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HON. HIRAM FRANKLIN.
That Popular Gentleman Is Suffering
With riental Affliction.
The many friends of Hon. Hi¬
ram Franklin throughout Bulloch
county are pained to learn that he
is suffering with a slight derange¬
ment of the mind. For several
days his mind has appeared to be
slightly unbalanced, the cause of
which the doctors are hardly able
to understand. It is said that his
physical health seems to be good,
and though he occupies his bed all
the time, there is no fever or other
apparent cause lor the affliction.
The physicians express the hope
that the trouble is only temporary,
and that the patient will come
around all right in a few days.
Mr. Franklin is one of the best
known men of our county, and is
popular with the people. He is
at present Bulloch’s representative
in the lower house of the state
legislature, his term expiring next
October. He was constantly at
his post during the past two ses¬
sions ot that body, and discharged
hie duty with credit to himself and
satisfaction to his constituents.
The legislature adjourned in De¬
cember, and Mr. Franklin had
therefore only been home a few
weeks when his present affliction
befell him.
COTTON FACTORY MEETINC.
Secretary Wilson Calls a fleeting for
First Monday in February.
The Herald takes pleasure iu
publishing the following call:
COTTON FACTORY.
We wish to have a meeting of all the
citizens of Bulloch county on the first
Monday In February. The purpose of
the meeting is to discuss plans for
the building of a cotton factory in
Statesboro. We desire the presence of
each citizen who feels an interest in
the upbuilding of the county, regard¬
less of what their religious or politi¬
cal views may be; we wish tb come
together on equal grounds and work
for the betterment of all. Come one,
come all, and offer your opinions freely
in the meeting. J. W. Wilson,
Corresponding Secretary.
It is to be hoped that all the
people in every section who are
interested in the material build¬
ing tip of the county, will heed
this call. The initial steps were
taken some weeks ago when a
meeting was held in the court
house and a committee elected to
push the matter to a successful
end. These committeemen are
successful business men and have
the interest of the town and coun¬
ty at heart in the broadest sense.
They realize that a factory located
at this place means great good to
the town in the way of furnishing
labor for the unemployed, thereby
making better customers for the
merchants; and that it means
much for the farmer and trucker
who will find a better and readier
market here by reason of there
being more consumption for what
the trucker raises, and a local
market for cotton that will give
the grower the benefit of the sav¬
ing of freight.
Statesboro is already one of the
best markets for its size in the
state. A gentleman who returned
from Savannah a few days ago
said to us that Sea Island cotton
sold there for 15^ per pouud,
while pork was a drug at 4^, In
Statesboro the same day the rul¬
ing price for cotton was 16$/,
while some sold at 15f/; and pork
was readily sold at 5/. On this
latter article the demand is limit¬
ed by the size of the town and the
cash in the consumer’s pocket.
With an enlarged factory town,
cash would be more plentiful and
the demand consequently much
greater.
This business is of importance
to the entire county, so let all the
people take hold of it,
CONDUCTOR COOLED HIH OFF.
Negro Thought He’d Ride Free,
Petty Changed His Mind.
Conductor Petty, of the Savan¬
nah & Statesboro railroad, had an
exciting experience with a negre
passenger on his train from Wood
burn to Stilson last Saturday
night, and but for the timely in¬
terference of passengers
have “put out the light” of the
impudent ruffian.
While the train’s crew were en¬
gaged at Woodbnrh in throwing
wood into the tender, an unknown
negro came up and voluntarily
assisted in the work; then as the
train pulled out he jumped aboard
for a ride. When the conductor
went around and called on him
for his fare, the negro replied that
he had paid by throwing in wood.
This was not satisfactory to Mr.
Petty, who told him that he must
“fork over” the cash or get off the
train.
At this the negro became very
abusive, and the conductor struck
him. Other passengers took a
hand in the interest of peace, and
quiet was apparently restored,
when, as Mr. Petty turned to walk
away, the negro grabbed him in
the back. At this the conductor
drew his pistol and fired at the
negro, striking him in the thigh,
inflicting a flesh wound. The shot
would have been more serious had
not one of the bystanders knocked
the pistol from its aim at the ne¬
gro’s abdomen. The train was by
this time drawing up at Stilson,
and amid the great confusion, the
negro jumped from the train and
“burnt the wind.”
