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OHN H. HODG-ES, Proprietor, DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. PRICE: TWO DOLLARS A Year. VOL. XXI. PERRY* HOUSTON. COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5,1891. ... ...... i NO. 10. THE NEW jSornc.r of Cavnm and Ball streets, PERRY. CEGiiCIA. PURE DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES. TOILET ARTICLES. Fine Perfumes a Specialty. Kerosene and Lubricating Oils. RESCRIBTIQNS CAREFULLY COK- UNDED by one of the best druggists in the state. A. choice line of Cigars and Tobacco Always on band. Open on Sunday from S to 10 a. m., and from 3:30 p. m. to 6 p. m._ A share of public jjatronageis respect- fully solicited. L. A. FELDER, M. D., Proprietor Tg* TVTSEmreWe consent of 10,000 smokers, to send each, a sample lot of 150 “NICKEL” Cigars, and a 20-year gold filled -.vaicli by Express C. 0. D, $5.25 and allow examination. HAVANA CIGAR CO., Winston, N. C. MQMEY LOANS On Houston farms procured at the low est possible rates of interest. As low, if not lower than the lowest. Apply to W. D. Nottingham, tf ‘ Macon. 6a. MONEY TO LOAN. In sums of $300.00 and upwards, to be secured by first lions on improved farms. Longtime, low rates andeasv payments. Apply te C. C. DUNCAN, Nov. 20th, 1889.—tf Perry 1 Ga. Attorn^ at Law, PeSp.y - - - . Ga Will practice in all the courts of this circuit. Jjfit J||e SttSoTncy nt jL.a, w. Perky, - Ga." Will practice in all the Courts of his cirrcuit. . • Ms & A. t t o i- ii e y si t 1. a w » Office: 510 Muhbeiiey Stueet, MACON, G-EOSGIA. Special attention given to business in Houston county. .1. L. Hardeman, W. D. Nottingham. HARDEMAN & NOTTINGHAM, Attorneys at Law, Macon, - - - Georgia. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office 306 Second Street. J. B.EDG-E, Physician and Surgeon, Perry, Georgia. Office adjoining Perry Hotel. Can he found at office during the day, and at Hotel at night. All cal's promptly an swered day or night. Z. SIMS. TIST, FERRY, GEORGIA. ^“Office on Main street, lately occu pied by Or. W. M. Havis. First-class work. Frices moderato. Pat ronage solicited. apl 28 ly ec. mpspn. T> 23 x~3 ‘TIS'J 1 , 306 Second Street, Macon, Ga. SPECIALIST. CROWNS AND BRIDGES, O.IX;illefct«fc PE&&YDIS‘VSC;i SCHEDULE. is.iily, Except Sunday. Leave Perry at 4 a. ai. Arrive at Fort Valley 4:45 a. m. Leave Fort Valley at 11:85 p. m. Arrive at Perry at 12:20 a,. H. Leave Perry at 3:25 P. m. Arrive at Fort Valley 4:10 P. M. Leave Fort Valiev at 8:05 p. ai. Arrive at Perry at §:50 p. jr APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. GEORGIA: ? To the Superior Court Houston County. ] of Said County: The petition of C. E. Gilbert, J. L. Martin, j. W. Clark, C. F, Cooper, J. N. Tuttle, C. H. Moore, J. H. Hodges, E. L. Dennard and C. C. Duncan, of said coun ty,shows that your petitioners, fcheir asso ciates and successors, desire to be incor porated for the term of twenty (20) years, with the privilege of renewal at the ex piration of that time, under the corpor- atemame of Houston Building,Loan and Ivestment Company, with power to have and use a common seal, sue and be sued, to buy, sell, own and deal in real and personal property, to improve real estate by erecting dwellings, buildings of any kind whatever, and putting any other improvements thereon that will tend to increase the value of the same, to loan money on real estate, personal property or other security to the members of the company or other persons, to take and execute deeds and mortgages and all oth er liens, and to sell or otherwise dispose of thy same, to borrow money on real es tate or personal property or other secu rity, for the-intercet of the company, and to have such other powers as are usual and proper to carry out the jiurposes and intentions of said company. The petitioners pray for the privilege of making such By-laws and regulations for the government of said company, and to enforce the same by such fines, forfeit-, ures and penalties which may be neces sary and proper and not in conflict with the laws of Georgia. The objects of said company are the convenience and the pecuniary profits of its members, and the business they pro pose to conduct is that of a building, loan and investment association. The fund for the purpose is to be-raided by month ly installments to be paid by the stock holders into the