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Newnan, Ga., Friday, May 16, 1890.
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ASPHALT COMES (FROM TRINIDAD.
A Pitch Luift That Appear* fo lie Inn-
hiroitllilR (In Its Supply.
The island of Trinidad i * about sixty
mile* long by fifty wide, and lie* oft
the mainl'iiKl from ’Voiiozuelti, within
sight of the coast. The island has es
pecial interest to Now Yorker*, because
it is from a pilch .lake in its interior
that the asphaltii* secured with which
our street* are being,paved. The lake
has an are* of about 185 acres. A1
though its surface has been cut dowir
for twenty years ito secure pitch, its
level has not been lowered, showing
that the supply is practically inex
haustible. It is like trying to empty
n well with a teaspoon. The princi
pal business of the. island is sugar
making, cocoa making and cocoanul
raising. In 188!) about 85,000 tons of
asphalt were shijipud away, 85,000
tons of sugar, and anmmouiikof cocrta
equal to oue fourth itlic entire supply
or Europe, where the 'Trinidad cocoa
is all sold. Labor on ithe islantl is very
cheap, coolie* being brought l>y the
government from India, on throe and
five year labor eontraela to work for
15 and 20 cenl* per day.
There is a railroad ion flic island,
the longest line,of which is thirty-four
miles from J'ort of Spain to Sail Fer
nando. It was built and is operated
by the government. When it was
first laid construction trains were run
over it before ballasting, ami the rails
are consequently warped and bent and
twisted, until it. is impossible to run
the fastest train over it art inure than
fifteen miles an hour. It itakes two
hours and a half (-> ;,vi from Port of
Spain to Sim Fernando. Mutt hew Tay
lor, who is a well known asphalt pave
ment contractor of this .city, once
offered to huild all the railroads the
government wanted if they would
give him each alternate squad*- mile,of
land along the road, hut hin.ufFor was
refused.
Money is made in Trinidad sugar
plantations und rocutunit forest*. The
chief justice of the colony has been
retired on apeiisiou. He wa* sent out
from England ubout twelve years ago.
Eight years ago a notable sugar plan
tation was offert*] for sale for $00 i'.KKJ,
He had a little money ami oonsiiWa
bin credit, ami bought the plane.
When ho retired fmm the bench, in
1880, he had paid for (lie plantation
and improved it to such mi extent
that it m consider)si worth $270,009.
BitterN aro made in Trinidad by a
wealthy inuii who has a large family,
fully thirty net-sons being dependent
upon him. lie has a fine place known
as "The Convent" oil account of the
walls around it, and the most marvel
ous stories are told of the eating ca
pacity of his family, said to bo conse
quent on their free use of the hitters,
liis daughters, when they marry, get
a marriage portion of 5,000 cases of
bitters. The bitters are made of island
rum anil a concoction of hark found
only in that latitude. Thu mauufac
turn of the hitters was formerly a great
industry in the vicinity of the Orinoco
river in South America, but the harks
there have been exhausted. Inter
view in New York Press.
Victor lit'* Tit rone.
The English coronation throne is
not a raised dais of gold or precious
stones, as many have pictured it in
their imaginations, hut a common,
high bucked oak chair of antique style,
which has served in its present capacity
for six or seven generations, its exist
ence having been traced back to the
time of Eli wurd 1. The hack ami sides
of tlio chair were formerly painted in
various colors, but all the wooden
part* nre now hidden with heavy silks
and velvets embroidered in gold.' Un
der the finely upholstered seat is a
rough sandstone, 20 inches in length,
171 in width, and l) inches in thick
ness. It is the famous "Stone of Scone,"
said to have served as a seat during
the coronation ceremonies of the early
Scottish kings.—St. Louis Republic.
Cltt*M|» I'oNtugr.
It is the |»>pulur idea that Japan has
the cheapest |K>stul system in the world;
u letter can. he conveyed to any part of
that kingdom for two sen, equivalent
to about one-third of ail Americun
cent But it np|K>ars that the Indian
Empire takes the palm for cheapness.