Tiie several negro passengers
aboard exonerated Mr. Petty from
all blame.
ARE MAN AND WIFE ONE?
A Delinquent Road-Worker so De¬
clares to the Ordinary.
The are some people scattered
throughout this county who have
missed their callings—they ought
to be in the Georgia legislature or
the United States congress instead
of stuck down on little
farms in rural districts of this
county, which said farms
going backward every year. Such
people ought to make good
lators—if they are not fit for
nobody can imagine what they are
intended for.
And no better opportunities
could be found for displaying in¬
born smartness than is afforded
by the present road law of our
county. The average man of the
county who has the public good at
heart,goes along willingly and does
his two days’ work or pays his
fifty cents a dity commutation
tax; but occasionally you find
smart men who hr© not to be
hoodwinked into anything of that
sort. They prefer to display their
smartness of brain rather than
industry of muscle. Of such the
batch of defaulters that constant¬
ly find their way into the Ordi¬
nary’s court is largely composed.
A reporter happened to be pres¬
ent at a defaulters’ trial a few days
ago when some of these smart
men were up for trial. One man
had ignored his summons to work
and gave as his excuse that his
wife was sick. The Ordinary ex¬
plained that sickness was an ex¬
cuse only when the party snjn
moned to work was the afflicted
one. “Well,” replied the default¬
er, “the law regards me and my
wife as one, if I’m sick it’s the
same as her; and when she’s sick
it’s the same as me!” The Ordi¬
nary thought that as long as the
man and his wife were not the
Siamese twins, and the man was
not compelled to take his bed on
account of the wife’s sickness, a
fine would be the proper thing—
and it was paid amid mutterings,
“If that’s law, it ainfc just.”
The delinquent never stopped
to reason that if he earried his
theory to its last analysis, it
would require him to go under the
doctor’s care when his wife was
ill, and physic himself with all
sorts of bitter drugs; nor that the
san;e theory would require his
burial provided his wife happened
to die from her illness. These
little things can probably be ar¬
ranged, though, when he gets to
the legislature and begins to make
“laws that are just.”
Another defaulter gave as his
excuse that the road on which he
was summoned to word was less
than twenty feet wide in one cer¬
tain place (according to his meas¬
urement being only sixteen feet
and four inches), therefore he
could not be compelled to work.
He paid his tine unwillingly,
and will assist the other man in
revising the laws when they g3,to
Atlanta next time.
To Guano Buyers.
Having arranged for the sale of
J, W. Wilson’s well-known brands
of Guano—“Our Own,” “Wilson’s
Fertilizer” and “Chilian Stan¬
dard”—we make the announce¬
ment that we will have the exclu¬
sive sale of these goods this year.
In addition to these we will sell
“Cumberland Bone Phosphate,”
all of which have been tried and
found well adapted to the soil of
Bulloch county. See us for prices
before buying elsewhere.
J. W. Olliff & Co.
N0TES FROM THE ACADEMY.
Twenty new names were enroll¬
ed at the Academy this week.
We have a vague presentiment
that all of the pupils will be regu¬
lar during this term.
We must have a school building
here. If you think more of your
own child than you do of your
money, now is the time to prove it.
The county school commission¬
er will make this a school district
the very moment we provide room.
All names that have been en¬
rolled at the Academy will, ac¬
cording to the school law, be con¬
sidered pupils of this school.
They cannot draw from the pub¬
lic fund elsewhere. Parents will
do well to investigate this matter.
We are to begin the study of
French this week.
Miss Bertha Hart, from Clito,
entered school Monday.
How Hard Bees Work.
Darwin after close observation found
that a bee would often visit as many
as 27 flowers in the course of a minute,
though with other plants in which the
honey was difficult to extract the aver¬
age would be as low as seven. Strik¬
ing a mean between these two figures,
one may say that an ordinary working
bee visits 15 flowers a minute, or 900
an hour. Considering the late hours to
which a bee works, It is probably no
exaggeration to say that it is busy for
eight hours a day, allowiug for inter¬
vals of rest. This would make it visit
7,200 flowers a day, or 648,000 in a pe¬
riod of six months,
Sir. A. S. Wilson in a recent paper
showed the enormous amount of labor
gone through by bees in making even
a small quantity of honey. He found
that approximately 125 beads of red
clover yield 15 grains of sugar, or 125,
000 heads about two pounds. As each
head contains some 00 florets. It fol¬
lows that 7,500,000 distinct flower
tubes must be Bucked in order to ob¬
tain two pounds of sugar. Now. honey
contains, roughly speaking, 75 per cent
of sugar: therefore the bees must make,
la round numbers, 2.500,000 visits for
one pound of honey.