company. The principle t fiice and place of busi ness shall be in Perry, Houston county, Georgia, where a majority of the general board of directors shall reside, but peti tioners desire the privilege of transacting business elsewhere within the state, and to appoint attorneys_ or agents to carry on the business of said compauy when ever necessary to do so. The capital stock of the company is to bo two hundred shares of the par value when paid up of twenty-five (5$?5) dollars per share, and petitioners pray for tho privilege of beginning business when ten per cent of said two hundred shares shall have been paid in, and petitioners pray for the privilege of increasing said capi tal stock from time to time as business may demand and the beard of directors may direct, to an amount not to exceed two thousand shares of twenty-five dol lars each. • ., The stock of said company is to be paid in monthly installments on each share, and tho amount ot said monthly install ment per share is to be fixed by *he board of directors, as may be best for the share holders and the business of tho company. And vour petitioners will ever pray, etc. C. C. DUNCAN, Petitioners Attorney. Filed in office this the 11th day of Feb ruary, 1891. M. A. EDWARDS, Clerk S. C. GEORGIA: ) The above is a true Houston County. ) copy of the original petition for charter for the Houston Building, Loan and Investment Compa ny, as appears on record in this office. Witness my hand and seal this the 11th day of February, 3 891 M. A. EDWARDS, Clerk Superior Court. " THIS PAPER - Tlie Southern Cultivator —AND— Dixie Farmer, The Great Farm, Industrial and Live Stock Journal of the South, One Year for Only 88.35. 64 to 80 pages, finely illustrated and superbly printed. , Send for samply copy to THE CULTIVATOR RUBLISHING CO., Drawer M., Atlanta. Ga. WHEN THE NEW WEARS OFF. Myrtle Cherry man, in Free Press. He was a youth, and she a maid, Both happy young and gay, They loved—and life to them was fair As one continuous May. The croakers saw their happiness, And said’ “Ah, love is blind; You’re happy now, but care will come, When the new wears off, you’ll find.” They married, and then their life grew rich With calmer, riper joy: They were as man and wife more fond Than when as girl and boy. Their ‘friends’ could not endnre the sight, And said, with worldly wit, “It will not be so bright and fine When the new wears off a bit.” Ah, well the new wore off, of course, And then, what did they find? An oldness which was better far, For love is not so blind. As selfish care, and loving hearts New joys will always meet, So, when the new wears off, they’ll find Old love the more complete. LITTLE QUEEN. BY B. HUDSON. —SI.50 cash in advance will pay for the Home Jocbnal one year. Otherwise flie price is S2.00. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. “Little Queen,” said the hand somest old lady alive to her grand daughter, whose pet uame seemed the most appropriate that conld be given her. “I have dismissed Patrick. He has been robbing the dairy, ungrateful wretch. Dolmer discovered it, and begs that he shall go to-day. Is it not dread ful?” • “It is, indeed grandma. Patrick is as honest as man can be.” “But Dolmer, child, Dolmer says ” “We have had no peace since that man was engaged,” cried Queen, in a temper. “You have been deceived by him. He is a horrible and wicked creature, I am sure. Look at his spotted face, his tiger-like eyes. The hideous wretch is, I have no doubt, an es caped convict. I hate him!” “What coarse language, dear. Dolmer is a very well-mannered man-servant, and so eager for my interests. Yon think too much of beauty.” “Pat is not beautiful,”' laughed Queen. “But look at his honest gray eyes and good big mouth, grandma. Dismiss Dolmer and keep Patrick.” The two sat in a lovely room in one of the handsomest villas on the Hudson. Behind the sofa on which they had placed themselves, a tall Indian screen of rare beauty had been placed to ward off the draughts, which the old lady fear ed, as most old ladies .do. On this occasion it answered a double purpose, for behind it crouched a slender, dark-skinned man in a servant’s jacket, who was listening intently to the conversa tion of the two ladies. “Dolmer is a good man. He prays ancl reads his Bible a great deal,” said the old lady. “Always in public,” Raid the girl. “And the Benevolent Society speaks