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The Bulloch Herald.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
PUBLISHTICD THURSDAYS.
Entered at the postoffice at States¬
boro, Ga., as second-class mail matter.
Statesboro, Ga., July 26, 1899.
In the last three years the United
States have sold abroad $1,300,000,000
more than they have bought.
Medical men now regard typhoid
fever as a disease so preventable that,
as one of them declares, “for every
case of typhoid fever somebody ought
to be hung.”
A writer in the Lancet says that
“there is undoubtedly a good deal in
the open-air treatment of consump¬
tion, but the way it is being at pres¬
ent ‘boomed’ by people with ready
pens, but with no medical training, is
calculated to make men who are ac¬
customed to look at things from a sci¬
entific standpointrather than critical. ”
Perhaps the best indication of the
trend of prices is Sauerbeeks’s index
figures, based on the prices of 45
leading commodities. In that scale
the average from 1867 to 1877 is taken
as 100. For a long time the average
or index figure has been in the sixties.
Now it is crawling back towards sev¬
enty. At last accounts it was 66,
which is the highest average since
1893, the year of the great panic.
From a recent table of statistics,
published in the foreign journals and
taken from official sources, it appears
that there were at tlie end of 1898
2,029,893 miles of telegraph and tele¬
phone lines in use in the world, of
which 167,800 miles were submarine
cables and 382,417 were for the tele¬
phones. The corresponding figures
for the mileage of the wires as distin¬
guished from the lines are as follows:
8,285,400, 169,600 and 3,202,950.
We are far from believing that be¬
cause certain conditions always have
been they necessarily always will be,
says the Independent. Universal
peace and a reduction of armies and
navies to a mere police footing maybe
possible as a result of patient effort
aud ratioual processes of world-educa¬
tion throughout a long period; but no
sudden lift of enthusiasm can do the
work of centuries, sacrifices, compar¬
isons of experience and the slow un¬
derswell of increasing human self-un
derstandiug and universal sympathy
and charity. In not expecting too
much we shall avoid despair, and so
feel able to continue patiently work¬
ing for the right.
The three chief facts about Profes¬
sor Hadley, the new president of Yale
university are; That he is only thirty
three years old; that he is not a cler¬
gyman—the first exception to the sup¬
posedly ironclad rule as to the qualifi¬
cations of a president of Yale; that lie
is not a professor of Greek or Latin
or philosophy or any of tlie so-called
“culture” branches of education, but
of political science, the science of gov¬
ernment iu its broad sense, which in¬
cludes all kinds of public action.
Thus one of the greatest and most
conservative of America’s old univer¬
sities has at one stroke broke from
those time honored traditions.
President W. C. A. Hammel, of the
Audubon society of Baltimore has
compiled some statistics upon the loss
of bird life in this country that are
really startling. Iu the last fifteen
years the percentage of decrease in
Maine has been 52; in New Hamp¬
shire,32; Massachusetts, 27; Vermont,
% 30; Rhode Island, 60; Connecticut,
75; New York, 48; New Jersey, 37;
Pennsylvania, 57; Ohio, 38; Indiaua,
60; Illinois, 38, Michigan, 28; Wis¬
consin, 40; Ipwa, 32; Missouri, 36;
Nebraska, 10; North Dakota, 68; Dis¬
trict of Columbia, 33; South Carolina,
32; Georgia, 65; Florida, 77; Missis¬
sippi, 37; Louisiana, 55; Texas, 67;
Arkansas, 50; Montana, 75; Idaho,40;
Colorado, 28, and Indian Territory,
75, making a general average of 46
per cent. The figures were obtained
from government reports aud the rec¬
ords of Audubon societies, aud, while
a bird census is 1 impossible trained ob¬
servers can at least compare present
with former conditions aud work out
fairly reliable percentages.
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THE TORNADO.
All day the angry jlouds had swept
Athwart a saffron sky,
Al! day the restless winds had wept
To nature’s tearless sigh;
’Twas eventide, ai d eager eyes
Still watched tb i brazen west
With fearful gaze; while aching throbs
Filled every anxious breast.
