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ky< MAY : • ' AT L4IT HOME The Central Komi Ilna Sigurd the CJou- tract) nuil Will Go Into the Union Depot. CAHP«I«N LITERATURE* —" . TRYING A MOTHER'S i.' CARESSES TO BE t WHERE A TRAIN WAS WRECKED. HE From Thiifitilar'ii Evening Hernlii. Mayor Gilbert received a communi cation this morning from President Lowe, of the Columbus Southern, In forming him that President Comer had signed tile contract for the Union depot at Albany, and that there now appeared to be no reason why the con tractors could not safely begin work. It will be remembered tbnt the Cen tral has been holding bnok ever since the other roads declined to join that company in the plan to remodel its old freight depot and convert it into a passenger depot on its (the Central’s) land, and It had not been dcllnltely settled until now whether the Central Would join the other roads in the Union depot agreed upon-with the Railroad Commission, or erect ail in dependent one. But President Comer has removed all doubt from the matter by signing the contract that the other roads agreed upon for the Union depot. Col. Lowe, to whom the officials of all the roads entrusted the manage ment of the Union depot matter, hns been pushing It with qommendable zeal, and writes Mayor Gilbert that everything is now in good shape. All the roads except the B. & W. and the 8., A. & M. had signed the contract yesterdny, ami these hnd signified their readiness to do so and it had been forwarded to Superintendent Haines with the request that he sign and forward it to.President Hawkins. " Col. Lowe writes that he will be here with the nrohitcot in a few days. The Democratic Club of Dougherty County, at its meeting last night, paid its respects to a campaign oiroular gotten out by Candidate Stevens, in which that wily politician repudiates the resolutions promulgated by the District Alliance at its meeting In Thomasvillc on the 21st of January, and which have been drawn on him ill the “deadly parallel” column. In a paper which -was rend before the club last night, facts anil circum stances are brought out which leave Mr. Stevens in a rather unenviable light with reference to the resolutions which he now repudiates, whether they were really adopted at the Tliom- nsville meeting or not. Taking Mr. Stevens’s circular ns a text, the Democratic Club of Dough erty County contributes n campaign document, to the cause of Democracy in the district, and it is first promul gated in the Herald to-day. Ten thousand copies of the document are also being printed for circulation throughout the district in circular form. Mr. Stevens’s circular is em bodied in this paper, ns arc also the Third Party resolutions einauating from the District Alliance meeting at Thomnsville. Read the club's address to the Dem ocracy of the district, and you will get at the bottom of what is now pester ing Candidate Stevens. Mra. Flannery Was Sqre Thu! "Tin. Twe Il'yes I* Aqntl'Mn tier Mm. Flannery is u very estimable anil industrious washerwoman, a widow, who keeps house for her two grown sons in two neat rooms in a basement. One son, Peter, is a hard working young mason: the other, Joey, is a Jack-of-all-trades and a yilltor to tke I.lon Lunrus Knn.e Things He Did Not Know lloforo. “Yes, he’s a friendly old chap,” “He was bom ne'er-do-weel, but 1b popularly sup- •'■’•;ed to bo his mother’s favorite. said the lion keeper, in captivity at Barnum’s headquar ters in Bridgeport, Conn., and he’ll lot even a stranger scratch him be hind the ears.” *. The stranger tried the experiment post This supposition Mrs. Flnnnory indig- I’t oe that POND LILIES. A Few Facts anil Suggestions to Flower tinrdeuers. These are times that try men’s souls —a political campaign and no rain to speak of for eight weeks. about It is figured that up to date 200 delegates have been instructed for Harrison; anil as it will take 425 to control the convention, It Is apparent that a crisis is on for the second term. It Is true that a number of the unln- structed are known to be for Harrison, yet It is apparent that unless the Har rison sentiment shall assert itself pow erfully and decisively ill the conven tions yet to he held, a fine field for political manipulation will be open at Minneapolis. Prior to the New York convention, the sentiment was univer sal that Blaine’s retirement had made Harrison inevitable. Sinpe that con vention four or five candidates have been freely canvassed, and the ques tion of availability is still an open one. A cable dispatch announces that ■“in the next two