so highly of him,” said the grandmother-* “What do they know of him?” asked Queen. “Guilt is stamped on his face; he wants honest Pat rick out of the way; he is a mem ber of the dangerous class, I am sure. Grandma, I am afraid for you. Send him away.” The old lady tossed her head. “I am more competent to judge than you are, at your age, little Queen,” she said. “Suppose he has sinned and is repentant, shall we not be merciful to him? 1 be lieve he is truly good, poor thing, and so attentive. Besides, I man age my own borne, little Queen. I am not quite childish.” “Very well, grandma,” - sighed the girl. She passed out into the hall. Patrick stood there, with his face flushed and his hair touseled. “Ould Nick, savin’ your prisince, is ’avesdropping to your remarks,” he said. “No doubt, Pat,” said Queen, “Had I my way, he should go and you should stay.” “Thank ye, miss,” said Pat. “You’d never believe poor Patrick would rob the dairy, miss, and stale butther an’ eggs an’ things— Pat that is so grateful he’d die for the onld lady and both of yez?” “Indeed, I do not,” said the girl. “I have tried to get grandma to alter her decision. However, know where to find yon, Pat; and I think you will come back before long; I will expose Dolmer, if I can,” Pat bowed, and ^ept sadly and slowly toward his garret to get his little blue chest, and Bertha moved away. As she did so a Gruel face peeped from behind a pantry door, and two dark brows met in a scowl The man who had listened behind the screen listened again. It was Dolmer. “So yon are my enemy,” he said. “Very well, youug lady. All is fair in war.” There was a little supper party it the villa that night. A dozen of the most elegant people of the neighborhood had been invited. Bertha, in her pale pink silk dress, with rosebuds in her black hair, was beautiful enough, but at the last moment the old lady, anxious to atone tor her passing ill temper, added a touch to her toilet. “Come here child,” she said. “Yon shall have my long-promised diamonds to-night. I have taken them from the safe on purpose. You know I never put them on now* You are just the style for diamonds.” She placed the stars in her hair, drew the golden drops from her ears and substituted little cascades of diamonds, fastened a necklace about her neck and bracelets on her arms. The girl looked like an empress with all this wonderful splendor added to her beauty. I shull be really ashamed of myself. I am too fine,” she said. Nobody can be that nowadays,” said tho old lady. “Simplicity is out of fashion, and the idea that girls must only wear only white and rosebuds. I shall tell them I have given you your birthday pres ent, and made you wear it. Why should I wait until I am dead to give the things to you? You would not enjo) them so much, and you are one-and-twenty, Bertha.” “Dear grandma,” cried Bertha, “how good you are! It is more than I deserve, unless, indeed, lov ing you is some claim. When I argue with you it is because I know you are being imposed upon I— There, I will try to believe as you do about Dolmer. Of course you have had more experience, and I am silly about Patrick, who has been here so long.’, ; My dear, I’ve cried about Pat rick, if you want the truth,” said the old lady. “I’ve really been his benefactress; but they tell me that persons of this class are always turning out badly, and have no gratitude. Systematic plunder, good Dolmer says, has been going on from first to last. Well, now go and look your prettiest and feel your happiest, little Queen.” And, kissinglthe lovely girl, the beauti ful old lady swept into her draw ing-room, where the guests soon assembled. It was au evening to remember, ind Queen was in her gayest mood, or seemed ta be. The truth was, she made an effort unusual to her, for somehow her heart was heavy. Dolmer, with his strange, cruel face, disfigured by its yellow scars, had drilled the waiters thorough ly, and in his faultless black coat and white tie, seemed to her like Satan playing man-servant. Many, however, congratulated Mrs. Ash ford on her possession of a treas ure. “These Europeans,” they said, “understand all this sort of thing so much better than our people.”