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HUMAN BRAIN CELLS. THEY REFUSE TO WORK UNDER TOO HIGH A PRESSURE. Pnt on Too Mucli*6team and These Minute Cfrg-anlattts Go on Str.JRe. Why Men Go Crazy or Become At» sen tin! mlcd. Keeping pace with scientific thought an<J progress certain problems which In the pasf have been shelved for want of light being thrown upon them have been takqn up again one by one to un dergo further examination by tho aid of Improved science. The newest revelation in this dlrec tion tends to the science of the mind ->-> » Why does a man act queerly er be is intoxicated? Why is a man ahsenttninded on oc caslons? Why does a man sometimes become .violently lusafio, often a daagerous, raying lunatic? Such questions as these have puzzled our immediate fathers, who have hard¬ ly ever satisfactorily explained them away or indeed thrown much reliable light upon them. Tho lufman bVain is composed of cells, and each ceil is a shhpje bit of nerve substance, ftom one end of which, like du octopus, spring a number qf tentacles, while from another pa t arises an arm dif¬ ferent from them :jud of great length. The long arm is iutcoded for trans¬ mitting impressions from one portion of tho brain system to another, it be¬ ing made to touch the tentacles or Bhovt arms of the next one to it. the latter In Its turn effecting coutact with a third cell, and so on. Thus a message is conveyed and the mind gets its news. Tho entire brain is made up of these cells, whose num¬ ber is legiou aud whose full strength is grouped in systems, these systems in turn being arranged in communi¬ ties, the communities in dusters aud finally the clusters La constellations, by which divisions they are known to physiologists. So long as the mind is in a healthy condition each little cell, or brain oc fcopu>, attends to its business faithful ly and gives no trouble, but 'as mftn generally is an animal \fJio usually re¬ fuses to live the life spanned out by nature and adopts instead the HIT* laid down by tbe inoueru artificial process of living, instituted forsooth by civi¬ lization, mental disturbances frequent¬ ly arise through the brain Itecotuhig abused in various ways, from over work and alcohol principally. Your octopuslike brain cell is a liv¬ ing little thing, and it can endure a great deal of abuse from you. hut If you should go a little too far It rebels and refuses to work any longer by br<c!:!ng eon'oet with its companion cells, which It *:ui do by withdrawing its long arm and getting itself out of circuit. But this rebellion Is conduct¬ ed by whole groups of cells? acting to¬ gether lu full harmony. Now. the object of this "strike" ts simply to avoid overwork, for each tiny cell baa stored within lt« minute space only a certain amount* of energy, but If you put ou tbe high pressure this is easily consumed by the oimto ,tloo of the brain, and the orgtufism breaks dowu from exhaustion. Now. take the first of the problems stated. Wlu*n a per sou takes too much to drinic, the cells In those patches of the brain that are responsible fo? the conduct of muscular movement ts* coise affected aud tho uiuu staggers. W^en the dos^* is very large, the cells, which, although stupefied, have tried to keep their master on his legs. Dow cease working, au<j the man sleeps like one dead. Finally, if mort* than enough of alcoholic drink be taken, the effect on the cells is to paralyze them,, and the unfortunate man dies. Thgre Is some relation between ex traordihary activity of the mind and insanity. Geniuses are apt to exhibit Fympte:::* rf nfeutnl alienation, and. singular to relate, their children are usually inferior to those of average men. For instance, not to go out of Eng Ioe j for example. Cromwell was a kypoebondraic and had visions. Dean Swift inherited insanity and was him¬ self uot a little mall. Shelley was call¬ ed by bis friends “Mad Shelley, 1 Charles Lamb went crazy. Johnson was another hypochondriac. Coleridge was a morbid mnniho. Milton was of a morbid turn of mind, nearly approach¬ ing insanity (modern idwas of hades are largely formed on tin* description evolved py his diseased imaginationl, and Byron said he was visited by ghosts. This mental alienation occurring in the foregoing cases shows that cer¬ tain specific groups of brain cells have conn* under tbe baneful Influence of the guiding spirit called talent or genius, which 1ms used up all the en¬ ergy stored in each