months there will be 278 fashionable mnrrlages celebrated In London, and that of these fully one- third of the brides will be Americans.” This leads the Philadelphia Record to remark: “Happily, the Imlanoe of trado in this respeot cannot long continue so heavy against us. The rapidity w.ith which British manufac turers are being forced to migrate to this country renders it reason ably certain that the home mar ket will ere long be sprouting a suffi ciency of eligible English husbands to supply the domestic consumption at our doors.” Ono of tlio very prettiest and hardi est flowers that flourishes in our South ern clime is the white pond lily, which grows in great profusion ill South Georgia and Florida, nnd nowflereare they more prolific thnn on the ponds around Albany. On Rush pond, about- five miles from the city, these beautiful flora dot the water in hundreds of places with their snowy whiteness. A Herald reporter secured several of yiese recently, and by actual measurement the circumfer ence of tile flower measured over two feet by several inches. Now, ladies who arc fond of flowers might easily rear the poml lilies ill their yards. Tile roots and stems can be secured out of some pond und placed in a pool, where they would tlowor without any attention what ever. Tile pure white with a deep yellow center makes a magnificent bloom. Try this once, nnd you will have an addition to your collection of flowers that will furnish you fully ns much pleasure as the rarest plant in your liot-liouse. ' . ' Wj: learn from ail exchange that Dr. Tanner, who a few years ago got more or less fame (nr notoriety) from his fasting experiments, has come to the surface again, this time with a plan to produce a perfect race of men and women. He lias purchased a New Mexican ranch of 1,500 acres, upon whioh he is to place a hundred poor orphans, about equally divided between the sexes, whom he proposes to bring up in absolute ignorance of the exist ence of alcohol, tobacco, or narcotics of any kind, relying upon their inter marriage to produce a perfect race.— Macon Telegraph.. He will need to build u sky-higli board fence around those 1,500 acres, and padlock the gate on the outside. At a dinner party recently given In New York, in reply to a question as to what was the most, striking develop ment of the day, Chauncey M. Depew is credited with the following perti nent reply: “The stupendous intellectual activity and the capacity of the men of to-day to handle with comparative ease prob lems and subjects that a generation ago could no more have entered the comprehension of men than the idea of railway traveling or electric com munication could have been appre ciated or even vaguely understood by the men of affairs at the beginning of the century.” Cleveland and the New York Mug wumps nnd gold-bugs nnd Hill nnd Tnmmnuy und the “Machine” ought to pair nnd li>t the Democrats nominate Gorman or Palmer. Senator Colquitt lias been ap pointed as one of tile ten Sen ators to serve on the Democratic cam paign committee. As an nil-round politician Senator . Colquitt has few superiors. Sam Small is spoken of as the proba ble candidate of the Third Party in the Fifth Congressional district. Now, if Sam does run, won’t the fur tly when he and Colonel Leonidas ineot in joint debate. TnE Democratic Club of Dougherty County held an interesting meeting at the Court House last night. It was not nn occasion of speech-making, but the meeting took a business turn and laid out some important work for the campaign. Some work is needed in the Second Congressional district, and the Democrats of old Dougherty are willing to do their share of it. uantly resents. “I wouldn mean," she says. "The two b’yes is ayquii in me heart, an iver will be.” Nevertheless, when the probability of war with Chili was being discussed in a family where she was attending to the Mondny’s wmdi, Mrs. Flan nery was observed to be listening with a degree of attention which implied some personal interest in the out eome; nnd this is her own explain! tion. in response to n question from the lady of the house. “Ye see. ma’am, if there’s war. my Joey, he says lie'll go. He eome to breukfnst the ither morning,’ an he tuk up the pnper—bad luck to it—nil says he. 'What’s this;' says he. 'Ar rah. but I’m thiukin it’s a hit of a war there’s goin to be!' " 'Jo-ay'' says I, settiu down the taypot an lookin at him. 