France, costs comparatively lit
tle, while to make that of Salvador
means just $52.50, it being a verita
ble landscape. China’s flag amounts
to about $40 and that of Costa Itica,
which runs to scenic effect, nearlv
$50.
“The largest American flag used
is 19 by 36 feet and costs $40. There
are eight sizes of the American flag
used altogether, apd they are less
expensive than the foreign flags by
reason of tho fact that they are
largely machine made. There is a
special machine that cuts out the
stars, stamping out 100 at every
stroke.
“Then there are the special flags
of the president, the secretary and
of the flag officers. That of the
president, while simple, means long
and careful work. This flag is a
blue field, with the arms of the
United States in the center. The
design is entirely hand embroidered
with the finest silk and requires a
month of constant effort.” — New
York Herald.
A Dangerous Cargo.
There was great excitement one
day sian some years ago at a small Rus
port on the Baltic. The cap
tain of a newly arrived foreign ves
sel was arrested for the alleged
crime of having attempted to bring
a laigWumber■ Ti* dynamite bombs
into the country J of the ezar. They
brought the unhappy man before
the judge, who happened to be one
of the few intelligent men in the
town.
“Where are the bombs ?” said the
judge.
“On board the ship,” said the po- of
lice. “There is a small cargo
them.”
“Go and fetch one,” said the
judge. said
“It is dangerous to touch it,”
the police.
“I cannot convict,” said the
judge, “unless I have the material
evidence. Bring me a bomb.”
With much trepidation brought and many
precautions they at last one
on a cushion of cotton wool. Tho
judge laughed a most unjudicial
laugh. eocoanut.”
“That,” he said, “is a
And so it was.
A Long Game.
In the summer of 1840 Henry
Clay went to Kentucky on his vaca
tion. Three nights after his arriv
al at a certain springs a sociable
game began. In the game were
Mr. Clay, Josiah Blackburn, John
Hardin and Sam Clay, a cousin of
the statesman. It began on Friday
night and ran along -with varying
luck. They were all old hands and
had tho nerve to back their cards.
At 12 o’clock Saturday night Black
burn quit a little ahead. He had
been married only two months and
was afraid liis young wife would
think bo was dead. Sunday morn
ing at 9 o’clock some one rapped on
tho door. It was opened, and a ne
gro girl stood in the hall. She bad
a clean shirt in her hand, and on
tho bosom was a note from Har
bin’s wife, “For Mr. John Hardin,
■tcrever lie can be found.” The
^P>r Kirdin was changed closed and liis play linen resumed. at the
e.
Turkey Buzzard.
■has taken the trouble
id
of
Hct lie is
UPr awkward L bald,
H ^J^klc his nature, seems to and have his
m
b simply atrocious. No
;ing bird will associate
NO. 22.
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FERTILIZER
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Why not patronize a home industry? We offer
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We propose manufacturing only the purest and
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and appreciated. Quotations will be furnished
on application.
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(Nights 7:00 to 10:30 p. m.
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RATES: Admission, 10 cents; rent of skates,
15 cents per hour.
A rate of 25 cents for the evening will be
given those who bring their own skates. s
Rate given School Children a 1
A Special will be
in the afternoon..
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Write me before obligating your crop the coming year, ul ' before
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H. S. WHITE, Attorney,
Sylvania, Georgia.
Money to Loan on Improved
^v,, Farming Lands.. f
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H *C~of i ^As t,he rapr^septative of still The negotiating Southern Mortgage loams J j
Atlanta, Ga., I am on
HKnproved farming interest lands in Screven county from at three six and to
1 seven per cent, per annum on
five years time. We have the cheapest money on the
market. It comes from the lender direct and no mid
dleman’s profits. If you need the money see me.
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Sylvania, Ga.