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SPRING PLACE J1MPLECUTR
J. C. HEARTSELL, Ed. and Pub.
VOL XIII.
AUTUMN SUNSET.
Across the whealflelds o'er the western hill. !
The blood-red sun i- sinking; crimson \
i bright
f Along the valley floods the sunset light,
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And then reflected from below, until
The whole wide ft v the sunset colors till
i And on old woodlands far along the right
Steals down the deeper glades the ap
preaching night
^ down the vale where glides the glim
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- merintr ril'
Along the west the Acids o'ripening grain
Stretch over dale and upland, hill and plain,
And, tossing plumed heads of golden
green
Brink the rh > 4 >. nectar drops that run
From the uptu x'd goblet of the sun.
And mix their golden with its crimson
sheen.
—James T. Sbotwell, in Toronto Week.
Closer Than a Brother.
BY BUItT JOHNSON.
ERCIYALWAK
eley seemed to
exist only to
joy life and to
make life en
jj; f, S joyable to oth
fMv I ers, and by all
■V/ 3bKVVY * sftjp fit % it who knew admitted him
M was
il V AZ that he succeed
I m ed wonderfully
; W at his chosen
s? Icy/ duties. He
4' never was seen
Si without a cheer¬
ful expression
on his face, and, although he was not
at all brilliant, his conversation was
so thoroughly in keeping with his
countenance that almost any one was
glad to exchange a few words with
him. Borne young men, when they
heard Percival’s praises sounded by
young women, insisted that, they could
be quite as agreeable and light-hearted
as the popular youth had t hey noth¬
ing to do but enjoy life and spend the
money that a busy father had saved
Cor an only son. Probably they were
mistaken, for Percival was not the only
young man in New York who had
plenty of money and no business oc¬
cupation, yet some of the others looked
quite as < all and unhappy as the poor¬
est people they met on the street.
Nothing, though, in this imperfect
world seems quite as it should be, so
there was a drawback to the entire en¬
joyment of any one who sought Per¬
cival Wareley’s society, and who were
‘willing to help him spend his money.
1 tt was the young man’s closest friend,
Mr. Henry Brock. This person was
at least fifteen year’s the senior of
young Wareley, who was only twenty
four, and he took all the pleasures of
the rich so calmly that people won¬
dered if he enjoyed them at all.
Yet Percival seemed fonder of him
than of any other man and took him
wherever ho went, introducing him
into soeiety and proposing him at clubs
as if there was no doubt that others
would enjoy Mr. Brock’s society- quite
as much ns Percival himself. People
will stand a great deal from young
men who ore rich as well as agreeable,
so Brock was endured politely, some
middle-aged people remarking that
there was 100 times as much to him as
to Percival himself, for the fellow
seemed entirely sensible, and could
talk fairly well upon the affairs of the
day, whereas Percival’s interest in any¬
thing which did not produce amuse¬
ment iu large quantities were limited,
i Meanwhile, that Drock reciprocated
his young friend’s regard could not be
doubted for an instant. No matter
how nninteresting anything might
seem to the older man, his eye never
rested upon Percival without display¬
ing an active and honest fondness,
Some people were mean enough to
suggest that Brock’s regard was that
of a well-kept dog, and for the same
reason; but Percival had insisted at
one time, when, conversation chanced
to bo about his friend, that Drock was
one of the hardest men in the world
to do a favor to, for his tastes were
(few and his means ample,
f- Y'oung women of the class that says
anything that comes to mind had ex¬
pended much curiosity couple, and some all ques¬
tions upon the but they
learned was that Drock had known his
young friend from early boyhood, and
always liked him; ho had first met
him in the town where Percival’s
father had found a wife, and where the
family spent said a month or two had of every
year. He he never met a
better-natured, more open-hearted
young man, and, such qualities being
scarce, he liked and respected them
accordingly. It did him (Drock) a lot
of good to see a young person enjoy
life so heartily and persistently, in¬
stead of turning against it on being
satiated with pleasure, and he thought
it did men good, anyway, to be some¬
times in tho society of men younger
than themselves.
Drock evidently meant all he said,
but his fpndness for Percival did not
meet the approval of some men and
women who wanted Percival to become
fond of them. Young and impression¬
able men who are rich in their own
right and scarce in any society, so
there were handsome women some
years older and a hundred times
smarter than Percival Wareley who
would gladly have married the young
man for his money.