! A great tenor from the Italian opera sung for them that night. Brilliant men talked their best; girls looked lovelier than ever, in the light of the myriad wax can dles. The scent of many blossoms filled the house. When good- nights were said, the protestations of haying had “a very pleasant evening” were heartfelt; and sure ly, if admiration from men ancl friendly speech from women could content one, Queen shonld have been happy. , Alas! her heart felt as heavy as lead. She seemed to feel a strange premonition of evil. That night for the first time she remembered that her grandmother, so hand some yet and fall of life and spir it, was really old; that in all prob ability she must soon Mose her. Perhaps it was this she thought. It was enough. She followed the old lady to her room, and was loath to leave her; bat all was so pleasant there, so guarded, so comfortable,, and then the waiting-maid always slept in the small room adjoining, .that she had no excuse for asking to stay. With her diamonds st.ll about her and her face growing m ire and more serious, she stole softly up the stairs. Dolmer was locsing doors and extinguishing candles with a painstaking air. He bowed to her fts she passed. His eyes and his dark skin. wjth its scars, made :her think of a tiger. She hurried to her room and locked the door. She bad never know why she did now. The bouse she had known ever since she was boru felt unsafe to her. 1 At last she knelt down and pray ed, fplt comforted, and arising, be gan to undress. She removed the diamonds, laid them iu their rich old cases, and placed them in her bureau. She had not the courage to go to the safe with them—she, who had so often boasted that she did not know wliat fear meant. She threw her pvetty dress across a chair, attired herself for the night and slipped into bed, leaving the night lamp burning. It was a carious little thing, from which a white moon face, set iu a sea of blue, looked at one with its almond eyes, wnen the lamp was lighted. It usually had a jolly expression; now it seemed to give her glances of warn ing. Yet she might have fallen asleep even then, but for a new and horrible thing that happened. We all know that the coughiu YVliat the People Owe. Savannah Morning News. Much more interest than was expected is being taken in the sta tistics collected by the census bu reau relative to mortgages. The mortgage record of each county of the whole country have been pret ty thoroughly inspected, and it is shown that on January 1st of this year there were about 9,000,000 of mortgages held by money lenders as security for debts. It has been impossible, of course, to make these mortgage statistics absolute ly correct, but there are reasons for saying they are not as much as 10. per cent, out of the way. In fact, the census officers are satis fied that they are within 5 per cent, of the truth. Thus far the complete statistics of only two states have been pub lished. These states are Alabama and Iowa. The total .real estate mortgage debt in Alabama on Jan. 1 was §39,027,988. In 1889 the or even hard breathing of any in-1 number of acres mortgaged in that dividual is a very distinctive sound, alike iu no two people. Patrick, the dismissed servant, had a pe culiar way of catching his breath when fatigued. Suddenly in the silence, this sound struck on Queen’s ear. Was it imagination? No, she heard it again. At once she was assured that Patrick was concealed in her room behind the curtains of an al cove. [t could be for do other pur pose than that of theft. Dolmer had been right, an honest guardian of her grandmother’s interests; Patrick a wretch who had deceived his benefactress. She tried to think of some means of escape from the room. Should she rise to cross it, Patrick, power ful and alert, could stop her with a finger. She might- bring about her own murder. Perhaps to feign sleep was the best and safest thing to do. At least grandma was’safe for the present. Patrick must know the diamonds were in her room. Again that sudden catch in the strong man’s breath. Queen almost faint ed. Suddenly another sound struck her ear. A step upon the roof of the porch, which was below her window. The shutters opened; a dark head protruded into the room, a lithe figure followed. Dolmer him self, a pistol in his hand.. “Can this be true?” thought the girl. “The man I suspected has proved my guardian angel; he has come to save me from Patrick.” In her relief she sat up iu bed, and clasping her hands, cried: “Dolmer—good—kind Dolmer!” Bat his answer was an oath. A baud struck her, not heavily but sharply, on