cell and each group of cells, to the detriment of the whole, With tbe result that their ceasing work has brought about various types of insanity as depicted or. to phrase it more softly, induced disturbance of the mental equilibrium. The problem is absent. miiMlecirtess. This Is pi-oducvsl hy a temporary disjunction of certafh groups of cells. A man becomes so absorbed In his study of some partic ular subject and lends bis wjtfole mind to thought that the hard think¬ ing disorganizes »tlle grouiw of cells employed in the pVocess of rottvetlon. thek-.. tentacles beiug turned all ■nay. to the detriment, of rnentfH ac tion generally, aifd so the man with the tentacles of Ills brain «jUs wn; i > In the one direction passes7olong streets lost to all observatloavr nu ju: - .! Inceptlon and does all manner of queer thidgs because he le not conscious of what he Is doing.—Ifearson's Maga- 2 l ne> Snored on MeCaltonKh. “The late h C M^ullottgli. the tra gedian, was a tt reai friend of mine/' said Comedian Cr.\n* “aud tvhea in this city used always to live at tho Gilsey House. One dav I went tliore to call un him and. he being out. left tny card, upon which, un joke, dernea^h wrote my name, In large by letters way of the a word ‘Actor.’ The next day 1 was passing McCullough on the street when ho stopped mo with *Sny. Billy, what do you mean by leaving a card in my box with such an infernal lie as that written on it ?’ “I got even with him. however, later. MeCullough was inordinately fond of the game of seven up. and one evening I had the satisfaction of beating him nine straight games. Bright and esirly the following morning ! again left tny card £or him at Ills hotel, this time writ ing below my name ‘Seven tip player. - When I saw McCullough later >u the day. I jollied him with That wasn't any lie I put on my card this morning, was It. John?* And he evidently saw the point, tion.”—N^wSEork didn't reply to my ques Tribune. The Be*t nt the Bottom. Speaking of poison murders, a native of Maine told of a peculiar crime that occurred in his state . This was the case of a man who — tired, of his wife, and in order to rid himself of her in the shortest and most expeditious manner possible he determined upon her death. Divorce, while a feasible method, appealed not to his frugal mind, since it involved a large initia tor.v -xponse from counsel fees and a continuous one from alimony. So on murder he resolved, arsenic as the agent to ojfect it. and the method through whiejj to introduce the poison ; into the stmnaoh of his victim with out arousing her suspicious the usually Iunocuons and popular lemonade. At the trial it \fas proved that he carried through his plans with skill and finesse, but after the deadly lern onadc had been drunk by Ids too trust Ing spouse, noticing that some of the precipltnte remained In the bottom of the glass, he stirred it well up and again handed it to Ids victim with a loving smile, nt the same time remark lng. “But the best’* nt the bottom, my dear#* How Slintpnel Ope rn tea. Shrapnel shell Is a beautiful aud in feoloua missile. It consists of a hoi low, elongated shell, with a bursting charge of powder at the base aud tilled with from 200 to 600 half inch bullets, according to the star of the gun. It is fitted with a time fuse, which is '‘net*’ to lire the bursting charge at a given number of seconds after the shell has left the gun. The bursting charge In turu blows the head off the shell and sends forward the 290 (o goo bullets, which continue their course in a couical shower ou to the ground. Itol « Violent Cnne. Mrs. Peek—Henry, what would you do If I wen* to die suddenly? Henry—Pray, dou’t talk of such a thing. I think it would almost drive me crazy. Mrs. Peek—Do you think yon would marry again? Henry—Oh. no! don’t think 1 would be as crazy as that.—Chicago News. An Exclnulve Rook. The “Almnnach de Gotha” is the most exclusive book of its kind, and perhaps of any kind in the world, aud to get one’s name in its pages implies that one is either an exalted personage or something very much like it. And of those whose names appear very few are able to boast of having a portrait between its select and scarlet covers.— Loudon Letter. Why He Hurried. “Young man.” said the old gentle man. “my daughter Is too young to marry. A girl of her age cannot l>e sure of her own mind In a matter of such importance.” “I fully realize that.” replied the young man. who had just secured the fair one’s consent. “That’s why I don’t want to wait.”