Postcards then'cost one farthing each,
letters arc sent forono lyilfpenny each,
newspapers up to an ounce and a quar
ter in weight for one sixteenth of a
penny, and hooks uml patterns three
farthings for four ounces, or six cents
a pound.—Chatter
A Different IJueMlon.
(In the conservatory) Reginald—Now
that we are alone, Claire, 1 can ask
you a question that I have been burn
ing to ask all the evening.
Claire (overcome with emotion) — Oh,
Reginald I
Reginald—Ever since I entered the
ball room I have felt that my necktie
was slowly creeping over the back of
my collar, and the thought of my ap
pearance made mo miserable. 'Tell
me, Claire, is my necktie all right f—
London Tid-Bits.
INJUN JIM’S FISHING BAIT.
A Bport.nmn Who Could Catch Trmrtwrlth
Anything II© Mncle I'm Of.
For a number of years from my
earliest recollection there ’lived for
much of the time at my Irenno in W
in northeastern Connecticut, an old
Indian named Jim Wamalcy, or Jim
Injun, as the folks at homo and the
people in that iiVighl>or>liooil .culled
liim. He was one of the very best of
the Nurragansett tribe. Ho was to me
as much and sometime* even more of
a companion than was any-of the hoys
of my own age. He was quite, ailover
of nature anil a tiptop woodsman.; I
have yet to see an Indian tthat was not.
Besides, ho was no mean herbalist,
knowing the properties and usesoftthe
harks, root* and leaves off .about every
-medieiual plant growing in tthat sec
.lion. If some gissl old lady or an in
valid had use for any kerb Jim wus
•sure to know exactly where to get.it.
Whether he got his knowledge ofttbc
plants from others of the tribe, or from
white persons with whom he came tin
contact, I never knew.
But hv all islils fishing was his
forte, either for trout or pickerel. He
seemed to know of every islaoe in all
the omuls and streams where ,u fish
would he likely to hide, tend almost
always brought homo u good sized
string of them. As 1 grew older 1
often accompanied him in Ins fishing
excursions, sometimes with and often
without the consent of the folks at
homo. He would very frequently go
on Sundays, especially if pleasant.; und
sometimes when 1 was sent alone to
church or to Sahlmth school I would
skulk oft’ behind wulls or hills to meat
him lit some place agreed on, then wo
would have a jolly good day off it. ]
was not setting a very good example
surrttv. Once in awhile oil Sunday
availing, after coming home, i would
catch something else beside fish that
was not quite so agreeable. Well,
through life wu till have to take the
hitter with the sweet.
In,'fishing for trout Jim never up
nenrod to have any particular system,
lint would follow it in a kind of Imp-
hazard style, with a common pole cut
111 the woods, peeled, and of consider
ableilangtli. For bait lie would use
worms, grasshoppers, (lies, millers, or
any insect that lie could readily find;
but whatever ho made use of was, in
his hands,.effective.
Sometimes when hungry ho would
clean a goodly number of the fish, and
having built a fire on the hank of
■the stream.or in the forest, lie would
lay them .on the live coals and broil
them to .-a nice brown color or fry
them oil nine flat stones: then wliut a
splendid burnt wo would have! Is ones
uppotito lx Ate r or the sense of taste
more acute than in later years? It
seems to he *o. Since then, scores of
limes, when ,on fishing trips, I have
eaten troubuooked in all styles, broiled,
browned nitv-Jy in a frying pan, or
made into * .chowder, but somehow
they novel' seeipfil to have that double
extra good taate of tlioao proimred near
the brookaido ’by old Injun Jim.— 1
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Cwbun. «f mii bnpprlal llmljr Guard.
Emperor William has developed n
mania for new uniforms and costumes
which is worthy of George IV. He
lias established a new body guard for
the empress, which is to doaentry duty
before tier apurtiuetits at the palace,
and is to serve as her escort at reviews
and state functions. For palace duty
the uniform consist*of a white Bran
denburg coat with cherry colored fac
ings and huge shoultler knots in black,
while and silver; u white wuisteout
coming down low, white trousers and
"jack" hoots. There is also a black
velvet three cornered hat, with cock-
ado and feather in the Prussian colors.
