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THEY ARE KICKING. CITIZEN** PROTECTING AGAINST TUB WATER WORKS ‘ Becnnw Thor Do Not Receive Protec tion Prom PirCi No They Nny— Whnt Tho City Au thorities Ilnro to Nny* $ Some of the citizens who live in the Southwestern portion of tho city are entering a vigorous kick against the action of the authorities in stopping tin) laying of the water mains, as they say, one block short of where it was intended they should run, as per the original survey, thus taking away from them means of protection in case of tire. • After the city was surveyed, ns a whole, it was found that several blocks ( in different localities were so sparsely * settled ns to make the laying of tile mains upon them totally unnecessary. One instance of this kind was the block on Planters street between Jef ferson and Monroe. Objection was made that the citizens on that part of the street were not supplied with water. The matter was looked into, and the council lias decided to lay a main in this block, ns there were more people to supply than was at first sup posed. VVhnl They Nny. Hearing that a petition was to be fIf. . circulated, setting forth the grievances as above stated, and nskingfor redress, n Hkrald reporter sought outMr.D.W. Price, who lias been materially affect ed, as he thought, hy the change in the former plans, and questioned him in regard to the matter. “Tile facts nre just these,” said Mr. Price, “the city spent $1,000 to have the survey made for the laying of the water works mains, and, according to the original plans, we voted $100,000 in bonds against the city for the purpose of constructing a water works system on the lines laid out. “The work of laying the mains lias now been completed. According to the former plans the main on Madison street was to extend out to Mercer street and there turn east. Put in stead of that the pipe was stopped at South'street and there run eastward. This puts the nearest Are plug on the corner of South nnd Madison streets, a distance of over 800 feet from my resi dence, “I would not linve voted for the bonds under these conditions, as I am afforded no protection from fire what ever, and my insurance rates will not be lowered in the least, ns will be the case in other parts of the city. 1 think it but common justice that, we should have the full beneilt of the water out there when people who live on Soci ety street, one half of which Is out side the city limits, have full benefit of the protection from fire. They say they intend to run a small pipe down Madison street to supply us with water for household use, but that Is not the main object of the water works. It is protection from fire that. I want, and common justice demands that I have it. Several other portions of the j? city have been affected in the smile way. There is something wrong some where, hut I can’t tell exactly where it is. The city authorities spend the people’s money and benefit themselves by it. “There nro several other gentlemen similarly situated to myself, among whom are Messrs. IV. S. Bull and B. F. Sibley. YVe will get up a petition to the counoil to have the matter rem edied so as to afford us protection from Are, and I think the majority of the people in the city will sign it. It will i be gotten up nnd sent in to the council at an early date. YVe want justice in the matter.” The Authorities Talk. The story from the city authorities puts the matter in quite a different E light, and is given here as explained by Mayor Gilbert and Alderman Lock ett. The city was surveyed as a whole and the lines laid out, but when it came to the construction of the water works It was found that several sec tions were so sparsely settled as not to warrant an extension of the mains upon certain blocks in the city. Still, care was taken to leave no section and no citizen outside of the limits where he could not be protected from Are as well as others. Where the mains were not continued small pipes will be laid to furnish household sup plies. So far very few have raised any ob jections to the way in which the sys tem has been constructed, and in gen eral it has proved very satisfactory. In speaking of the case of Mr. Price, and others who live in his neighbor hood, they said that, while it was true Mr. Price’s residence was about 800 feet from the Are plug, the Are compa nies here had 8,000 feet of hose and oould easily reach it in case of emer gency. But besides this there is a cis tern on Madison street whloh is but reoeive the full benefit of the water supply aB well as protection from Arc. In regard to insurance rates they say that Mr. Price is no more affected than any other