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SPRING PLACE JIMPLECUTE.
J. C. HEARTSELL, Ed. and Pub.
VOL XIII.
Georgia is reviving her gold mining
Industry with improved machinery. i
There are 18,000 square miles of
coal lands in Colorado, or more than
the total area of Massachusetts, Con
necticut, and Khode Island.
Twenty-five years ago electricity as
» mechanical power was unknown.
Now $ J00,000,000 is invested in various
kinds of electrical machinery.
A Detroit book dealer says that
nearly twice as much light literature
is sold during the summer months as
in the w inter. I he increase is caused
by tourists who, ns a rule, prefer novels
and books of fiction to those of stand
ard authors. , ■
Theodore Roosevelt thinks that the
day is not far distant when the lake
country of Wisconsin and Minnesota
will be famous as the summer resort of
both the Eastern and Western States,
and that a trip thither will be ns pop¬
ular as one to Newport or Saratoga
now is. Mr. Roosevelt has a ranch on
the Little Missouri, and he ought to
know.
The term “Christian name” is used
in England and America only. ‘ ‘Bap¬
tismal name” is used in other coun¬
tries. The term seems to have been
used first after the Reformation, when
Biblical names were used as a reaction
against the use of the saints’ names in
the calendar. It is evident that all
Biblical names are not Christian, but
the reaction went so far as to consider
everything in the Bible us Christian
and everything not in the Bible as
pagan, or certainly nonchristian.
“The most disastrous result of the
recent financial troubles upon tho busi¬
ness of California was the effect upon
- its extensive fruit growing industry,”
says Thomas H. Williams, the San
Francisco millionaire. “The fruit
growers were unable to secure loans
from the banks to enable them even to
pick the fruit in their orchards. It
had in many cases, consequently, to be
left to rot upon the trees. I should
think the State must have lost over
$100,000 through this alone. Apart
from this the prosperity of California
has been affected very little by the
stringency in the money market. But
one bank has failed, and that was
owing to gross mismanagement, if not
something werse. Ail the other banks
have plenty of money. Lo^ns have at
all times been procurable bn really
good security showing a fair margin.”
The Washington Star remarks: ‘ ‘Lief
Eriksou’s friends are much disap¬
pointed. They have been insisting for
years that their hero—who was un
doubtedly a great explorer-—discovered
this continent four hundred years be¬
fore the daring Genoese navigator
landed on one of the West India Is¬
lands, and they have further insisted
that among the records of the Catho¬
lic Ohurch, stowed away in the library
of the Vatican, was documentary evi¬
dence of the most conclusive sort
which ‘would put Lief right ou the
pinnacle. The Vatican holds no such
testimony. William E. Curtis says
so, and lie ought to know. Mr. Curtis
visited Rome a year ago as an agent of
the Columbian Exposition, and having
heard the claims of Rasmus An¬
derson, Professor Rayn, Professor
Horsford and other Scandinavian
scholars of eminence, determined,
so far as was possible, to settle the
controversy. He obtained by order
of the Pope copies of all documents
on file relating to the discovery of
America, and none of these mentioned
Mr. Erikson. Over fourteen thousand
manuscripts were carefully examined
and the search revealed many that con¬
tained valuable and interesting contri¬
butions to history, but in none of them
was there mention of the hardy Norse¬
men who sailed the seas before the
Columbus family had fairly com*
menced to be. But although Erikson
secured none of the credit it was prov¬
en conclusively by some of the ancient
records that there was a bishopric
of Greenland in the twelfth century
and that the church had information
as to the existence of unexplored lands
farther south in which savages lived—
desendants, doubtless, of the hundreds
of Welshmen who sailed from their
native land with Llwellyn ap Madoc
fully four hundred years before Lief
Erikson attained his majority. Who
was the original American anyhow?’
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1898.
The Alarm Cloak.
Her heart was a clock, and it ticked In time
To her thoughts that flowed as a run¬
ning rhyme—
Tiok-tock, tick-toek, and tick!
And X wondered much il that time was slow
With the grief of life or the pain of woe—
Tick-toek, tick-tock, and tick!
What sort of a clock was the maiden’s heart?
Was it going fast at youth's happy start?
Tiek-took, tiek-tock, and tick!
Did its love swing onward in gladsome ways,
Or its works run down with a long eight days?
Tick-toek, tick-tock, and tick.
So I watched her face through our idle talk
Till, listen! a stop oa the garden walk—
Click! went the gate, and oliok!
And Love’s alarm-clock went off to tell
xhat a certain hour was known full well—
Tick’went her heart, and tick!
Edith L. Chary in Judge.
WAS IT A SPECTRE ?
He was waiting for her; lie had
been waiting an hour and a half in a
dusty suburban lane, with a row of big
trees on one side and some eligible
building sites on the other—and far
away to the southwest the twinkling
yellow lights of the city. It was not
quite like a country lane, for it had a
paveinent and lamp-post: but it waB
not a bad place for a meeting all the
same; and further up, towards the
cemetery, it was really quite rural, and
almost pretty, especially in twilight.
