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BULLOCH HERALD. Published Every Thursday by THE BULLOCH HERALD PUBLISHING CO. DIRECTORS. C. S. Martin, J, H. Donaldson, \V. S. Preetorius. D. B. TURNER. Editor Henry White, secretary ol the Amer¬ ican legation iu London,quotes from a French consular report the statement that one good commercial traveler is worth, ten thousand -printed circulars in winning trade. It is becoming more and more prob¬ able that the British invasion of the Scudau will open up a large aud fer¬ tile region to the cultivation of Egyp tian cotton, and this article is soon to be grown in India on a larger scale than ever before. Hence lower prices are looked for in England. How far such competition can go before it seri¬ ously afiects the price of American cotton cannot easily be predicted. The town of Pullman, Ill., as or¬ ganized and established by its founder, whose name it bears, is soon to give up its distinctive character and become in fact as well as in name a part of the municipality of Chicago. Under the supreme court decision the com¬ pany is reported to be preparing to give lip its building other than those used strictly for the purposes of car¬ building, which means that it must give up its control over the town of Pullman. Samoa shows signs of progressing toward civilization. The old" method of electing kings by the club and spear seems to have been abandoned iu favor of the more intricate aud less bloody arbitrament of the ballot box and the courts. Certain chiefs, it is related, have elected Mataafa king of the is¬ lands, while other chiefs have elected Tamasese. The Mataafaites appear to be in the possession of the election machinery, for the Tamasese crowd has protested and has filed a caveat beforo the chief justice, who will de¬ cide the dispute. The chief justice is an American citizen, aud soon the unique spectacle will be presented of a representative of the greatest re¬ public in the world umpiring a king contest. A report on the work of the Agricul¬ tural Experiment stations for the fiscal vear 1898, has been forwarded to Con¬ gress by tiie secretary of agriculture. According to the report the stations have, as a rule, steadily pursued their investigations, have acconqfiished much useful work and have increased their facilities for investigations. This has been partly owing to an increase in the number of officials competent to undertake such investigations. As a result, tlifere has been a gain in the importance and thoroughness of the original inquiries pursued. Arrange¬ ments are being made to have in the future a more practical application of the results of investigations made so that farmers can be taught to make the best use of discoveries. Aid from the states is found to be necessary for this work, and, as a matter of fact, much encouragement has been afford¬ ed by the liberality displayed by the states. United States Consul Boyle at Liv¬ erpool has communicated to the state department, Washington, some very interesting information respecting the great change that has taken place in England in the matter of street rail ways. He describes this movement as one feature of the remarkable “mu¬ nicipal socialism” which is taking possession of British cities, verifying the comment of Lord Rosebery that the London common council was con¬ ducting the greatest experiment in practical socialism the world had ever seen. Not content with municipal ownership of street railroads, electric and gas lighting plants, wafer supply and telephones in several cities, the municipal corporations built dwellings for workingmen, ran hotels and oper¬ ated magnificent baths. Recurring to the subject of electric street railways, Mr. Boyle says that the first line was started iu Liverpool the other day,and describes the equipment. The Liver¬ pool line is an overhead trolley,a com¬ mittee of experts claiming to have discovered that the underground con¬ duit system installed in New York, Washington, aud Baltimore is a failure. ficttoi) ' SV K fy it V' 1 v YOU OWE THE JWORLD A LIVING. “Do you ask me why I am working away?” Raid a cheerful man I mot, Who was singing and working the livelong day. “Why, I owe the world a living,” he’d say, “And I’m trying te pay the debt.” And so ho was doing his dnty best, Trying to give—not get— Adding his measuro of effort, lest He’d soon be owing still more for rest— ‘IHe was trying to pay his debt.” And tbus ho has taught me a lesson true, One I shall not forget— The world owes me naught for my passing thro’, ’Tis I owe the world my faro—I do— Am I trying to pay tho debt? STRANGE STORY OF A BOX. BY CONSTANCE C. IIALKETT. ■ IRED after an cx -Ja. citing day, I was sitting by my li brary fire one evening taking a cup of tea when /• my manservant in ^ formed me that a large box had ar rived. I sudden¬ ly yju that ly remembered it was |j| birthday, my and that W) I had casually || t-J. mentioned the fact to my friend Brin die. I^Now Brinclle was much addicted to the playing of practical jokes (this to me was a flaw in an otherwise de¬ lightful character), and iflerhaps ou this occasion I might be the victim, s6 I told the man to help me carry it into