'Jo-ay I' says l, 'ye wouldn’t be afther Invuing your poor old mother to go to no war. Now would you?'says 1. " 'An that’s what 1 would,’ says be. "An it’s foine I'd look in a uni form, ns ye know.' Ah faith, uu he would that. But I couldn’t. bear to think of him goin to fight haytliens an savages, an so I told him. with me aprou to me eye an a bit of u tinder sniffle like, for the b’ye has n soft heart, nn I thought best to begin with him aisy. " 'Jo-ay P says I, 'don’t ye go an lave me alone with me gray hairs an mq aurrer now—don't ye I’ " 'Sure ye wouldn't be alone, moth er,’ sthruck in Peter; nn 'Peter,'sayB l, 'hould yer whisht; who's a-talkin to you? Jo-nyl'saysl. " ‘I'll take care of you. mother,' Bays Peter; 'don’t you fret. An its a foine sodger Joey’ll make. An maybe he’ll eome back an officer. Sure, 1 wish it was me was goin I’ “ ‘Go along wid ye, thin,’ says 1. 'It's beautiful ye’d be lookin In stliriped trousies nn a sodger cap. ain’t it now? Jo-ay I' says 1. 'will ye stay nt home fer your old mother, or will ye break her heart entirely?’ "But Joey he laughs nn he lauglis an he says he’ll go; an that’s just the bad luck o’ the Flannerys. There's Peter as steady as the Rock of Cashel, an safe to be trusted with a gun if iver a b’ye was, an it's him will stay at home when ho might go for ,-a woid If he wauled. An there’s JooV has a black eye every month and ai ways in trouble, an it’s him must run loose among powder an bullets an bo kilt as a matther av course. Ar rail well. I’ve done my part; I've told 'etii what 1 tliijik. Peter, says I, 'ye’re a b'ye of judgment, nil if ye wuut to go an bo shot ye may go, nnd it’d not your mother will object, for you've always deserved well of her. But Joey,' says 1. ye will stay with me, so yp will, me darlin, for I’d die widout ye. 'An Peter an Joey they look nt each other nn they laugh an they laugh. Au I says, 'Aint yoashamed, ye heartless b'yes. to mock mo in me throuhle?'. "An Joey, he soys, 'Don’t ye cry. mother, don’t ye I PU stay—if there aint any war I’ "An I shook me fist at the InugHin rascal, an says I. 'Jo-ay I'’’—Youth's Companion. All that can be done by the Demo cratic party to dose the government for a political disgorgement after the 4th of March next is being done. Russia contemplates establishing boards of trades, similar to those In the United States, which will dissem- The New York Mail and Express says of Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, “Uncle Remus;” “Mr. Joel Chandler Harris is a wel come visitor in tile small world of American letters, nnd whether we meet him, as we did at first, in the de lectable company of ‘Uncle Remus,’ or as in his last story, ‘On the Planta tion,’ we give him our hand and our heart. There is a oliarm about him which we find in no other American humorist, for he is a humorist, and of the rarest type—and which is so much a part of his individuality that we no more try to analyze it than the happi ness of a child or the tenderness of a woman.’ - right Candidate Stevens is a shrewd politician, but the equestrian feat of riding two horses and driving another is about to prove too much for him. His Democratic horse kioks at the Ocala platform, his Alliance steed is getting fidgety and restive, while the Third Party jackass doesn’t want to do anything but bray. iiiate information in regard to crops, weather indications, etc., with a view of preventing the terrible periodical famines which have nlways existed in tlmt country. cautiously, and ^the lion seemed pleased. "Now, he’ll lick your hand for thanks, if you like,” added -the keep er. "Don’t be afraid; his teeth are nearly all gone, anyway.” The stranger put hie hand through the hare again, and at the keeper's word of command tho well trained lion gave it a gentle lick with IiIh tongue. “Wow! Great Scott I” exclaimed the owner of the hand, ns he jerked it out und looked at it ruefully. If n piece of sandpaper had been applied to it vigorously it would havo looked and folt about the same. “Lost his teeth, did you say? His tongue is covered with them." “Well,” said tho keeper, with ti good natured griu nt the succosh of his practical joko, "you’re just about right. A lion’s tongue is covered with strong homy little hooks—imp pillie is tho scientific name for them —and they nil point backward. When he licks hard he can scrape the meat and cartilage off the bones of a tough horse quicker than you could with a sharp knifo." “I suppose you have to feed a lion as old ns this one on what the othore would regal'd as dainties?" said the visitor. "No,” answered the keeper, “ns a general thing a lion won’t oat nt nil or lie'll eat anything in the fresh meat line. The whole eat tribe has a low sense of taste. You have