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VOL. I. NOT TO BE MENDED ACAIN. You oan take a piece of china that’s been broken by the mahl, And can put the thing together if you know the mender’s trade; You can mend the thing so neatly that no one will ever know That it has e’er been shattered by an uneonsidered blow. You can take a heart that’s broken by some small flirtatious girl, •knd can mend the fractured pieoes till they’re smooth as any pearl, Av say that that heart’s possessor feels as sturdy as an oak, And forgets that o’er it happened that his heart was ever “broke.” You can fall from a bicycle and make pieoes of your nose; You eau break your collar-bone, or you ean fracture all your toes; You can crush your arm in splinters; you can smash your either leg, And a doctor he will fix it till it’s whole as any egg. You oan smash an oeean record, but that record still is there, You may break a trotting record with a rapid little mare, Aud leave the old one standing a-huzzaing just as whole, through quite the as street. complete, As when it sent the jockeys But alas! if. you arc angry, and have angry words to say, Beware a broken silence, or you’ll surely rue the day. For fl silence, that is broken, by the women or the men, Is a thing that eau’t be mended, can’t be rendered whole again, The Cavern of Flies. w < W/T CRUZ, Ji Mexico, June 21 / —At F e c o h, State of Ynca tan, and at other -JijfcY=31 Hlliil ~ •fe' Pisces State, the in sun V has been ob¬ scured for sev¬ eral days by clouds of flies, which came from the interior country.—The New York Sun. Is this the proof of the story by the late General Jo O. Shelby, Confederate who never but who, nevertheless, died States Marshal for the Western trict of Missouri? Has the Cavern Flies broken loose? it was near this same Fecoh, cording to the General’s story, Walter Andrews Balister, living near Kansas City, Mo., won fortune by entering the famous of Flies. The Cavern of Flies is one of most wonderful and, at the same time, one of the most hideous places in world. Balister’s advent ure, in daring inexpressible terror, is not by the most extravagant flights of tion. The memory of his undoubtedly wore upon mind, for he packed up six years and left his home, saying: "I am going to Greenland, where is too cold for flies. ’ It is not known in what year went to .Yucatan. By a strange of fortune this tall, thin youth, the district of Missouri, where James boys bad their haunts, himself shipping from New Orleans one of a party to explore the ruins of Yucatan. When he returned to Jackson.Conn ty in 1880 his old frieuds did not him. His face and hands were eov ered with countless tiny blue spots, jf he had been tattooed. Ho plenty of money, although he from the Missouri lulls with except the six-shooter in his hip poc ket. He built a fine house. Each of the house was provided with firm wire netting. A summer house in the grounds was built, enmeshed entirely with netting. When asked why he used all this expensive wire netting, Balister replied, gruffly: “To keepout flies!” Soon his black servants told a strange story. Their master’s chief requirement was that they should let no flies into the house. If lie heard one buzzing, every person iu the house was ordered to kill that fly, to do nothing until the fly was killed. One day Balister found a black boy asleep with a fly perched on his nose. He struck the boy a blow that all but killed him! It was too near the big up-to-date town of Kansas City for black boys to be struck down by their masters, hence Balister was arrested for assault with intent to kill. He declared he aimed at the fly, not ’the boy. This excuse was considered a bit of grim humor. It was this circumstance that led the strange man to tell to the late General J. O. Shelby the story of the “Cavern of Flies. ” General Shelby told the story several times in con yivia! moments. Balister’s father was one of my bravest soldiers,” said General Shelby, “and rode to Mexico with me rather than surrender to the Yankees. I met young Balister, but never asked him what made bis face blue. Gentlemen, that man was blue all over! When he Was charged with trying to kill the boy, <<’ he said to me: ‘General, it is no joke—I did aim at the fly!’ “Then he told me the story which, he said, had never passed his lips be fore, it was so painful for him to tell, “It seems that somewhere in the in terior of Yucatan, near Fecoh, two of the expedition, accompanied by Balis ter, found a lot of ruins covered by forest trees. An immense hill of lava attracted them, and it was around the bill they found these ruins. “Among the peculiar features of ancient temple was an underground tunnel, which, by observation, they found to lead into the hill of lava rock. “In their efforts to follow ^his tun. Murray News STRING PLACE. GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 30, 1897. net the party was driven back by swarms of flies! The walls and ceiling of the passage were covered with a species of flies which puzzled the ex¬ plorers. They had never seen flies. any flies of that sort in that laud of “Determined to solve the mystery of the underground passage, the party covered their faces and hands with cloths and pushed resolutely on through ever-increasing clouds of flies. As they went further the ancient air grew warmer and moist, and an intol¬ erable odor assailed them. They were driven back. “The next day they tried again, and were rewarded by Bigns of light. En couraged by the light, they fonglit through the swarms of insects aud en tered what seemed the crater of an ex¬ tinet volcano. The terrible smell was from masses of flies underfoot. Warm fumes still arose from the rocks, High above them were the apertures j through which came the daylight, “‘It is a burial place!’ exclaimed the explorers, “Balister knew nothing of the de light of unearthing the traces of ex tiuct nations, his business was to inau age mules, but he was filled with won der to behold row s up on rows oi erect skeletons along the walls. The Bones of the mysterious dead were covered with flies. ■• T he uext discovery was that the arms anti ankles of the skeletons were deeorated with braoelets. Pendants hung from grisly necks upon empty rd}S (l:u | diaphragms! “It was Balister who cried, ‘They are gold!’ “Almost blinded by the attacks of i nseo ts, the men began to wrest the treasure from the spectres of an uu* kll0wn past. “Balister knocked grinning skulls of queens and nobles from their shoul ders aTld strung his arms with rich „eekiae.es of virgin gold, “Then arose a sound like the gib geviug of ten thousand fiends, “Frightened and half running for t h e mouth of the tunnel, the men re alized that it was not the augry mnr muriaga of the ghosts of a forgotten race, but the uprising of countless millions and billions of flies! “The swarms blotted out the rifts of daylight, The torches were extin¬ guished, and the men fell upon their faces to escape the attack. “Then, joining hands, they sought to find the tunnel through which they had entered. The pests got under their clothes, under the cloths over their faces, and they were bitten in a thousand places. “Balister said his companions screamed with agony! “They groped along the sides of the cavern, but everywhere their frantic hands felt nothing but the bony legs of the dead. “Balister, gentlemen, was not a fat, spectacled scientist. He was a strong, fearless young man of the stuff that never surrendered. Yet he said that he felt his mind melting like a snow¬ ball in an oven. He wanted to scream and gibber! “But, observe Missouri instinct all this time—he clung to his booty! “He does not know how long the three men struggled in that avalanche of insects that choked them, that bit them in the gullet even as they were swallowed. Balister , lost , , hold ,, of . , his . com panions. Their screams, he said, sounded muffled in the angry roar of the myriads of flies which were eating them alive! Almost ready to fall and have hie bones picked, Balistei, by Missouri instinct, drew his gun and began to shoot ! “Although Bhooting at flies was mere madness, Balister said that the act of shooting saved his sanity. It " as 80 natural an act for a Missourian, gentlemen! “‘I yelled,’ Balister said to me, ‘when I saw, by the flashes, the mouth of the tunnel!’ “ ‘Come on!’ he Bhouted to his com panions, shooting as he ran and bled through the tunnel. The flies pursued him every step. “He plunged into the court of the ruined temple, threw down his booty, and there tore off his clothes and brushed from his flesh the flies tha+ clung like leeches. He was black with them, black and red—for the blood ran in streams. “Running to the cam)) he smeared himself with ointment. “So engrossed was Balister with his own torments that he did not, for the time, think of his employers. “Gentlemen, they never came out!” “Balister assured me on his honor that he went back the whole length of the tunnel, in vain, thinking he might find them lying there unconscious. “He told me he remained among the ruins several days. He couldn’t sleep because, at night, he thought he heard screams in the tunnel. “Once he screwed up his courage to go to the mouth of the passage and call when he heard the screams. He said he thought he heard mocking laughter in reply. the Mexi¬ “Balister concluded that can authorities would laugh at his story, shoot him as a murderer and take Iris gold. idea, he hid “Possessed with this the gold in the pack saddles of his mules and made his way to the coast without attempting to find the rest of the expedition, which searched vainly for the men who were eaten alive. “ ‘I am perfectly sane,’ he told me, 'but I can’t bear the sight of a fly.’ ” —New York Journal. A riRcc For tile Wheels. When the bicyole first became o popular method of locomotion, and be fore it was regarded as more than a fad, to run its course as other fads, tkere was much complaint on the part of some merchants when wheels were stacked in front of their places of bnsi ness to the obscurity of low signs and to the danger of plate glass. At Beta few places notioes of “No bicycles were displayed. As the wheels be came more aud more numerous the enterprising merchants provided racks for the rvheeis of their customers, and now a merchant on the avenue lias outstripped competitors by placing a large sign in his window: Wheel rack inside for customers. One of the “no bicycle’ signs that was given a place in front of an F street store for a year or two was lately taken down and thrown into the ash barrel. Its exile came about for commercial rea sons. One day the proprietor met one of his old customers on the street am incidentally remarked that he haun t made any purchases for a long time. “No,” replied the customer. I went to your store about a year ago on my wheel to make a purchase. I dismounted, and upon looking fora place to rest it, my eye came in con tact with that sign, ‘No bicycles. I couldn’t put the wheel in my pocket, aud consequently I remounted, found a store where there was no prejudice against wheels, made my purchase, and there I have dealt ever since. That experience was enough to cause the dealer to remove his sign from his window front to liis ash barrel. Washington Star. American Peanut OIL The first peanut oil factory in the United States will be established in Norfolk, Va., at an early date. The oil is highly valued in Europe, and it is stated that fully $5,000,000 worth of peanuts are brought into Marseilles annually for the manufacture of oil, which is used in toilet soaps and for other purposes. The peanut flour is quite extensively used in Europe and made into bread, cake, biscuit, etc. It is one of the favorite articles of food, according to consular reports, in hos¬ pitals in Germany. The capital stock or the present company is $60,000, and it is operating under the patents of Mr. Weatherly, which cover the ma¬ chinery and methods of decorticating the kernel of the inner skin. Accord¬ ing to the estimates made, the cost of a plant for treating five tons of pea nuts daily is as follows: Machinery, $9000; building, $6000, while the ex penditures, including labor, insur a rice and taxes, amount to $337 per day. In a prospectus issued by the company it is calculated that the re ceipts from five tons of peanuts will amount to 235 gallons of refined oil at $1 per gallon; 175 gallons of crude oil at fifty cents; 3680 pounds of flour and meal, at two cents, and 3680 pounds of stock feed, at sixty cents j per 100 pounds, making the total grow 4 receipts $415.90 per day, which, it estimated, would give a yearly profit on a five-ton factory of $19,725.-At lanta Constitution. They no Not Marry Young, The average age at which people in England marry has steadily risen for a good ma ny years. Sir Brydges Eng Hennjker, Registrar General for ] a tid and Wales, has only now com pie t ed his detailed reportfor 1895, and be states that the mean ages of those who entered wedlock in that year were a bout twenty-eight and a half years for men and slightly over twenty-six years for women. These figures, how ever, include the ages of widowers n nd widows who re-enter the rnatri , monial estate, and who ought properly j to be excluded from the calculation, for the average age of widowers who re-marrv is over forty-four, while that of widows is forty, If, therefore, we deal only with the caseof bachelors and spinsters, we find that the mean ; ages on marriage are twenty-six and t half and twenty-five respectively. Tht number of under-age marriages regis tered in 1895 was the lowest records for between forty and fifty years, ... HORSES KILLED TO SAVE GRASS. A Perplexing Problem Which Confronts Northwest Kanchmen, The interesting news comes from the oity of Butte, Montana, that in sev¬ eral parts of that State horses are so numerous and there