the library and then he might go. The box, which was a long and rather narrow one, was, I noticed, perforated in every direction. It was fastened with a padlock, in which I found the key. I opened it and started back in amazement, for inside it lay one of the most beautiful womeu it has ever been my lot to see, and she was either asleep or dead. She was dressed in a long, trailing robe of violet velvet—what a woman would, I think, describe as*a “tea gown;” the train of it made a sort of cushion for her head and over it strayed long strands of golden hair. I fetched a jnirror and held it to her lips; a faint cloud spread over it at once. She was not dead then, but sleep iug. Yet—who sent her here? Aud why iu such a plight? I had no women folk to apply to iu my dilemma; besides, one’s women folk are apt to look askance pt “strangers” of their own sex, espe¬ cially if these are very beautiful. I decided hurriedly to take my man Burns, a very excellent servant who had been with me for years, into my confidence. And he appeared with such celerity that a suspicion crossed my mind—but no, surely he was above spying through keyholes! I pointed to the girl and asked him helplessly what I had better do. * * Do, sir? Why, send for the near¬ est doctor, and for a detective from Scotland Yard.” “Of course!” I cried. “Why didn’t 1 think of that myself? Take a cab and do both errands—I will stay here in case she awakes.” He went off at once. He had hardly been gone ten minutes when the door bell rang. I opened it myself and ad¬ mitted a tall, thin man, who "an¬ nounced that a policeman had asked him to call at my house, amfHliat his name was Dr. Smith, of M street. “A policeman—you mean my ser¬ vant.” “No, I don’t. I mean a police¬ man,” he said testily. “Where is the patient? I am a busy man, sir, aud can’t afford to waste time.” Rather bewildered, I led the way to the library—aud iu a few words told him my story, aud showed him tho white figure lying so still and beautiful in those regal velvet robes. He crossed the room to look closer. “Good heavens!” he said. “It is Mile. Sophie Seslagiu, a Russian lady and a patient of my own. What can this mean?” He proceeded to inves¬ tigate what would be tho cause of her strange trance-like sleep. “She has been drugged,” he said. “I once studied in Russia, and there they use a curiously smelling herb, for such purposes, difficult to detect unless one is used to dealing with it.” “All that is ’ y interesting—to you,” I said imr mntly. “But what am I to do?” “I will send yon a nurse at once,” ho said. “Have you a spare room? Good! The nurse is a sensible wom¬ an, and will put the lady to bed and ask no questions except of a profes¬ sional description. “Now, you must excuse me; I am watching a very interesting case. I will call again in the morning; mean¬ while I can dto nothing. No drug known acts on a patient under the influence of the one I mentioned; she will wake naturally in about twelve hours’ time.” And with that the doc¬ tor hurried’ away. The next person to arrive was the detective (his name was Holmes), to whom I repeated my story. He listened attentively, looked at Mile. Seslagin, but made no remark worth relating, and presently went away, after giving me strict injunc¬ tions to allow no one access to my strange guest but tha nurse and the doctor. I promised to attend to his warning and showed him out myself, to find on the door-step a comfortable, motherly looking nurse, who produced Dr. Smith’s card, and into whoso capable hands I put the management of affairs generally with a sigh of re¬ lief, which sigh I repeated as the door of the “spare-room” was shut be¬ tween me and the still sleeping stranger. * Only the long, coffin-like box was still in my study. Suddenly i caught sight of a piece of paper which had been pinned to the lidinside. On it was roughly sketched a ship, some waves, aud a woman apparently drowning. What this could mean I could not guess. I was still puzzling over it when the door bell rang again. This time a man stood there—he had evidently just stepped out of a close carriage which waited near the curb, and he wore an ulster with a high col¬ lar which almost concealed his face. “I have come,” he said, “to re¬ trieve a large box which was left here by mistake. ” “Then you have come to the wrong man,” I said, boldly. “That box and its contents are in care.” As I spoke, to my surprise two polmani£U*sprang 0 ut of the shadow of a neighboring archway, and seized the man before he had time to turn roott}.