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ORIGIN OF TELEGRAPHY.
A Kyi tem That Wan In V*ffur Mr four 41m
Christian Kn.--Signal. by Light*.
There wos a system of telogrnpby
between the site of Charago and tiiul
of the city of Mexico before the days
of Morac; before Franklin'* dikeovery;
before tiie discovery of Anicrieu by
Columbiui -perhaps before tiie days of
Christ. 8ueli are the Buret-turns ot a
Chicago Tribune corrcs|>oiidciit wlio
asks consideration of his statement on
the following basis:
Chicago was certainly the northern
terminus of a telegraph line whose
other end was in Mexico, ut so remote
a period of the world's history that the
very name of the race that built it is
buried in oblivion. It was not the In
dians. 'Die ancestorvof Tecuniseh and
Hiawatha am moderns compared with
the earlier race.
*The tirat lelctrraphic system was
employed moiiio centuries ago by
that curious race of people that
built the hup; mounds of earth that
are met with everywhere in the
Mississippi -vallev and down to the
Atlantic coast. We call the neoplonf
that age simply Mound Uuildors for
want of a lietter name. The race is
dead. The last mail of them had
passed to his eternal rest long liefore
this land bocumo the home of the
modern mi men. Hut the mighty
works of those simple neople live nfler
them. We look upon their great earth
works, nud like Yoliiey among his
ruins, eau only feel that to them is
due our veneration. For ^hem we
must entertain at least u feeling of re-"
spect, being, as they an;, the last re
maining vestiges of a race most re
markable and most interesting of all
the men on earth, springing mystcri
ously into existence, living for cen
turies and dually dimipiHaii’ing as com
pletely front tin; face of the earth as
though they never had been born.
licmg wholly unknown to other
peopIcNof their times, we have no data
on which to base a reliable history of
this |M*eiiliur race of men. Our anti
quarians tell us that they Imilt sub
stantial cities; that they were tillers
of Hu; soil; that they knew the princi
ples of art; that they had a written,
language and a religion; that they had
a commercial system, and that they
could send a message across the coun
try with the velocity of light.
A telegraph in prehistoric times, us
we look hack ujmmi it, seems certainly
a myth, yet it is after all the simplest
thing imaginable. The writer did not
claim for it the electric principle of
the Morae telegraph. The electricity
which Franklin found himself able to
control would have been totally un
available in the hands of primitive
people.
Tin; Mound Ihiildcrs’ telegraphic sys
tem consisted ot a chain of large
tuoumls, starting at Chicago, hence
bearing across the country to Prairie
du Clllen, Win., thence down the Mis
sissippi to Arkansas and onward in a
more or less straight line to the ter
minus at the City of Mexico, then the
capital of the Aztec empire. Those
E ounds were built in the most suitable
cations, ro that a tire lighted atone
point could be seen distinctly at the
next, and thus a signal light could lx*
hastily transmitted from one slat ion to
another over the thousands of miles
which separate the two terminal points
of the lino.
The signal stations are located often
at u distance of many miles, perhaps a
half dozen spanning a hundred miles;
thus, as may readily he seen, a danger
signal could he sent across a state with
the speed of light. Around these sig
nal mounds ins; usually grouped thou
sands of u lesser size, and sometimes a
fortification or other earthwork, indi
cating that a city of a large size had
originally existed on the spot.
Tims at Toolesboro, la., in addition
to one of the most remarkable inclos-
ure earthworks of the continent, there
are mounds of alt shapes and sizes, the
number running up into tin* thou
sands. No better selection of a signal
station could have been secured ihnti
this. On tho very brow of a great
bluff overlooking the Mississippi are
located the eight huge conical mounds
of earth upon which tin* signal tiros
were lighted, away hack in another
age of the world's history, telling u
tale of danger or festivity. A light at
this point would Ik; instantly observed
at Muscatine, the next station, twenty
miles to tho north, or Flint Hills, now
Burlington, away in the hazy distance,
thirty miles to the south, and thence
could Is* transmitted from mound to
mound, from station to station, hun
dreds of miles in either direction.