is so little use for them that they are being killed by ranchmen aud their flesh fed to liogs as food instead of corn In 'Madison County several horse meat canning es» tablishmeuts are now in operation, and the product is said to be shipped East and then to Europe. Horses can be bought for $3 tl head or even less when purchased in large numbers. These facts suggest the inquiry as to what is to become of the horse. With the introduction of electricity on street car lines, where, until a few years ago, horses were practically the sole motive poiter, and with the ever-increasing use of the bicycle, there horse seems to be less use for the than ever. This use of electricity and bicycles makes it probable that horses will be bred in very small numbers hereafter. In the States of Montana, North Dakota, Idaho, Washington aud Wy¬ oming hundreds of thousands of dol¬ lars have been invested in cattle, sheep and horses. Large herds were formerly driven from Texas and the Southwest to fatten on the nutritious grasses to be found in flhe States named, but the constant increase in Fie number * of cattle, especially those 0 j (q ie Half breed variety, has also caused a redaction iu their value, Tlio establishment of oanning fac to ries in Madison County, Montana, where horse meat iB put up is not the firgt expei . iment of the kind in the Nort]awes t, In 1895 it was made in Port bmd, Oregon, where horse meat was canned and shipped to France. It was found, however, that the enterprise did not pay) tlle demand being insuf fio ; entj w h.ile packers of , beef refused to add horse meat to their line of trade because of the prejudice which would nr j 8e Reports from Madison County state a j g0 jj la t horses iu some instances are driven into corrals on the ranches, kjlll , d and the bodies dragged out into the fieldSj wLere the hogs can devour It seems almost incredible that this- should be the case, but it* has cume be a matter of self-preserva districts, t - ou , vjth tho own6rs 0 f large grazing wliere there was danger that the horses would eat up all the grass, thereby leaving no fodder whatever for beef cattle. it is not only the half breed horsos that are found to be a drug on the mar but such fine stock as Clydesdales and coach horses are being offered by r anchnien there for very small figures, Q ne ranc Lman in Madison County is said to liave tt herd of seventeen hun dred horses of Clydesdale and Norman stock which he is willing to dispose of for g 15 a j lead . He is unwilling to sacrifice his stock for canning pur poses, although the herd is eating the grass required for the grazing cattle aud sheep. The cattle herds in the Northwest are numbered by thousands, the prices for which are ridiculously small. The feed on the ranges is not increasing, while the cattle are, thus making the problem of finding feed more difficult. These immense herds roam the prairies of North Dakota, Washington, Mon¬ tana and Idaho.—New York Herald. Moving: Hospital#. The railway hospital car is the latest novelty in foreign railroading. In the event of a serious accident, these cars can be run to the place of the disaster, where the injured may be picked up and carried to the nearest large city for treatment instead of being left to pass long hours at some wayside station while awaiting surgical attendance. B also enables ,, the railway ,, companies »t certain seasons or upon special oc casions to transport large numbers of invalids to health resorts or places of pilgrimage. The interior of the car is divided into a main compartment, a corridor on one side and two small rooms at the end The largest corn partment is the hospital proper; it contains twenty-four isolated beds, Each patient lies in front of two little windows. Each bed is provided with f movable table, and A cord serves to Hold all the various small objects which the patient may require The corridors on the outside lead to the l»nen closet and the doctor s apart “ent. Various trap doors in the floor, when opened, compartment disclose for to the view disinfec¬ an ice chest, a provision tion of soiled linen, and a cellar. If necessary, a portion of the hospital chamber may be transformed into an operating room for urgent cases. Finally, as customary abroad, a small chapel for religious worship is provided. This ear will be put in charge of a surgeon and nurses, and will be chiefly used to carry invalids from Belgium direct to the health re¬ sorts of France. Bum Dam Ballets. Dum Dum bullets, as the modifica tion of the Lee-Metford small-calibre missile modified by softening the tip is called in India, have proved success