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SPRING PLACE JIMPLECUTE.
J. C. HEARTSELL, Ed. and Pub.
VOL XIII.
The YoySge.
Be our coarse by sun or star.
Be the haven near or far.
Golden shores will yet be won.
Steering toward the setting sun.
Father, stand with forehead bare.
Over faith all skies are fair ;
Youth, lean out your golden head,
Love is willing, whither led.
—[John Vance Cheney in Independent
That Twenty Dollar Bill.
BT DOWLING DAVIES.
We had been speaking of coinci¬
dences and unusual happenings, when
Nettleton remarked that a thing oc¬
curred in his experience which was not
only a very strange coincidence but
was the means of saving a man's life
and of making several people very
happy: “and,” he added, laughing, “I
have never been able to convince my
wife that it wasn’t something more
than a coincidence.”
“That sounds promising; spin us
the yarn, will you,” said Fraser.
“Very well, if you care to hear it,”
Nettletou said, aiul forthwith began
his story in the following words:
“My first wife and I spent our hon¬
eymoon traveling in Europe, We
went the usual round, and after sev¬
eral months of it found ourselves one
day at Monte Carlo. We visited the
Casino, and my wife became so inter¬
ested in watching the play that at last
she said she would like to try her
luck.
“Very well,” said*!, laughing, “I’ll
just time you und see how long it will
take you to lose this;” and I got a
hundred-franc note changed and placed
the riSoney in front of her.
“The hundred francs lasted half an
hour.
“A few weeks after we returned to
America and a year later my poor wife
died.
“Three years afterwards I married
my present wife. She had traveled
extensively in this country, but had
never been to Europe, and as she was
anxious to go, of course we went.
“We happened to be in Nice one
day, and Clara thought she would like
to see Monte Carlo as it was so near.
We went.
“As we entered the Casino my for¬
mer visit with my first wife suddenly
recurred to my mind, and I? was sur¬
prised to see Clara walk directly up to
the same table at which my first wife
had
“Clara began playing with a few
francs which she took from her purse.
She won steadily-, and in half an hour
left oil' playing and found she was the
winner of exactly one hundred francs.
“ ‘This is certainly a remarkable co¬
incidence,’ I reflected. ‘How strange
that my second wife should come all
the way from America to win back the
money which my first wife lost at that
identical table just four years ago !’ I
told Clara about it as we walked back
' to the hotel. She is inclined to be
superstitious, and I was not surprised
when she said:
“ ‘Something ought to be done with
that money, John. It seems to me it
doesn’t belong to us, but to that poor
dead girl;’ and then she conceived the
idea of sending it to some poor rela¬
tion of my first wife.
it i As far as I know,’ I said, ‘the
only living relative is her brother
Jack. You might send it to him if
you like. Constance was very fond of
.him.’
“When we returned to New York
and had got settled in our new home
my wife asked me for Jack’s address.
So, to pleaae her, I wrote to a lawyer
in Boston who had settled up the Co¬
rey estate and obtained the address.
Clara enclosed a twenty-dollar bill in
an envelope and mailed it to Jack.
“Some years previously, when Jack
Corey- left Harvard and returned to
his home in Boston, his father increased
his allowance, which was already more
than most youths of his years enjoyed,
and Jack, who had been the leader of
the fast set at college, was soon in a
•whirl of gayety, ‘Let him have his
fling, ’ the old man said, ‘he’ll soon get
tired of it and settle down. ’
“From what I have heard I am in¬
clined to believe that Jack was very
well pleased with this arrangement.
At any rate, at the end of a couple of
years, when his father intimated to
Jack that it was time he was thinking
about ‘settling down’ and going into
business, the boy couldn’t see it in that
light exactly.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 28 , 1893 .
i< i Father,’ he said, ‘what is the use
of my going into business? You have
more money now than you know what
to do with, and I should only lose the
capital you propose to put up for me. ’
“But after his father’s death Jack
was very much surprised to And that
there was little or nothing left after
winding up the estate, and then he
realized what an ass he’d been. He
tried to get something to do, but his
father’s old friends looked askance at
him, and his gay- chums in prosperous
times passed him by with a cool nod.
He fled to Chicago, presented his letters
of introduction and was handsomely
received. When these new friends
found, however, that he was in search
of employment, they failed to see him
on the streets, and when approached,
politely- told him they could not assist
him: ‘Please excuse me; very busy,’
etc.
“Jack’s funds ran low, his spirits
kept pace, and it was obvious that
something must be done. But Jack
was easily discouraged, and I suspect,
too, that an unfortunate love affair had
a very depressing influence ou his
mind. It will hardly lie believed, but
he became so desperate that, one day,
he actually determined to take his own
life. He stretched himself on his bed,
placed the cold ‘muzzle’ of a revolver
to his temple and cast a last look
around. As he did so he noticed a
letter lying on the table within reach.
The handwriting was that of a lady.
