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CATERERS TO DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
Principle* Tbat Underlie the Munuract are
of Dos and Horae Ili*cult.»
“Yes, we are nothing more nor
less than dog caterers,” said Mr J.
S. Leigh. Mr. Leigh, seeing that he
had aroused the reporter’s curiosity,
added further, "and we make 300
tons of dog biscuits in London per
week, 35 tons here, liesides manufac¬
turing our buiscuits in Berlin and
St. Petersburg.” By this time the
reporter began to imagine that the
dog was a much more important ani¬
mal than ho had hitherto believed
him to be and questioned Mr. Leigli
further.
Said the latter: “Man himself
would be a hundred per cent bettor
off if he could be fed on the same
principles we apply in catering to
dogs. We ourselves eat everything
and anything. The laborer has about
the same staple articles of food that
does the man who uses his brains.
There is but little difference, though
from a physical point of view there
should be a vast one.
“In feeding dogs it is quite other¬
wise when we have the say. For in¬
stance, we don’t give a greyhound,
whose nature it is to run, food to
make him fat, but that which will
build up his bone and muscle and im¬
prove his wind. A bulldog will get
the sort of biscuit that will improve
his courage and increase his tenacity.
The pet dog that gets but little exer¬
cise has to lie presented with some
• thing jnore tempting than either of
the other two, while the puppy which
is still gl owing must have that which
will form both bone and flesh.
“In the manufacture of our biscuits
all these facts enter largely. In the
first place, the biscuit must be hard,
so that the dog cannot bolt it at once,
as he usually does with soft food,
but must gnaw at it leisurely, thus
giving the saliva a chance to flow,
mix with his food and help digest it,
at the same time keeping his teeth
clean and his gums hard. As to the
composition of our biscuits, we put
that proportion of animal ami vege¬
table matter into them which will at¬
tain any desired result, Besides
catering to dogs, we make biscuits
for cats, and, by the way, 2J cents
per day is the average cost of keep¬
ing a cat on our biscuits. Then, too,
there are biscuits for horses, a very
serviceable thing in times of a cam¬
paign, when the most food must lie
carried in the smallest space possible.
“From our experience in catering
to animals,” said Mr. Leigh in conclu¬
sion, “I will wager that the time will
come when the man of sedentary
habits will no more think of buying
the same kind of food that the man
does who leads an active life, con¬
stantly calling his muscles into play,
thau I would think of giving to my
greyhound the same biscuit to eat
that I would to my puppy. ’’—Caterer
and Hotel Proprietors’ Gazette.
V
A Lesson That Watt Appreciated.
There is in the employ of a Maiden
"lane ’ house tall a traveling salesman
who is 6 feet and who is not afraid
of anybody or anything. He is hab¬
itually polite, always treats other
people with consideration and ex¬
pects to be so treated in return.
One day the tall salesman entered
a western retailer’s store, politely of
fered hisc&rd and awaited the jewol
ey’s pleasure. The merchant deliber¬
ately threw the card on the floor and
turned away. The tall salesman
was highly incensed by the insult
and gently touched the jeweler's
shoulder as he said in a subdued but
detenuined tone:
“If you don’t pick up that card
and apologize, I will pitch ■you over
your safe.” A glance assured the
jeweler that his visitor was ablo to
carry bis threat into execution. So
he picked up the card, apologized
and has since been a regular custom¬
er of the man who taught him to be
polite.—Jewelers’ Weekly.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED IN THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF STEWART COUNTY, GEORGIA.
THE CASE OF ALEXIS 8T. MARTIN.
How Medical Science Was -Enriched by a
Singular Injury.
Alexis St. Martin was a young
man in the service of the American
Fur company at what is now Mack¬
inaw, Mich. In the year 1822, when
18 years of age, he was accidentally
shot, receiving the whole charge of
a musket in his left side, which frac¬
tured two ribs, lacerated the lungs
and entered the stomach. Dr. Wil¬
liam Beaumont, the surgeon in
charge, restored him in a year to
good health, with all his former
strength and spirit. But the open¬
ing in his body was never closed.
From 1825 to 1833 Dr. Beaumont be¬
gan a series of experiments on the
stomach of St. Martin, studying its
operations, secretions, etc., his pa¬
tient during all these years present¬
ing the remarkable spectacle of a
man in good health, good appetite
and good spirits, with an aperture
opening into bis stomach through
which the whole action of the organ
might be observed. The doctor thus
discovered the presence of the gas¬
tric juice in the human subject and
demonstrated beyond a doubt its
chemical properties and digestive
powers.