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Mode For Fish Bait.
An eccentric hermit named William
Sehueller, who lives at Franklin, Mich.,
is said to be one of the most
fishermen in his part of the country,
and he claims to call the fish to him
by singing “Old Hundredth.'* He goes
out in his boat and takes a station in
fairly deep water. Then he sings, at
the same time keeping his eyes on the
water In search of fish. Gradually the
fish crowd about bis boat, be claims,
and when enough are gathered togeth¬
er the wily fisherman casts a net and
catches dozens at a single haul. The
old gentleman has a famous voice, and
his neighbors are inclined to brieve
his strange story.—Chicago Record.
Sothern’a Recitation.
sir Edward Russell knew E. A. Sotli
m si.
m “ “* teUB “ auy
Stones Of him.
He was dining at Portsmouth or
somewhere . at . a regimental . , mess to ,
which the officers had asked him with
every show of the highest admiration
nnd ana With wan nn no appeal nnnparnnw auce nf or social social 2n su
periority. After dinner, as the party
sat at wine, one of the officers asked
Sothern to give them a recitation. Now,
Sothern abominated that kind of thing,
He wouldn’t tolerate being treated
as an entertainer when he was by way
of being treated as a gentleman. He
coldly declined. They pressed him.
He hotly declined. Still they pressed
him. He expressed his feelings. Per¬
haps the officers were a little affected
by wine. At all events they persist¬
ed. They would take no denial.
At last he said in a manner which
showed that he was nettled, but yet
yielding: “Well, if you won’t let me
off I must. I’ll give you the dinner
scene from ‘David Garrick. 9 99
He did. He had never acted it bet¬
ter. They were delighted until, spring¬
ing to his feet, he made Iris wild, tipsy
exit, just as he did on the stage, and
dragged the cloth off the table and
with it all the regiment’s prized des¬
sert china and decanters and glasses,
etc. Great was the smash. The actor
did not wait to be applauded or to im¬
prove the occasion. The lesson was. in¬
deed, a rough one, and probably only a
man with some-roughness in his dar¬
ing humor^would have given it, but it
was quite deserved.
The Byzantine princes played a game
which differed very little from our
modern polo.
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TIME TABLE IN EFFECT DEC. 84 ,1399
No 3. No. 1 | (Trains run by Central jN 0 .2| No. 4
p.m. a. m. I _stand ard Time.-) I a . m | p. m.
sg&sgsissEsssgs; cxiccsr. Leave Statesboro Arrive ^?ccacoccroDCcooc?cocc?o<D 45 C»a>QD3DC000aD3000
“ Pretoria kk **
4% Shearwood Nellwood *
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AUtralnamalte close with
G. & A. trains to and from Savannah..
W. K WRIGHT, Gen’l Supt.
'Cover 2z Statesboro ZZ. C.
Schedule in effect September 11th, 1899.
~ Going No rthiT No 5 | Nol No 3 No 7
L 1 " ve .™ Statesboro 5 lOam IS 9 50am Igg S lSpnTTfilpra _____ ?SS
a -wraTd^iri^SiiTssi v 5 ,
Thursdays and Saturdays only. take Trains 8 ,
Passengers for Savannah and 5.
For Macon, Augusta, Atlanta and all Western
points take Trains 1 and ~T~ 7.__ ~|
Going South | No 6 No 2 No - 4 ( No 8
Leave Dover 0 lOam 1 11 ooam 4 20pm 8 10 pm
Arrive Clito 0 25am ! 11 1115ana 30 435pm 4sopm 8 25pm
.. gta^n’ro c 45am am 8 40 mn
Thursdays ^TininsNora^aSdl^aii)-. and Saturdays only. NMjTsftd8~TiISda^s;
ItetofwwSe'is minuto before VSrt-rt
trains at Statesboro. J. L. mathews, Supt.
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