But twilight had long deepened into
night, and still he waited. He loved
her, and he was engaged to be married
to her, with the complete disapproval
of every reasonable person who had
been consulted. And this half-clan¬
destine meeting was to-night to take
the place of the grudgingly sanctioned
weekly interview—because a eertain
rich uncle was visiting at her house,
and her mother was not the woman to
acknowledge to a moneyed uncle, who
might “go off” any day, a match so
deeply ineligible as hers with him.
So he waited for her, and the chill
of an unusually severe evening entered
into his bonos.
The policeman passed him with but a
surly response to his “good-night.”
The bicyclists went by him like gray
ghosts with fog-horns; and it was
nearly ton o'clock and she had not
come.
Ho shrugged his shoulders and turn¬
ed toward his lodgings. His road led
him by her house-t-desirable, commod¬
ious, suburban—and he walked slowly
as ho neared.it. She might, even now,
be coming out. But she was not.
There was no sign of movement about
the house, no sign of. life, no lights
even in the windows. And her people
were not early people.
He paused by the gate, wondering.
Then he noticed that the front-door
was -open—wifle open—and the street
lamp shone a little way into the dark
hall. There was something about all
this that did not please him—that scared
him a little, indeed. The house had a
gloomy and deserted air. It was im¬
possible that it harbored a rich uncle.
The old man must have left early. In
which case-
He walked up the path and listened.
No sign of life. He passed into the
hall. There was no light anywhere.
Where was everybody, and why was
the front-door open? There was no
one in the drawing-room, the dining
room and the study (nine feet by seven)
were equally blank. Every one was
out, evidently. But the unpleasant
sense that he was, perhaps, not the
first casual visitor to walk through
that open door impelled him to look
through the house before he went
away and closed it after him. So he
went upstairs, and at the door of the
first bedroom he came to he struck a
wax-match, as he had done in the
sitting-rooms. Even as he did so he felt
that he. was not alone. And he was
prepared to see something; but for
what he saw he was not prepared.
For what he saw lay on the bed in a
white, loose gown—and it was his
sweetheart, and its throat was
cut from ear to ear. He does
not know what happened then,
nor how he got down-stairs and
into the street; but ha got
out somehow, and the policeman found
him in a fit, under the lamp-post at
the corner of the street. He could
not speak when they picked him up,
and he passed the night in the police
cells, because the policeman had seen
plenty of drunken men before, but
never one in a fit.
The next morning he was better
though still very white and shaky. But
“ TELL THE TRUTH.”
the ‘tale he t*ld the magistrate was
convincing, and they sent a conple of
constables with him to her house.
There was no crowd about it as he
had fancied there would be, and the
blinds were not down.
As he stood, dazed, in front of the
door, it opened and she came out.
He held on to the door-post for sup¬
port.
‘‘She’s all right, you see,” said the
policeman, who had found him rindei'
the lamp, “I told you you was drunk,
but you would know best--”
When he was alone with her, he
told her—not all, for that would not
bear telling—but how he had come in¬
to the commodious suburban house,
and how he had found the door open
and the lights out, and that he had
been into that long back room facing
the stairs, and had seen something—
in even trying to hint at which he
turned sick and broke down.
“Blit, my dearest,” she said, “I
daresay the house was dark, for we
were all at the theatre with my uncle,
and no doubt the door was open, lor
the servants will run out if they’re
left. But you could not have been in
that room, because I locked it when I
came away', and the key was in my
pocket. I dressed in a hurry and I
left all my odds and ends lying about. ”
“I know,” he said; “I saw a green
scarf on a chair, and some long brown
gloves, and u lot of hair-pins and rib¬
bons, and a prayer-book, and a lace
handkerchief on the dressing table.
Why, I even noticed the calendar on
the mantel-piece—October 21st. At
least, it couldn’t be. that, Attxinuse this
is May. And yet it was.'Vi Your cal¬
endar is at October 21st, istf’t it?”
“No, wi&'
of course it isn’t, she said,
smiling rather anxiously; “but all the
other things were just as you say. You
must huve had a dream, or a vision, or
something. ” . {
He was a very ordinary, bommon
plaee'-jyoung man, and he fid not be¬
lieve in visions, but he never rested
day or night till he got lus sweetheart
and her mother away froin that com¬
modious house and settled them in a
quite distant suburb. In the course
of the removal, he incidentally mar¬
ried her, and the mother went on liv¬
ing with them.
His nerves must have \feen a good
hit shaken, because LnA i very queer
for a long time, and Weis always in¬
quiring if any one had taken the desir¬
able suburban house; and when an
old stock-broker with a family took
it, lie went the length of calling on
the 'old gentleman and imploring him,
by all that he held dear, not to live in
that fatal house.
“Why?” said the stock-broker, not
unnaturally.
And then he got so vague and con¬
fused between trying to tell why and
trying not to tell why, that the stock¬
broker showed him out, and thanked
his God he was not such a fool as to
allow a lunatic to stand in the way of
his taking that really remarkably
cheap and desirable suburban resi¬
dence.
