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The Bulloch Herald.
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PUBLISHED THURSDAYS.
Entered at the postoffice at States¬
boro, Ga., as second-class mail matter.
Statesboro, Ga., Jan. 19, 1900.
To be famous merc'y means to b«
well advertised.
An Indiana judge, tired and dis¬
gusted with long newspaper accounts
of divorce proceedings, has announced
that the publication of a detailed ac¬
count of such suits would result in
the arrest and fining of the offender,
and his exclusion from the court
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Iron in mounds and mountains, and
gems, as oue might say, by the wagon
load, copper in the very greatest abun¬
dance, quicksilver, lead—what you
will—Mexico’s mineral treasures are
far beyond count, says Vice-President
Mariscal in the New York Independ¬
ent
An idea of the magnitude of the for
eigu _ business of the United States
t an be gained from the record of 1897
98, which shows that the export of »i
cycles exceeded in value that of any
other manufactured article, and snr
passed even the value of nil agricul¬
tural implements.
The John Howard Industrial Homs
for Discharged Prisoners of Massachu
setts has recently secured a one bun
dred acre farm at Bridgewater for tho
temporary employment of discharged
pr aoners. Besides farm work there
will be other means of earning money
established from time to time as cir
cumstances warrant.
The municipal pawnshop just
opened in Chicago will .«» as a val
uaole experiment. No oue who has
studied the work ng >f the Mont de
Piete of Paris, or the supervised loan
systems of Germany, can doubt that
these institutions are a benefit to the
needy poor, And no one who has
studied the working of our own pawn
brokerage in our great cities can
doubt that we have much to learn
from older countries in this regard.
Nothing else is so important at pres¬
ent for the betterment of the Indians
as the discontinuance of the ration
system. The Mohouk conference has
said that again and again, and now we
have the report of the conference of
Indian workers, missionaries, agents,
teachers and matrons in Oklahoma,
who have passed unanimous resolu¬
tions to the effect that nothing else so
pauperizes the Indians and that ‘ ‘steps
should be taken by those in authority
totally to discontinue” it.
That the German people follow with
sympathy the struggle of the Boers
against big England is but natural;
first, because these South African
Boers are very close kin to the Ger-,
mans themselves (so close that the
Boer dialect may be read and under¬
stood with some difficulty by the av¬
erage German from the north and
west of the empire); secondly, be¬
cause the Germans of today hate and
fear England, and look upon the Boer
republics in South Africa as a wall of
protection erected for the special ben¬
efit of their own colonies there by a
kind Providence, a wall which they
fear the victory-flushed English will
at once proceed to scale after this lit¬
tle unpleasantneas with the Boers has
been'settled by English bullets.
No subject is of more importance to
the welfave of the human race than
that of marriage. Opinion on such a
subject is too apt to be a matter of
temperament. Some men are pessi¬
mists by nature. They cannot see but
that the world is going straight to
the bad. Others see only the good,
and with a cheerful optimism ignore
the evil that is more or less prevalent
Philosophers are few, and it is given
to few men correctly to judge the
signs of the times with accuracy.
Nevertheless a sifting of all the evi¬
dence that is possible, a comparison
with days gone by, must lead candid
minds to admit that the world is grow¬
ing better all the time; that if prog¬
ress is slow it is certain. Surely
this could not be the case if the fami¬
ly, which is the cornerstone of socie¬
ty, was disintegrating. That would
be a paradox indeed.
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If Uncle Sam could collect a pair of specimens of each speoies of beasts,
6irds and reptiles which inhabit his newly acquired Philippine possessions
he would have a zoological “biggest show on earth.” Some of the most re¬
markable ones are shown in the accompanying cut. The spectre is the most
grotesque of Oriental animals. Its eyes are like a great pair of spectacles
and its feet and ankles are uncovered bone formations. The kagnan, or
flying should fox, is a bat. It lives on fruit. The mongoose is a pest which we
beware of importing. The zibeth is a variety of civet cat. The bu
oeros rhinoceros, who imprisons his mate in a hollow by building a plaster
wall over the entrance hole, so that she cannot leave the nest during the
nesting season, is the oddest of Philippine fowls. Father Hornbill feeds his
wife through a small hole all the while. When the eggs are hatched he
hammers down the wall and lets her out. The paradise major is one of the
most gorgeous birds in the world. The buffalo is used as a beast of all work.
Modern War Mechanism.
Searohlights, Steam Ploughs and
Heliographs in South Africa.
As might be expected, the English
are using in the South African war the
m ° 3 * m 0<l3r “ “ ilital J U»t
can be had. , They thoroughly
are up
to date in the matter of guns and arn
munition, and even the surgeons are
using new means of developing X
ra 7?' ^ ar has negotiated
with Marconi's business representa
tlV0B for wirelesB telegraphic outfits,
and by this time the apparatus ought
to be in service. Moreover, a num¬
ber of other appliances that are not
necessarily instruments of war have
been l 5Ut to UBe iu the contest with
most !tril[illg iMtanoe ,
0 f this kind is the employment of c a
steam plough for digging trenches.