The escort uniform is much the same,
except that the hat is replaced by a
helmet of polished steel, crested with
a golden ouglo.—London Truth.
A Hill Collecting I'ontoftlr*.
In Holland hills aro often paid
through the medium of the postoflico.
This department is still unknown in
this country. It enables a man living,
sav, in London, to get a small hill col
leeted in any provincial town without
the often expensive and tedious inter
ference of a hanker or agent. For
that purpose lie hands his hill to the
nearest postolllce. It is sent to the
oh we where the money is to he col
lected. After the collection a draft is
forwarded to the payee by the office
where he deposited Ins hill, and where
he gets his cash und the hill duly re
ceipted on payment of a small com
mission, wlncli is payable in advance.
In some large towns the money and
the hill are even brought to the payee's
house.—London Tid-Bits.
Itnl Glass.
A new red glass is being made in
Germany. It is utilized for bottles,
goblets and vases of various kinds,
and in photographic, chemical and
other laboratories. By melting to
gether fine sand, rod oxide of lead,
carbonate of potash, lime, phosphate
of lime, cream of tartar, liorax, red
oxide of copper and bloxide of tin, a
transparent real class of very fine
quality is obtained.
Mean men of every kind me apt to im
agine that people do not know of their
failings because they do not mention
them.
Swallowed a Hint's HckiI.
Mi*. R. A. Weston, of Alamenda,
Cal., had a narrow escape from suffo
cation. She was playing with a pot
canary and pushed the bird's head into
her mouth. Just then 6lio grew hys
terical und shut her teeth together, so
u* to strangle the bird. Her daughter
pulled the canarvaud severed its head,
which got into Mrs. Weston's gullet
She was black in the face when the
obstruction was removed. — Toronto
Globe.
Nashville’s (Term.) curiosity is
aroused as to what becomes of the pen
nies that aro sent there. They are not
used in trade to any considerable ex
tent, and it is surmised in some quar-
ters that most of them fall into the
hands of superstitious people who toss
I them over houses or cover them with
stones " for luck."
All Franco is laughing at the fol
lowing announcement that appeared
in one of the journals: "M. Ernst
Zola, inventor of the spring liund-
c.utTs. notifies his customers that lie
lias nothing in common with his
namesake, Emil Zola, writer.”
Early Life of u Y’liiliulelplila Astronomer.
•David Rittenhouso was horn in Rox-
borough township, aiear Germantown,
Pa., Aprils, 1732, and died in Phila
delphia. June 20, J79G. He was de
scended from a family of paper mak
ers residing at Arnheim, Guelderlaml.
His great grandfather, William Rit-
tenhouse, a Mennonitc preacher, came
from Holland with his family in 1687
88, wus the first Mennonitc minister
in Pennsylvania, and established the
first paper mill in this country ut the
spot where David was horn.
David was early put to work on the
farm, and was plowing at 14 years
of age. An uncle dying hud left him
a.chest of tools and a few books on
arithmetic and geometry, with some
manuscript mathematical calculations.
These furnished palatable food to hi*
mind, and his biqgraphci« tell of his
having covered ,the handle of his plow
and the fences around the field with
In's workings of the problems which
they set before him.
As itlio uncle mentioned above wus
liis mother's brother, it is'inferred that
lie inherited liis .genius from his
mother's side. liis mechanical talent
was shown in his ‘Construction uf a
complete .water wheel in miniature
when 8 years old, a wooden clock
when 1.7, anil a .clock with metallic
works at a later age. Ilis .father was
not.disposed at first to favor the youth’s
tastes, but eventually be furnished
him with money enough to buy a sat
of (dock making tools; nod David
built u workshop ut Norriiton, whither
the (family had removed, where ho car
ried on the clock making business .for
several years. —Popular Science.
TIi© Mjwtery of th© Senate
The vice president's gavel is of itself
a standing evidence .that the senate is
aw orderly .body and needs no school
master for a presiding officer to com
pel quint. The gavel litis wo handle.