Then, suddenly came from abovo
A thing of awful form,
The rolling chariot of Jove,
The monarch of the storm;
With thunderous and deadly roar
And black as Satan’s frown,
On came the raging, baleful thing
That doomed the happy town.
“Fly for your lives! ’tis coming down!”
The people wildly cry,
But roar on roar their voices drown—
Those luckless ones must die.
The coursing couriers of the air,
. The storm king’s midnight steeds,
Come thundering down the raven sky,
And naught their course impedes.
Now round and round, in mazes dart
The whirling monster goes, '
And from the inky heavens’ vault
Ab, A shrieking hear hurricane blows.
the screams of wild despair,
And see—that mangled form
Goes hissing through the angry air—
There’s murder in the storm!
With crash and roar the houses fall,
Or soar aloft on high,
To mingle with the blackened smoke
That tills the weeping sky,
A moment, and the monster’s gone—
We pause to gain our breath,
While o’er that smoking ruined Dath
There broods the flush of death.
The widow’s sob, the orphan’s cry,
The groans that fill the air,
The trembling hand, the tearless eye,
And Bespeak supreme despair.
all night long the faithful toil
Beneath the ruined heap
Until each mangled form is found,
And then sit down to weep.
•-John It. Musick, in Kansas City Inde¬
pendent.
governing |^|r. |$urgatrotjd
BV KATE MASTERSON.
OU see they
I were having
tea and con¬
fidences be¬
l fore the fire
in the twi¬
U light.
“Whatever
became of
that nice man
that used to
send you the
violet »
asked the widow.
“Which?” said the girl with the
dimple, coloring as though she knew.
“Why the man who gave the theatre
party the other day, and sent those
beautiful rubber-tired, electric cabs.”
“Oh, you mean Mr. Murgatroyd?”
“Yes, that’s the name. What has
become of him?”
“Oh, we drifted apart somehow.
You know he lived iu Brooklyn?”
“But he was so unusually nice.
Don’t you remember that princely
supper he gave us after the theatre—
and the flowers and all?”
“Yes—he was very nice—but do
you know—he tfas—you must never
tell—but he was—an undertaker?”
“An undertaker? Ugh!”
/“Yes, I felt that way at first—but
do you know, Leila, I wouldn't have
minded it so much if he hadn’t insisted
on talking shop—and—even obtrud¬
ing his horrible profession into his
social life in the horridest way. I
really liked him, and after the first
shock I made up my mind that it
w-asn’t a bit worse than booming bi¬
cycles or automobiles or any of those
other things.”
“You poor dear! Td me all about
it.”
“Well, I didn’t even suspect it at
first, but lots of odd things happened
through his peculiar way of looking
upon his—profession—as an ordinary,
everyday one. He did not seem to
realize how uncanny it all was. You
remember that house party down at
the Van Smartes’ place on
Island?”
“Why, yes—you met him there,
didn’t yon?”
“Yes, we met there, and the Van
Smartes had arranged for a lot of old
fashioned games to bo played in
barn. One of these was forfeits. We
had great fun, and when Mr. Murga¬
troyd was caught he dived down in his
pocket for a forfeit, and what do you
think he gave us?
“Leila, it was a screwdriver!
like a carpenter’s, but quite small
a nickel handle. I thought it odd at
the time, and later on he stepped on
my gown while we were dancing and
tore the duchesse lace flounce—you
remember that white gown?
“He was dreadfully sorry, and in¬
sisted that he must replace it, although
I tried to laugh it off as one does, you
know. I was pinning it up when sud¬
denly he took a little tope measure out
of his pocket and measured the torn
part. It wasn’t like any other tape
measure. It was white, with black
figures, and I asked him to let me see
it. It measured about three yards!
“Then came the theatre party. There
were fourteen of us in all, and he
a cab apiece for us. When I was
thanking him for the 'delightful even¬
ing I spoke laughingly about his ex¬
travagance in sending such a lot, and
remarked that his cab bill must have
been enormons. Then he told me that
he owned them. I thought this the
strangest thing! Fancy owning four¬
teen cabs! But I supposed he was
immensely wealthy and that it was a
fad.
“About two weeks after that he
asked me to go driving with him, and
he drove up with the dearest, little
snow-white team of horses and spider
phaeton. We enjoyed a pleasant drive
through the park, and when we
reached Riverside, I begged him to
let them out. I love to have horses
go fast.