He made other interesting discov¬
eries. For instance, that the color
of the membrane of the stomach is
pale pink: that its appearance is vel
vetlike, and that the stimulus of
food causes the gastric follicles to
enter into activity and to pour out
the acid gastric jhice. The doctor
would poke food into the stomach
and draw it out and examine it at
different stages of digestion. One
day be would watch the action of
stimulants, another fie day the action
of sedatives. tried opium and
alcohol. He experimented with raw
meat, boiled meat, broiled meat,
baked meat, roast meat and fried
meat. *
Ho found that salted pork, when
raw or broiled, was digested in from
3 to 3J hours. The same article
fried took 41 hours, while fresh pork,
fa| and lean, roasted, required 51
hours. On the other hand, boiled
fresh beef, with a little salt, was di¬
gested in 21 hours, while old salted
beef required 41 hours when dressed
in the same manner. Fish digested
quicker than meat; boiled milk
quicker than unboiled milk.
In spite of bis wound, in spite of
the indignities to which bis stomach
had been subjected, St. Martin sur¬
vived his doctor and lived to a good
old age.—New York World.
A Register J’or Nerve Disturbance*
A large proportion of the ailments
by which this generation are afflicted
arise from nervous disturbance of
one kind or another. Many of these
complaints are of such a subtle na¬
ture that the physician is often puz¬
zled in making the diagnosis, and the
“trouometer,” or new register for
the indication of the various degrees
of trembling exhibited in different
diseases, promises to be of great
service to science. This instrument
consists of a metal plate pierced with
a number of holes of different sizes
in a graduated scale, and a needle
which the patient endeavors to put
into the holes.
When he has succeeded in placing
the needle in the hole, an electric
contact is made and a bell rings. Al¬
though this method of testing un
steadiness of hand appears simple,
it is found reliable. The immoder¬
ate use of. coffee and stimulants pro¬
duces tremblings which can lie accu¬
rately denoted by the appliance.
One of the directions in which this
invention may prove useful is in as¬
certaining the degree of steadiness
possessed by marksmen and others,
in whom stability of nerve is an ab¬
solute necessity.—New York Tele
tmun.
Women the Great Discoverer*.
Grant Allen in his endeavor to
prove that women are not in the
race says that- no woman was ever a
discoverer. To this a clever woman
answers that all her sjiare moments
are spent in finding things mislaid by
the male members of her family.
When Mrs. Columbus told her hus¬
band that he would find her father’s
chart and manuscripts in the right
hand comer of the top drawer, does
anybody believe he found them!
Doubtless he came to the head of the
stairs and shouted over, “Come find
them for me.” Flammarion can find
new planets, but he can’t find his
own spectacles. Stanley could find
Livingstone, but who doubts that
Mrs. Stanley finds his penc-fys arid
mislaid manuscripts? Who can find
so many virtues as a woman can find
in her husband? Could he ever, un¬
aided, find his own faults) “And,”
concludes this lady, “if Mr. Allen has
a wife, doubtless she finds in him
more than any man ever could.”—
Exchange.
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1898.
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The Latest Fashions.
T OOKING over and thinking very seriously about, the inodes in every
| , thing study, feminine and that that really are to be favored to the coming season, is a great
one amounts more than the average being
will admit.
The world of fashion is a World by itself, and it has its panics and revolu¬
tions just as the commercial world does. And just now it is recovering
from -tlie panic and disturbance of last Winter when the hoop horror caus¬
ed as great a lack of confidence in dame fashion as any silver bill could ore¬
ate in the business world.
Modes have been in a most, undecided and unsatisfactory state for.several
months, and one was never quite sure what was really going to be worn.
There was a molly array of old-time styles revived and used without
sense or leason, and just wlmt was really fashionable was n hit hard to say,
but matters have shaped themselves right during the Summer, and now
tlie fashion makers on both sides of the pond are serenely happy over the
restored confidence of feminine minds and are quite ready to inform the
world wlmt the inodes are to be.
Everybody is surprised at the beauty and appropriateness, of the new
inodes, and at the exquisite taste pervading everything dictated for Au¬
tumn and Winter wear.
The round waist is a thing of the dead past for street wear, and only bas¬
ques are in vogue; basques with the sauciest, most fetching little skirts that
stick out in full folds over the hips to match the jaunty fulness of the over¬
skirt.