ful. Surgeons, after experimenting with them, say that the wound inflicted will not only stop the most determined enemy, but will render him useless for toe rest of the campaign. The bullet “sets up” very much on impact and uakes a particularly severe wound ,vhen it strikes the bone. _____. WORDS OF WISDOM. The offender never forgives. More have repented speech than si¬ lence. Woman lives for sentiment, man for action. He that is slow to wrath is of great uuderstailding. Of two evils, choose the least; ol two sins, neither. It pleases a woman to be told that she is fascinating. It pleases a woman to call her a sen¬ sible little woman. Speak well of yonr friend, of your enemy say nothing. He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like. Satisfaction comes by inches, disap¬ pointment by the foot. Opinions are mortgages the world holds upon our liberty. He who has a thousand friends has not one friend to spare. The doctor is often more to be dreaded than the disease. Cupid has given some people the hardest fall they ever got. Recollection is the only paradise out of which we can not be driven. Some people, like the earth, have to be broken up before they become use ful. They who cannot have what they like should learn to like what they have. Opportunity makes short calls. When one is out it leaves a card and moves on. It pleases a woman to be told that she improves a man by her companion¬ ship. There is pleasure in meeting the eyes of those to whom we have done good. Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well, wisest and bestofall. The bitterest medicine is sweet to a boy if he thinks his younger brother wants it.—The South-West. Alleged Occurrence of Frog;* in Stone. The occurrence of living frogs aud toads inclosed iu blocks of rock or stone or in clay, many feet below the surface of trie ground, has often been reported, but never substantiated, Bays Leisure Hour. Dr. R. H. Traquair, keeper of the Natural History Collec¬ tion in the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, has examined this delusion, among others, and he puts all such reports down to want of pow¬ er of accurate observation. A stone is being broken, a frog is seen hopping about close to the place, and forthwith the lively imagination of the quarry man persuades him that he has seen it actually come out of the cavity in the rock. Dean Bnckland made experi¬ ments for the purpose of ascertaining how long frogs and toads could live shut up in cavities of stone ami ex¬ cluded from air and food, with the re¬ sult that most of them were dead with¬ in a year, and none survived more than two years. Yet frogs are alleged to have been found inclosed in rocks which, geology teaches, were deposit¬ ed under water millions of years ago, and afterward subjected to a pressure which has crushed all the fossils con¬ tained in them as flat as paper. If geology is right, the frog stories are utterly incredible, Or, as Dr. Tra¬ quair puts it, the blow of the hammer that disclosed a live frog inside a block of stone without an opening would at the same time destroy not only geol¬ ogy but the whole fabric of natural science. Very Large Dog. Nero, a dog owned by Wayne Bailey, of Rutland, is said to be the largest canine in the world, says the Vermont Phoenix. He tipped the scales Friday at 267 pounds, and would undoubtedly have gone ten pounds better three weeks ago. Nero is a handsome half German and half English mastiff, fawn brindle in color, his huge head being of a tn fie darker shade. He is as agile and lively as a eat. He makes a splen ie watch dog but is a kind and affection ate animal. Mr. Bailey bought him at West Exit land when he v,uS six months ol , ie ls now four years old. At the time of purchase Nero weighed 162 pounds The animal stands up horn e ground thirty-five inches and girths fifty inches. The dog s neck is unusu ally large, measuring thirty inches, and from tip to tip he measures six feet five and one-half inches. Bat He Got the Woodehack. Charles , Freeman, T , ten . years old ,, re siding on the Ford farm, Derby Hill Conn while chasing a woodchuck had one of his toes so badly injured it is feared it will have to be amputated. The groundhog had plumped into a stone wall and to get at him the boy loosened a heavy stone from the wall. This hs held up with one hand, while with the other he grabbed the wood¬ chuck, and as he did so the stone fell on his bare foot. Though he suffered mu oh pain, he pluekily’held the ani¬ mal until assistance came. The average yield of potatoes to the acre in France is 102 bushels; in Ger many, 121; in Italy, 164; in