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THE CHABI0T OF OLD
A GRIM REMINDER OF THE COMBATS
OF THE HEROIC PERIOD.
This Vehicle Wa« tied In «lie Day*
of Antiquity For the Battle, the
dilute, In 1’rocesNiomt anti In
Games—Horn It Wat Constructed.
The ctariot was used in antiquity
for the battle, the chase, ill public pro
cessions aud in games. It had two
wheels , , and , was drawn , by , two , horses,
and when one or two horses were add
ed they were attached to each side of
the main pair by a side trace, fastened
to the front of the chariot.
These chariots have only come down
to us in fragments, with the exception
of the one in the archtBologicai muse¬
um of Florence, which Is a unique ex¬
ample of a war chariot, the so called
“Blga di Frnssino,” found by ltossell
neo in a Thebes tomb. It is certainly
as old as the fourteenth century B. O.
It Is probably a trophy obtained in the
north by some Egyptian warrior.
There is an entire absence of metal
In the consthiction. Immediately on
the axle, without springs of any kind,
rests the basket, or body, of the chari¬
ot, which consisted of a floor to stand
•n and a semicircular guard around
the front and about half the height of
the driver. It is entirely open at the
back, so that the combatants might
leap to the ground and up again, as be¬
came necessary by the exigencies of
action. There was no sent, and gener¬
ally in war chariots there was only
room for the combataut and bis chari¬
oteer to stand iu.
The pole, as in the present instance,
was usually attached to the middle of
the axle, although to outward appear¬
ances it looked as though it sprang
from the front of the basket. At the
end of the pole was the yoke, which
looked like a ram’s horns. Depending
from this by leather thongs was a Y
shaped piece, which probably took
the place of the modern horse collnr.
Probably broad bands were also fitted
around the chest of the animals.
Besides the harness of each horse
there were a bridle and a pair of reins
somewhat in the same style as are In
useattbe present day. These were made
of leather and were ornamented with
studs of ivory and metal. The reins
were passed through rings attached
to the collar and were long enough to
be tied around the waist of the chariot¬
eer in case of his having to defend him¬
self.
The wheels and body were usually of
wood, strengthened in places with
bronze or iron. The wheels had from
four to eight spokes, aud the tires
were of bronze or iron (iu the present
instance ash was used), and the pins
which secured the fellies were of fossil
bone.
This description applied to the chari¬
ots of almost any of the nations of an¬
tiquity, the difference consisting chief¬
ly In the mountings. Tlius the chariots
of the Egyptians and Assyrians, with
whom the bow was the principal arm
of attack, were richly mounted with
quivers full of arrows, while those of
the Greeks, who used the spear, were
plain except as regards mere decora¬
tions. The Persians and the ancient
Britons used a class of chariots having
the wheels mounted with sharp, sickle
shaped blades, which cut to pieces
whatever came in their way. This was
probably the invention of the Persians.
The use of the battle chariot really
belongs to the heroic period. The war¬
rior, standing by the side of his chariot¬
eer, was driven in front of the line to
invite hostile warriors to single com¬
bat After the strategic skill of a com¬
mander superseded the demands on
his personal valor the chariot was
transferred from tho battlefield to the
hippodrome, where alone its original
form was preserved. The description
of the Homeric battle chariot, there¬
fore, to a great extent also applies to
the historic chariot of the race course.
The small diameter of the chariot
wheel may be explained from the de¬
sire of preventing the chariot from be¬
ing opposed by the impediments in the
battlefield, such as debris or dead bod¬
ies. The rim was usually formed of
four fellies, into which the four spokes
were let. Tlie upper rail, which was of
either wood or metal, varied greatly in
form and was intended to be grasped
by the warrior on jumping on to the
chariot, while the front part served for
fastening the reins aud tlie traces of
the “wheel horses.” In tlie Roman tri¬
umphal chariot a covering of leather
served to ward off missiles, and later
on the sides were composed of strong
boards.
Unfortunately we know very little of
the vehicles of everyday use in those
days. They nearly all seem to be a va¬
riety of what we now term the “gig.”—
Scientific American.