*** - “We were given a hint to keep an eye on this house, sir—by Mr. Holmes,” one of them informed me shortly, before they marched off to the-n-eavest “station” with their pris¬ oner. I retreated indoors and awaited de¬ velopments. Evidently I was in for a night of it, I thought grimly. dozen _Aud pulls indeed, I had only taken half a at my pipe when a four wheeler drove up. Inside were Mr. Holmeij, tho detective; two policemen, and my servant Burns with handcuffs on. “What does this mean?” I asked. The detective came into the house and shujt the door—the cab drove off —and I mechanically followed him into the library. There, he turned and faced me. “It means,” ho said, “shortly, this: that your man servant is a member of a dangerous secret society of an¬ archists. Mile. Seslagin (who is very rich) had bribed ono of the younger members to sell her some papers which contained a clear and cqncise account of how to set about placing bombs in Westminster Abbey before the coming royal marriage—in order to blow up the whole royal party. “One or twice lately Milo. Seela gin’s house has been broken into, not for purposes of theft, but to find the missing papers, which she had copied aud sent to the police, but kept the originals to put the anarchists off the scent aud help the authorities to catch them all together. “Besides she wanted to pretend she had not given information, She knew anarchists and their ways, and feared their vengeance, She little knew their skill. They contrived this evening to enter her house, drug her wine, and (while all her servants were at supper) they put her into this box which they had. got ready aud carried her off. “The orders were to deliver the box at No. 1 Mortimer street. “By a curious coincidence there happened to be two Mortimer streets, and the box was brought to the wrong one. “The plan was (had she been taken to the anarchist who lives in the other) to cross-examine her on the subject of these papers, and then she was to be taken out to sea and drowned. Dead men—and women— tell no tales.” I handed him the paper I had found. “Yes—that is the formal ordey for her death. I know their cipher well.” “And Burns?” I asked. “How was it, if he was ‘in it,’ that he offered— nay, went—to fetch the doctor and you?” “He did neither. I sent a police¬ man for tho doctor, and came of my own accord. Mile. Seslagin’s house has been watched for tho last week, for (unless she was in danger of her life) I made up my mind to wait and catch the whole gaug at No. 1 Morti¬ mer street to-uight. The driver’s mistake has put me out rather in mv calculations, for Burns had time to warn the others before I managed to nab him. Meanwhile, you have indi¬ rectly saved that poor lady’s life.” As he-finished speaking I was busy writing. I handed him a check. Thank you, sir; though really I am so pleased at to-night’s work I al¬ most feel like refusing thip.” “Nonsense! I may need you again. Good night.” After that I was at last allowed to go to bed in peace. I was a bachelor of long years’ standing, and quite unaccustomed to such doings and goings on. Still—though I can’t say that the events of that night were exactly pleasant ones, I always, in after years, remembered it with something like gratitude, for that long, coffin¬ like box, which I thought held a prac¬ tical joke, was the means of my mak¬ ing the acquaintance of the lady who afterward became my wife. KEEPING DOWN COMPOSITION COST How a Publisher May Maintain a Manual Training School to His Profit. The question of typesetting is mighty important in a country office. Here is how one wide-awake pub¬ lisher solved the problem, with bene¬ fit to himself and others. He advertised for a bright girl to learn typesetting, giving her to under¬ stand that she was to be taught the trade thoroughly. But he did not promise her regular work. He said he should have occasional rushes, when there would be au opportunity to earn a little pin money. The ex¬ planation of his scheme is this: After the first week, an average girl will set fairly clean proof, aud at the end of the third or fourth, will do almost as much as an experienced hand. This publisher offered to teach the girls, who generally live with their parents in a small town or city, the business, but would not agree to pay them any¬ thing. He never lacked for girls anxious to learn, and he soon had a largo reserve force to draw upon in an emergency. A variation, which works satisfac¬ torily iu most cases, is to give the girls whatever they make, after the first month, or whenever they become competent to correct their own. prqof. It is always well, too, when making ^ _ sue au arrangement, to suggest that they learn t° read their own proofs, and correct them, wTiich in case of calling them in to assist in a rush at some future time will be a great help. It may be objected that this is im¬ posing heavy responsibilities upon the girls; but if the matter is fully ex¬ plained at the start, and they accept the offer, there is no injustice in it. And there is always the possibility of its being a source of profit to them at some future time.—Newspaperdom, WISE WORDS. True love i3 always liberal. The unpardonable sin is to refuse to love. A diamond is worth more than its settings. I An excess of harmless amusement is harmful. You can’t mend your manners with a needle. Public favor is a poor platform to stand on. Kind words take less breath than harsh ones. People always notice the spots on the raiment of pride. .,The man who lives for self has a very small object to live for. Our eyes have a double vision—out¬ ward and inward. The outward looks at those we meet, the inward beholds ourselves. The outward detects faults, the inward, sees perfection. The man who says he will do wrong if someone else does not right has al¬ ready done wrong in his mind, and is casting about for a poor excqse with which to justify himself.