SPRING PLACE, COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 189:;,
Likewise aud oW there wll were scores have of given men, J j
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their very sonis to coax the youth and j
his money into business with them, j j
Pvwl if highest ideal of business
to ahpad of the bookmakers at
or to try some ’ ‘sys- j
*«““ on the proprietors of other gam
Wing establishments. But Brock was
always m the way ; lie never talked
business himself and seemed to have
no business training.
To see l’ereival without Brock was ;
next to impossible, for the two men j !
kept bachelor’s hall together, and no
amount Brock out of contriving of the sufficed while Percival to get j j
way j
should be “let into” some grand
money-making scheme “on the ground
floor.”
Ladies fared rather better, for Per
eival’s bosom friend was not an eves
dropper, yet the women who were
longest headed had no faith in ever
resuming their blandishments just
where they had dropped them at the
end of a chat, for they felt sure that
Percival unbosomed himself to his
friend, and that Brock’s counsel would
go a long way with a young man so
impressionable and so entirely desti
tute of obstinacy.
Desperate eases require desperate
remedies, so a couple of experienced
and businesslike belles one day formed
an alliance for the purpose of securing
Percival and his money; one of them
was to marry Brock, who himself, ac¬
cording to the younger man, was well
oft, and then to bring her bosom friend
and her husband’s together at her own
house. It was a well laid plan, and
neither woman doubted that it would
succeed for each, just for fun, had
brought dozens of men to her feet; it
failed, however, through Drock’s utter
inability to perceive thut a handsome
woman was making love to him—he
was so stupid about it as to spare her
the mortification of thinking herself
deliberately rejected.
It was a great disappointment, aside
from the financial loss, for the belle
had been in society long enough to
have learned that a matter-of-fact fel¬
low without any vices was the most
satisfactory material from which to
make a model husband, especially if
he had tho virtue of constancy to the
degree which Drock manifested in his
regard for Percival.
A month or two later all the men
raged, for Drock and his young friend
went into business together as part¬
ners. The theory that Drock intended
himself to get all of Percival’s money
was spoiled by the new firm securing
as confidential Office manager a man
who occupied o similar position for
many years with! Foseival’s father.
The partners in the new firm took
business cares lightly, but while at the
office or on the street they still were
almost inseparable, going downtown
together and lunching together.
Then soeiety and every one else who
wanted anything from Percival would
have given up had not the young man
still spent his money freely; he gave
yachting par lies and coaching parties
in good style, and seemed to delight
in seeing people enjoy themselves;
but one condition of the enjoyment
remained, that Brock should be one
of the party. Still, this slowly became
less a penalty than a pleasure to people
who regarded the younger partner as
anything but a gold mine to be worked
by any one who could get at it, for
Drock slowly but surely took to city
ways and manners, until he became
quite as good company as most of the
men of leisure who helped women to
kill time.
Suddenly, however, the fateful day
that awaits any young man was reached
by Percival Wareley, the fate taking
the form of a young woman whom
Percival thought far prettier and
sweeter than any other. So quickly
did the affair take shape that society
did not have an inkling of it until the
engagement was announced, for the
lady, although well born and well-to
do, was of a retiring disposition and
out of the rather lively set into which
the accident of birth and of a gayety
loving mother had placed Percival,
The soeiety that had known and
enjoyed Percival did not intend to be
robbed of him, for if the young man
had done go much entertaining while
a bachelor, what could he not do when
he had an establishment of his own ?
The young lady who was to become
Mrs. Wareley was suddenly loaded
with attentions and overwhelmed with
calls from ladies who knew her yet had
rather ignored her in earlier days as
being dreadfully uninteresting and
spiritless.
Sad to relate—but the truth must
be told—several determined efforts
were made to break the match on the
principle that a young man who has
broken with one girl is easier than
any other to snap up. Then, how¬
ever, Drock, who had become rather
an old story, resumed his original
prominence, and some Bpiteful
maidens wondered whether he was
present during all the formalities and
delights of courting.
There was one place where he could
not be, women thanked their stars,
and that was at the house of the .young
man’s intended during the hours in
which women exchanged flails ; all of
the fair sex, therefore, who owed him
grudges did their beat, in their own
skilful manner, to excite curiosity and
suspicion in the mind of the young
lady who had secured the great oatch
of the season, and they succeeded far
“ TELL THE TRUTH ”
enough to prompt her to make many
inquiries which seemed to annoy
Percival, whose genera; answer was
only that when ho liked any one he
liked with all his might, and never
changed, as the bride would find out
to her own satisfaction. He also said
that Brock liad long been known and
trusted by the elder Uareley, and a
son ought to be allowed to be fond of
a man whom his father had liked, no
matter how strangers might-object.
