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OCI LI.A, GEORGIA.
HEN ItMRSOI Sc HANLON, Publisher*.
The fact that the $20,000,000 wa*
paid to Spain without the actual hand¬
ling of a single dollar of money dem¬
onstrates the vast utility of credit.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at Chicago has held that the
directors of a bauk are not liable for
the mismanagement of funds by a
president who takes advantage of his
position to speculate.
The American automobile is already
achieved. What it needs next i3 a
well articulated system of roads to
run on, along which the inns and re¬
pair shops will spring up in immedi¬
ate response, as they have done al¬
ready in answer to the more modest
needs of the American bicycler.
For the second time Dawson City
has been swept by flames. This frigid
settlement is now suffering the horror
of the exposure to the piercing cold
of unknown numbers of shelterless
human beings. A city of wood, with
the interior of it - houses heated by
constantly burning fuel, and contain¬
ing an unusual percentage of the dis¬
orderly element in its population, pre¬
sents all the conditions inviting such
a disaster.
How many people realize that the
world’s gold production uow is great¬
er than in the phenomenal era of Cal¬
ifornian and Australian mining? The
total yield of the metal in the whole
world during the ten years 1851-1860
was $1,332,981,000. The production
for the ten years ending with 1899, ac¬
cepting as accurate the trustworthy
mint estimates for the remainder of
this year, is $2,005,000,000, or $672,-
000,000 more than for the great Cal-
fornian and Australian period.
The temporary government for the
Philippines is the old familiar model
for British colonies and American ter¬
ritories, says the New York Commer¬
cial Advertiser. All Anglo-Saxon civ¬
ilization out of Great Britain began
that way. The thirteen colonies be¬
fore the revolution were ruled by royal
governors and judges and councils
appointive above and elective below.
American territories were so ruled at
the beginning. British crown colo¬
nies are so ruled. Out of this germ
of liberty has grown the self-govern¬
ment of American states, the autono¬
my of Australia, Canada and the Cape
colonies, but the growth has been
guided and restrained everywhere by
the development of capacity for main¬
taining internal order and external de¬
fense.
Providence a year ago cut off from
its schools some of the special teacher
trimmings, and it is now considering
the recommendation of an investigat¬
ing committee that the system of free
text-books be abolished. One reason
given is the cost, which in 1898 was
$31,000; another is the disease germ
menace; a third is that those parents
unable to buy the books are a very
small fraction of the whole number,
and a logical fourth is that the families
of the city that have the fewest books
in their homes now do not have even
school-books. Children could former¬
ly turn to these to give them informa¬
tion or refresh their knowledge of
what had been learned in school, but
now they have nothing, This is
thought to be the first organized
movement agaiust an established free-
book system.
The bicycle is growing in favor at
an astonishing rate in Maine, although
the state is notorious for poor roads.
Of course the popularity of the bicy¬
cle will compel authorities to build
macadam highways, as has been the
case elsewhere. The Kennebec Jour¬
nal, which has been examining the
assessors’ books, says that in 1898 the
bicycles in the state were valued at
$324,420. The owners are paying
$8100.50 in taxes on their wheels, of
which amount the state receives
$892.50, the rest going to the towns.
It is also said that the value of bicy¬
cles in Maiue is only $7000 less than
that of the street railway properties,
and is one-tenth of the value of the
Bteam railroad property, not counting
rolling stock. Other wheel vehicles
are appraised at a sum only four times
that of the bicycles. Telegraph and
telephone companies pay $8689.61 in
taxes, and the express companies but
$4950.25. There are 13,000 owners
of bicycles in Maiue, and the number
grows rapidly.
‘ Keep abreast of these stirring times by
subscribing for your home paper. The price
is Ittlle, and you cannot afford to be without
it.
— "X > K o o W 4 p
It must have been about two years
and a halt ago that the elderly lady
with a husband, residing in our vil¬
lage, conceived the grand idea of mak¬
ing gooseberry wine. She communi¬
cated it to the elderly lady without a
husband, who again imparted it to the
lawyer’s wife, a happy mother, with
four unmarried daughters, of whom
I was, and, alas! still am, the young¬
est.