The circular skirt is no longer to be thought of; and as for the circular
flounce, that must not even be mentioned, so passe has it becotfle.
■ There has -been such a radical ebange i-n the fartthmsof gowns since the
Spring that everyone who .makes any pretense at being stylish must needs
hav# entirely new gowns.
Overskirts and polonaises have come into vogue, and basques with full
short skirts that stick out saucily over the hips are the only really fashion¬
able waists.
Great fluffy capes piled one upon the other in full folds and edged with
rich fur will be exceedingly handsome and will be worn a great deal by
young women. and *
Fer tile matter of materials, everything that is rich and heavy hand¬
some is fashionable. Basket cloths and rough cheviots are among the nov
elties. and the rich heavy diagonals in two colors are wonderfully attrac¬
tive in their illumined effects. Broadcloth will he favored for handsome
street gowns, and will be trimmed with fur in many cases.
Rich satins for evening wear will lead the fabrics for dress occasions, and
chiffon is the proper thing for dancing and hall frocks. If will be general¬
ly hiade up in ruffles, the skirt, sleeves and bertha being formed entirely of
them.
Braids, galloons and gimps will be much used for trimming, as also will
be all sorts of insertions, continue both light and heavy.
Rosettes also will to be a feature in the garniture of gowns.
High chokers appear on all the latest model gowns and both plain and swath
ed. Long shoulder seams are also a feature of many of The imported gowns,
and together witli the drooping sleeves go to prove that the 1830 styles are
to be used more than that of any other period.
Shoulder capes and bertha effects, together with the numerous revers, are
all characteristics of this period, and though greatly modified, still carry a
deal of quaintness about them.
Tea gowns and jackets are exquisite this season. Yards upon yards of
lace almost smother them with elaborate frills and llouncings accompanied
by quantities of ribbons.
Ivory crepe de chine was the material usedffn a charming creation worn
by a Newport belle : swains of Loie Fuller crepon bound the waist and were
lightly draped across the bust and held here and there by a rosette of ivory
satin aud pearls.
Illuminated silk is greatly used for this purpose, sometimes billed with
net or silk muslin. Dotted Swiss in white or cream with colored ribbons,
are worn jackets over slips of silk or even Ratteen.
Tea of silk or light tinted wool are having a great vogue. A de¬
cidedly chic style is of cerise crepe de chine with a yoke of old guipure; the
shoulder frills are of crepe edged with narrow guipure; long cerise ribbons
fasten it on the bust.
Another is of pea-green bengaline almost covered with billowy frills of
point with gaze lace; the back is short and slashed, the slashes being filled in
rose colored satin; the fronts descend to the knee in long lace trimmed
points, tied near the bottom with loops and streamers of rose ribbon.
Long overskirts and redingotes or polonaises are the things that are the
mode. Double breasted effects will be greatly favored, and the large sleeves
have not decreased one atom.
Bodices will be very trimmed, as will also the edges of overskirts. As
few seams as possible appear in the stuff of bodices, it being drawn over a
close-fitting lining, in fact bodices in one piece will be made in great num
bers, Skirts having no seams excepting at the shoulders. , %■
are not as full as in the past season, but the flaring; effect about the
bottom fening. is still retained, and is produced by horse-Tiair<or any suitable stif¬
Gored skirts with the seams outlined with garniture will he much
worn,and high place gored in fashionable princess dresses also, in fact the princess dress is to hold a
favor, and is made in innumerable attractive
ways.
• Coats are in three-quarter length and have very full spreading skirts.
Some are close fitt ing like a glove to the figure, while others hang straight
from a yoke, back and front alike, with no hint of following the figure.
Tlie reefer with close fitting back and straight loose front still holds its
own and is very little changed excepting for the sleeves and reveres, which
are Capes astonishing will in their proportions.
be very numerous and will show some novel designs. They
will be long and short, single and in numbers, but the butterlly cape that
comes attached to the shoulders of a coat should be avoided like a pestilence,
for they will be worn by the masses the coming Winter to such a degree,
that the sight of them will grow painfully monotonous. Nearly all the ready
made coats in a cheap grape show them, and they will be sold in the shops
by the thousand, the but they cannot be considered stylish.
Among new coats were many with huge sleeves of heavy satin, I no¬
ticed. This is a fancy that was being favored extensively last Winter when
I was in Loudon, and it has only reached here now. Coats of brown and
blue and black had sleeves of the exact match in satin and fastened invisi¬
bly, or with huge smoked pearl buttons.