Tins telegraphic system employed by
the Mound Builders is the greatest
wonder of the western world. Nor is
it a myth, as so frequently originates
in the fertile imagination of the news
paper writer, hut tho mounds uad
earthworksure there to show for them
selves, and their purpose is self evident.
Now forests have grown up, so that
between many of the stations the line
of observation is cut off ; hence the
line is out of repair; hut students of
arehioology assert and believe that tho
thousands of mounds in the long line
from Chicago to Mexico City weiv, be-
yond a doubt, signal stations in the
lirst and original telegraph system.
Mummied Crocml1lee.
British enterprise having been de
lighted with Egyptian cats, is now
turning its attention to the crocodile
pets at Maabeteh, where there is a rich
mine of nitrates of immense extent.
The crocodiles are laid like* sardines in
a box, with pulm leaves between them,
the interstices bei:ig tilled un with
myriads of eggs. The crocodiles ate
done up in bundles, covered with
cloth. It i-, behoved that (s-yond l! 1081*
are vaults «*oiitainingmu:ul»iied croco
diles, and in which vast treasures are
Mored. — Chicago Herald.
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DO YOU HIRE A PIANO?
If Mo Your Music In Very Co«tly, ut Ii«iat
Mo Say* a T>«*nlcr In Plano*.
“The business of renting pianos is
tho most profitable one I know of,”
said a Washington dealer in that line
very frankly.
“In the firat place, no really expen
sive piano is ever rented; the risk
would be too great for one thing. One
could not afford to intrust to a
stranger un instrument worth from
$800 to$1,800, which is ubout the range
for the finest makes. The pianos hired
out are of u lower grade, worth from
$300 to $r.oo."
“But what i* the charge?”
"Usually ulxtut $8 a mouth.”
“Thill is nearly $100 a year. Pretty
good interest, I should say, on a $300
piano.”
“Decidedly m. That is just the
jioint of my remark. I don t know
any other investment that pays from
25 to 30 per cent, per annum, Wc
have twenty pianos let all the time,
and you cull perceive that they must
bring about $2,000 u year."
“ vVhat is the life of u piano?”
"Fifteen years, with fair usage. At
the end of that time the instrument is
not apt to lift capable of further ser
vice, hut in the meantime we have
cleared $1,000 or $1,100 on it, so we
are satisfied."
"Home people, though, probably
give n piano very uiifuir usage?”
“Often that occurs. It is a source
of low to us unavoidably, hut we can
afford to endure it. You see, persons
who rent pianos ure not likely to be so
careful of them as if they were their
own property. They let' their chil
dren hang upon them, and that is al
ways very injurious. Tho keys ure so
carefully pivoted that if they are
struck sideways instead of ]>erpci)dicu-
lar they accept to he thrown out of
gear. An uctivo infant in this way
and by pounding cun do a good deal
of hurt to u piano in a comparatively
short time. And maybe the $8 a
mouth won't pay for It. Or the ac
tion, which includes the keys and ull
those complicated inside works which.
n»akc the communication between the
keys and hummers, may he loosened,
and then there ul nothing to do but to
send the piano back to the factory and
have anew action put in. which costs
from $40 to $50. People have other
wnya besides this of injuring an instru
ment.”
“Buch us wbat, pray ?”
“Why, they will subject a niiino to
extremes of beat und cold.. That iti al
ways destructive. For example, on a
cold winter day the servant will throw
open tho windows of the overheated
parlor and let the freezingair come ill.
and no member of the futility will
probably know any belter than to do
such a thing. Asa consequence, tho
sounding board iN warped and cracked,
and the wires an* rusted and other
damage done. It would bo a great
deal less injurious if the domestic hud
poured several pailfuls of cold water
into tho instrument. There is a piano
over in that corner which was in a
house thill caught (Ire, and afterward
we pumped fourteen gallons of water
out of it. Yet it has served very well
over since and has retained n remarka
bly good tone. Sometimes tho case of
tin; instrument is marred and scratch
ed, but. that does not amount to so
much."
"Do peoplo ever steal tho pianos
they rent from you and run uwuj’ with
them?”