often seen a cat lick horeelf, haven’t you! 8he gets handfuls of hair in her mouth without inindiug it at all. Consider what discomfort one hair produces in the mouth of a human being whose sense of taste is deli cate." "This old follow's claws are pretty well worn down,"said the visitor. “I suppose by constant use on the floor and walls of his cage.” “Ke hns one claw not worn down at all." answered the keeper, “hut I'll bet you can’t detect it.” Tlie visitor looked at all tho paws and could see nothing but well worn claws. "Where iH it?" he asked. "At tlie end of the tail,” said the keeper. "Oh, now." remarked tho visitor "no more jokes on me today, thank you." The keeper put his hand between the bare, .caught the patient ex-mon arch of the forest by the tail and ; Bhowed the visitor a sort of horny ; hook concealed among the long hairs at the end of it. "What use it serves there,” he added, •'naturalists don't know, I believe. Some say he uses it to lash himself intop rage. Next time yon look at any books on Nine veh, notice how tlie old Assyrians exaggerated this hook on the tails of lions carved upon their funny old morales."— New York Tribune. The Democratic Club of Dougherty County has gone to work. The campaign circular is abroad in the Second Congressional district. Politicians are growing more and mdre enthusiastic as the weather grows warmer and warmer. And now Harry Brown lias denied tlie report that he lmd renounced the Third Party. He says-lie is still in it. Culneae Importation*. The report of the maritime cus toms of tlie Chinese empire for 1890 shows that the importations amount ed to 127.00.1,481 taels, an increase of 14 per cent, over tlie preceding year. The exportations, on the contrary, have fallen from 00,947,832 taels in 1889 to 87,144.-180 in 1890. This dimi nution is due to-tho active competi tion of Ceylon and India in the tea trade. The importation of rice was considerable; that of opium was. in creased I per cent., and of cotton 25 per cent. The exportation of tea amounted to 1,695.390 piculs, as opposed to 1,877,331 in 1889, and the value of the silk was 30,255.905 taels, against 30.401,907 taels in 1889. The entire customs receipts for 1890 were 21,- 996,226 taels. A tael Is Equivalent to seventy-five cents.—Philadelphia Ledger. Wandering Apparition* All In White Visit the Beene nt Midnight* One day in tho Winter of 1891-2 the dreadful word reached the city and spread over it like Wildfire that a Monon passenger had jumped the rails just north of town nnd left in its truck death and destruction. The story of the awful, ghastly procession, with its blanched faces, as it came slowly into town on that memorable afternoon, is well remem bered and can never bo forgotten. The sight of those wrecked care, smoking ruins, crippled people and dead bodies on tho hillside is fresh in the memory of all. Since that fatul day a qutet melan choly seems to have hovered over the unfortunate spot. Even liorees and cows shun it. Birds turn their flight ns they approach it. Only the morbidly curious have ventured ueur it Ono night a leading physician of this city, who was present a few mo ments after the awful catastrophe and was au oyewitness to the terrible, heartrending scone, was colled from his warm bed to see a sick man who resides not far from whore tlie wreck ocourred. Ho told of his mid night trip, which, if it did not turn' his raven locks white, gave lir i a scare that ho will never recover^ frbm. He says that just ns ho ap-, preached tho foot of tho short lull where the wrack occurred ho heard tho distant rambling of an approach ing train. Checking his horse he waited, and in a moment the north bound Monon 1 pnssongor dashed by on its way to Chicago. Bofora tlio bright lights of tho many windows liod disappeared and tho distant rambling of the wheels hnd died away, while the long line of heavy, black Btnoke still hovered over tho hill, a sight met his gaze that almost paralyzed him with fear. With the greatest difficulty ho held his horse, wild with fright nnd plunging and Bnorting to break away. Before him, on tho hillside, where the fatal coaches had rollod down, he saw two figures clothed in whito. They would vise from the ground, walk about and hold up their white arms in supplication. “I never," continued the dootor. ‘believed in ghosts. But there were two right before my eyes. I didn’t feel that I was exactly seared, but 1 was possessed with a sensation that is indescribable. It wus an awful moment. I can yet see those white robed visions walking nbout on that hillside. I only remained a moment, but it seemed to mo I was there an e. My horse fairly flew upi tho II, over the track and homeward bound. I don’t believe I could get him near that spot again, even in daylight. If you doubt what I say iust go out there tonight at 1:30 and [’ll venture to say that yon will wit ness the Homo sight that I did." Since the horrible wreck no less than three accidents havo occurred on this spot.