‘‘But,” said Percival’s lianee. one
evening, in tones which sounded as if
there was a flood of tears impending.
“some of the girls insist that you
won’t be able to live without him,
even after we’re married. I don’t
want any other man beside my has
band in the house all the while.”
“The girls don’t know anything
about it, my dear,” the young man re¬
plied assuringlv. “Yon shall be ruler
of the house and no one shall come
into it, not even my dearest friend,
except when you like. Brock thinks
too much of me to offend any one
whom I love. Besides, he’s very happy,
for my sake, that I’m going to marry
such a love of a girl, and I’ve heard
him say, over and over again, that the
happiest husbands and wives are gen
erally those who see least of other peo
pie.
“But how is he going to get accus¬
tomed to the change, after having been
closer than a brother to you for sev¬
eral years?”
“I'm sure I don’t know. Perhaps
he’ll follow my example and take a
wife. To tell the truth, I—well, I’ll
tell you some other time.”
“Oh Percival! A secret! You’re
keeping something from me.”
“Only for a little while, and I assure
you there’s nothing dreadful about it
—’twill make you laugh when you hear
it, I’m sure.”
“When will you tell me?”
“Just as soon as we’re married my
dear ; husbands and wives mustn’t have
any seerots from each other—so Brock
himself says, and I’m sure he knows. ”
The young woman would no more
have repeated this conversation to any
one than she would have drowned her¬
self before trying on her wedding
dress, but somehow the impression
was passed from one to another that
there really was some secret behind the
inseparable companionship of Brock
and Percival. .
So male gossips tried at once to ex¬
tract it from Brock himself, but that
honest fellow met all the insinuations
by the assertion that Percival was a
real good fellow—the cleanest hearted
young man he knew—and that no one
was gladder than Brock that he was
about to get a sweet and trustworthy
wife, and to be ns happy,as lie de¬
served.
Drook kept close to the young man
right up to tho wedding day, which
was also the twenty-fifth anniversary
of Percival’s birth. He even acted as
“best man” at the ceremony, during
which he looked as happy as if he were
not giving away a friend. When the
young couple were at last securely
bound together for life and had es¬
caped from the church to the seclusion
of their carriage, Percival’s attempt to
kiss the bride again was frustrated by
a small but determined hand, as the
young woman said:
“Not until you’ve told me the secret
about Brock.”
“Oh, I don’t want you to laugh at.
me so soon after marrying me. Do
let me wait a few days.”
“No—not even a few minutes. You
promised to tell me as soon as we were
married. ”
“Very well, then; Pll keep my word,
although there’s really nothing to it.
You see, when I came of age my father
declared that I hadn’t sense enough to
go iq when it rained. Wasn’t that
funny?”
“No ; I think ’twas real horrid, ”
“Well, dear, perhaps he was right.
You see, he was a very matter-of-fact
man, while mother, although as good
as gold, was a gay, thoughtless, care¬
less creature, and every one said I was
her right over again. Bhe had died a
year or two before I came of age, and
father failed rapidly a year or two
after, and had lots of money, and I
was the only child, and he was afraid
I’d go to the bad- He had no rela¬
tions to leave me to, but he remem¬
bered Drook as a man who had always
seemed very fond of me when I was a
boy up in the country, where mother
came from,
‘ ‘One day he sent for Drook and had
a long talk with him, and then he told
me he had turned as much as possible
of his property into cash and given it
to Drock to give to me when I reached
my twenty-fifth year, if I’d previously
acted according to his advice, and
formed no habits of friendship of
which Drock didn’t approve. I was to
be allowed to spend all the money I
liked in any decent way, but not a
cent on any sort of vice or dissipa¬
tion.”
“Drock has really been your keeper
then,” said the bride, instead of your,
friend, as every one has supposed?”
big-hearted, “Really, iny dear, he has been a
sweet-tempered friend, iq
spite qf his position, and, as J look
back, I suspect that I tried his pa¬
tience awfully at times. To tell the
truth, as I got some sense, little by
little, my patience was tried, too—
not by anything he did or say, but be¬
cause I really seemed unfit to go about
without a keeper. But Drock did his
best by me, and I—”
"Ana you turned out so well," said
the bride, suddenly volunteering a
little saowsr of kisses, “that I think
all rich young men should be treated
jnst like you, and not. be allowed to
run at large without some sensible
person to take care of them. ”—Once 8
Week.