—Chicago Post. - Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from 1m pertinence, vulgarity or envy. The vineyards of Italy cover nearly 8.000.000 acres. 1 he inhabitants of Cochin China much prefer rotten eggs to fresh ones. A QUEER EXPLOSION. blOW A MOUNTAIN LOCOMOTIVF. ____ CAM^-TO AN UNTIMELY END. TU< , re slither Flra I* Her For U1MW w in Uer Bailer, aau Ve< Ma4^<i to Blow Up in the Approved s«j-h.. ^ Clenry Alqutet, prominent ... ran r - a man. relates the-story of a. cuj> 008 wreck, the facte in which be will vouch*- fof. ' ^ ' a . s 6clr a remarkable thing, s^jid Mr. Aiquist to a reporter, “that I fear many will be inclined to brtmd it a£ *ptpe.’ I have been railroading noyv for- over 20 years, ahd never in varied exix'tience have I eeo such 80 unique and as the one 1 .s[H>ak of—that of engine 1,120 of the Uio Grande Western, ^iiiluoad men will tell you that locomotives seklopa explode nowadays, but 1.129 did in a very peculiar way. **At the time this wreck occurred 1 was holding down the job of train^is patcher at.Soldier Summit,'Utab, aud a tough old job It was. Never been there. I suppose? Well, Soldier Soai at It is u station ou the top of oue of the Wasatch divides, a bleak and lone ly place, where tho Rio Grande West ern has a roundhouse and coal chute locate^. At the summit are long suowsheds covering the tracks. These sheds protect the Hue from the win ter. And it is only due to this method that a train ever gets over the' moult¬ tain. “Qn both sides of tho mountain the line winds down in a succession of winding curves to lesson the grade. Running off from the railway are switches, which, diverging from ‘the grade, run up iuto the bills and grad¬ ually come to a dead level. These switchbacks, as they are called, are so constructed that they can be thrown fyohi any point ou the grade. And if a train breaks in two \yliile ascending the steep grade tbe runaway cars can be switched on to one of these spurs, w here the breakaway finally stops aft er it has run up the spur as fkir as the momentum attained in its descent will take it. “All heavy trains have an extra 10 comotive before the grade is tackled, These are called helper engines aud are j;opt in roundhouses at each side 0 f ^j ie mountain with steam up. “One night I got word from Clear Creek, n town' In the western valley, tj )a t ^j ie 9;20 freight would be 30 min utes late op account of having to pull 0l] *i a crippled engine. 1,129. She had burned out her flues and had to be hauled to Grand Juactiou for repairs, ~ TllAt uight n p out 10 o’clock, after i p a s^> t i down the Salt Lake ex press. I heard the freight coughing up h»ng grade from Clear Creek .There was a snowstorm raging, and the wind howled around the statiou like the mischief, Wkeu the overdue 9:20 pull ed Into the shelter of the big snow sheds on the wind swept summit, the first thing 1 asked was* ‘Where’s the dead engine?’ “ ‘Behind the doghouse!’ shouted the ‘con.* But ns I held my lamp above nay head 1 failed to see it. I was just about to cal! his attention to it when, dunlng a lull In the storm, we plainly heard the familiar rattle of the rails ns tho runaway engine flew at light¬ ning speed down tbe mountain. No. 1.129 had broken loose and was tear¬ ing down the grade lo destmetion. “i jumped and pulled the lever wlpch opened the spur switches. This th<? 1 kucw would prevent g smashup. as engine would run up on tho switchback aud come to a stop. B«it 1 was too late. Almost at the same instant 1 threw the lever n terrific explosion was heard from far down the mountain. The runaway had exploded.” “I thought yon said a moment ago, Mr. Aiquist.” interrupted The Scimi¬ tar man, “that the locomotive was a ‘dead one?’ If she had no fire under her boiler, how could she explode?” “That was the only thing I couldn’t understand myself.” the railroad man replied. “1 could easily see how the dead engine could break loose on that grade, and 1 could understand not hearing its descent during such a howling blizzard, but the explosion fldbred me. The only theory which In any way solved the mystery was that the old kettle was blown up by com¬ pressed air. “You see. when the engine broke loose from the freight and started down the mountain the pistous in the cylinders began to act as air corn pressors. -During the rough trip up her throttle probably jarred open, and as the speed Increased with every rev¬ olution of her drivers her boiler soon filled with compressed air. It was not long before those flying pistons had worked up a pressure of nearly floo pounds to the square inch, which came in faster than it could escape by the safety valve, and before the old nut¬ chine reached Clear Creek her boiler let go.”