It never did have any. It is simply a
little piece of white ivory like the
head .of a gavel, polished and shilling.
It would not do in the house utali, for
the most that, can he done w ith it is to
give a gentle rapping iju the desk, and
in the other wing the speaker some
times needs to hammer uwuy like a
man with a beetle.
This senate gavel, with which the
vice president tells the senators that
they ure making too much noise, lias
been in existence and in use as a gavel
for many years. It is the identical
one, it is said, which was in use when
Daniel Webster wu* in the tgmute, and
nroluihly was used the duy he made
liis reply to Havoc, to still the buzz
in the gullery wueu the great man sat
down.
There is a mystery about the gavel,
loo. Nobody but Captain Bassett, the
white haired door keeper, knows what
becomes of it during the recess and
when congress is nut in session. The
venerable old Captain Bussctt hikes it
from the vice president’s desk when
the senate adjourns and hides it some
where, and it is lost to the world un
til it is again needed by the vice presi
dent.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Professor Thomson says that thedy-
: immo of the future will develop from
2.UOO toftJHN) horse (lower, and us there
is practically no limit- to its increase,
lie sees no reason why it should not
go fur beyond those figures.
MoCurtnry, III© I'rmllgy of Memory.
Prof. Ilenkle makes mention of a re-
tnnrkablo character whom he met at
Salem, Mass., in 1809, Daniel McCart
ney by name. McCartney wus 51
years of age at that time, hut proved
to the satisfaction of Mr. Ilenkle that
hu could remember where lie had
been, the stale of the weather, etc., for
each day anil hour since lie wus 9
years old; dates covering a period of
forty-twoyears! These rcmurkublefcnts
were proved and verified by weather
records and newspaper flies kept in
the city, and of the hundreds of tests
resorted to to try liis powers he never
fuiled of proving himself a wonder of
wonders in a single instance. This
prodigy of memory worked ut the
Bulem Republican office, and naturally
one would think him able to furnish
bruins for half a dozen papers, hut, oil
the contrary, they could make no use
of him whatever, except to turn the
press twice each week I—Journal of
Speculative Philosophy.
K|»©e«l of Animal*.
In respect to the comparative speed
of animated beings it may he remarked
that neither size nor comparative
strength seems tohuve much influence.
The sloth is hv no means a small ani
mal, uml yet it can only travel fifty
paces in a day; a worm crawls only
live inches in fifty seconds; but a lady
bird can fly twenty million times its
own length in loss than an hour. An
elk cun run a mile in seven minutes;
an antelope can run a mile in a min
ute; the wind mule of Tartary has a
si>eed even greater than that; and an
eagle can lly fifty-four miles in an
hour; while a canary fulcoti can even
reach seven hundred and fifty milps
in the short space of sixteen hours.—
New York Telegram.
Sli* Spoke Klein Out.
Mrs. Pneumonia—I was so provoked
at the Art museum toduy. There was
a painting there that they told me was
painted by a man by the name of
Murillo. If you believe me, it was
only a copy of that beautiful cliromo
of ours over the parlor mantel I 1
don't know who this Murillo is, but 1
think it's shameful that he should he
allowed thus to cheapen works of art;
and I didn't hesitate to let the people
know just howl felt about it.—Boston
Transcript,
A Young Family.
Probably the youngest family in the
state live in a town near Pittsfield.
The family consists of throe persons,
father, mother and infant daughter.
At the time of the baby’s birth the
mother was just 13 years 0 months and
4 days old, while the father lacked one
day of being 18 years of age, accord
ing to the Pittsfield Advertiser.
In Madrid when an actor has a ben
efit his admirers send to the theatre
little gifts, such as canes, slippers,
game, and such trifle*, just as if it were
a donation party, and the employes
; hand these gifts around among the
audience for inspection, while next
j day a complete list of them is printed
j in the |Mi|>ers.
Don't Walk Yor.r Horne*.