The ploughshare and pruning hook
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spirit of peace, but now, for the first
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time in history, the former implement
has become a military weapon. The
steam plough is not in itself any
novelty. It has been used io. years
on a large soale in the western parts
of the United States, where the great
wheat and corn crops of the country
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are raised. It is also well known in
other parts of tho world where agricul¬
ture is conducted on the wholesale
plan.
The particular plough used in South
Africa was designed by Colonel
Templer, of the Koyal Engineers, and
differs only in trifling details from
that with which the American wheat
grower breaks up the surface of the
fertile prairie. The superiority of
this means of digging trenches is so
manifest that one wonders why it was
never thought of before. A three
wheeled “traction engine,” such as is
employed in hauling heavy wagons
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NEW STEAM PLOUGH FOR CUTTING TRENCHES.
(Use d for the first time in the South African War.)
from town to town or in operating
itinerant threshing machines, drags
the steam plough of Colonel Templer
through the soil. Two of the wheels
are large and broad, and the third,
out in front, carries only a small part
of the load, and is used mainly for
steering purposes.
There is nothing especially new in
the resort to telephony. The Ameri¬
can Signal Service has long had ample
equipments of this kind for field work,
particularly in the dissemination of
orders from headquarters and tho re¬
ceipt of reports from subordinates
during an action. It is not at all
likely that the English are ahead of
the United States in this respeot.
However, some interesting features
are presented by one of the instances
of telephony in South Africa just de¬
scribed iu the dispatches.
After arriving on the field of battle
at Elandslaagte, General French saw
the necessity of prompt reinforce¬
ments. In his army were several
telegraphers, who were provided with
portable telephones, batteries and in-
cidental apparatus. A regular tele¬
graph line passes in the vicinity of
Elandslaagte. General French’s men
tapped one of tho wires of this line.
The first step was to establish an elec¬
tric connection with the overhead
wire. This was done by suspending
thereon, by a metallic hook or clip at
the top of a light, portable stick, one
end of another wire. The latter ex¬
tended downward to a box containing
a telegraph key and sounder, two or
three cells of battery, and a conveni¬
ent combination of telephone trans¬
mitter and receiver. To make the'ap
paratus work, it was further neces¬
sary to run the lower end of the hang¬
ing wire into the ground. Thus a
regular “circuit” was formed, the
earth affording a return route for the
current. Either a telegraph key or a
telephone could be used, according to
the convenience of the operator.
A convenient substitute for Mar¬
coni’s apparatus has been found at
Kimberley in the powerful electric
searchlight there. It is a mistake to
suppose that such a device is service¬
able only at sea. Although the uses
which it has in the navy are somewhat
different from those thus far found for
it on land, it certainly has its value
on terra firrna. At Kimberley it has
performed a double office. It has as¬
sisted in the watch for an enemy, and
it has furnished an excellent means of
telegraphing. By switching the cur¬
rent on and off the light can be broken
up into dots and dashes, to form tele¬
graphic letters. The enemy might
see these signals, but as a secret Code
would doubtless be employed, the sig¬
nificance of the flashes would not be
understood except by the initiated.
Searchlights have been made whose
rays oould be discerned at a distance
of fifty or seventy-five miles. At
Kimberley it was known that Lord
Methuen’s army had come within
twenty or thirty miles nearly a fort¬
night ago. No difficulty should have
been experienced in sending messages
concerning the situation in the be¬
leaguered city, therefore, although q
reassuring response could not so eas¬
ily be transmitted.
The Boers, too, are learning to use
modern methods. A small contingent
have realized the uselessness of mere¬
ly tearing up a section of railway and
throwing the rails into a stream—the
usual Boer method of destroying a
track. What they now do is to heat
the centre of a section to a white heat
and carry the rail by its two cool ends
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to the nearest tree or telegraph pole,
round which they twist it in such a
way that it is absolutely impossible to
use it again for railway purposes.
When the usual plan is adopted, the
British troops merely search for the
missing sections and replace them.
A valuable method of communicat¬
ing, which the British are using in
South Africa, is the heliograph, such
as our army has long employed on tho
Western plains.
General Bnller, while at Frere sta¬
tion, communicated daily with Gen¬
eral White, at Ladysmith, about twen*
ty miles away, with the heliograph.
Sun rays flashed back and forth told
the besieged army to be of good cheer
and assured the relief column that the
garrison, though hard pressed, was
cheerful.
A South Sea Island Bride.
The bridal procession was ap¬
proaching. In front, walking abreast,
came the wedded pair—tall, hand¬
some, and of an excellent tawny hue.