“It has never happened to us,
though such things are sometimes
done. We have been very lucky in
that way. Tho peoplo we have more
trnublo with than those to whom we
rent pianos are tho buyers on install
ments. Profit is ordinarily found in
selling piunos tluil way, because neces
sarily u greater price is charged in
such dues than if cash were paid. But
often it happens that pianos so pur
chased come buck on our hands
after three or four months with
a loosened action and other damage
done that costs more to repair than we
have received for tho piano, the usi al
method being to pay something like
$25 down and to give notes of hand
for $10 euch, falling duo monthly, for
the balance. It goes without saying
that installment*customers often de
fault in their payments, and then we
simply grab the pianos. People who
purchase in Unit way never seem to be
aware that in law an article so bought
remains the property of the seller un
til the last cent due bus been jsiid.- So,
in order to have that little fact thor
oughly comprehended, wo introduce it
as u part of too contract which tho cus
tomer is obliged to sign before he gets
tho instrument,—Washington Star.
l)r*con lugraliHin mat tho
A boar belonging to Florence Dona
hue, a wealthy Irishman of Rockland,
attacked Deacon Iiirum Ingraham in
his barn, whither he had strayed,
rushed between his legs, upset him,
carried him twenty-live feet to the
edge of a high walk, where the deacon
fell off and tho boar, weighing 400
rounds, fell on top of hint, breaking
lis thigh. Tho deacon was laid up a
long time and may be lunic for life, as
lu; is 78 years old.
No settlement having been effected,
the deacon sued Donahue for $2,000
| damages. The defouso denied that
; Donahue owned the boar, and said
! that he had sold him to his sou Frank,
■ and showed Frank's book to prove the
j sale. Plaintiff's counsel contended
that the entries were fraudulent and
made subsequent to the deacon's inju
ries, in a different ink and after the
other accounts had been footed up and
transferred to the ledger. Thus the
ease went to the jury, which, after
having been out a short time, returned
a verdict of $577.25 for the deacon.—
Lewiston Journal.
Take Warning.
Martin Smith, a resident of Mon-
i treat, had Janies Fitts arrested for
i threatening him with a deadly weap-
j on. Fitts proved that it was only a
j cold potato, but the court held that it
I eatuo within the meaning of the law,
: as had not been cooked through,
; aim l-'ittv gets three mouths in jail.
; 18* caivful how you threaten to kill a
1 man with a baked apple.— Detroit
j Five 1‘ivss.
GREAT CARE OF GUACHARO.
A Subterranean llcmn In South America
That R« Not Been Fully Kxplorrd.
Among tbe many subterranean re
cesses which are met with in different
parts of the world few are more re
markable, and few leas known gener
ally, than the cave of Guac.haro, in
the republic of Venezuela, in South
America. Indeed, until Humboldt
publmlted his masterly delineation of
this quarter of the globe Europeans
were ignorant of its existence, al
though it had been long known to the
Spanish missionaries, and was for gen
erations a place of awe and terror to
the nutivco. It is situated near the
picturesque and delightful vallev of
Uurinc. which lies to the west of the
Gull of Puria, in ubout 10 degs. of north
latitude.
In a country where a love of the
marvelous is a prominent feature of
the mental character a cavern whose
unexplored recesses give birth to a
river, and which is i nimbi ted by my-
riuds of nocturnal birds, whose terri
ble cries awaken all the echoes of the
dreary subterranean, is, of course, a
never failing subject of conversation,
and the attention of Humboldt was
very soon drawn to it.
The cavern continues to wind in the
same direction, to be of the same
breadth audio retain its original height
of about 70 feet for u distance of 1,450
feet, beyond which it begins to con
tract in its dimensions. Throughout
its length flows a stream of water, in
some places 30 feet in breadth and 2
feet ill depth, hut from what source
this subterranean river comes no one
us yet has lieen able to tell, ns the
roughness of the cavern and various
impediments prevent tho progress of
explorers beyond a certain |>oitit. On
issuing from the mouth of the cave,
und running a few leagues, the stream
joins the River Bantu Maria, whose
wliters ultimately fall into the Gulf of
Pa riu.