The common bridge warning not to
drive except at a walk is not posted at
the celebrated structure which spans
the East river between New York anil
Brooklyn. Teams have been driven
at a trot over this bridge from the
morning of its opening. Chief Engi
neer and Superintendent Martin first
violated the unwritten hut understood
rule. He was sure the bridge would
stand all the strain considered certain
to result to suspended structures from
oscillation caused by a series of regu
larly occurring footfalls. Finding all
the drivers moving teams at a walk on
the first morning of bridge travel, Mr.
Martin mounted a heavily loaded truck
anil persuaded a teamster to urge liis
horses to a trot. The driver Aid not
know the superintendent, hut the ad
vice to “see what they will say” was
taken.
The contagion spread to the line of
crossing teams. There was no more
walking of horses on the bridge. Mr.
Martin then studied the effects of his
action, and had-other experts make in
dividual observations. The results of
their work were submitted to the great
engineer, ltoebling, who had already
noticed the rapid motion of the teams
from the sick room, where liis glass
was constantly sweeping liis great cre
ation, Mr. RoeblingV verdict on the
evidence wus, "Let ’em trot.” They
have been trot ting ever since, through
a carefully considered permission, not
given in the case of any other suspen
sion bridge in the world, and it is for
bidden, under penally of a fine, on
many wooden country bridges.—Wor
cester Gazette.
. A Mammotli Shot* lltiililhig.
The new building of the Madison
Squaro Garden company is the most
extensive structure of tile kind iri the
city.
The amphitheatre is an enormous
room 310 by 194 feet and 80 feet high,
with an arena containing 30,000
square feet. There will he permanent
seating capacity for 0,000 persons, in
cluding' 150 private boxes. The view
from the seats will he unobstructed
and practically free from the hideous
und vexatious columns. For conven
tions und great public meetings the
arena can ho floored over, giving seats
for 12,000 persons. For summer per
formances the roof can he iqs'iied by
machinery. Underneath the seats will
be a continuous hall 32 feet wido and
22 feet high, with 3,000 square feet,
available for exhibitions, fairs, stab
ling, etc. There will bo main en
trances on Madison avenue and
.Fourth avenue, and exits, ill case of
emergency, on Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh streets.
The restaurant, 80 by 90, will be on
the Twenty-sixth street side, with a
concert hall over it having a seating
capacity of 1,500, anil u hall room
floor. On the Twenty-seventh street
sido will lie a theatre with a seating
capacity of 1,200. There will ulso he
a roof garden to seat 5,000 persons.
Hurrouuiling all these rooms will he
ample lobbies, broad uisles, retiring
rooms, private dining rooms, und all
the modern conveniences for public
gatherings, smoking rooms, coat
rooms, lavatories, waiting rooms, etc.
—New York Sun.
Difference Itetween Hair und Woo?.
The hair of the negro, with its ten
dency to kink or curl, is mockingly
called “wool,” because it to thisextent
resembles the hair of the sheep. Curly
hair is, as a matter of fact, less perfect
than straight hair. But through all
this range—of the human plant, goat’s
hair, uml sheep's wool—nature shows
such close gradations that it would he
difficult to draw an exact lino between
hair and wool, or in this respect to
separate the sheep from the goats.
W itnessthe Angora goat, whose fleece,
known as mohair, is reckoned a supe
rior wool, and the Peruvian alpaca, or
llama. The microscope distinguishes
very clearly, however, between wool
and silk, the fiber of which is an even
double filament of gum exuded by
the silkworm; and between wool and
the vegetable fibers, such as cotton,
which, growing as a tube, dries into a
half twisted ribbon, having no barbed
edge.
The root of the hair has a natural
tendency to dry up as warm weather
approaches, allowing the hair to fall
free from the skin; thus animals
“shed their coats.’’ But when hair is
cut, as with human beings, or the
fleece sheared, as in the case of slice)),
nature adapts itself to the demand
upon it, und growth is continuous.
The number of these fibers is wonder
ful. On the )>elt of a full blood ram
Dr. Cutting, of the Vermont board of
agriculture, reckoned with his micro
scope 222,300 to the square inch ;_ an
ordinary open wool sheep will have
one-thirtieth us many.—R. Bowker in
Harper's.