the shoulder, and Dolmer’s voiced hissed in her ear. “Good Dolmer, eh! Ab, now you are afraid! I was bad Dolmer this morning. I was to be dis missed, eh? Oh, yes, yes, because I am so dreadful to behold!” I looked like an escaped con vict? Very well, I am—from the galleys at Toulon. For what was I there, eh? For killing a woman. Now I will kill another! Then I take the diamonds! Ah! you did well to keep them in your room to night, and, at daylight, I discover that you are murdered and robbed. Dead women cannot tell tales! Per haps it is Patrick who is dismiss-’ ed, who is the thief. Who knows? Not honest Dolmer—who soon goes to be rich in his own country. I hate you. I like to kill you! I, who look like an ugly tiger, eh?” he girl shrank back powerless to move or speak, but seeing what Dolmer does not see; the alcove curtain thrown aside, and a great well-built * Irish figure emerging from it, and lifting its strong hand above Dolmer’s light arm. The next instant, Dolmer is on the floor, and Patrick kneeling on his breast, ties his hands together with a rad cotton handkerchief, as he cries; “No fear now miss!’ I was up to the thricks of the crayther, and watched him. I knew he was aftber thim di'mints, and I saw him tbry the windy to see if it was aisy entbrin’; so I risked me earackther for the sake of the Fam ily, prayin’ the saints be wid me. ‘Aiss, Miss Queen. He’s as helpless as a baby in me hands/' state was 1,744,420, and the total number of acres in the state is 32,- 985,600. From these figures it appears that* only about 5.3 per cent, of the land of the state is mortgaged, and that the amount of mortgage debt of each inhabitant is §26. The showing for Iowa is not quite so favorable. In that state, Jan. 1, the total real estate mortgage debt was §199,034,957; the namber of-acres mortgaged, 3,240,432; the number of acres in the.state, 35,504,000; the per cent, of acres mortgaged, 9.1, and the mortgage debt of each one of the population, §104 Iu Alabama the rate of interest varies from 1 to 40 per cent., and in Iowa from 1 to 20 per cent. The average life of a mortgage _ in Ala bama is not quite three years, and iu Iowa not quite five years. Near ly the whole indebtedness in each state was incurred in the purchase of real estate and business, and in makiug improvements. And not all the indebtedness rests on the farmers by any means. In the towns' houses and lots are mort- aged. In Iowa fully §50,000,000 of the mortgage burden rests upon town property. There are two facts furnished by these statistics that are deserv ing of very careful attention. Oue is, tiiat only about six per cent, of the laud in Alabama is mortgaged, and only about 10 per cent, in Iowa. Another is that, taking Al abama as illustrating the mortgage burden in the south, and Iowa as illustrating it in the west, the south is not nearly so heavily debt- burdened as the west. And in this connection another thing is worth noting. It is that fully a third of Alabam’s mortgage debt is owed by one or two counties in which there has been wonderful industrial development during the last four or five years. The money needed for this industrial develop ment was obtained on mortgages. The inference, therefore, is that the farmers of Alabama are- much less heavily burdened with debt than they appear to be from the mortgage statistics. And if such is the case in Alabama, it is also, probably, in other southern states. Indeed, it would not be surprising if it should appear that the farm ers of the south carry a lighter load of mortgages than those of any other section of the country. The following extraordinary in stance of rapid growth in the hu man species has been noted in France by a member of the French Academy of Science, and reported by him in the annals of that insti tution. “The subject herein ipon- tined was a lad of about 7 years of age when I first saw him; but not withstanding bis tender years, be measured 4 feet, 8 inches; and 4 lines high. His people had oh" served his marvelous growth when he was only two years of age. At 4 he was able to lift and carry.a bushel of wheat, «nd to throw the bundles of hay (68 pounds) to the foar horses each night, ond at six years he - could lift as much as a sturdy fellow of 20. But,although he thus increased iu bodily strengtl), his understanding was no Thirty-two oqt of tfie 1Q2 coun- Pat gave his testimony in