citizen in his section whether lie is in the neighborhood of a Arc plug or not. Albany now has the same rates as Savannah nnd Amer- ious, and no reductions would be made in oases where the residences nre so far from tho center or the oity, wheth er waterworks mains ran past their doors or not. Altogether, they saw no ground for complaint. Thus tho matter stands. The citi zens who claim to linve been treated unjustly will try to obtain redress through the mild form of a petition, which will be sent into the city coun cil at nil early date. Everybody is interested in tile out come of tlie affal r. Duvy'it Ronearchcs. Sir Humphry Davy vras bo much in terested in electricity that ho made many experiments which havo become historical in their utility. His brilliant discoveries so excited him that he could with difficulty leave thorn for needed repose. He w6nld have killed himself by his constant experiments and steady application to the science lmd ho not becomo prostrated and his life endan gered thereby. His remarkable experi ments, brilliant and triumphant, aro yet to bo outdone by more modern philoso phers. Sir Humphry Davy's great bat tery, composed of JJ,000 cells, became world wide and historically honored. It was tho origin of tho lirst flashes of wlmt is now termed tho electric arc. That was eighty years ago, and note tho grand discoveries since thou: The idea of two pieces of charcoal, one about an inch long and ono less than a sixteenth part of an inch in diamoter, being brought near to each other, till they produce a bright'spavlc, for so they did. Ono part of the coal was imme diately ignited to a whiteness, and by removing them apart Davy found a con stant discharge of electricity took place sufficiently strong to heat tho air in a given space three times their size. Ho caught the idea in a moment and studied out the mystory which the two pieces of coal had produced, a grand scheme and discovery. lie saw tho most bril liant ascending light, like a glowing arch, broad and perfectly conical in the middle. Tho philosopher experimented to his hoart’s content, each day bringing forth new discoveries, and there is now no higher scientific name known to men or more honored for his groat works and discoveries than Davy, who, like Frank lin, lived * in his scientific experiments and for humanity. He, too, saw glorious discoveries to he made, and hoped to live to witness tho result of many of his own discoveries.— New York Telegram. which would afford him as much pro tection as a Are plug on the corner of fiercer street. “* J * citizens similarly si re several other ***< id* yet they object of true jet tueyj Strange Indian lliuula. Among tho Indians of North America many strange beliefs are held respecting demon heads that wander about, somo- times harmlessly and at other timos for mnllgnant purposes. Somo of thorn are of gigantic size, with wings, while otb ers lmve faces of Aro. There used to ho a society among tho tho Iroquois organized lor tlie purposo of propitiating these extraordinary ter rors. Tlio latter, according to popular conception, most commonly moved about from tree to treo in solitary places, where they woro apt to bo encounterod, much to the discomfort of hunters ami wonion who chanced to be alone in the forest. Few things can he imagined more disagreeable than to moot unex pectedly ill tho woods u great head six feet high, without legs, arms or body. Occasionally these remarkable crea tures would talk, but it was chiefly at night that they had a Aery aspect, their favorito nocturnal haunt! being marshes and pools. Members of tlie exorcising Eociety woro masks in imitation of the heads v.’hon they performed ceremonies for tho purposo of driving such demons away. Of courso tho Aro faces woro invented to account for the jack-oMan- ternsor “ignesfatui" which haunt moist places.—Washington Star. Kitchen Worn n rroml Occupation. Kitchening seems to ho tho only sj.0 cles of work that no ono need blush for, and, after all, does not hunger justify the means? In the midst of that period of tho French revolution known as the reign of terror, did not the ex-Capucine monk, Chabot (an expert in tlie Bcienco of good living) invent the “omelette tmffee aux pointos d’asperges,” and ako “a la puree do pintados?” Did you know that it was to the elector of Bavaria that we owe the "havaroise,” which was pre pared and made under his own eyes for the Arst time at tho Cafe Procope? Modem history also offers noble ex amples to onr admiration. The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, that accomplished horsewoman, that sovereign of a court where aristocratic prejudices are of the strongest kind, glories in her talent as a pastry cook. Her daughter, the Arch duchess Valeria, boasts of having peuc trated all the secrets of the ancient and modem cuisine. Qneen Victoria is very fond of making omelets, and it seems she has several recipes. Her daughter, in-law, the Princess of Wales, excels, in preparing tea and buttered toast.