—Ram’s Horn. Danish Method of Caring Cheese. Denmark and Holland are the largest exporters In both of dairy products in Europe. of these countries the most intelligent thought is given to the per¬ fecting of all processes iu that brauch of agriculture. A Danish method, re¬ cently devised, to prevent the genera¬ tion of mites in cheese is said to bo entirely effective. The process con sists m continually whitewashing the rooms iu which the cheeses are cured until the mites are destroyed, the cheeses before being placed in these apartments being steeped in brine for a whole day. During their stay of a fortnight in the curing room they are carefully scraped and wiped daily. Finally they are washed in lime water aud are then stored on thoroughly clean shelves. Unfortunately Danish cheeses, for a thorough test of this process, are not so subject to the gen¬ eration of mites as are French and Italian sorts. If these could bo freed from the attack of mites through the use of the Daliish process, its value would be inestimable. Complaints Invited. - The “cabbies” of St. Petersburg, Russia, have recently been supplied with a book of tickets by the Munici pal Council for the purpose of pro¬ viding every “fare” with the means of making a note of any complaint he may desire to make against the “cabby.” The latter, at the request of the “fare,” is obliged to tear off one of the tickets for,him. Tho tickets bear the number of the cab and the tariff of charges. In 1870 there were only 1700 news¬ papers published in all Spain, aud to¬ day tho number is still smaller. A Microbe Proof House. The oddest domicile on earth is that recently erected at Yokohama by an eminent German bacteriologist. It is a microbe-proof house, built of glass blocks. There are no window sashes, and the doors, when closed, are air¬ tight. The air supply is forced into the room through a pipe and' filtered through cotton wool to cleanse it of bacteria. To insure further steriliza¬ tion the air is driven against a glycer¬ ine-coated plate glass, which captures all the microbes the wool spares. The few microbes brought into the house in the clothes of visitors soon die in the warm sunlight with which the house is flooded. “ Oat of Sight Oat of Mind." In other months we forget the harsh winds of Spring, < But they have their use, as some say, to blow out the bad air accumulated after Winter storms and Spring thaws, There is far more important accumulation of badness in the veins and ar~ teries of humanity, which needs Hood's Sarsaparilla, This great Spring Medicine clarifies the blooa as nothing else can. It cures kidney disease, liver troubles, rheumatism and kindred ailments. Thus it gives perfect health, strength and ap¬ petite for months to come. Kidneys — “ My kidneys troubled me, and on advice took Hood's Sarsaparilla which gave prompt relief, better appetite. My sleep is refreshing. It cured my wife also.” Michael Boyle, 3473 Denny Street, Pittsburg, Pa. Dyspepsia - “ Complicated with liver and kidney trouble, I suffered for years with dyspepsia, with severe pains. * Hood’s Sarsaparilla made me strong and hearty.” J! B. Kmkrto.n - , Main Street, Auburn, Me. Hip Disease - 11 Five running sores on my hip caused me to use crutches. Was confined to bed every winter. Hood’s Sar¬ saparilla saved my life, as it cured me per¬ fectly. Am strong and well.” Annie Robert, 49 Fourth St., Fall River, Mass. oMopmii i vf Hood's lMlIs cure liver ills, the non-irritating and tiiV oniycatiiartic to take wltli Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Ice Explosions. A traveler in Siberia relates an ex¬ traordinary occurrence among tho frozen regions of BxSfWl””' * intensely cold nights/ he writes in Good Works, the silence was some¬ times broken by a loud report as of a cannon. This was the bursting of one of the ice bubbles on a river; a phe¬ nomenon I bad neither beard nor read of before. The streams coming down the hills were frozen on the surface some six to nine inches thick. The water be¬ neath flowed faster than it could es¬ cape, and the pressure on the principle of hydraulic press became irresistible. First the elasticity of the ice was seen by the rising of circular mounds some six to eight feet in diameter, and from four to five feet high. The bursting point came at last with a report like an explosion. The water escaped, but soon.froze again. I have seen scores of these ice hillocks in a few versts or the river. A Temple of Serpents. The small town of Werda, in the kingdom of Dahomey, is celebrated for its temple of serpents a long building in which the priests keep up ward of 1,000 serpents of all sizes which they feed with birds and frogs! [LETTER TO MRS. riNKHAM NO. 46,970] “I had female com plaints so bad that it caused me to have hysterical fits; have had as many as nine in one day. “Five bottles of Lydia E. PinkhanFs Vegetable Compound cured me and it lias been a year since I had an attack. Hrs. Edna Jackson, Pearl, La. If Mrs. Pinkham’sCompound will cure such severe cases as this surely ifc must be a great medicine- is there any sufferer foolish enough not to Eire it a trial?