court, | V s * u ifi‘ Ro i s *haye actually de- when Dolmer wis tried, in a wav' I gRpfllfljP. population during the that made much laughter, but it; last tea years, wa§ with, not at him. | gp~J—— Dolmer, an escaped murderer, ! • "i’enjtpGn pompa'iv-s man to who had killed a lady for tpo sake frees. Some men d> look spruce, of a bracelet, was returned to the tT a fact, authorities, of l*jg own country; —— — How the States are Divided. Macon Telegraph. When th.e election of a Presi dent is thrown into the lower house of cougress, each state has only one vote. On that basis, in the next House the Democrats will have thirty votes, the Republicans twelve and the farmers’ Alliance two. The extent of last fall’s Dem ocratic victory cannot better be shown than by the statement that in addition to the delegations from the Southern states the Democrats have a majority, of thej congress men from each of the following Northern and Western states: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Montana. In New Eng land only two states are left to the Republicans, and in . addition to them only one state east of the Mississippi river. The rest of their contingent of twelve is made np of California, Oregon, Washington, North Dakota, Kouth Dakota, Ne vada, Idaho, Colorado and Wyo ming. There is only one great state in the list, and only oue of average importance. All the rest are either old states which have been left far behind in the race for greatness and sunk into insig nificance, or new, unformed com munities but recently allowed to enter the union—some of them dragged in before their time in the desperate hope that their grat itude might be useful in saving the Republican party from destruction. The two Farmers’ Alliance states are Kansas and Nebraska. There is a possibility, but -very little probability, that the House may be called upon to elect the next President. The time is pro pitious for the rapid growth of a third party, particularly in the West, where the Republican party is rapidly disintegrating, and for that reason it is a matter of some importance that the Democrats shonld have so large a majority of delegations as well as of individnal members in the next House. It insures the quick and undisputed election of the Democratic candi date, should a President not be elected by the people. This analysis of the vote by states is most interesting, howiver, when regarded in connection with the policies of the two parties. - It shows that the Republican policy, as expressed in the McKinley bill and the force bill, was repudiated by every slate east of the Missis sippi river except Pennsylvania, Vermont and Maine. Two of these states, of small population and far removed from the center of Ameri can life, naturally trail behind as public opinion advances; the other is the center of the great iron in dustry of the country, always pe culiarly favored by the tariff laws, and Daturally regards the cause of protection as peculiarly her own. Till the Dakotas ar® reached in the far West, every other state re pudiated the acts of the Republi can congress. The populous, long- settled, wealthy states declared unanimously against it, with the few exceptions noted: The greatest meat-eaters in the world are the people of America, whose average consumption is 175 pounds per annum. The English come next, with au average of a little over 110 pounds. The French eat only half as much meat as the English, and the people of Germa ny, Austria and Italy still less. and Patrick is now guardian gen Gral of the;hottse_-and' the ladies. A more faithful one conld not be found.—The New York; Ledger. A farm journal said: “There is going to be more money in poultry than heretofore.” The next day a farmer’s wife found a nickel in a chicken’s cropland told her hus band that it was the first time she ever saw anything reliable in an agricnltural paper published in a big city.—Morristown Herald. ELECTRIC IMTTIvJIN, This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric - Bitters sing the same song of praise.—A purer medicine does not exist and it is naranteed to do ill that is claim ed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of-the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Bnnples, Boils, Salt Rhenm and other affections caused by impure blood.