Origin of the Word ‘‘Chapel."
The word “chapel” has a highly ro
mantic origin. It is associated with
the story of St. Martin’s shuring his
cloak with a beggar. “Cloaks,” in
late Latin, iscappella. a little cloak, or
cape, from cuppa, cloak, cape, cope.
The Frankish kings preserved St. Mar
tin's cloak as a sacred relic. They had
it carried liefore them into battle, and
used it to give sanctity to oaths. It
was preserved in a sanctuary, under
the care of special luiuisters culled
cappellani, or chaplains, and from the
ministers the name came to he* attached
to the building, in old Norse French
capele, Provencal capella, Italian cap-
pel la, and thence to any sanctuary
containing relics, and so to any pri
vate sanctuary or holy place.—Mon
treal Star.
Conclusive.
Mr. Sintkins is a great enthusiast on
thesubject of "chest protectors," which
he reeommedds to people on every oc
casion.
“A great thing!” he says. "They
make people more healthy, increase
their strength, and lengthen their
lives.”
"But what about our ancestors?”
soire one asked. “They didn't have
any chest protectors, did they?"
"They did npt." said Mr. Simkins,
triumphantly, "and where aro they
now? All dead I” -Youth's Companion.
liable* for Crocodile Unit.
“Babies wanted for crocodile bait.
Will be returned alive,"says a Ceylon
paper. If newspapers abounded in
Ceylon as much as crocodiles do, ad
vertisements worded like the foregoing
would be common in their want col
umns.
As it is the English crocodile hunter
has to secure liis baby by personal so
licitation. He is often successful, for
Ceylon parents, as a rule, have un
bounded confidence in the hunters and
will rent their babies out to he used as
crocodile, bait for a small considera
tion. Ceylon crocodiles suffer greatly
from ennui; they prefer to lie quite
still, soothed by the sun's glittering
rays and while away their lazy lives
in meditation.
But when a dark brown infant with
curling toes sits on a hank and blinks
at them, they throw off their cloak of
laziness and make their preparations
for a delicate morsel of Ceylonese hu
manity. When the crocodile gets
about naif way up the hank, the limi
ter, concealed behind some reeds, opens
fire, and the hungry crocodile has his
appetite and life taken away at the
same time, the baby being brought
home safelv to its loving mamma.—
Ceylon Catholic Messenger.
Seiniiiol© Mur.it »•
Should a Seminole maiden unwisely
bestow her affections upon any man
outside of tlio tribe, her life would be
forfeited. So certain of this are they
that no one of the women under 5U
years of age will speak toil white man,
save in the presence of her male rela
lives, and then as curtly as possible.
She will, in fact, hardly look at him,
so fearful is she of arousing suspicion,
und in conscquenco of this law there
are no half breeds among the Florida
Seminole*.
So jealous are these Indians of the
purity of their blood that I can learn
of hut one family among them in
which there is any admixture. In thih
case the man took as liis wife a comely
negro woman who was captured by the
Indians during the Seminole war; hut
their children arc so far from being re
garded as equals by other members of
the tribe that no full blooded Indian
will break bread with them. There
aro two young men in this family, and
should a young full blood of thcii
own age visit tTieir camp, lie will eat
with the father, but the young half
breeds must wait until he is through.
The Seminole who lies to another lias
his nose slit; while lie who steals
from a fellow-tribe-mau loses an ear.—
Scribner’s.
Fernlun Bribery.
A traveler in Persia relates the fol
lowing incident: "I was on a visit to
a judge when a man was brought in
who stoutly denied the offense with
which he was charged. The beglcrbeg
(judge) sent for a whip.
“I vow I am innocent," said the ac
cused, us lie crossed his hands over
liis breast, at the same t ime stretching
forward one of his fingers. The min
ion of justice stood ready to strike at a
signal from the judge, who fixed his
eyes on the breast of the prisoner and
exclaimed:
"You aro guilty 1”
"By thy venerable head, I vow I am
not guilty,” protested tlio accused,
now raising two lingers.