Humboldt was astonished to And the
cavern abounding in vegetation con
siderably beyond the distance which
the sun’s light |KMietrnted. It appears
that seeds which ure curried into the
euvo by the old birds to feed their
oung spring up wherever they can
xth emsolves in the mold that covers
tin* calcareous incrustations. Blanched
stalks, with some half formed leaves,
were found to have attained tho height
of two feet.
It iH well known that when light is
excluded front plants they become pale
and disfigured, of which an instance on
a grand scale was hero afforded. In
auviincing, the vault gradually began
to contract hi height, and, in propor
tion as it became lower, tin* cries of
the gimclmroes sounded more shrill
and iiiercing. The Indians at last re
fused to proceed any further, and Hum
boldt was compelled to retrace his steps
to the free air and the light of day. lie
found that a bishop hud penetrated
much further than he, having meas
ured nearly 2,5(il) feet from the mouth
to tho spot where he stopped, although
the cavern, to all appearance, extend
ed a great deal deeper. NewtYork
Ledger.
fetnitn Fright.
Talking of stage fright and of u
young orator’s nervousness while ad
dressing his first works to a public au
dience, a popular speaker said: “There
is no moral or medical method that 1
know of for overcoming that awful
thumping of the heart which comes
suddenly upon an untried and even
many a practiced speaker. It ruins
the uinuer—until the ordeal is over—
of many a great man down on t he hills
for a speech, and at times is so violent
that only u strong physical effort, will
enable a man to retain oven an appear
ance of calmness. It is said there is
u preparation which, if sniffed before
speaking time comes, will retard the
ucliou of tho heart. But I know of
nothing effectual."—Interview in Chi
cago Herald.
Tito DuiiIhIi ItlHinnrclc.
Herr I. P. S. Estrupp, the prime
minister of Denmark, whom King
Christian persists in maintaining in
oflice in defiance of, the protests of an
overwhelming majority of the na
tional legislature, is a consumptive,
weary looking little man of unprepos
sessing appearance. His small frame
is, however, filled with an immense
amount of energy. During the fifteen
years that he bus held the premiership
lie has ruled the country with an iron
hand, and fearless to the anger which
he excites. He. is often described ns
tho Danish Bismarck.—New York
Telegram.
Itell* Wore InvttnU’il In 400.
The invention of bells is attributed
to Paulinas, bishop of Nolu, in Cam
pania, about -1(1(1. They were first used
m churches as a defense against thun
der and lightning. They were firat
hung in England, ut Croylund abbey,
in 945. In tho Eleventh century aiid
later it wus the custom to baptize
them in churches before they were
used. The curfew 1k*11 was established
in 1068 and discoritinucdin 1100. Bell
men were appointed in London, in 1550
to ring the bells at night and cry,
“Take care of your tire and candle, be
charitable to tiie poor und pray for the
dead."
Action of Electricity on the lto<*.y.
An electrician, writing on the ac
tion of electricity on the human body,
says that just wliat takes place in tfio
human organism to produce death
from an electric current seems to be
an unsolved problem. One of the the
ories sometimes advanced concerning
it is that when a being suffers death
from electric shock it is a pure case of
internal rupture or explosion from tho
generation of gas or vapor.—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
A ltoctor'it Mistake.
A traveling doctor in Tennessee
thought he had discovered a way to
prevent a person from taking cold,
and ho sold a quart of the preventive
to a farmer for $10. Two doses of it
killed the man itouc dead, and the doc
tor is now trying to convince the peo
ple that lie meant well, but simply
made r. mistake, as oven the best pny-
siciar.s aiv urone to.—Detroit Free
Press.
STOPPED HIS TRAIN.
A Well Known Police Officer** Clever
Scheme to Get OfT an Expren* Train.