—Will drive Ma laria from the system and prevent as well as care all Malarial fevers.' —=Fo? cure of headache, Consti pation and indiestion try Electric Bitters-—Entire satisfaction guar anteed, or money refunded.—Price 50 cts. and §1.00 per bottle at Holtzelaw & Gilbert’s Drugstore, greater than is usual with children of his age. Playthings were also, his favorite amusemet. Wonders of Gravitation. Philadelphia Times. Gravitation is a subject that nearly everybody is somewhat fa miliar with, but there are some things about it that you may not know. For instance, suppose you were weighed at the top of a deep coal mine, and afterward at the bottom, do you suppose there would be any difference in the re sult? Yes, there would. You would be lighter at the bottom. If it were possible for yon to go on downward 2,000 miles in the earth and there be weighed, you would be surprised to find you weight on ly one-half what it was at the sur face, and if you could go to the centre of the earth you wouldn’t weigh an ouuc3. This is becanse the centre of the earth is the centre of its attractive power, which is exerted equally in all directions. If you ascend from the surface of the earth your weight will also decrease, but not in the same ratio as when you de scend. Id going upward the de crease will be in proportion to the square of the distance. Thus, while you would weigh nothing if you shonld go downward 4,000 miles from the surface, yon would still weigh one-fourth your actual weight if you could weigh yourself 4,000 miles up in the air. , The law of gravitation is at once the strangest and the most sublime in all nature. Light travels at the amazing rate of 186,000 miles in a second. There are visible stars so far away that if one was blotted out at this instant it would be seen on this earth thousands of years hence, because the rays of light, starting now, would take so long to reach us, even at the wonderful velocity at which they travel. But if a new star were now placed out there in the depth of space, where the blotted out one was, its attrac tive force would reach us instant ly. That strange force, which dominates the universe, wonlu at oDce be felt, though, of course, iu- appreciably between the new star and our earth. Gravitation differs from all oth er forces in other respects. The intervention of bodies in the line of attraction makes no difference in the attractive force exerted. For example, when the moon comes into direct line between the earth and the sun there is not the slight est difference in the reciprocal at traction between the two former. The enormous power of this attrac tive force is utterly inconceivable. We are constantly reminded of the power the earth exerts in pulling □s downward, but think of the at tractive power of a body like the sun, more than a milliom times larger than the earth. And this power con tools every speck of light that we see in the heavens. An Eveless Eden. Kajnne. There is only one territory of any size, and there never has been but one, occupied by any considerable population, from which woman is absolutely excluded. Yet sneb a place exists to-day, and has existed for centuries. As far back ns his tory reaches, to all females it has been forbidden groond. This bachelors’ Arcadia is situated on a bold platean between Hie old peninsula of Acte, in the Grecian archipelago, and the mainland. Here in the midst of cultivated fields and extensive woodlands, dwell a monastic federation of Greek Christians, with twenty- three convents and numbering more than 7,000 souls, and uofc one of the monestries dates from a later time than the twefth centu ry. A few soldiers guard the fcor- bers of this anti-female land, and no woman is allowed to cross the frontier. Nor is this all. The rule is extended to every female creature, and from time immemo rial no cow, mare, hen, duck, or goose has been permitted to make There is no department of Brit ish mercantile industry which has developed with such remarkable rapidity as the petroleum trade. Since its begiuaing in 1859, when the total importations were about 2,000,000 gallons, it has increased by leaps and bounds until, ia 1889, the amount brought into the Uni ted Eingdom reached the total of 102,647,478 gallons. The twenty-nine railroad men who met at J. Pierpont Morgan’s house in New York city recently, to discuss the question of railroa competition, represented a eapifc Subscribe ijor the HOME JbCBBjtf,. of about §3,000,000,000. Ml