Now the curious and quite inexpli¬
cable part of this story is that when
she came down to breakfast on the
morning of the twenty-second of Oc¬
tober, she found him looking like
death, with the morning papor in his
hand. He caught hers—he could not
speak—and pointed to the paper. And
there she read that on the night of the
twenty-first, a young lady, the stock¬
broker’s daughter, had been found
with her throat cut from ear to ear,
on the bed in the long back bedroom
facing the stairs of that desirable sub¬
urban house.—[San Francisco Argo¬
naut.
Parasol Ants.
The Kew Bulletin informs us that
the government of Trinidad passed an
ordinance for the extermination of
“parasol ants,” so far as its power ex¬
tends. The pest has become unbear¬
able. In fact, from the nature of
things wherever this ant is found a
growing civilization must wage war to
the death with it. For the creature
strips trees of their leaves, which it
neatly trims to the size and shape of a
threepenny bit, and carries to the nest.
An army of yEcodoma ceplialotes at
work is one of the strangest sights in
tropical America. The column may
be followed for a mile, three or four
inches in width, a serried mass of ants
each carrying aloft upright as a flag its
green disk. They will strip a large
tree of which they fancy the leaves in
twenty-four hour*. But nature has
limited their ravages in the way in
which Darwin and Wallace teach us
to expect. Many species of tree are
quite protected against them by pecu¬
liarities which we cannot detect. Many
others are so far protected that the ants
will not attack them if they have a
choice. But the enterprising for¬
eigner brings his useful fruits and
plants from every quarter of the
world, and establishes them in the
domain of the zEcodoma. Then there
is joy numixed. With unprotected
food in abundance, the ants multiply
as they never could before. So the
Trinidad authorities have made a law
that the warden of any district may
authorize a landowner who- ‘ 'suffers or
is likeiy to suffer” from their ravages
to enter any neighbor’s ground arid
destroy the nests—if he can, be it
understood. And any one obstruct:
iug such proceedings wheu duly au¬
thorized by the warden becomes liable
to a line of ,$50 or imprisonment for
three months with or without hard
labor.- [London Standard.
Blushing.
Blushing is not an art. Neither is
it an absolute sign of ill-breeding, as
some unkind folk maintain. The fact
is, it is just as natural for some people
to Mush on one occasion as it is for
others to turn pale oa another. The
same laws of nature which govern the
one rule govern tho other. The ca¬
pillaries, or small blood vessels which
oonnoct the arteries and veins in the
body form, particularly over the
cheeks, a network so fine that it is
necessary to employ a microscope to
distinguish them.
Ordinarily the blood passes through
theso vessels in normal volume, leaving
only the natural complexion. But
when some sudden emotion takes pos¬
session of the heart its action increases
and an electric thrill instantly leaps
to the cheeks. The thrill is nothing
more than a rush of blood through
the invisible capillaries; the color is
nothing more than the blood jnst be¬
neath the delicate surface of the skin.
The causes that bring about this con
dition in the circulating system ara
called mental stimuli. They consist
of joy, anger, Bhaine, and many other
emotions.
Sudden horror, remorse, fear, on
the contrary, influences the nerves
which control the blood vessels, and
the face becomes white. Blushing
and pallor result from the sudden ac¬
tion of-the mind on the “nervous sys
tern. So, if the mind bo forewarned and
prepared for emotions, both habits
can at least be partially overcome. But*
when the nervous system is highly
strung it would be a life-long, if not
futile task to endeavor to effect a per¬
fect cure. It is the sensitive, nervous
girl who blushes easily, while the girl
stolid by nature, or who, by educa¬
tion lias her nerves under perfect con¬
trol seldom blushes.
Magnetized Cane.
Sometimes the simple action of a
man will indicate his character, On fi
of Pittsburg's wealthy old gentlemen
was seen walking along the street the
other day pointing his cane upon some
object upon the pavement now and
then. What “caught. on” he raised
and placed in his hand. He was col¬
lecting tiny nails that had fallen from
merchandise boxes, He continued
until he had gotten a handful. Then,
picking up a piece of paper from the
pavement, he wrapped up the nails
carefully and pocketed the package.
A bystander asked him what sort of a
cane he had.
••O,” he said, “it’s nothing hut a
steel rod covered with leather. ”
“It must be magnetized, for it at¬
tracts nails and saves you from stoop¬
ing.”
“Not that I know of, unless the fac¬
ing of leather over the steel has done
it,” he replied.
“I saw you picking up some nails
a short time ago."
“Yes,” interrupted the old man. “I
need some of them. ” Then, looking
downward, he exclaimed: “There’s
one I missed!” and picked it up with
his magnetic servant.
Taking the package of nails from
his pocket he placed this last with the
rest. As an instance of frugality this
incident is interesting, and as a key to
the man’s success in life, it is, perhaps,
likewise. —[Pittsburg Dispatch,
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