This process was continued until lie
at last stretched out tivo lingers on
each hand, when the bcglerheg re
marked:
"Good, let him go; ho is innocent.”
I learned afterward that hv raising
liis linger the prisoner meant the judge
to understand that ho offered one to
man (about ten shillings) for his re
lease, and had been compelled to raise
the amount by successive bids to ten
tomans (i!5) in oi'dc to satisfy the de
mands of the Persian justice.—Ex
change.
Two Accidental Di*cov©rie*.
The shop of a Dublin tobacconist by
the name of Lundyfoote was de
stroyed by fire. While ho was gazing
dolefully.at the smoldering ruins, he
noticed that liis poorer neighbors were
gathering the snuff from the canisters.
He tested the snuff himself and dis
covered that the lire had largely in
creased its pungency and aroma.
Here was a hint worth profiting- by.
He secured another shop, built a lotol
ovens, subjected the snuff toa heating
process, gave the brand a particular
name, and in a few years became rich
through an accident which lie at first
thought had completely ruined him.
The process of whitening sugar wa>
discovered in a curious way. A hen
that had jrone through a clay puddle
went with her muddy feet into a su
gar house. She left her tracks on a
pile of sugar. It was noticed that
wherever her tracks were the sugar
was whitened. Experiments were in
stituted and the result was that wel
clav came to be used in refining sugar.
-Cleveland Press.
A Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life.
It was just nn ordinary scrap of wrap
ping paper, but it saved her life. She
was in the last stages of Consumption,
told by physicians that she was incura
ble and could live only a short time;
■<lie weighed less than seventy pounds.
On a piece of wrapping paper sne read
ot I)r. King’s New Discovery, and got
a sample bottle; it helped her; she
bought a large bottle; it helped her
more; bought another and grew better
fast; continued its use and is now strong,
healthy, rosy, plump, weighing 140
pounds. For fuller particulars 3end
stamp to XV. II. Cole, Druggist, Fort
Smith. Trial bottles of this wonderful
Discovery free at A. J. Lyndon’s drug
store.
The successsul farmers are sufficient
in number to discredit the croakers and
show that it is not the farm hut the far
mer that is at fault.
Eupepsy.
This is what, you ought to have, in
fact, must have, to enjoy life. Thous
ands aro searching for it daily, and
mourning because they find it not.
Thousands upon thousands of dollars
are spent annually by our people in the
hope that they may attain this boon.
And yet it may he had by all. We
guarantee that Electric Bitters, if used
according to directions and the use per
sisted in, will bring you good digestion
and oust the demon Dyspepsia and in
stall instead Eupepsy. We recom
mend Electric Bitters for Dyspepsia
and all diseases of Liver, Stomach and
Kidneys. Sold at 50c. and SI.00 per
bottle by A. J. Lyndon, druggist.
The most disgusting sight in the world
is to see a nice young lady misbehave in
church.
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Once * Trump—Mow H Senator.
Senator Manderson, when a plain
Ohio youth, came to Washington one
day and got a scat in the senate gal
lery.
He had been tramping around in the
wet aud liis steickings were saturated.
His boots were tight and his feet felt
sore, aud as the night session wore on
he took them off und sat in his stock
inp feet.
Tlie air of the senate was very warm
and the tight boots shrunk. At the
adjournment he found to his horror
that he could not get his boots oil, and
he had to walk* down to his hotel on
Pennsylvania avenue in liis stocking
feet, carrying his boots.—Frank G.
Carpenter's Washington Letter.
Seven Weeks.
One of Lord Bacon’s parliamentary
anecdotes, though 300 years old, may
be quoted with effect in these days
when legislative bodies sit long and iio
little.
Mr. Pophatn, speaker of the house
commons, had one day an audience
with Queen Elizabeth.
"Now, Mr. Speaker,” said the queen,
“what has passed in the house of com-
j tuons?"
“Seven weeks, if it please your ma-
| jesty,” answered the speaker. — Youth’.- j
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