—Crawfordsville Cor. Indianapolis Sentinel. Rev. Mr. Wadsworth preached n sermon on Ihst Sunday night which was intended to brine on a fight for prohibition in Augusta. The pulse of the political campaign is getting somewhat rapid. However, the national conventions will soon lay a cool hand on its fevered brow. The meetings at the Methodist church will be continued the remainder of thijt week only. As there are so few services more to be held, let every one show his appreciation of the efforts expended for-the good of the cause, and be in attendance. .V. v •-•'■ v- . - iO * Skill In Savins Mahogany. It has been found that mahogany should not be sawed thinner than twenty-six to the inch, though occa sionally it is sawed thirty to the inch. The process of sawing twenty-six to the inch is as nice a one as can well be imagined. It is a species of sur gery that requires a keen instru ment, an experienced hand and on intelligent mind. A log worth $125 in bulk may bo sawed so that it shall sell for five times that sum, or so that it shall be worth not more than fifty dollars.—New York Sun. Burglar Proof. An old maid is so much afraid of robbers that die strews pepper under the bed every time she retires for the night. When questioned on the sub ject, she said; Any scamp attempting to hide there will betray himself through having to.meeze.-T-Avondppsfc. - Curing uti Ottor Skin. A full grown sea otter is from four to five feet, long and perhaps a foot or more wide. When a hunter se cures one he loosens the hide from the nose and head and, without cut ting it lengthwise at all, he pulls tho skin down over the body, the hide being so elastic that this is not a dif ficult job. It is thou stretched over a smooth board 01 feet long, 9 inches wide at one end and 10 at the other end. Each end of this hoard is tapered to a point. Another board exactly the same Hizo is then inserted, and the skin is stretched a foot or eighteen inches longer thnn its orig inal length. A third board, half the length of the oilier, is wedged in and the skin lightly tacked at the ends to hold it in ^place. If any flesh adheres to tlio skin it is then cut off, and the hide is cured and dried in this condition In a few days it io taken off of the boards and turned fur side out, whei. it is ready for market.—Cor. / San Francisco Chronicle. A Way to Ilumllo Many Lines* A friend of mine has threo desks in his office and handles threo branchesl of a good business, his clerks, stem ographer, etc., boing in an adjoining room. Ho never allows any work to 1>e placed before him during the day that does not pertain to tho particu lar branch on which ho is ut tho time engaged. Tho desk at which he sits indicates that. He devotes so much time to each desk—enough to keep the work clenr. If you should hap pen to visit him on business he will immediately shift seat to tho desk at which this particular business is transacted. By this method he con transact the business of two clerks. Real estate and insurance combined, or some thing else that way, impel men to maintain a strict division in their minds, and this artifice greatly aids the habit of concentration of thought on the matter in hand.—New York Herald. Tbs Fact Tlmt llie Deacon 1 on 1/M,i ll 111. ,1.1ml ut U... ... Camp Hard Luck was' six i old, and wo hadn't lost a i death. Now and then on with an accident to lay him u few weeks, but it was a sub congratulation that no ono 1 ly turned up his toed. AlmtL. we congratulated ourselves ot good fortune, Deacon White t his bed and Decame serio deacon was a quiet, di( who never thawed, anti ho 1 acknowledged peacemaker o; camp. The chaps just over tho Cherry Diggins were a qua brawling lot, and but for the t of Deacon White there woul' somotimes been towb in whie body would have got hurt Three days after the det taken down he sent for two a of us to pay him a special When we had come togetJ shanty he said: “Boys, I’m a very sick my last sickness. I'm an olt nnd I realize that I’ve got to g We know that it was a e but yet we talked one tried to brace him up. “It’s no use," he protested af had had our say. ‘Tvo got and tho only question is-hoi go. If