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Sylvan 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. -- 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. r 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. OPLES BANK OLIVER, GEORGIA. Capital, = = = = $30,000.™ DI RECTORS: L. O. Benton, Wm, J. Quantock K. M. Colson, J. ,!. Tullis, G. W. Gross, Dr. H. E. Ezell, F. H. Conner W. J. Newton, J. W. Hodges, O. H. Marsh, G. L. Huggins. When you have money deposit it with PEOPLES BANK ; when you want money, borrow it of PEOPLES BANK. Clients enjoy every privilege usually extended by a reliable and well equipped Bank. We solicit your account. O. H. MARSH, Cashier. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. Here I am Gentlemen. Ready to do your first=class horse=shoeing and repairing on anything from a baby carriage to a timber cart. Give me a trial. S. E. MINCEY, = - = Ogeechee, Ga. FERTILIZER It is a little early to talk guano, but we have|the goods and tlie prices to interest every farmer. Why not patronize a home industry? We offer you better goods and for less money than you can buy from outside resources. We propose manufacturing only the purest and best fertilizers. Aside from the chemical excel lence of our goods, their strongest claim to popu lar favor i<= their perfect drilling condition. The mechanical condition of a fertilizer is an item whose influence cannot always be rightly expressed and appreciated. Quotations will be furnished on application. SCREVEN COUNTY OIL MILLS, “TAM. HBNL>ERSON. Mana< ;er “ "YtVANIA, QEOROIA. m m C -- 4 1 Sylvania Skating Rink. 1. UNDER NEW MASONIC HALL. * * Open Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday .i ’it (Nights 7:00 to 10:30 p. m. r 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.. 1 7 i*4 per ct. FARM LOANS 7 .- 4 per ct. ; i $100,000.00 to loan on Improved Farms, WITHOUT ENDOR SER, or CROP OBLIGATION. Term 5 years. Interest payable ? once yearly. This money is immediately available. Can be bad ; for QUICK CASH PURCHASE of lands, or live stock, etc. It, is ; available for any purpose where money is needed on short notice. Write me before obligating your crop the coming year, ul ' before asking neighbors to endorse for you. Address, :: your H. S. WHITE, Attorney, Sylvania, Georgia. Money to Loan on Improved ^v,, Farming Lands.. f i, 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. H. A. BOYKIN, Sylvania, Ga.