No Excuse For Clilinneya,
Notwithstanding that we have long
since ceased to hoist coal to lofty apart¬
ments, having abandoned forever the
old fashioned fireplace with its soot
and cinders, the said fireplace is still
with us in every new house that is
built Its open throat leads the same
old draft up the chimney, and tlie same
old result follows—colds and cold feet
There is no excuse for a chimney or a
fireplace In a modern house heated
from the cellar. The gas log is a nui¬
sance and a sham.—New York Press.
Killed Claaslcnl quotations.
In tracing the decline of the use of
classical quotations in legislative bod¬
ies the Boston Herald cites the case of
Edward Everett, who once concluded
a stately speech in congress with a
long, sonorous aud superbly modulated
citation of a passage from Tacitus and
then took his seat. No sooner was lie
through than up sprang a burly mem¬
ber from what was then a frontier
state of the west. He had once been
an Indian agent, and no sooner was he
on his legs than he began to pour out
a vehement harangue in Choctaw.
After awhile the speaker called him to
order.
"I don’t see why my freedom of
speech should be abridged!” lie cried.
“You let the gentleman from Massa¬
chusetts run on, and I didn’t under¬
stand the first word of his lingo any
better than he does mine.”
The scene was described as very
comical, but It struck the deathkneli
of further classical quotations In a
congress that had not the ray of an
Idea what the unintelligible lingo of
Cicero and Tacitus was driving at.
SUNSET. '
Turn not to the east when the day iu declining
And tho glory of sunset is here;
Too sad is the light the far hilltops defining
In outlines too pensively clear.
Though fair was tire morning iu gladness is past,
And the day’s brightest beams ore reserved for
the last.
The xiom is for growth, and the noontide U
stronger
In all that is bravest and best.
But the hands become weary as shadows grow
longer.
And we look to the evening Ur rea*.
And why shouid we sigh tor the morning’, delight
When ripe for the quiet and peace of tho night?
Turn not to the east when the day is declining.
Nor ipuse on the past with a tear.
When bright o’er the hilltops the red light is
Shining.
And the gtnry of sunset is here.
Enjoy, then, the moment, the brightest and best,
When morning is dawning away in the west.
—Mary tl. Wheeler in Boston Transcript.
WASHINGTON AND BURR.
Alleged Can«e of the Break Between
the Two Great Men.
An old lawyer, speaking of drnmntlc
'ncldents lu court, said: “Jere Clemens,
a once famous United States senator
from Alabama, told of a trial in which
Burr appeared for tlie defense of a
man charged with murder. My recol¬
lection is that the trial was in tho
nouthwest.
“When Burr addressed tlie Jury, It
Was night. The guilty man was In the
room. lie had been the principal wit¬
ness for the prosecution, but Burr had
learned that this witness was the as¬
sassin, and in closing his address for
his client he picked up two lighted
candies from tho table, and, holding
them in the face of tlie witness refer¬
red to, lie exclaimed: ’Gentlemen of
the jury, there is nature's verdict. Now
write yours.’ At that moment the wit¬
ness fled from the room. After Clem¬
ens told this story he wrote a his¬
torical novel called The Rivals; or. The
Times of Hamilton and Burr.' In that
book lie wove the Incident Into one of
the chapters. The book is out of pr'a S
and has been for many years. But 1
had a great sale, particularly In tlie
south, before tlie civil war, for Cleuv
ens was a typical southern orator arid
a man of wonderful personal mag¬
netism. The object of the novel was
to make Burr n hero and to besmirch
Hamilton’s character.
“In one chapter where Burr was high
in the esteem of Washington the latter
Is represented as reading a letter from
Hamilton in which Hamilton detailed
some scandalous gossip about Burr.
Burr was standing behind Washington
during tlie reading of the letter. Wash¬
ington, Incensed at the contents of the
letter, turned quickly and saw Burr, to
whom he said, ‘How dare you read my
letter over my shoulder?’ Burr, as
Clemons represents, stung to the quick,
drew himself up and replied with all
the lmuteur of Ills nature, ‘When your
majesty addresses such an inquiry to
mo In the manner you have, the only
reply decency can prompt Is, Aaron
Burr dares to do anything.’ This, Clem¬
ens avers, was the cause of the break
between Washington and Burr.”—New
York Sun.