“He explained that the funny little
jog trot they went at was their fastest
gait; that it would spoil them for busi¬
ness if they went faster. Then I asked
him plumply what bis business was,
and he toldj me. Leila, they were
hearse horses!
“I didn’t see him when he called
after this. It made me shiver to think
of it. Of course I did not let him
know how I felt, for he seemed per¬
fectly unconscious of anything odd in
the matter. But one day—it was a
glorious winter day—the first really
deep snow of the season—I was sitting
at the window thinking what a jolly
thing a sleigh ride would be, when Mr.
Murgatroyd drove up in a beautiful
sleigh, with buffalo robes and bells
and two horses—black ones this time
—that looked as though they could go.
“I weakened and accepted his invi¬
tation to go sleighing, and we went
through the Park and along the Boule¬
vard, when suddenly he turned into a
side street, I asked him why, and he
said if I would excuse him he had to
stop a block down. So he went on
and came up to a little cottage, where
he drove up and went in, leaving me
in the sleigh. When he came out he
had the most solemn sort of a face. I
thought something dreadful must have
happened. What do you think he did
then?
“He plunged under the seat of the
sleigh and brought o ■. a little package
and went up to the door and tacked
some crepe on the bell. Then he got
in the sleigh again, and we drove off,
and he was just as jolly as usual. I
hardly spoke all the way home, and he
couldn’t imagine what was the matter.
I told him I had a toothache.
“I didn’t see him again for months.
Then I met him accidentally one day
while I was at lunch down town. He
told me he had bought a new four in
hand, and was getting up a coicliing
party. He wanted me to ask a lot of
girls and a nice chaperon, and he was
going to have some men we all knew,
a party of about sixteen in all, and he
had planned a most^ delightful trip,
changing horses along the road, you
know, until we reached Germantown.
I was so enthusiastic about it that I
forgot all about the other unpleasant
things that I have told you of, and I
promised to go. ‘But why German¬
town of al! places?’ I asked him.
‘Why not go on to Philadelphia?’ ”
it i We shall go on to Philadelphia
later,’ he said; ‘but the fact is, Miss
Madge, I shall have to stop at Ger
mantowm; I am taking a body on there
—it will only be a slight delay.’
“After that I decided that he was
simply impossible. I liked him very
well, but I thought that a man with a
nature so insensible to feeling must
be lacking in some way. So we drifted
apart. I saw him driving with Miss
Jordan the other day. She is one of
those girls that don’t care. Have an¬
other cup of tea, Leila.”—The Cri¬
terion.
Experiments in I>entlgtry.
It is claimed by a Moscow dentist
that he has solved the problem of sup¬
plying the human mouth with false
teeth—such, namely, as will grow in¬
to the gums as firmly as natural ones.
Dr. Zamesky, the operator, has been
quite successful in this way, in the
case of dogs as well as human beings.
The teeth for this process are made of
gutta percha, porcelain or metal, and
at the root of each holes are made,
and holes are also made upward into
the jaw, the tooth being then placed
in the cavity. In a short time a soft,
granulated growth finds its way from
the patient’s jaw into the holes in the
tooth, and this growth gradually hard¬
ens and holds the tooth in its desired
position. Great confidence is ex¬
pressed as to the practical value of
this method, and it is stated that it
does not matter whether the cavity in
which the tooth is to be placed is one
from which a natural tooth has been
drawn recently or whether it has long
been healed.—Nciv York Tribune.
Too Many Fell Dead in Sham Battle.
“A peculiar thing happened in Nash¬
ville once during a sham battle,” said
a Memphian who was once a State
militiaman. “In order to make the
drill realistic it was given out that
some of the men should fall as if shot,
but no certain ones were specified. It
was a very hot afternoon, and it struck
me that it would be a good thing tc
fall in a shady spot and rest while the
other soldiers drilled and perspired.
The first shady spot we reached I fell
all right, but the same bright idea had
struck every member of the company,
and the Captain suddenly turned and
found his entire command ‘killed.’
He fined us $5 each, and we came to
life again and finished the drill.”—
Memphis (Tenn.) Scimitar.