Holland, 177; ia thf United Btates, 75. _____ NO. 49. IF WE OilLY KNEW. Ah! sisters, if wo only knew each grief That rends the other, we could never hate, Nor even think remorse could come too late, 8o she brought with her a more kind belief. Most surely prejudice is a foul thief Who steals love’s blossom through the very gate It Which we would shut against him. is fate That hands wtiich might extend us sweet relief Press down upon its thorns our coronet, And when wo sob (or water reach ns gall, And when our hearts ache thrust our sides with seorn. Oh, women, women! do yo then forgot How all must stumble, though some only fall? How ye might stay with hope the feet forlorn? —Amelie Hives. PtTH AND POINT. “Give a poor fellow a lift,” solilo¬ quized the burglar, aud he lifted a frozen diamond rings.—Washington Capital. Lady—“Where is my trunk?” Por¬ ter—“I couldn’t find any trunk, mum, but I’ve got the handle with the label on. ”—Standard. Freshman—“What makes you think these eggs were stolen?” Clubmate— “You can see yourself they’ve been poached.”—Princeton Tiger. Doctor—“Your friend shows some improvement.” Patient’s Friend— “Does he?” Doctor—“Yes; he ad¬ mits that lie’s a crank.”—Puck. Wife—“How people gaze at my new dress. I presume they wonder if I’ve been shopping in Paris. ” Husband— “More likely they wonder if I’ve been robbing a bank. ”—Tit-Bits. Hamm—“From the very first time I went upon the stage my aim has been a high one.” Tom Mentor—“Yes, I’ve always noticed that you invariably played to the gallery.”—Boston Trans¬ cript. “What does that man Slickly do for a Hying?" “For board and lodging he floes the hotels, and for clothes does his tailor. Outside of that he does the best he can.”—Detroit Free Press. Chambermaid—“Last evening Mon¬ sieur took me for his wife.” Cook— “Ah! He kissed you, I suppose?” “Not in the least! He called me names and made a terrible scene.”—Le Figaro. “I guess there’s something the matter with our rubber-tree, ” observed the small boy. “I’ve been watching it for a year or two now, and it hasn’t sprouted any overshoes yet.”— Harper’s Bazar. Mr. Bedford—“I believe in reci¬ procity iu underwear. ” Mr. Webster — “What do you mean by that?” Mr. Bedford—“Stick to your winter flan¬ nels until they stick to you.”—Pitts¬ burg Chronicl 3-Telegraph. The Judge—“Didn’t I tell you the last time that you were here that I wanted to see your face iu this court no more?” Weary Watkins—“You did, yeronner, and that is exactly wot I tole the cop."—Indianapolis Jour nal. Telescope Proprietor—“Step up, ladies and gents, and view tho planet Mars. Oue penny, mum.” Old Lady —“Oh, law! Hain’t it round and smooth?" Telescope Proprietor— “Will the bald headed gent please step away from in front of the instrument?” —London Tit-Bits. Husband — “Dearest Mathilde, 1 have made up my mind to grant all your wishes, You shall go to the mountains six weeks, you shall have a new dress, and the parlor shall be sup¬ plied with new rococo furniture.” Wife—“Oh, Charles! What have'you been doing?”—Fliegende Blatter. “Mercy!” cried Mr. Barker at the restaurant. “Waiter, is this Neuf chatel cheese?” “Yes, sir,” said the waiter. “Well, I must say it tastes like very old chatel cheese. Bring me some cottage cheese instead, and be sure it is made of some cottage since the original Queen Anne period.”— Harper’s Bazar. sta*-Himtin* at Night, Wonderfully elaborate open-air f eteg| 0 ft en the scene of some mum m f or coup de theatre celebrating 8ceI eg in conneotion wit h venery, were frequent \ occurrences. Thus Louig XI more than once held stag-hunts * at night; ^ and for that pur¬ illumiua the 4 d t with fo egt torches, of Chantilly and was the bunted stag | wasfoxoedtopasBtiiTough thousand avenuefllin d b y several men holding » brightly * J flaring flambeaux in fteir h nd8 8e verftl of the prin<)eg8 e B of hig court were dari ng riders, and f rom the letters of one of these royal ladies, a Duchess of Orleans, we learn that in four J years she was present at th deflth over a thousand stags, Her de80ripticn8 & o{ the sport are most 8nthusia8t have had twenty-six faH but have hurt myself only once,” ghe J in one of her letters. „ 8 ^ tg in the Seventeenth Century,” in Century * . A Tramp .rent Sea. In the neighborhood of the Bermudas the sea is extremely transparent, so that the fishermen can readily see their the horns of lobsters protruding from consider¬ hiding-places To in the entice rocks the at able depth. crustaceans from these crannies they tie a lot of snails in a ball and dangle them in front of the cautious lobster. When he g rabs the ball the y haul him up.