Ilnllnst For Ship*.
To solve the question of ballast many
expedients are resorted to, nnd the re-i
suits obtained often are singular. The
most popular ballast is stone or rock,
nnd every shipmaster who hails from
the port of New York knows, or is sup¬
posed to know at least, tho relative
value of certain grades of rocks at
various ports besides the metropolis.
He can dispose of a cargo of stone to
contractors hero which will more than
reimburse him for the expense of load¬
ing and unloading, and if the shipmas¬
ter Is alert ho will arrange for such
disposal many months before his re¬
turn from some out of the way corner
of the world.
Every time a sailing vessel returns
from a foreign port she usually Is vis¬
ited by contractors or their agents,
who make competitive bids for her
ballast cargo of stone, If she carries
one. This stone Is used mostly for
mneadnmizing nnd paving streets. Fre¬
quently material Is brought over which
Is good enough for building purposes.
New York Press.
Stock Railing;.
keeping (Jusstiox.— Have read your article on
more atock on our farms. How
can I best improve the breed with leaat
cost?
Answer— Unquestionably the most
profitable coarse for the general farmer
to pursue in improving tho quality of
his live stock, is first to buy first-olnss
thoroughbred males. The calves got
by a thoroughbred bull of anv of the
best breeds, out of a mixed average lot
of cows, will possess much of the thor¬
oughbred sires, and the females of these
grades again bred to a thoroughbred
will give nnitnals equal to the average
thoroughbred for all practical purposes
except that of procreation. The same
is true of swine, sheep, poultry aud all
kinds of farm stook. Got, then, the
purest lineage males and carefully seleot
the best of the female produce for
breeders and in a few years yon have
ingrafted all the excellencies of the
thoroughbred stook upon your flocks
and herds.
If you are not able to invest in a thor¬
oughbred alone, then get one or a half
dozen of your neighbors and together
bny the maio. Georgia i< far behind
eotue of our sister states in the quality
of the live stock. Especially is tbi*
true as to “beef cattle." The Short
Horn is one of the best breeds for gen¬
eral farmers. This breed will give you
a steer at three years old that will
weigh from 1500 to U>00 pounda, and a
cow that will give two to four gallons
of milk under proper treatment
The very best breads will not show
any marked superiority over oar native
stock, if left alone to shift for itself in
the lands of the average farmer, bnt
the improved breeds do fnrnish the
means by which more pounds of beef
or butter, mutton or pork, and of a bet¬
ter quality, than can be produced by a
given quantity of food, than from unim¬
proved stock.—State Agricultural De
nartmant.
Bit ary.
Doctor—Stick out your tongue, Tom¬
my.
Tommy—Not on your life! I did that
yesterday to my teacher, nnd I still
ache all over for It.—Wiener Tagblatt
LAYING U~ a competence.
Something ’i Frnrtlrnlly Any Man
Can Do T! rough Self Denial.
“There are tome men of genius,”
said Mr. NIpp ugly, “who accumulate
great fortunes by great strokes, but
by far the greeter number of fortunes,
including those of moderate dimen¬
sions, and these form the great ma¬
jority of all, are made by the very sim¬
ple process of living within one’s in¬
come and investing the surplus with
more or less wisdom, but always where
it will be safe.
“The older I grow the more amazed
1 am that more people don’t lay up a
competence for themselves, as most
anybody can do, by beginning early in
life to live within their income and
sticking to tlrnt course faithfully. Did
I do this myself? No. Am I, how¬
ever, having learned tlie wisdom of
this course, now making a beginning?
I am obliged to say ‘No.’ I am still
spending all I get and laying by noth¬
ing.
“There arc some lessons that we all
easily acquire, but never turn to our
own advantage. One of these is of the
benefits that arise from the exercise
of self denial. We get from this at
once the direct benefit of what we
save, aud self denial nourishes,
strengthens and broadens the will and
enables a man constantly to do and to
earn more and more.
“There's simply nothing like self de
ninl. It is the key to every one of
life’s treasures, and everybody has
one of those golden keys in his posses¬
sion, eager to help him and waiting
only for him to bring It in use.”—New
York Sun.