Inspector Williams, of the New York
.police force, who has clubbed many
men in his time, told me the other day
of an incident that occurred last sum
mcr, in connection with which he ac
knowledged that lie himself should
have been the clubbee. The inspector
has a summer cottage at a place called
Cos Cob, on the New Haven road,
where he spends hit; holidays. lie was
going up there one afternoon, and at
New York, hv mistake, got aboard the
express instead of the local train that
stops ut Cos Cob. The express does
not stop until it reaches Stamford,
which is some distance beyond the in
spector's destination. Williams did
not know the conductor and could
think of no way to get safely off from
an express tram going ut tiie rate of
forty miles an hour, so he made use of
his philosophy, a large quantity of
which he always carries with him
when he travels, und lie settled down
in his scut intending to take a much
needed rest; but the Rites were against
?iis getting the bite of sleep, that his
system craved. An inauisitire coun
tryman, who knew little of railroad
traveling, dropped into the seat beside
him, and asked him questions about
the danger of running off the track,
what he reckoned the speed was,
whether he had ever seen a cow “mus
sed up by the engine.” Williams gave
thA man monosyllabic and fretful an
swers, but Mr Hayseed kept on talk
ing. “Forgot to bring a lunch,” he
suid, "never needed a snack us bud.
Wisher had a chunk of pie, or even u
hum sandwich. ’Spose no chunce to
got it ou this train?"
As the old fellow said this Williams
was gazing out of the window ut his
beloved Cos Cob. which tho train wus
rapidly approaching, and which lie
knew they would swoop past in ubout
a minute. Suddenly he guve a start.
His massive sixty-two ounce bruin
bumped against the roof his skull and
an iclca wus born.
“Mister,” lie said, turning to tbe
countryman, “I think you said you
wanteu something to cut. 1 can tell
}*qu how you can get a good square
chicken sandwich. Stop right up to
the middle of the car and pit 11 that
clothes line near tho roof—yank it
hard a couple of times—and the train
boy will bring you the stuff."
The old fellow started for the bell
rope, and Williams stepped out on the
platform. He suid the train stopped
with such an extemporaneous jerk taut
lie wus fired head first into a pile of
sand uhout a hundred yards from his
own gate.
“And how fared .it with the old
mail?” I inquired, “unil what did the
conductor do?"
"Don’t know,” said tho inspector, “1
am like the old nigger who said,
‘When 1 see a mad nigger whettin' he
ruzur on he shoe l ain’t gwinc to stay
armin’ dar to see if he git it sharp
’uough to cut a liur.”’—J. Annoy
Knox in Philadelphia Press.
"Mooch Frightened.”
The experience of the fire marshal
with the Polish Jews who have plied
their trade in Boston has often Dceii
quito amusing. Tho Boston Courier
says that their first refuge when being
examined is to feign an ignorance of
any language in which tTiey may he
addressed, and The Courier illustrates
it by telling the following story:
One man brought his wife to the
office in answer to the summons of the
marshal, but assured tin* officer tliut
slio could not speak English, nor yet
Polish nor Hebrew.
Being forced to own that she did
speak something, she admitted with
reluctance that she knew a little Ger
man, and in this tongue the marshal
began his examination. Presently,
when the woman was off her guard,
lie had recourse to an old und simple
hut effective ruse.
“Is thut a mouse under your chair?"
lie aNked, suddenly.
The woman jumped from her scut
with a shriek, proving that she was
still a woman where mice were* con
cerned.
“Then von do understand English?"
the marshal said, blundly.
"Sometimes vheu I am mooch fright
ened 1 knows it a voery little," sheun-
swered.
Money In llrazll.
The basis of tho currency is an im
aginary unit, the reis, 1,000 of which
make a mil reis, worth, upart from ex
change, about 50 cents. The lowest
nickel coin is 100 reis, worth 5 cents.,
Below these aro copper coins, 20 reis
being the lowest I have seen—equiva
lent to a cent. If one dines with a
friend at a restaurant the score will
amount to 7,500 reis—a result startling
to the uninitiated. When real estate
transactions are conducted the figures
rise into the millions, and when trade
statistics aro computed billions and
trillions are brought in. Reversing
the process one pays 2,000 reis to u
boatman to go ashore from a steamer,
1,000 reis, or a milreis, fora bottle of
beer and some cheese, 500 reis to u
guide for pilotage through a public
building, 200 for a ride on a streetcar,
100 reis for a tarn ou the lift from tin-
upper to the lower turn, and another
100 reis for having his boots blacked.