Sponging as a Business.
The American sponge grounds, more
correctly known as the Florida sponge
grounds, are situated along the south¬
ern and western; coasts of that State.
The methods employed in gathering
sponges in the Mediterranean and
around Florida are very different.
Inthe East -divers are employed.
The diver is carried down by a broad
flat slab of marble of about twenty-five
pounds weight , which he holds at arm’s
length in front of him, and which he
uses to guide his flight, to id protect his
head when ho »ra. «.,iko,, to top
him down when he walks on the bot¬
tom.
Fifteen to twenty fathoms is the
average depth, while two minutes is
the usual duration of the dive. Each
diver puts the sponges he. pulls into a
net bag that hangs from his neck.
When he is ready to ascend ho jerks a
rope and is quickly pulled to the sur¬
face.
In this country a sponging crew if.
divided into twos, each pair consisting
of a “sculler” and a “hooker,” sup¬
plied with a small yawlboat known as
a dingy. The, former stands in the
stern of the dingy and sculls it slowly
and steadily forward, being prepared
to stop it and hold it exactly in place
at a moment’s notice from the ‘ ‘hooker, ’ ’
who, kneeling amidships, with the up¬
per half of his body projecting over
the side,, scans the bottom for suitable
sponges. In order to assist iu this
scanning a sponge glass is used. It
consists of an ordinary wooden bucket
with a glass bottom fixed in with putty.
The handle is placed around the
neck of the “hooker,” while the glass
itself is placed flat upon the water,
while tho “hooker’s” head is thrust
well down into the bucket. By this
means he can see very small objects at
a considerable depth. And he has his
hands free to plunge th © hooked PqJq
down and pierce the sp £3 , sometimes
at a depth of thirty-five feet, as soon
as sighted. lalulmg
After a catch, the sponges
nee beaten to cleanse them; afterward
they are dipped into a weak solution
of lime and sea water to give them the
yellow color so well known in the
markets. —Cincinnati Tribune.
PSt for Color Blindness.
».»*4 m /placed ^preliminary with trial, each candi
- his back to the
light then ATv distance of fifteen feet, and
required to test tho dots oa J:
test card, first with both eyes and then
with each separately. If he satisfies
the examiner so far, he is then tested
by the use of Holmgren’s colored
wools, which consist of a collection oi
small skins of colored Berlin wool,
each of which is loosely twisted up and
easily disentangled.
Tho bundles include wools of red.
orange, yellow, yellow-green, pure
green. blue, violet-purple, pink,
brown, and gray, in various shades.
These being placed in a pile, a skein
of the special color required for ex¬
amination is selected and set apart,
and the candidate is required to choose
from the heap before him other skins
which must closely resemble the sam¬
ple the sample and place them side by
side, His knowledge of every shade
cf color, from absolute white to glar¬
ing red or brilliant green, is thus
clearly ascertained where no art of the
crammer aotual clearness can possibly avail him. His
of color sight is de¬
cided hy the way in whioh he performs
his task, in the' ohoioe of colors held
up to him at a distance of fifteen feet.
One more confirmatory step of oare
ful trial, and the ordeal is over, but
not entirely until then. Lastly, the
probationer has set before him three
skeins, of vivid red, like tho red flag
used for signals on railways, of bright
yellowish red, and of scarlet, If the
man be red blind, ho will match the
red sample with a dark greea ; oi
dark brown with shades which to the
normal oyo are darker than soarlet.
The green blind will select light green
or light brown to match the scarlet
shades which are lighter than the sam
pie. --Edinburgh Review.
Ecouomies of Chemistry.
In speaking of the economies that
chemistry has wrought the Scientific
American says: “Chemists turn scrap
iron into ink, old bones into lucifer
matches, the shavings of tho blacksmith
shop into Prussian blue, fusel oil into,
oil of apples and pears, the drainings,
of cow-houses into fashionable per¬
fumery, beggars’ rags into, new pilot
coats, cesspool filiq into, ammonia and
tar waste, into, animal dyes and
ermine. clear In Paris, they first utilize
rats to, the flosh from tho bones
of carcasses, then kill the rate, use up
their fur for trimmings, their skin for
gloves, their thigh bones for tooth¬
picks and their tendons and bones for
gelatine wrappers. These are a few ot
the things converted into use by the
chemist and inventor. ”
The Victoria Railway bridge over
the Si. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada,
contains 3,000,000 cubic, feet of ma
sonry work and 10,500 tons of iron,
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