A Penulty For Ilelnic Polite.
It is more difficult to be polite in the
city of Hamburg than iu any other
place in Europe. There the most chiv¬
alrous man lias to think twice before
giving up his seat iu a car to a lady, as
he may be turned off tlie car for po¬
liteness. It seems that tlie Hamburg
trolley cars will sent, according to size,
20 or 28 persons, 10 to 14 on each side.
In ndditioD four persons are allowed
on the front ami five persons on tlie
back platform. When the car is full,
the conductor hangs out a sign, “Be
setzt,” which means “occupied,” nnd is
absolutely forbidden to take on another
passenger until some one gets off the
car.
Sometimes, while tlie conductor is in
front collecting fares, a lady will stop
on the car which Is already "occupied.”
As there is no conductor on hand to
prevent her. the lady steps inside, and
the gentleman who may offer her a
seat comes qut nnd takes his stand on
the platform. When tlie conductor aft¬
er going his rounds returns to his post,
he promptly requests tlie gentleman to
step off the car, as he lias forfeited his
seat and tlie car is fully “occupied.”
Should he refuse to leave the car lie Is
put off. Tlie policemen on tlie streets
arc instructed to watch the cars sharp¬
ly, and if they find a car carries even
one more passenger than its proper
complement the conductor is fined 72
cents, which is paid to a charity fund
of the street railway company.—Phila¬
delphia Press. *
Salt and Horae Rndtah,
Some people cure for uothing but
lemon on raw oysters, but there arc
others who desire horse radish. Usual¬
ly such folk regard the strongest horse
rndlsli as the best, but an experienced
vender of the condiment poohpoohs
this point of view.
“Why should the strong horse radish
be considered good?” says he. “It
brings tears to your eyes and lifts the
top of your head off and makes you
want to sneeze. It has no taste what¬
ever. The mild horse radish, that which
has stood nwhIJe, Is the best and pleas¬
antest always.
“There is nothing so foolish ns to
think that the strong, biting kind is
the fresh—that Is the reason why it la
preferred to the mild sort—for the very
stalest, weakest horse radish can be
made In 20 minutes strong enough tc
blow your head off. All you need to
do is to add salt to It. Try tills some
time. Just take any old horse radish,
dump in a spoonful of salt and then
notice tlie difference. I don’t know
why salt should have such a powerful
effect on the stuff, but no doubt a
chemist could tell you that”—Philadel¬
phia Record.
Turm-d It to Apoount.
A Derbyshire man, accompanied by
his wife, happened to be traveling in a
train when, near Stafford, a collision
occurred, ne was well known for his
shrewdness in business, aud be proved
thnt In the collision his wife received
a contusion between the eyes, for
which a Jury awarded £50 damages.
Some time after the affair had blown
over the following confession, or some¬
thing to the like effect, was elicited
from the plaintiff In a moment of un¬
guarded conviviality:
“Well, you see, when the collision
hnppened t’ owld woman and I wur all
root, but when I looked out o’ t’ car
ridge I seed a lot of fellies lu a ter
rible state. One sings out: ’Ey, 1ml!
Ise getten me head cut open. I'll lia’
twenty peounds for this.’ ‘Twenty
peounds, ye silly fule?’ cries another.
‘Ise gotten me shoulder out, and I’ll
bn’ forty peounds for’t.’ When I heard
this," continued the clever business
man, “I Jumpt at t’ owld woman
straight out and druv my 'ead be
tw’eu her ayes, and we’se gotten fifty
peounds for It.”—London Answers.
A Nnltirnl Drlilxc In Arlconn.
Natural bridge, on Pine creek, lu tlie
northern part of Gila county, is one of
the greatest unturnl curiosities In the
United States, equaling if not sur¬
passing the Natural bridge of Virginia.
It spans the creek at a height of about
200 feet, and the walls of the canyon
rise above It on either side 700 qr 800
feet and on one side form a perpendic¬
ular precipice. The bridge Is of lime
formation, and the Inside of the great
arch, which Is some 250 feet across,
Is worn by the water as smooth as
though chiseled by the skillful hand
of a stonemason. The arch on top Is
nearly, If not quite, 400 feet in width,
1,000 feet in length across the canyon
and at the thinnest part only six feet
through. About the center of the arch
Is a hole large enough to admit the
body of a man and through which one
can look down into the crystal pool of
water 200 feet below.