— Memphis Scimitar. Sl»nrp, Doctor—Stick efut your tongue. Tom my. Tommy—Not on your life! I did that yesterday to my teacher, and I still ache nil over for It.—Wiener Tngblntt Notice of Sale. On Saturday, March 3rd, 1900, at 12 o’clock, in., before the court house door in Statesboro, I will sell mv Academy lot containing two buildings and four (4) acres of land, bounded as follows: North hv Mro u'. \v. on of. a-'. ? be No u is 5 {ji .ith o. s. ! y *..^4 A Jtrni.ur:... Tk Qua • > un£e in ^iicanu eVv r o yc: r . 1 c. < .it fwr cm» iit with frpoa security.. February let, 1900. Bbannbn. J. E% F.C.C0RSET3 MAKE American Beauties. F. C. .aaaa. LATEST MODELS, .Pa Bach Box. * Kalamazoo Corset Co. SOLE MANUFACTURERS SOLD BY R. SIMMON?. 'Notice to the Public. America Grooms having lfet my bed and board, the public fa here¬ by’warned that 1 will not l,e re sponsible for any debts coni racted by lie#*-. Solomon Grooms. Aden, Ga., Jan. 25, 19(X). 4t Doors, Sash, Blinds, Paints, Oils, Fire Brick, Fire Ciay, guilders’ Supplies, Railroad and Mill Supplies, Packing, Fire, Steam and Garden Hose, Felt Roofing. Etc Wholesale and Retail. Get our prices on Doors, Sash, Blinds, Paints, Oils, before buying. Estimates Furnished. Correspondence Solicited Adams Paint Company, 104 Congress Street We^t, end 103 St. Julian Street West, Savannah, G-eorgia. Wright and Company, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Savannah, Georgia. COUNTRY PRODUCE-—POULTRY, EGGS, WOOL, HIDES, FRUITS, ETC., SOLD ON CONSIGNMENT. » We handle anything on commission and endeavor to ren der satisfactory service. Correspondence Solicited. WRIGHT & CO., - - - 122 Bay St. W, - - - SAVANNAH, GA. v_ mJ «nL & 3L aSr SUCCESSFUL SHOOTERS SHOOT JBS IS* 1 fj. WINCHESTER Rifles, Repeating Shotguns, Ammunition and Loaded Shotgun Sheik Winchester guns and ammunition are the standard of the world, hut they do not cost any more than poorer makes. All reliable dealers sell Winchester goods. m FREEZ by1ife° SUC Send describ,ng name on ^ Sun'S m made WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COl s mumm NEW HAVEN. CONN. Church Directory. M. E. CHURCH. SOUTH. ' Rev. W. J. Flander^ Castor. emwhin* «wu tu/u.; si ** at a.S> 10 and . jso p : ia*£ vfl.*eti.iv cads Suiichiy a m., Sundry sc:h> ;i <rrh snao;y siS« Pj Prater ntectiag aacts v> couesKiay su < .30 p m. STATHSBOROr»AF« 8 T CHURCH. Truediin* ea Ua> 2nd and an Sundays in eggj, •nonth at li a xs and i:-* l» w. Ibursday , Pn vi r r.a -1 service every evening at i:30 o’clock. Smiuey , . at . , lu n a „ ns. ... A. Sunday tcliool every q # Pft lStist Young o’clock. People’s K. J. H. Union DeL every occli. Sunday President. after noon at 3 PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH. Bid. M. F. Stubbs, Pastor. and Saturday Preaching OYcry ~uci Snii-cluy iu eu*li nsoptb at li! a ns. County Directory. Sheriff-John H. Donaldson, Statosboio, Ga. Tax Collector—P. E. MeKlveep, Areola, Ga. Tax Receiver—A. J. ller. Harvslle, Ga. Treasurer—Allen Lee, Areola, Ga. County Surveyor H. J. proctor, jr., Proctor, 6 a. Superior Court— ith Mondays in April and Orto ber; B- 1). Evans, Judge. SandetsviHe. Ga.; r>. t. Rawlings. Solicitor General, Sandwsvihe, Ga.; S. c. Groover, Clerk, Stab sboro. Ga. County Court—M onthly month. sessions Qarterly on Wednesday* sessions altar first Mondays in each Wednesdays alter first Month in each three inc-nths baginning in January. J. F. sboro, Bnmnec, Ga. Judge; J. H. Donaldson, Bailiff, Stab Ordinary’s Court— 1st Mondays in cueh month, C. s. Martin, Ordinary, Statesboro, Ga. JUSTICE COURTS ■ 44th District—?bep Bushing, J. P., Green. n. U. McCorkle, N. P„ Grceu, Ga. Court day, Saturday in each month. Mctter, 45th District-G. II. Trupnell, J. P-, J. 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All persona indebted to the estate of Asbury Bland are hereby notified to make immediate s -ttie:i eiit to the undenigned, or with her attorneys, Brannon & Morre, and all persons holding claims against said estate are also notified tj present same ns required by law. This Jan 11,1!X>0. MRS. KATE BLAND, Administratrix.