This (imtneial system must tend to im-
>urt elasticity to poverty, for even a
a’ggar must Lave some consciousness
of uflluence when a 100 reis nickel is
dropped into his cap.—Cor. New York
Tribune.
Families with Children.
The inquiry made by the adminis
tration in oixfci* to carry out the new
law giving certain advantages to fa
thers of more than seven children,
has shown that in France at present
there ure 2,000,000households in which
there has been no child; 2,500,000 in
which there was one: 2,300,000, two
children; 1,500,000, three; about 1,-
000,000, four; 530,000, five; 330.000,
six, und 200,000 seven or more.—Lyon
Medical.
A silk handkerchief, so often rec
ommended for viipiug .spectacles or
eyeglasses, is not good for this pur
pose, as it makes the glasses electrical,
and causes the dust lo adhere to them.
CHAOS IN THE ORCHESTRA.
A Little Devil with the Face of a Saint
Wm the Catmo of It All.
The prettiest girl in a whole nest of
beauties that sat in a box ut tho comic
opera the other night was one of
those irrepressible creatures that fam
ine or death could not control. She
looked gentle and good. Beside tiie
roseate flush thut beamed over her
cheeks there was a deviltry of manner
about her that-could not have been ab
solutely iunitte. It so chanced that
the stout and bald gentleman playing
upon tlie base viol stood immediately
beneath the box w herein the pretty
girl was sitting, so close to her, in
fact, that the long handle of his viol
extended upward almost to her perfect
nose. For, some momenta after the
opera began the girl gazed interestedly
at tiie instrument without apparently
listening to the music thut progressed
on the stage. Then, while no one
but herself was watching, she
leaned forward and, extending a
gloved hand, twirled one of the
keys out of place. There was, a
moment later a severe discord that
caused the leader of the orchestra to
glance sharply round, and then the'
prima donna was thrown out of tune
by the false notes that continued to
come from the big fiddle. The fat
player reached excitedly up to the
keys of his instrument and placed it
into tune again, hut no sooner had he
done so than the wicked girl in the
box reached forward and unscrewed
several of the keys at once.
It was an important point during a
solo, while tho viol was being utilized
as the principal accompaniment, and
tho horrible discords that poured forth
were more than the uudieqce could
bear. The prima donna stopped short
in her song, tho orchestra conductor
bunged his baton madly against his
music rack, and every player in the
band lost his head, the result being
chaos of the worst kind. And while
this insanity reigned the cause of it
all, the pretty girl in the box, sat
calmly hack in her chair, making
faces of sorrow at the misfortune
that prevailed around her. When the
player of the bass viol got his instru
ment back into condition again und
the opera was progressing smoothly
the mischievous beauty looked fully as
innocent ns the best scholar in a con
vent school, and no one but she and I
was conscious that she was a little
devil with the face of a saint.—New
York Letter.
That Hacking Cocgii can be so
quickly cured by Shiloh’s Cure. We
guarantee it. For sale by G. R. Brad
ley, Newnan, On.
V» ho da res not speak his free thoughts
is a slave.
Wilt, you suffer with Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint? Shiloh’s vital
ize r is guaranteed to cure you. For sale
by G. R. Bradley, Newnan, Gn.
It is better to be nobly remembered
than nobly born.
Sleepless nights, made miserable
by that terrible cough. Shiloh’s Cure
is the remedy for you. For 3ale by G.
R. Bradley, Newnan, Gn.
He that would enjoy the fruit must
not plack tho flower.
Catarrh cure a, health and sweet
breath secured, by Shiloh’s Catarrh
Remedy. Price 50 edits. Nasal Injec
tor free. For sale by G. R. Bradley,
Newnan, Ga.
Who boils his pot with chips makes
his broth smell of smoke. •
For lame rack, side or chest, use
Shiloh’s Porous Plaster. Price 25 cents.