_
Dead Gone.
She—Would you be willing to die for
me?
He—Why, I’m dying for you now!—
Brooklyn Lift.
The Barber Shop Bon.
"You're next, sir,” said the boss bar¬
ber. indicating a fat man who was
buried behind a newspaper. “I’ll wait
for awhile,” re] lied the fat man. "I’m
in no hurry.” As another man climbed
Into the vacant chair tlie fat man lean
ed over to another customer who was
waiting his turn and confided -hat he
was in a hurry, a deuced hurry, but he
would rather lose ids turn than be
■Uaved by the proprietor of tlieqsliop.
"It Isn’t that I have any grievance
against this [.articular barber,” he
went on. “but I slum all l>oss barbers
as I would a plague, iu the first place,
he patronizes you, and, in the second
place, lie is invariably the worst bar¬
ber In the shop. Then, too. it takes
him about twice ns long. lie will lather
one side of your face and then go over
to the desk to make change for a cus¬
tomer who Is going out, for lie is gen¬
erally his own cashier. lie considers
It his duty to exchange airy persiflage
with each customer as he leaves the
shop, and by the time he gets back to
you your face Is caked in cold lather.
"This usually happens four or five
times while you are getting shaved,
and you may consider yourself lucky
If a salesman for a perfumery or soap
house doesn’t come in to talk up Ills
wares. In that event you are bound to
be kept waiting for 10 or 15 minutes,
and when you are finally slaved your
peace of mind is destroyed f<o'tlie rest
of the day. No boss barbers in mine.
I know ’em too well, aud I wait every
time.”—Exchange.
The EBdineor'a Story.
“To run over a mau—perhaps that’s
the only thing of all that shakes me.
To see him on the track within 10 or 20
feet of you, to know that you can’t stop
to save him. to feel the wheels of the
engine go over Ids body, crunching out
his life—a man doesn't want to experi¬
ence that more than ouce in a lifetime.
“It’s worse with a child. There was
an old mate of mine In the west when
I was riding in the Union Paciflc-nev
er mind his name; he’s dead now-as
good an engineer as ever stood In a
box, cool, nerve like steel, had been
through three wrecks, a holdup and a
fire. Well, one day Jim was a little be
hind his schedule and made like tpy
thing for the next stop. There was a
crossing right in front of him.
saw that everything was clear, qs he
thought, and went light ahead, when
nil at once out of a clump of trees there
ran a little golden haired fairy right
in front of the engine. It was nil over
In one instant, and when the train stop¬
ped Jim dropped like a log. It was two
months before lie crept back again to
work. But be could never come to that
crossing but lie saw the little girl with
her hair fluttering in the wind running
out from the trees. And one day he
Just got off his engine, turned it over to
the second man aud walked away, nev¬
er to be seen again until his body was
found in the river.”—Leslie’s Weekly.
EnRlIsh Restaurants.
Different countries produce different
foods. Perhaps that is the reason why
a description of a railway restaurant
In England sounds so curious to Amer¬
ican ears. This terminus restaurant
corresponds to the American lunch
counter, where pie and coffee are the
staple refreshments of the hurried hun¬
gry man.
X^ntrons crowd the English place
three deep and wait for the front row
to finish eating and depart. One elder¬
ly woman drinks hot spirit and water
and eats sandwiches. Beside her a
country couple devour buns and milk
how British “buns” sounds!—and a
busy man eats sponge cake and drinks
port wine. Can one imagine a Chicago
broker rushing into a quick lunch
counter with a demand for sponge
cake? He might as well ask for a
coach and four.
In this London restaurant a mother
of a family regales herself and her
tnoek husband with ginger beer and
cakes, aud a nervous young clergy¬
man asks for a glass of milk. Buns,
sponge cake, milk and beer—the menu
Is a little different from those on this
side of the water.—Chicago News.