To his astonishment he found the en¬
velope to contain a twenty-dollar bill
—nothing else. The postmark—New
York—gave no clew to the sender.”
a i Well,’said Jack, putting on his
hat, ‘I’ll put off my departure for the
present. I think a good dinner will
be in order. ’
“After the death of my first wife I
had lost sight of Jack. I had written
to him after his father died, but hail
not heard from him in reply, although
Jack afterward told me he had received
my letter and answered 'it, but not
hearing from me again, thought I had
‘gone back ou him’ like the rest of his
fair-weather friends.
“Well, after Jack ‘postponed the
entertainment, ’ as he expressed it, he
made the best of his way to a restau¬
rant not far from his lodgings.
“As he was about to enter the place
an old gentleman in front of him
stumbled on the threshold and would
have fallen heavily, had not Jack
promptly seized him round the waist
and raised him to his feet.
“ ‘My dear sir,’ said the old gentle¬
man, ‘you have done me a great ser¬
vice ; will you join me at dinner?’
it t With pleasure,’ said Jack.
it i My name, ’ said the old gentle¬
man, ‘is Stanford,’
“ ‘And mine is Oorev.’
“ ‘Indeed! I once had a great friend
named Corey. Was at Harvard with
him. Remson Corey.’
. W V My father,’ murmured Jack,
Bless my soul!’ cried Mr. Stan¬
ford. Glad I stumbled on you. Ha!
ha! literally by Jove ! But how is your
father, and what are you doing in Chi¬
cago?’
“Jack related his adventures.
“When he had finished, the old gen¬
tleman said:
“‘Well, if you will call at my office
I’ll see what can be done. There is a
vacancy which you can fill, I think. ’
“One day I met Jack on Broadway.
His face wore its old-time happy smile,
and he looked well and prosperous. I
took him home to dinner and he told
us his story. Then my wife related
the story of the hundred francs,
“Mr. Stanford took a great liking
to Jack, who has developed a wonder¬
ful aptitude for business, and I ven¬
ture to predict will be a rich man in a
few- years.
•‘Recently, while on a visit to Bos¬
ton, Jack met his old sweetheart, and
their misunderstanding was happily
adjusted. They are to be married
very shortly. Mrs. Corey that is to
be is a most attractive girl. Both she
and Jack are devoted to my wife.
They say they owe Jack’s preservation
from death and their happiness to the
timely arrival of that twenty-dollar
bill.”—[Once a Week.
Temperature and Pulse.
If you take a thermometer on a hot
g ummer day, and watch it until it runs
up under the influence of the sunshine
to 98.4, you will see it, w hen it reaches
that point, at the exact temperature of
your body, if you are in normal health,
j Your temperature may fluctuate a frac-
“ TELL THE TRUTH ”
tion above or below 98.4 according to
the time of the day’ or night, but it
never varies to any Extent- unless fever
or some other kind of disease sets in.
Then the temperature begins to do
what the pulse would not do—tell just
how dangerously sick the patient is.
And one of the strange things about
it is that it does not vary- many de¬
grees from this normal point of 98.4,
no matter how ill the patient may be¬
come- If there is a high fever it may
run up to 104 or 105, and sometimes
to 106, but it seldom stays at this last
point for any length of time.
If it goes up to 108 the good phy¬
sician who is watching at the bedside
of the sick person concludes that death
will soon put an end to the suffering.
Sometimes, as in cases of cholera, it
may drop several degrees below 98.4.
but it seems impossible for it to
change many degrees from the normal
point. There are cases recorded where
the temperature ran up to 110 or 112
and the patient, recovered.
The pulse, ou the contrary, may
change many beats, and still the sick
person will not be in danger of death.
But, as a rule, if the temperature
reaches 108 or 109 death soon follows.
A tiny thermometer called a clin¬
ical thermometer,is used to indicate
the temperature. It is placed under
the tongue, or close to the skin in the
axilla, or arm pit, and left there for a
few minutes. By an ingenious ar¬
rangement the mercury in the slender
glass tube is self-registering, so that
you may tell how high it was any
time after the temperature is taken if
the mercury is not disturbed.—[St.
Nicholas.
A Philosopher.
I remember takiug little Fred, my
eldest son, to skate with me one win¬
ter’s afternoon on a suburban pond.
He did famously for a tyro, but we
both wearied at last of his everlasting
strife to maintain the perpendicular,
and I was conscious of a rush of joy
when he became completely absorbed
in watching a man who was fishing for
pickerel through a hole in the ice.
“Caught anything?” asked he.
“Nop.”
( i Had a bite?”
“Nop.”
“How long you been fishing?"
“An hour.”
As I glided away light-heartedly on
tlxe delicious curves of the outer edge,
I reflected that ho was evidently a per¬
severing pot-liunfer who would not be
easily discouraged and that I could
count upon liis engrossing the attention
of iny offspring ior a considerable pe¬
riod.
Accordingly I was surprised, some
five minutes later, to observe the fish¬
erman shambling across the pond
toward the shore. A moment after¬
ward I learned what had happened.