—Paris Intermediate. The Design of a Jewel. The design of a jewel should be such that we can take pleasure in the idea of its permanence. We associate perma nence with a star, and therefore a star form in jewelry is agreeable. Bnt tran sient formB, like Bowers or ribbon bows, nnless they are mnch conventionalized, present a disagreeable congraity. They onght to change with time, and they do Imitations of such objects may not. _ . please for a moment the cariosity of the 200 or 300 feet from his residence, and vulgar, but interest in them, even for snob, is exhausted as soon as they have been examined, and the cultivated taste lerable. Interest in an ;, on the contrary, never grows leak.—Harper’s Bazar. One morning, during the earlier years of my practice in the west, I was riding toward a little New Mex ican mining camp. It consisted of n fe\v shanties in which the men bunked, oue or two adobe huts, a provision store, a hotel and a saloon. As I rcachod tho point where tho straggling mad became a ^street I met John Wolcott, superintendent and nssayer of the Boswortli mines. Ho looked unusually serious, nnd calling a man to tako my liorso to tho stable, I dismounted nnd seated myself besido him on his blackboard. It hnd lioen difficult to convince the men, most of them easy going but hard bended miners, that tho epidomic was upon us, nnd when I bad first pronounced it smallpox tho boys lmd cursed mo in no monsured terms. For several days after they had continued to drop in nnd seo Freomnn, bringing samples of prime whisky to pull him through. Tho symptoms, however, soon be came unmistakable. A panic lmd siezed the men, niul thus my* worst fears bognn to bo realized. Within cloven days from tho time when I firet visited Freeman six men were low and ono lmd died. It seemed advisable for mo to leave my prac tice at A with an assistant nnd to spend my time for a few days mostly at tho camp. Tho cabin in which nil attempt had been made to isolate Freeman was already quito full, and now, ns we drove ulong among tlio dusty cacti, John told mo that there woro two now casos at Scudder’s saloon. “A saloon isn’t just the place for them,” I said, but I don’t think he heard me. Ho continued: “They must bo moved at once. Tlie men have fled now, but it would take more tlmn the smallpox to keep that plnce empty." Wo drove directly to Scudder’s. Wolcott lmd closed tlie shutters nnd it was so dark that I could not at first see tlie two men, whose quick breathing I heard. I threw open a window. Two overturned chairs, a broken table, half a dozen broken bottles nnd an array of dirty glasses on the bar testified to tho hilarity of the previous evening. One of the sick men lay on the floor behind the bar and the other in a corner of the disorderly little room. A comrade braver or more thoughtful than his fellow deserters lmd set a pitcher of water on the floor and lator lmd pitched some blankets in through the window. Both men woro in u stupor from the combined effect of the whisky and the disease, hut the symptoms were unmistakable. ‘Where shall we put them?" I asked Wolcott. "Not much choice of places. Jucl- son has just finished a shanty, We’ll hnve to use it. I’ll hunt him up.” But little could be done for the sick men until they were differently placed, so I drove out with John to seo what could be found. Judson was not at the hotel. The landlord, knowing what we wanted, shook his head. He didn’t think Judson had built that shanty for a pesthouse. He had heard talk about u wife and some little children. There were but three women in the camp, two of whom, Mexican women, were employed as help in the hotel. So Judson’s theme had a special significance for his friends ns well as for himsolf. We drove on. The man we sought was not at the mine, but an hour later we met him oa his way there. “Judson,” said Wolcott (he had an unnecessarily authoritative manner with tlie men), “we shall have to take your house for the sick people I" “Tho devil you will I" “Yes; the-cabin is full, and there •re two fresh cases at Scudder’s this morning. Your house is in shape, isn’t it?" ‘Not much, and what’s more it won’t be." “What’s the trouble?" “Think I’ve put $800 into that shanty for you to put them drunken devils into?" “We could make that all right.” “No, ye couldn’t Next time 1 build, maybe I’ll fit up for a