The bride, a beautiful young girl, ex¬
a ludiorously absurd appear¬
ance. Her shapely legs and feet were
naked. She wore a low bodice* of
scarlet satin, bedecked with shoulder
knots of brilliant bine. Bound her
body so many robes, some of the*
paper-like barkcloth, others woven of.
the native grass, were enwrapped,
that her aspect, instead of impressing
us, as it doubtless did the natives,
with respect for her wealth, merely
made comic suggestion that the poor
child was parading inside a barrel!
Her pretty head, running over with
close rings of tan-tipped hair, was
uncovered; and her neck and limbs
glistened with oil.—Blackwood.
FINNERT Y’S J OKE.
All Irisli Was: Fooled the London
ers Willi a Bogus Speech. V
One of the brightest and beat of thl
Pailiamentery reporters of London*
years ago, was Peter loved to Finnerty, play practical/ of tke^
Chronicle, who
jokes as well as he loved to eat. j
One day in the reporters’ gallery!
when the proceedings were uausualW
associates, dull, Morgan felt O'Sullivan, drowsy one he of could/ hl^
so
hardly keep his eyes open. So he got
Finnerty to promise to give him any
speeches that might be madq, and
then fell asleep in his chair. He
awakened in about an hour greatly re¬
freshed and eager for work. Finnerty
gravely informed him that during his
nap there had been an Wilberforce, important
speech delivered by Mr.
a member of the House, on the virtues
of the Irish potato. Morgan never
pausing to think that the subject
had a suggestion of the ludicrous,
would pot be pacified until the speech
had been dictated to him by Finnerty.
The speech, entirely Wilberforce Fiunerty’s con¬
coction, made Mr. say:
“Had it been my lot to be born and
raised in Ireland, where my food would
have principally consisted of the pota¬
to—the most nutritious and salubrious
root—instead of being the poor, in¬
firm, stunted creature you, Sir, and
honorable gentlemen, now behold me,
I should have been a tall, stout, athetie
man and able to carry au enormous
weight. I hold that root to be invalu¬
able; and the man who first cultivated
it in Ireland I regard as a benefactor
of the first magnitude to his country.”
Morgan was so overjoyed at this
legislative tribute to the excellence of
his national potato that he willingly
dictated the speech to several other re¬
porters and every paper of note in
England, Ireland and Scotland—ex¬
cept the London Morning Chronicle,
iu the office of which Finnerty sat
chuckling, had the extraordinary re¬
port of Mr. Wilberforee’s strange
speech in the House on the extraor¬
dinary virtues of the Irish potato.
The speech was read with amaze¬
ment. At the clubs and iu the city
everybody was laughing at Mr. WilbeiJ Wil-J
berforce’s speech—except Mr.
force. He thought it rather a eausB
for rage thau merriment*, especially
his friends gazed pityingly at hinij
thinking he had gone demented. 1
But his anger cooled, and in the
House that night he read the speech
amid roars of laughter. If he were
capable of uttering such nouseuse, he
said, as had been put in his mouth it.
would be high time he was placed ira
a lunatic asylum. For himself h^
cared little about it, but it was for cofl tlfl
dignity of the House he felt
cerned.
Finnerty, on this occasion, had 91
to pay the peualty for his exqui*9§ 9
gift of humor; but later, for a libel Fo9
Lord Castlereagh, Secretary for
eign Affairs, he was imprisoned foq
eighteen months.
WISE WORDS.
Love constrains to consecration.
Tact is not another name for trick
ery.
True love is the secret of full con
oration.
Death is darkness, because it leai
to dawn.
What you are within, that you W
be without.
f* steady The world-spoiler toiler. has no use for J
Most men begin to save after tl
have spent all.
ly Practice at the ballot-box. what you pray—parlicul
The first thing you see in boil
water, is the scum. 1
hindraneaH| _
Care-not is a greater
success than cannot.
by Self remembering forgetfulness others. is only acqiuMg |j|
Songs of triumph are possible o■
to the sons of tribulation. -/"J
rather We thau are wielded by wisdom. by our wis9|| **
our
The world is a vessel iu whose laM*
the fire is already burning. ip
his When home, a the man shows his goodnes9‘ g^^|
chances are that
ness has its home iu him. f
ter The of worldly life in are collecting spending scow-b^^H the 9Kj|
forgetting Ram’s Horn. that tho summer coin (^^9 j
A Strange Russian Custom.
If a Russian girl wishes to s
at any of the universities which
admit women, etiquette does not,]
a writer iu the Girl’s Realm, 4
her she to do so until she is marriej
of marriage goes through the civil cerea
with a man student, \l
probably and this match she has is quite never legal, seen tha baj
perhaps, each other they again. may On never the other speaj 11
if they like each other, and wii I ’
they are married for life; if when! they
the marriage is dissolved
university coarse is run, aud th J
free to marry some one else.
The celebrated mathematician! autobiogl
ya attracted Kovaleski, whose few!
so much notice plienoindj| a
ago, and who was as
Russian girl as Maria Bashkifi
weut through oue of these whoB ina*
ceremonies with a student
then saw for the first time, au®
afterward became her husband. J