The horny-handed pot hunter, hav¬
ing presently pulled a solitary pick¬
erel out upon the ice and freed it from
his hook, turned aside to out another
piece of bait; whereupon my hopeful
picked up the fish and popped it back
into its native element without so
much as a syllable of commentary;
and thereupon he of the horny hand
having realized the situation in its
entirety, pulled up his line shovelled
back the particles of ice into the hole
and betook himself upon his sham¬
bling way without a word.
Not a word, mark you! The only
alternative w-as child murder or silence
and my pot hunter chose the simplest
form of the dilemma.
“I thought the fish would like it,”
said little Fred, when interrogated
upon the subject.-—[Scribner’s Maga¬
zine.
Guiana, the “Wild Woman.”
“The wild woman” is what the Bri¬
tons call their colony op the north¬
eastern front of South America, That
is what Guiana means they say—a
wild and savage woman. Mr. Wells,
who visited that country as the special
commissioner for the World’s Fair,
says British Guiana is the field to
which the American sportsman will go
far big game and hazardous sport in
the near future. It is less distance
from the mouth of the Mississippi or
from the keys of Florida, across the
gulf to the mouth of the Orinoco than
it is from the Mississippi westward to
the parks of the Roeky Mountains.—
[Globe-Democrat.
The public schools of this country
have 369,000 teachers, 13,000,000 pu¬
pils, and cost last year, .$148,724,847.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Horses alysyM sleep with one ear
pointed to the front. The reason of
it no man can tell.
Statistics show that women in the
United States are growing taller, while
men are getting shorter.
The whale moves through the wirier
with a velocity- which, if continued at
the same rave, would enableliim to en¬
circle the whole world in less than
fourteen days.
Sir Joseph Lister has returned to
the use of carbolic acid for antiseptic
purposes, in the strength of 1.20, be¬
lieving it to be germicidal to most of
tbe pathogenic micro-organisms.
Here al e the very latest estimates of
the five great oceans: Pacific, 71,000,
000 square miles; Atlantic 35,000,000
square miles; Indian, 28,000,000
square miles; Antarctic, 8,500,000
square mi lets; Arctic, 4,500,000 square
miles.
By cbniopt with this planet meteor¬
ites are raised to a temperature which
reaches from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000
degrees —high enough to consume the
hardest known substance almost in¬
stantly. Thus only those of large
size resell the earth before being en¬
tirely burnt up.
A-survey for a cable from the shores
ef California to the Sandwich Islands
has resulted in a route being chosen
from Monterey bay to Honolulu. The
route selected will require the smallest
length of wire, and it passes over an
even bottom, favorable for the pro¬
tection and preservation of a cable,
submarine mountains being avoided.
An English rainmaker now operating
in India has an apparatus consisting,, f
a rocket capable of rising to the
height of a mile, containing a reser¬
voir of ether. In its descent it opens
a parachute, which causes it to come
down slowly. The ether Is thrown
out in a fine spray, and its absorption
of heat is said to lower the tempera¬
ture about it sufficiently to condense
the vapor and produce a limited
shower.
During the past year astronomers
have discovered twenty-nine new plan¬
ets. Of this number two were found
by Palisa, the “veteran asteroid hun¬
ter of Vienna.” The remainder were
appraised by means of photography.
During the three opening mouths of
the present year 22 planets have been
added to the list. The t*>tnl number
of asteroids known on April 1 is 374.
Astronomers are confident that the
number will be 400 before the close of
the year, *
The most interesting of all moons
are the two that attend Mars, each
about sixty miles in diameter. That
planet is just one-half the size of the
earth; its surface is divided into con¬
tinents and seas, having as much land
as water; it has an atmosphere, clouds
frequently concealing its face, and its
seasons are about the same ns here,
though the winters are colder. Be¬
cause one of the moons travels around
it three times as fast as Mars itself
turns, it appears to rise in the west
and set in the east, while the other,
really circling in the same direction at
a speed comparatively slow, rises in
the east and sets in the west. Thus both
moons are seen in the heavens at the
same time, going opposite ways.
A (Jueer Thing About Camels.
Some years ago when the British
troops were fighting against the forces
of the Mahdi in the Soudan, oppor¬
tunity was afforded to many of the
correspondents accompanying the ex¬
pedition to study the habits of the
camel. Most of the transportatio.n of
the soldiers’ baggage was ([one by
these “ships of ti;e desert,” as they
are called, and at night some of the
newspaper men spent a portion of
their leisure trying to leai-n something
new about these strange creatures.
One of them who was an inveterate
smoker, discovered that the camel is
a great lover of tobacco. Let any one
smoke a pipe or cigar in the camel
compound, said he, and the camel will
follow the smoker about, place his
nose close to the burning tobacco, iu
hale tbe fumes with a prolonged sniff,
swallow the smoke, then throwing his
head up, with month agape and eyes
upturned, showing the bloodshot
whites, will grunt a sigh of ecstasy
that would make the fortune of a low
comedian in a love scene.— [Har¬
per’s Young People.
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