Happenings In the State of Inter¬
esting Import,
Clerks Can Be Garnisheed,
The state supreme court handed
down a decision declaring that the
salary of a railroad clerk, whose duties
required a large amount of copying
with pen and ink and other clerical
work about the office is subject to gar¬
nishment.
This decision is one of vital inter¬
est throughout the state, as there aTe
thousands who have been inclined to
take a different position and have be¬
lieved that the contrary was true.
The decision also reversed Judge
Lumpkin’s court, which held a con¬
trary opinion.
Coinmisstoner Steveiti’ Report.
Commissioner O. B. Stevens has is¬
sued his partial report of the work ac
complised in the department of agricul¬
ture since last fall, the time of his as¬
suming the duties of commissioner.
The report in full is of considerable
length, and is devoted principally to
fertilizers and oils.
The report, which is in the nature
of a-monthly talk to the people of the
state, urges upon the farmers a con¬
tinuance of the reform system of farm¬
ing and states that everything used
upon the farm should be raised at
home. The commissioner further
urges that the cotton crop be made a
surplus, and calls upon the farmers to
make one more desperate effort to raise
their own provisions.
Will Shoot at Seagirt.
The programme for the 1899 meet¬
ing of the New Jersey State Rifle
sociation has been received at
nah. The members of the team
is practicing for the events are in¬
specting the programme with great in¬
terest, as there are a few changes
adopted for the meeting this year
with which they wish to become
thoroughly familiar while engaged in
practice and before leaving for the
Beene of action.
♦ * *
The Georgia supreme court has de¬
cided that the charter of Edgewood,
in DeKalb county was valid and that
the general assembly had the right to
approve the charter under the general
law, which has been in force. This
brings to an end a very interesting
case which has been agitated for some
time past.
Interest In Gold Wining,
InteroGt in gold naming in Oeorgia
is on the increase. There is no doubt
that the revival has arrived. For
past years interest in mining for the
yellow metal has flagged in this sec¬
tion. In 1897 there was general ac¬
tivity. The following year many pros¬
pectors came and there was a great
deal of work. But last year the war
came and the gold belt was quiet.
This spring interest revived and the
gold field is again lively.
* * *
Tax Commission Havd at Work.
The legislative tax commission,
which has been holding daily sessions
at the capitol for the last three weeks,
will probably not complete the busi¬
ness in hand until the middle of Au¬
gust. The object of the commission
is to frame a general tax law for the
consideration of the legislature and
senate, and it is probable that what¬
ever action is taken will not be made
public until the complete report of the
commission is presented to the senate
and house.
At the first session of the commis¬
sion it was decided to hold all the
meetings behind closed doors. The
only objector to this was Senator W.
A. Dodson, president of the senate,
who contended that the matter before
the commission was a public one and
of considerale interest to the people of
Georgia.
Hon. Roland Ellis, however, took
the position that the work of the com
mission could be better accomplished
by executive sessions, and this met
the approval of the other members of
the body. While no official informa¬
tion has been given out concerning the
action taken by the tax commission, it
is generally understood that the mem
bers __
have been active in pushing mat¬
ters to a close.
Will Meet August 9.
Mr. Samuel Hape, Secretary of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society,
has given notice that the meeting of
the Society will be held at Quitman
on the second Wednesday, August 9th.
* * *
Will Teach Army Officer*.
Hereafter the officers of the army
and navy of the United States will be
allowed to take the courses of study
at the Georgia School of Technology
free of charge.
This important step was taken at
the last meeting of the board of trus¬
tees, and President Lyman Hall was
authorized to act iu the matter for the
'“W
loW” ^4 lU f t aru1
J” * equipment of the school
•' 1 J 3asset p mt few of the largo
. gmeenng schools m America, and
}^V high ni9lr grade. " ctl0 » There 18 thorough are always and some of
young officers near Atlanta purnjw»
or anxious to pursue scientific courses
of study,and, as in the ease of Captain
"Wales, who received his degree i n
June, they will take advantage of the
opportunities offered.
* * *
Hon. Thos. W. Fain Dead.
Hon. Thomas W. Fain, the present
member of the lower house from \\ hit e
county, died last Thursday. This He had
been ill several weeks. was Hr.