The elderly lady with a husband
prevailed upon that appendage to
gather the fruit; and such was his
good will that he arose at 6 o’clock
in the morning from his comfortable
couch to obey her behest. He ap¬
peared at breakfast with lacerated
hands and a perspiring frame; but
his zeal sent him back to the garden
the moment he had satisfied his ap¬
petite.
The elderly lady without a husband,
having lost what the elderly lady with
a husband possessed, was fain to help
her cook with her own fair fingers.
The lawyer’s wife’s four daughters
were pressed into their mother’s ser¬
vice, and most unwillingly plunged
their fingers into the torturing bushes.
After the picking was over the three
ladies were divided in opinion as to
whether the berries should be crushed
halved, or left whole, each one fol¬
lowing her own conviction. The writer
of this has an unpleasant recollection
of standing for four hours while she
cut every gooseberry clean through
the middle, according to her mother’s
directions.
In due time the wine was put into
the casks, and the casks were rendered
airtight until the following spring,
when the sparkling contents were bot¬
tled and stowed In their different cel¬
lars.
My mother, I remember, was the
happy possessor of six dozen; the
elderly lady without a husband had
two dozen less; but the elderly lady
with a husband carried off the palm
of quantity, no less than twelve dozen
of this homely liquor.
But while the wine was yet in the
casks there came to our village a
young man with an unmistakable air
of gentility about him. He had no
occupation, yet his attire was good
in quality and faultless In cut. His
purse appeared well lined and quickly
emptied.
It was whispered by some that he
was an eccentric member of a high
family, and had quarreled with his
relations all round, so that was how
he came to settle in our quiet neigh-
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borhood. Others, more maliciously
disposed, averred that he was a first-
class burglar.
My sisters and I believed in the
first-mentioned version of the mystery,
perhaps because it was romantic and
suited to our girlish Imaginations.
He was invited to our village
soirees once or twice a week, and as
he always sought me out the moment
he entered the room I was a target for
all the envenomed darts from the bows
of the other girls.
Meanwhile the gooseberry wine had
been bottled and ■'pronounced excellent
by the select few who tasted It; all
the bottles were sealed until the fol¬
lowing winter.
The festivities of the dark season
were ushered in by a small dance,
given by the elderly lady with a hus¬
band. Everyone was Invited, even the
unknown, although our hostess looked
on him with anything hut favor.
The entertainment seemed meant to
inaugurate the gooseberry wine rather
than anything else, for instead of
champagne our glasses were frequently
filled with this home production.
Our hostess, with a beaming coun¬
tenance, told us that she wished the
rising generation to patronize this
harmless beverage rather than its more
potent reality.
The unknown and I, after one waltz,
strolled away to the conservatory.
When we were alone he looked at me
with sparkling eyes and flushed cheeks,
gently pressing my hand within his
arm at the same time.
“Dearest,” he whispered, “may I
hope that some day you will allow me
to claim this dear hand in mine?”
I blushed as became a surprised
maiden, although the only wonder I
felt was that he" had not asked me be¬
fore.
I murmured “Yes” in my most dulcet
accents, and immediately received his
reward for my acquiescence.
My heart bounded in response to a
knock at the front door, soon after
breakfast the next morning. I knew
it was the unknown’s hand that had
wielded the ponderous bronze ring. I
heard in my distant dormitory the door
opened and closed, and then there was
a pause. Next a quick step on the
stair, a gentle tap on my own dpor,
and the entrance of the housemaid
bearing a card.
The piece of pasteboard bore my
love's name, and at the back, In pen¬
ciled letters, this short sentence, "Will
you spare me a few minutes?”
Not loverlike, certainly; hut I clothed
it In love’s own language. When I
entered the drawing-room I found the
unknown Impatiently drumming his
fingers on the window. The face he
turned toward me was grave, not to
say gloomy; but, still unsuspicious, I
went toward him with a gay welcome
on my lips. He shook hands, certainly,
but constrainedly.