pesl- honse, but this happens to be for my wife and children.” "I can’t think of another place,” said Wolcott, speaking rather to himself than Judson. “Let them stay where they are; they can’t hurt Scudderls,” the householder called out as we left him. We drove on in silence. I did not know the situation well enough to make suggestions, and I confess to having felt an interest in seeing how a practical man would deal with the emergency. A woman was coming toward us. I think it was a shade of disgust on Wolcott’s face that drew my atten tion to her tall, rather heavy figure, which moved toward us with a cer tain grace. Her bleached hair was drawn back into a knot in some un kempt fashion, and her face as she stopped, evidently wishing to speak with Woloott, was like a blurred manuscript revealing but little, and txst :: X character that she wetua have conoealed had it been possible. "Mr. Wolcott," she said as we came near her (John pulled up his horse with evident impatience), “you know where I live?” "You’re Miss Smith, I believe?" She looked questioningly at him for a moment, but she could gain noth-’ ing from his impassive face. Then, as if she know our dilemma and the course of our thoughts, she said, "S’pose ye bring them men to my house?” "Where will you go?” "Guess there ain’t ho placo to go. I’ll stay there." "It can’t bo donp.” "Ain’t it good enough for ’em?" Wolcott spoke more gently. “Good enough t Yes, but have you had the smallpox ?" ‘No.” We drove on. “Say, Mr. Wolcott” (the woman hnd not moved), “they’re there now." “Where?” “At my house." “Oh I” “It.’s all right, ain’t it?” "Who moved them up tliero ?’’ “Two of the men from Jake’s cabin. I told thorn” (looking fur tively into Wolcott’s face) “that 1 hnd orders from you I” ‘You did 1 Well, now you havo an onlor from me—got a home, go straight to A and stay there un til I give you permissio: to come back. Do you hear?” “I’m ’frnid doctor won’t let me go there," sho said, looking at me. “No," I Buid, replying to Wolcott’s seai'ehing glanco, "I won’t lot Uor go. She's boon helping to cure for the boys in Jake's cabin, nnd I sup pose sho has just como from these now coses.” Sho nodded as I said this, and we drove on. I had known John Wolcott from his early childhood and well under stood his impatience now. It an noyed him to havo his cut nnd driod classifications of humanity disturbed. I knew that lie would brood ovor this unexpected incident until some satisfactory reason for its existence was found. Ho was surprised, evei\ chagrined, to find that a woman like the one wo had just met could ap peal in any way to liis respect. “Now, what did sho do that for?” he said after a thoughtful silonco. “What would any one do such a thing for? She’s human, isn’t sho?” Wolcott's intolerance seemed brutal at times. • “Human? Certainly, but how do you explain her life?’’. “I don’t have to explain it,” I said. “The men call her Lib," ho suid significantly. “They don’t throw stones at her, do they?” I nsked. “No,” reflectively, “I don’t think they do," When I had attended to those who were in the more advanced stages of the disease Wolcdtt joined me again and together we drove toward Lib’s cabin. It was well out on the plain, a hare, unpainted little place, browned by the sun to a certain har mony with its surroundings. Lib was seated on her doorstep and seemed to be resting from recent ex ertion. "They’re in there,” Bhe said, wav ing her hat, which she was using ob a fan, toward the front room and making way for us to pass her. The room was bare and comfort less. Its furniture consisted of two cots,’ one or two wooden chairs and a pine table. Its decoration was achieved hy the presonco on the walls of a few gaudy prints from the circus. The place was clean enough, but untidy. It was wholly lacking in the charm that makes a place homelike. “You’d hotter tell mo what to do," sho said when we had undressed the men and made them more comfort able, "I reckon I’ll be tho only nurse in this hospital.” And so it turned out. “Do your best, Elizabeth,” I said when I had given her instructions about medicines and drinks. "Do your best and we’ll stand by you." She looked at me with some Bur- prise. I wondered afterward if she had ever been called Elizabeth be fore. The situation presented an unsolved problem to Wolcott. Alert and vigi lant to all that came under his super vision, I saw that his oyes often rest ed on the nurse os she moved about in obedience to orders. Now that his first repugnance had been over come, he treated her as he would have treated any faithfql serving woman. She obeyed him unques tioning, and as she was a good cook and possessed unfailing good nature