A Very Foxy Fox
A gentleman whose word cannot be
doubted and who is not easi/y deceived
tells the following;
Very early one morning lie saw a fox
eying most wistfully a number of wild
ducks feeding in the rushy end of a
highland lake. After awhile the fox,
going to windward of the ducks, put
afloat in the lake several bunches of
dead rushes or grass, which floated
down among the ducks without caus¬
ing tho least alarm.
After watching the effect of liis pre¬
liminary fleet for a short time the fox,
taking a good sized mouthful of grass
in his jaws, launched himself into the
wnter as quietly ns possible, having
nothing but the tips of his ears and
nose above water.
In this way lie drifted down among
the ducks and caught a fine mallard.
Though this story seems extraordi¬
nary, it pmst be remembered that the
fox manages to capture wild ducks,
wood pigeons, hares and numberless
other animals, sufficient to keep him¬
self and family, and it is plain to be
seen Hint in doing so he must practice
many a trick that would seem Improb¬
able if related ami quite beyond the in¬
stinct of animals.—Omaha World-Her¬
ald.
How Ilni-tl flora Work.
Darwin after close observation found
that a bee would often visit ns 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 ns seven. Strik¬
ing a mean between these two figures,
one may say that nti ordinary working
bee visits 15 flowers a minute, or 900
an hour. Considering the late hours to
Which n bee works, It is probably no
exaggeration Jo say that It Is busy for
eight hours a day, allowing for inter¬
vals of rest. This would make it visit
7,200 flowers a day. or 048,000 iu a pe¬
riod of six months.
Mr. A. S. Wilson In a recent paper
■bowed the enormous amount of labor
gone through by bees In making even
a small quantity of honey. He found
that approximately 125 heads of red
clover yield 15 grains of sugar, or 125,
000 liends about two pounds. As each
head contains some 00 florets, it fol¬
lows that 7,500,000 distinct flower
tubes must be sucked In order to ob¬
tain two pounds of sugar. Now, honey
contains, roughly speaking, 75 per cent
of sugar; therefore the bees must make,
In round numbers, 2,500,000 visit* for
oat pound of boaty,
A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY.
The Case of a Man Wh„ swallowed
His Sospenders,
A case recorded iu the Boston Med
leal and SurgicG Journal by Dr. M.
H. Richardson a remarkable exam
pie of the extraordinary f,, ats j n swa i
lowing foreign bodies sometimes per
formed by men.
A man, aged 29 years, was admitted
to the hospital. lie said that two
weeks previously, while be wns in a
despondent state, he had endeavored to
swallow his suspenders and had sue
ceeded in getting down certain por
tions, but how much he had sw’allowed
he could not tell. He did not complain
of pain, but rather of discomfort un¬
der the breast while eating. The food
irt times passed easily into the stom¬
ach. At other times it was regurgitat¬
ed immediately. Nothing could be seen
in the throat. With a probe some ob¬
struction was felt
A skiagram showed a suspender
buckle at the middle of the chest and
possibly another higher up. As the
chief danger iu esophageal impaction
is from ulceration into the great ves¬
sels, especially when the foreign body
has sharp edges, and as fatal erosion
usually takes place in two weeks or
less, It was concluded that if there
was any erosion it was sufficiently ad¬
vanced to make even the most careful
manipulation dangerous. The problem
was how to perform extraction with¬
out producing ratal hemorrhage.
The throat was opened, and with a
pair of forceps, a string attached to a
brass ring and then half a suspender
with two buckles and finally a third
buckle were removed.probang was
passed into the stomach without meet¬
ing with further obstruction.
The wound was closed with silk
sutures, and recovery ensued.
Jimmy mid the Baby,
Jimmy's mother kept cows and sold
milk - Jimmy himself had nothing to
,!o with tl,e cows - th0U « u sometimes
kc nsed to can ’Y *' 1C ,u ‘lk pail to his
mother’s customers. The customers
a11 kknd Jimmy, with his round, frec
klo ° facc a,)t1 l ,a shful grin, and they
used to fisk 11 im ,10 w business was, for,
" u /mugh Jimmy was only 13 years old,
Iiad a business. lie made coffins—
* <j£v coffins—and sold them to the un¬
dertaker. They were nice pine coflins,
with all the edges carefully joined.