I die in my bed * won't like it. It would womanish, nnd the fellows o hill would have another brag. They’ve had three and nil died with their hoots < As a matter of fact wo wer tie tender on that point, but v willing to moke on exception : case of the deacon. He-was fighting man, and he couldn't pectcd to get up off a dying get in the ,way of a bullot. r and argued with him, and lymade him see things as \ and after an hour or so we : to work, leaving him in i man whose foot had beon 1 who was just able to limp aren This was about 8 o’clock in 1 tornoou. At about 4 o’clock i lings man appeared on of the hill and began whooq yelling nnd giving our cr grand defi. Following oui of conduct, we paid no a him, but lie kept on rel, and by and by s poned to startle us ringing war whoop i soe Deacon White, fa having a revolver in 1 big up the trail. > Tlio man loft with 1 asleep, and the i and armed bin being the wise feet tall, but ho looke more os we saw him black hair was bio from under his hat, i uttered as he swept up tl chills over every man Tlie chap from Oh must have been du censed his shouting i still until tho _dea pistol shot and op turned to flee, "but a 1 brought him down. The i tinued to advance, fi when we suddenly saw I his arms and fall atfull 1 then did any of us move. 5 come upon us in such a stood spellbound. Whei a hundred of us wont in three minutes we v\ of the hill. There lay tho deacon, e the heart, and there 1 Diggings man, hav him and deadenou there. As wo face of the deacon we it wild and distor so. There was a smile 1 fading away into claimed tho victory, with his boots on ande Hard Luck from the eves of Cherry eyes troit Free Press. A High Tunnel. A remarkable piece of engineering work is the tunnel of the Parana Oroya railroad through an Andean mountain peak at Golem, Peru. It is at an elevation of 000 feet above the perpetual snow line, and is 3,847 feet long. It is the highest railroad tunnejl in the world, and is located in the highest inhabited region in the world. The town of Galera is 15,035 feet above the sea level, nearly 1,600 feet higher than the hotel on the top of Pike's peak.—Philadelphia Ledger. Why Negroes'Cun lieur Heat. The function of a negro's black sltin is supposed to be the conversion of the sun’s light into heat. The heat thus generated remains in the skin and does not penetrate to the deeper tissues. Being thus provided with a sun proof armor, the negro can stand an amount of heat that would be total to a white man mid run little or no risk of sunstroke.—St. Louis Republic. The Difference. There are barbers in India whose touch is so light that they can shave you while asleep. There are men in this country who can skin you be fore, you find it ” J " outjWhile you are wideawake.—Bam’* Sara. lir™ 5 * 8 * Ilumnr* of Ignorance. A strange freak of ignoronco was that recorded of a German fraulcin who, on being introduced to an American gentleman, broke forth in uncontrolled astonishment, thought * the Americans were all black I”—the Pompoy and Sambo proportion of it constituting in her mind the solo population of the New World. This con only be matched hv the opinion of ihe countryman the Rev. Baring Gould tells of who pooh- poohed tho fact that negroes are block, and considered his theory as triumphantly proved when, on sur reptitiously passing a damp sponge over the sltin of a Christy minstrel nigger, he found ,the color came off. —London Tit-Bits. How to See Under Water. A Ions for seeing under water is described os producing an effect which is both astonishing and de lightful. It gives distinct vision to objects from twenty to thirty feet below the surface, and which are usually out of ordinary eye range. The eye’s loss of extended vision When under water is owing to the fact that an entirely different,focus is required. The spectacles which can adjust this focus are made by putting two watch crystals hack to back, or With the concavities ward. Tty it and be surpi KHn. - " • Tho Mnld and tho Mi A cure of Paris is ' doavored certain regular ally instituted for the re soul of a servant girl wl hanged for various subsequently to have by a magpie. Tbi the records of the ch finding any clew to the found the following cribed from the pages versal Museum of May, Friday, 18 (April?), and a small one were pnblic house at servant girl was on suspicion of hut on the third seen to carry a teaspoon tom of the ground laystall, where, i found all three,t and halfpence, on discharged.—Not How to Bioome Apropos of the ing the pulpit ‘ ', the fol Leifch" ‘LW. ut rNf.T PRINT