she proved to he a capital nurse. The men were certainly hard cases. They had to be managed, and Lib had her own methods? She would swear at them, threateningly or en couragingly as the case seemed to suggest, but never with ill temper. When circumstances allowed she would drop asleep in some corner, to be awakened by the first call or moan from her patients. There were at one time five cases in that little room, and their re covery was largely due to lib's faith ful service. We lost three cases in the other cabin. Wolcott s sense ot justice lea nun by say something kind to her one Cpy. "You’re a good nurse, Elizabeth. You must have had experience.” “Yes, I’ve nursed a good many times on and off.” “Smallpox? I thought you said you’d never had that." “No, not smallpox, bnt what’s the sense of beln scared? Hell can’t be much worse than bein beat black andblue by a drunken fool.” "The scorchm might be a trifle more worryin,” suggested one of the sick men in a teasing way. They were all convalescent now. . An' ex pression of fear flashed across Lib’s face, usuujly so stolid. A young fellow on one of the cots saw it, and with some unnecessarily emphatic adjectives said: ‘Oh, damn it, Libl You won’t go there, and if you should there ain’t a devil in all Tophet mean enough to toast you.” "Ho might bo drunk, you know," Lib answered, “und then there’s ho saying whnt he would or wouldn’t do.” Naturally Lib did not escape tho contagion. I found her one morn ing when I called to seo tho Inst of tho convalescents lying on one of tho cots. “It’s coma, doctor 1” sho said. ‘Goad thing tho boys aro out of the Way. Are there any now ones?” ‘No. Let mo see your tongue.” Her enso was serious, and from tlio beginning there was but little hope of her recovery. When I told Wolcott about lior his fnco was n curious study. IIo was generally rather guarded in his forms of expression, hut I thought ho spoko strongly when ho said that if tlio Almighty had ovor created nny greater conun drum than a woman he liopod it might ho kept out of his rango. "You wouldn’t find women so mys terious, John, if you’d consent to study them at shorter rango." I had frequently counseled him to marry. ’Wouldn't I? You weren’t with usdown in Mainowhen I had tho smallpox?" “No; that was after I had come west.” “Do you romembor Margaret Trucsdnlo?" “Very well." "Wo were to lmvo been married— well, no matter about particulars. I came west. What can we do for Lib?" "Not much, I’m afraid.” She was rather more patient and obedient than tho men had been. At times sho was delirious, but there woro in tervals when sho was not so and when she wanted to talk. From the fittlo kitchon ono day I hoard Wol cott say, "Elizabeth, how did such a good sort of a woman as you ore como to ho living os you do here?” I had a pitcher of hot water in my hand and stood still until it burned my fingers to hear her answer. "I never knowed any other way to live. Ye don't think I'm wick- eder'n the men ’round here, do ye?” The answer was prompt and posi tive, “No, I don’t." Was this my Puritan friend? As Lib sank under the effect of tbe.disease and it became plain that She must dio, the Mexican woman who was helping to take care of her thought that u priest should be railed. But Lib did not want him. She had not, it seemed, nny church traditions, and I thought her with out any germ of religious feeling; but ono day she surprised me hy ask ing (Wolcott had just gone out), “Is God better'n him?" "Why, Lib?” "If he is, mebbe he’ll give me an other chance." It seemed that the thought had in Borne irregular fash ion boon turning itself about in her mind, for after a time she added: “Mebbo he’ll bo good." "Yob,” I said; "he’ll ho good." “Yo know that day I met ye in the road?” She was looking toward the door and still thinking of Wol- cott and a curious attempt to Bmilo was apparent on her disfigured face. "He thought that day that I was worse than tho smallpox. I know he did, bnt he’B ben good." Sho dozed fitfully, and in one of her wak ing moments asked, “Do ye believe God'll take care o’ me as you two have done?" Wolcott was standing by her cot. He answered unhesitat ingly: ' ‘Yes, Elizabeth. He had the kind est words for such women as you are. He’ll take care of you.” “Then, mebbo I’ll have a chance. I hnin’t had much chance bore.” “Ycb, I’m sure there’ll he a chance for all who want one." This was a far broader creed than any I had heard my friend formulate in our frequent talkB. But he spoke sin cerely and confidently. There was in onr care for the sick woman not a trace of sentimentality. She had been of practical service to ns—had risked her l.fe in humane work—and none