Fain’s second term Many in the legislature
from White. years p g0 k e
represented Fannin county. Mr. Fain
was known as a conscientious, honest
man. He was loved by all who knew
him and his death will be universally
regretted.
New Foe to Farmers.
The farmers of Troup couniy hav e
found a n«w adversary, a tiny worm
that is feasting upon the cotton bu<l 8
and blooms before the boll is formed
and as a result the cotton is fruitless
and the • v op without promise.
For several weeks this worm, un¬
known to the farmers, has been prey¬
ing upon the cotton, robbinc it of it 8
life and bloom, and they decided to
have the wonn investigated and sent
an urgent letter to State Entomologist
Scott, asking him to visit their farms
and make an investigation.
The letters received by the state
entomologist state that hundreds of
acres are without any bolls whatever.
Depositories Changed.
Governor Candler has issued an offi¬
cial order to the tax collectors through¬
out the state requiring them to make
their future deposits in the state de¬
positories which was designated in a
proclamation accompanying the order.
The needed changes made in the
banks so be known as state deposito¬
ries were occasioned from the fact that
many were considered difficult of ac¬
cess by certain tax collectors in a num¬
ber of counties, and the new arrange¬
ment is thought to solve the problem.
The banks named as depositories in
the official proclamation are as near
the center of certain sections as it was
found possible, and the change will be
of considerable assistance in the fu¬
ture to the state tax collectors.
Captain Satterlee Dead.
Captain Charles B. Satterlee, of the
Third United States artillery, is dead.
The war department has notified Mrs.
Charles B. Satterlee, of Columbia, S.
C., wife of the famous officer, that his
death occurred in Honolulu on July
10th. Captain Satterlee was under
orders 4 to proceed to Manila when he
was attacked with brain fever, result¬
ing from exposure under tbs tropical
sun. It was this fever that subse¬
quently resulted in his demise,
although the immediate cause of his
death, as announced, was congestion
of the brain.
Captain Satterlee was well known
both in Atlanta and Georgia. He was
stationed at Atlanta as assistant adju¬
tant general of the state for som^
time, being the first regular army offi¬
cer to hold such a position in Georgia.
Band Grant* Awarded.
days Secretary of State Phil Cook, a few
ago, gave two land grants in
Charlton county aggregating 772 acres.
They were given under the Headrigbt
grant and were for unclaimed lands on
the Satilla river.
384 Henry Prescott received a grant of
acres of pine islands and swamp
muds, and J. B. O’Qnin received 388
acres of similar lands. The grants, in
accordance with the law, were signed
by the governor, the secretary of’ the
executive department, and the secreta¬
ry of state.
The method of securing lauds of this
character is very simple, and the
expenses of getting them is small.
Entitled to Fees.
According to a decision handed down
p y )iv J .Neil, R M Pre of t ffie the C0Urt Atlanta ’ 8olici city ^ James
court • is entitled criminal
to the same fees as
the solicitor general of the state.
The case* is of mere than ordinary
interest and the decision of the su¬
preme court settles a point of consid¬
erable importance. The case grew out
of the petition filed by clerk G H.
Tauuer more than 11 J ear ft R° iu which
i he contended , . , that
the solicitor of the
criminal court was entitled to the same
reduced felony fees as the solicitor
general, but that the only fees be was
entitled to were those for misdemean¬
ors Solicitor O’Neil, however, held
hat he was entitled to the reduced
felony fees and iu consequence a bit
ter light was inaugurated.
STRIKERS BIS A RLE A CAR.
Drove the Motnrinan Off and Smashed
Mechuiijgm Xo the
At New Piece*
York, Thursday afternoon
EiVhtV 1 ° f Rtn king motor *Ken of the
Eighth avenue line , attempted to wreck
a car, after driving the motorman from
the platform A mob had been tying
in wait and climbed aboard when the
car stopped to take on a passenger.
They seized the mortorman and tore
the controller bar out of his hands
The strikers then proceeded to smash
T h b ° X above the platform
wuv be co V trolIer handle
with crowbar battered and a man
a the controller
to pieces Policemen dispersed the
crowd and made several