For sale by G. It. Bradley, Newnan, Ga.
Walking rapidly on errands of love or
of mercy is very good exercise.
Shiloh’s Cough and Consumption
Cure is sold by us on a guarantee. It
cures Consumption. For side by G. R.
Bindley, Newnan, Ga.
The tender, humble, broken heart is
the best thank offering.
Shiloh’s Vitalizkr is wliat you
need for Constipation, Loss cf Appe
tite, Dizziness, and nil symptoms of
Dyspepsia. Price 10 nnd 75 cents per
bottle. For sale by G. It. Bradley,
Newnan, Ga.
The wise fortify themselves by rea
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MT BROWN'S IRON BITTERS
Cures Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia. Mala
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has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
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Mmifiutlmmt NewH|m|M*r*.
It is usually assumed that the solo
responsibility for the sensationalism
nnct vulgarity of a portion of the Amer
ican press rests upon its publishers
and conductors. Now, it is a truism
to say that there would bo loss criti
cism of the actions of others if every
one felt a due responsibility for his
own actions. The purveyor'of scan
dal and sensational news does not
merely offer to satisfy un existing de
mand, hut ho stimulates and creates
an appetite by which lie profits. He is
not indeed responsible for the taste of
tho world, but.lie is responsible for
any uctiou of his that makes it worse.
This desire for publicity has been cul
tivated by tho newspapers, but did
the/ create it? Would tho newspa
pers continue to minister to it if the
public did not sustain them? We ure
enraged at the journals for daily vio
lations of privacy that should bo sa
cred, but who buys the journals?
Whatever tho newspapers are, is it not
about time the public began to con
sider its responsibility in tho case?
The fair conclusion of the whole
matter seems to be that the American
peoplo have tho sort of newspapers
they prefer. An increasing number,
no doubt, prefer a clean and trust
worthy newspaper. But in this conn-
S we are estimated by majorities.—
arles Dudley Warner in Forum.
A Tum« Leopard.
_Rcv. J. G. Wood, the naturalist, in
his now book on animals, says: “An
other fact almost us astonishing its
this is that wild animals ure complete
ly fascinated and can be tamed by per
fumes. There was a Mrs. Ix*e in
India who had a tame leopard thut
played in the house with her children.
He was very inquisitive, as all of the
cat tribe are, and loved to stand on
his hind legs and with his fore paws
on the window sill look out ut the
passers by. When the children want
ed the place for themselves they
would all tuke hold of his tuil and pufl
him down by that.
“He was generally very amiuble,
but sometimes, his cluws being very
fharp, the children were scratched.
So Mrs. Lei taught .Sal to keep his
claws sheathed by giving him when
he did so a little paper tray on which
lavender water had been dropped.
This would throw him into transports
of delight. He would tear the paper
into hits and roll over with them on
the floor.” Mr. Wood says that with
nothing but a bottle of lavender water
lie himself has become the best of
friends with a leopard, a tigress and a
lioness in the menagerie.
A Curloun Custom.
The curious custom at Queen’s col
lege, Oxford, of presenting a needle
and thread to each of the guests at a
banquet is a pious memorial of the
founder, Robert Eagk-slield, on whose
name “aiguille et fils,” forms a kind a
rebus. The story goes that Henry 1V
(whose son, afterwards Henry V* was
a somewhat riotous member of the in
stitution), complained to the authori
ties of the expense and wastefulness of
the college, whereupon tho youthful
prince made his next appearance be
fore his royal father with needles
hanging from the eyelet holes of his
doublet, in order to bear testimony to
his newly resolved thrift.—Montreal
Star.
Costly liiHt-clH.
Dr. L. B. Clifton, the well known
naturalist, has succeeded in hatching
out a rare species of moth, known to
entomologists as Atticus luna. For a
specimen of this moth Dr. Ciifton was
paid'$10(J two years ago by the Earl of
Rose berry, who is quite an enthusiast
in that line. The present specimen is
valdt-d ut $30.—New York Telegram.
A GENTS WANTED!
fl lurid* imilltK, quick sales. Hi
by an old re
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