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The Bulloch Herald. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. m 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 -j | _____________ 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. FREAK BIRDS AND BEASTS IN THE PHILIPPINES. mm lift *• km " r_ k MIM (i - it m !*/ iorrA l'o 1 ifi m V p ft •■'V' l\ evttfui i !MK(M \ 7 JPtCTQt I-nr img w 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 * r ? Particularly typical of the arts and spirit of peace, but now, for the first i r -'so mi % ■ i 1 ___ t cr \r KIMBERLEY SEARCHLIGHT. {A the powerful shaft head electric the light Do Beers is lost mine. ailed By on at \ this HghtJ signals were exchanged force be¬ Lord tween Methuen.) Kimberley and the under 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 lV i\ I rii -o I. m WnMmmm m WJm VA it Ya w. (skj m it V / t *•» .If*'*. ^ ty -- • a, A . ■=«*£ BRITISH SIGNALING LADYSMITH BY HELIOGRAPH. 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 I 0. O m CM b'ljf llltlll i 11 .1 "n., m III L-iM* ■■ O 1 - [w 4 .1 * * • /' V* V ^ \ -t'l ~ ■' i - ^ ^ - - .. X 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 i f Jf s Kh <r yy t \1 HOW BOERS DESTROY RAILWAYS. 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