Jimmy received 50 cents for each one.
One day Jimmy stopped at the house
of one of his mother’s customers to
leave some milk. A little boy met him
at the door.
“We’ve got a new baby!” said the
little boy. “Would you like to see it?”
Jimmy nodded. The little boy’s aunt
laughingly led Jimmy to the cradle
where the new baby was. Jimmy
gazed at the infant for some time,
speechless with admiration or some
such emotion.
“What do you think of it, Jimmy?”
asked the aunt.
Jimmy grinned.
“1 guess I’ll have to make a nice lit¬
tle coffiu when I go home,” he said.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.
nurd Drinkers In Chile.
Iquique, Chile, lias the reputation of
consuming more liquor per capita than
any other place iu the world.
I have never seen liquor of all kinds
consumed in sncli quantities as here,
but apparently there is very little
drunkenness. The dry atmosphere and
the atoms of sand that one Is constant
ly inhaling excite an abnormal thirst,
no doubt, and they say that the human
system requires aD unusual amount
of stimulant to sustain the heat and
fatigue of this climate. I am quite
sure that this duty is not neglected,
judging by the extraordinary excesses
which are witnessed without comment
daily aud hourly at every club and ho
tel.
Half a dozen cocktails before break
fast—one man at Iquique is said to
t
require 17 to start his machinery ip
motion—a bottle of Scotch or Irish
whisky at breakfast, another at lunch,
wines and cordials at dinner, brandy
and soda every now and then during
the day, alternating with copious and
frequent drafts of beer aud the same
repeated all the evening, with a night¬
cap of whisky and a bottle beside the
bed in case of a restless night—this is
considered a moderate indulgence, and
the way they mix tilings is amazing.
1 have seen a party of business men
around a table at a club drinking cock¬
tails, brandy aud soda, beer, cham¬
pagne, sherry nud vermuth at tlio
same sitting during business hours and
return to repeat the performance sev¬
eral times during the day.—Chile Let¬
ter in Chicago Record.
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FOR ABOUT THE
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This paper and the Atlanta
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i $ 1.50 i
Here you got the news of
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and other articles of special
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John Temple Graves, Hon.
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per on application.
LANIER’S S TOP am ■4 EMPORIUM
is the, wonder of this entire
___ IP section—no toWn
Mt HH
I WM of the size in all
j&t. m ■
Georgia can boast a stock of
foot-wear more complete.
1 Fl si Lain 1 Si
that I can’t fit
it, and no taste
too fastidious for me to suit.
j\iy specialties are Zeigler’s
for Ladies and Lanisters
for Gents. Try them.
UP-TO-DATE.
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NEW HOME.
DO YOU KNOW
I hat tiio New Home Sew iug Machine Uo.
do not experiment at, the expense of the
public, by r< quinng a change of Shuttles
and Needh s every year or two? The same
Miuttle and needle used in then-latest im
proved machine s will work equally as well
Ii tht ir machines sold fifteen years ago.
DO YOU KNOW
that the cog-geating motion as used by
the Ntw Home and cbainless bicycle is re¬
cognized, universally, as the most posi¬
tive arid unvariable power known? For
teat very reason your watch has “cog¬
wheels.” Why not buy the best?
Office, 120 Whitaker, Cor. State St.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Warning.
America Grooms, iny wife, having left
my bed and board withont cause, 1 here¬
by furewai n all parties from giving her
board or shelter, or harboring her with¬
out tri.y This permission, under penalty of the
law. 9th day of April, 1900.
Solomon Grooms.
Shoe and Harness
Repairing V
I am prepared to do first
class Shoe and Harness
Repairing at reasonable
rates and on short notice.
and Breeching’ other straps, tic reins
parts of harness
kept Having on hand for sale.
added a stitching
machine, I am better pre¬
pared than ever to do first
class shoe repairing.
Respectfully,
T. S. P«on.
F.C. CORSETS
MAKE
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Latest
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01.E MANUFACTURERS.
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Accounts of Firms and Individuals Solicited.
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J. L. COLEMAN, CASHIER.
directors:
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J. F. Bit ANNEX’, J. W. Olmfe,
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