Home tan c'oats in broadcloth and melton were very handfqme, with their
strapped seams and spreading skirls. One is of Ian coachman’s elolh, in
rather a dark shade, and fits the figure closely. It.has stylish revers and
large sleeves and buttons, with mottled horn buttons of the shade of the
coat.
lish A and redingote elegant costume from a special design is a typical creation for a sty¬
street costume for Fall or Winter.
it is of broadcloth, in a very rich quality, in dark seal brown. The skirt
is gorod several times, and lined throughout, with old rose silk, with a six
inch facing of horsehair. The gores are outlined with pipiugs of black wa
tered siik.
The redingote is almost as long as tlie skirt, and opens from the waist¬
line, flaring away at each side over the skirt. It is faultlessly fitting and
fastens at one side in front with one huge smoked pearl button. The revers
are collar very pointed and have Jet in pieces of black watered silk. The standing
is also of the silk.
The sleeves are large and stiffly- lined with muslin, and the frontstifthe
redingote are faced with watered silk.
New Winter Coats.
r T'HE handsomest and smartest coasts ever designed are those of the-
1 Winter season approaching. They fit better, are more practical and
have more style ana chic than any that I have ever seen before. They'are
out to fit perfectly when they fit at at, and when in the box fashion are
made up with rare skill.
Coachman’s cloth, melton, broadcloth and all the long array of regular
cloakings Blue and are brown used.
and tan are the most popular colors, although there are
some very handsome inode) coats sent out by Paris establishments in heavy
olive green and dull red. These latter colors, however, are only used by
t hose who have an assortment of coats ip t heir wardrobes, for if one has but.
one coat for season, unless it is of a subdued and common color, it is apt to
grow tiresome before the season is over.
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No. 3872 is of navy
blue broadcloth of a
heavy lined quality. It is \
silk throughout- with
and has strapped
seams buttons. Lady’s and Coat smoked Pattern pearl \
No,3872 is cut-in 5 sizes, ©
for ladies from 32 to 40 1 -
inches bust measure, I
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medium size, SJ-j yards ip.
material 7 yards 54 inches 27 inches. wide,| L*
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No. 3874 is a very
r / smart box coat of heavy
\ tan coachman’s cloth. It
has a yoke and strapp
\ eil seams, and is button¬
t ed double-breasted fash¬
/ ion with large white
pearl buttons.
W © No. Lady’s Coat Pattern
:fe|j 3874 is cut in 5 siz¬
es, for ladies from 32 to
40 inches bust measure,
j? aud requires, for the
medium size, 2% yards
material 54 inches wide,
V r- nr Price BJ4 yards 27 inches.
25 cents.
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to stay is recognized
all as a the foregone modistes, conclusion by
and this rP
style of outside garment is
more numerous than any
other, to be sure there fare Y
some disylayed extremely handsome . r
coats among the
new designs but the cape
seems to carry the day in
popularity in sjiite of tiffs j
fact. The reason is, no doubt 'rPWU
Miat tlie the ■
cape is easiest /
possible garment to put on \
and off, and, moreover, it a
does not crush the huge
sleeves that fashion decrees * f
in the way that a coat does.
The design of a new cape
given odd on this page is .very
Number and stylish.
perhaps, 3885, which is,
a trifle dressy, is yf
black satin trimmed grace¬
jet fully about with a the little joke heading and col- of ( \ f
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The shoulder ruffle is dou¬
ble, which causes it to stand
out stiffly over the should- p,
ers. The cape is lined
throughout with any suita¬
ble lining stuff, and if one )
wishes it to very jaunty and
chic it has an interlining of ■ it -
muslin or thin barred .can¬ ♦
vas. Lady’s lr
3885 is Gape in Pattern No.
cut fi sizes, for la¬ .J
dies from 32 to 42 inches bust
measure, the medium and requires," for
material 54 inches size, wide, yards
or
4)i yards 27 inches. Price
25 cents.
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Terms, $1.00 Per Annum.
.NO. 34.
STORY OF A FAMOUS RACE.
Fawt Time Made by the Rival Beats Lee
and Natchem In 1870.