could, under the circumstances, have done less. Our surprise was in Beeing how quickly, in such un promising soil, the seed of kindness germinated, and also in witnessing tiie feeble gropings of her spirit in the light ot unaccustomed senti ments. , A few nights later, in a stony field beside three other graves, now marked hy sunken earth, We buried her. The . lantern which was held while Wolcott read a few sentences from the burial service shed its flick ering light on the facesqf seven men, five of whom were scarred and wan from recent illness. As he read that “this corruptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on immortality;” he paused, and there waa a silence that made us conscious of -the solemn stars above: u*. i As we tnmed away we saw another light—lab’s cabin was already in flames. As John Wolcott saw it he said loud enough for me to hear, “Greater love hath no man than this, that ho lay down his life for his friend.’’—New York Press. The ItlnvrinKe of Mr. lo Mian Kiddle Dunlavy * Tlie Catholic church, of.this c wa9 the scene Sunday after the marriage of two of Albany’s i.., popular youug people, Mr. Dnn Brosnan and Miss Biddle Dunlavy. Tlie Affair was quite a surprtsi most of the acquaintances of tlie c traotingparties, nnd thocereroon only witnessed by n few of their tlves nnd intimnto friends. Fat! C. Pendergast, of Savannah, perform* tlie ceremony, which took place at o'olpok. Both tlie parties are well and po| li.rly known in Albany, numboi their friends hy tlie score. Mr. nnn is n nephew of Mr. Dennis Br nan, tlie Broad street grocer, and is i tlie employ of Mr. J. S. YVhiddon, at the Rialto saloon. The bride is daughter of Mr. P. L. Dunlavy, and i noted for her many good qualities an charms of manner. Mr. nnd Mrs, Brosnan nro at pres ent quartered at the Albany. In Wliero they nre the recipients of r merous nnd hearty congratulate The IIkiiai.d joins with the numer friends of the happy couple In wish them continual joy, and every blesslii through life; Thk Republican policy In all doubtful States seems to be to sacrill local candidates in order to save t Elootornl tioket. To Onlnmlllt Among Ihc Klotintnli It will be remembered Hint time ago Prof. A. W, Van Ho the Georgia Female Seminary, at Gainesville, requested Mr. Jo Pope to appoint some young indy f Dougherty county to ntteml tba stitutlon freo of tuition. Tlie appointment was made nn cepted Thursday afternoon, and Louiso Cox is tlie fortunate yo Indy upon whom it has been confer Albnny is sorry to part for so lo time with suoh a bright and oountenauoe, nnd her absence i another detraction from tlie gay o of sooioty. Tlis best Wishes ot many friends accompany her, li ever, nnd they nre coulldent will make a success of whntcve tempts, Tho Seminary will open its term in a few days. President lloosc will ba In Mnoon on Bepti 20, to meet young indies In that ; nnd south of Maoon who de-sir tend the Seminary, He wll Mnoon in a spoolal ear by I the Central Railroad at 3:' riving in Gainesville nb that night. Miss Cox will pnrty nt Mnoon on her 20, How long before the bnny will begin to elect bers of tho City Council by ’ I. Jacobson, tlie hardware ii Ids advertisement a spread i IIkiiai,d. Mr. Jncobson is c immense stock, and the fact-1! letting out a tuck in his ndve. is a pointer to the trade. Some of the clerkB of they aro going to have snin< winter by going 'possum tlie river swamps after tho sti The ragged, frazzled ed; Third Party in the Second worn out. They are ready for publican junk shop. J.nrccur Alter Trust, Butler Brown, colored, is In a o Doughurty county jail, landed Friday last by officers and Mooney, on a olmrge of after truBt. Brown lias for somo been in I ploy of Sir. Jos, Ehrlfoh, at t shoe store, in the enpaoity and until recently, Uis notio been in no wise crooked. Of into ever, Mr. Ehrlioh bas been n sums of money from liis cash c and last week$5 suddenly and terlously disappeared. lire suspected as being the guil and to-day, when $6.50 tu sing, Mr. Ehrlioh swore ou foj Brown, who was arr There seems to be a pretty c against him, and ho will convicted when brought to t missing money bas not yet be covered. BPS IN FOB IT. lie Stole u (Jew nnd Dnn Town. Last Thursday morning Mooney, who generally going on within the range of 1 and jurisdiction, arrested a Xe(_ was offering a cow for sale. The Negro gave six different n and told almost as many st< the cow; bnt Officer Mooney him up and put tbe cow In tb- so certain was he that the been stolen. Saturday last tbe owner of t turned up. He was Ned .' East Dougherty, and 1 in identifying tho identifying tho thief Rhodes. Ned Aoreo swore out a Rhodes, who will v ■ MW