One of the most famous races was
that between the Natchez, Captain
Leathers, and the Robert E. Lee,
Captain Cannon, which occurred in
1870. The race had its origin in a
spirit of rivalry which had existed
between the two captains for a long
time. Each having built what he
considered the fastest boat, nothing
but a trial of the speed of the two
would "satisfy Captain Leathers, so
he sent Captain Cannon word to get
his boat ready, as he expected to pass
him under way. Every possible prep¬
aration was made by Cannon on the
Lee for a genuine race.
All surplus weight was removed;
spars, fenders and the doors from a
portion of the cabin, as well as the
sash from the pilothouse—in fact,
everything that could be dispensed
with which would cause resistance
was removed from the boat, even to
portions of the “fore and aft” bulk¬
heads in the hull and the splash bulk¬
heads. Nothing was left undone to
have the Lee in perfect condition,
while, on the contrary, little or com¬
paratively nothing was done with the
Natchez to prepare her for the race.
To sum it up in a few words, Captain
Leathers and his engineer were too
sanguine of winning the race, or, in
other words, they overestimated the
capabilities of their boat, and at the
same time underestimated the Lee.
Just before the boats left port Captain
Leathers and one of his pilots went
down to the Lee to see if her hull was
greased, as reported, and while view¬
ing her he was recognized by one of
the Lee’s firemen.
The two boats left New Orleans
June 30, 1870. The Lee was 3± min¬
utes in advance of the Natchez, and
for the first three hours there was no
perceptible difference in thei* speed,
but about this time the Lee suddenly
began to widen the space, and when
they were seven hours out from port
she had distanced the Natchez 13
minutes, and they were running a
fraction more than 17 miles an hour.
When 10 hours out, the Natchez
gained 9 minutes on the Lee, but
after this the Lee gained steadily un¬
til the end of the race, and when
Cairo was reached the Lee was 1
hour and 14 minutes in advance of
the Natchez.
The Natchez gained some after
Cairo had been passed, and it is prob¬
able that, had it not been for fog, she
would have reached St. Louis very
close to the Lee. As it was, how¬
ever, she was 1- hour and 20 min¬
utes behind. The Lee arrived at St.
Louis at 10:20 o’clock on the morning
of July 4, 1870, having made the trip
in the phenomenally short time of
3 days 18 hours and 14 minutes.—St
Louis Republic.
Oil Furnace* In Ocean Steamship..
The experiment of using petroleum
as fuel on ocean steamers instead of
coal has proved successful, and it is
claimed that in the near future oil
will be almost exclusively used. The
experiment was made on the British
steamer James Brand, which plies
between Philadelphia and Spanish
ports, and the report submitted is to
the effect that the oil goes 2i times
farther than the coal, while only re¬
quiring ore-tenth the cargo space.
The tests were made on a double
ended boiler during a three days’ run,
and the oil developed the most satis¬
factory steammaking properties.
The James Brand, being a bulk oil
carrier, will not be allowed by the
insurance companies to use the pe¬
troleum fuel, but shipping men
claim that on vessels carrying gen¬
eral cargoes it will soon be generally
used.—Philadelphia Record.
A Toad's Cunning.
A scientific journal tells this story
of a toad's cunning: A brood of
chickens was fed with moistened
meul in saucers, and when the dough
soured a little it attracted large num¬
bers of flies. An observant toad had
evidently noticed this, and every day
toward evening he would make his
appearance in the yard, hop to a
saucer, climb in and roll over until
he was covered with meal, having
done which he awaited develop¬
ments. The flies, enticed by the
smell, soon swarmed around the
scheming batrachian, and whenever
one passed within two inches or so of
his nose his tongue darted out and
the fly disappeared. The plan worked
so well that the toad made a regular
business of it.
The Flrat Act of * Tragedy.
You are sitting alone. Suddenly
you instinctively feel a sensation of
horror of some evil influence that is
present, but as yet unseen. You lift
your eyes. You behold, gliding over
the carpet toward you, without noise,
apparently without the trouble of
walking, a mouse. It stops. It fas¬
cinates you. You feel your blood
freeze and your limbs slowly par¬
alyze. Your heart stops beating.
Your breath ceases. A cold chill
creeps over you.—London Woman.
Taxe* Iu China.
The Chinese are' the most lightly
taxed people in the world. They have
no chancellor <Jf the exchequer wor¬
ried over budget making. All the
land there belongs to the state, and a
trifling sum per acre, never altered
through long centuries, is paid as
rent. This is the only tax in the
country, aud it amounts to about $6
per head yearly.—St. Louis Republic.