“I have sent for you,” he said, “to—
to—dash It! I don’t know how to put
what 1 am going to say. It 1* most
confoundedly awkward. The fact is,
I had no right to ask you to he my
wife last night, for I cannot marry if
I would.”
"Why did you, then?” I asked,
coldly.
“Well, to tell you the truth, it was
that deuced wine at supper that did it.
It went to my head at once, and the
waltz afterward finished the business.
I am come to throw myself on your
generosity. My Income dies with me
If I marry, and as I have do profession
I must keep single.”
“Go!” exclaimed I, with a withering
look, and pointing to the door.
He obeyed me and went, and left the
most miserable being behind him.
After the first paroxysm of outraged
nature was over I crawled to the cel¬
lar, and I did not leave that place
till every bottle of gooseberry wine
lay at my feet In shivered atoms.—
Exchange.
BIG FEES.
Physicians Who Received Fortunes for
Simple Services.
Several European physicians have
made fortunes by single operations.
Dr. Thomas Dimsdale, a Hertfordshire
specialist, who was summoned to St.
Petersburg in 1752 to vaccinate Em¬
press Catherine II., received $60,000
and a pension of $2,500 a year. A cer¬
tain Dr. Butler, who had obtained a
world-wide reputation for his opera¬
tions in lithotomy, received a lakh of
rupees (then worth $50,000) from each
of six Indian rajahs for relieving
them from their pains. The late czar
of Russia paid Prof. Zaeherine, a noted
specialist of Moscow, $75,000 for two
days’ attendance. Dr. Gale of Bristol
received a check for $250,000 for cur¬
ing a certain prominent nobleman of a
diseased knee. Dr. Gale Yowski, who
traveled all the way to Teheran to at¬
tend the son of the late shah, received
$35,000 and his expenses. Sir William
Jenner received a baronetcy and $50,-
000 for four weeks’ attendance at the
bedside of the prince of Wales. Sir
Morell Mackenzie received $100,000 for
attending the Emperor Frederick. Per¬
haps the most extravagant fee .of all,
however, is that of an English army
surgeon who charged an Indian rajah
$50,000 for one prescription in a simple
case of rheumatism.
Couldn’t He Divided.
In Felix Moscheles’ “Fragments of
an Autobiography” occurs the follow¬
ing: Madame Schumann was wanted
to play at a little musical reunion, but
she did not respond. Mr. Moscheles
was deputed to approach her. “Was
she Inclined to play?” “Particularly
disinclined,” was the discouraging re¬
sponse. The envoy mentioned her huk-
bands’s “Carnaval.” “One part I par¬
ticularly love, the ‘March of the Da-
vidsbundler.’ If I could only hear you
play just that page or two!” This
roused her. "Page or two, indeed!”
she cried. “Wenn man den ‘Carnaval’
spielt, spielt man ihn ganz.” (When
one plays the “Carnaval” one must
play it all.) And she played the whole.
MIXED PICKLES.
An “old maid’s convention” was
held at Elkhart, Ill., recently.
Of every hundred Portuguese peas¬
ants only twenty can read and write.
Copenhagen has the largest zoologi¬
cal garden in Europe. It embraces
4,200 acres.
Three oil wells at Bibi-Eibat, in the
Baku district, produced over 6,000,000
barrels last year.
Several soldiers who went through
the fight at Santiago fainted at Co¬
lumbus, O., the other day when they
were being vaccinated.
Berlin is to have a special insti¬
tute for the study of hygiene as ap¬
plied to the tropics. Professor Koch
has drawn up a plan for it.
“Did you say 1 lied deliberately?”
“Well, not exactly. My remark was
that you couldn’t tell a deliberate
’ truth.”—Philadelphia North Ameri¬
can.
Sir Walter Besant says no man has
fewer amusements than himself. He
is too short-sighted for billiards or
tennis, and has even dropped the occa¬
sional game of whist.
A French philological journal esti¬
mates that of the 860 different lan¬
guages spoken on the globe, 89 are in
use in Europe, 144 In Africa, 123 in
Asia, 417 In America and 117 in
Oceanica.
A month’s supplies for the South
Carolina dispensaries, recently pur¬
chased, included 915 barrels of whis¬
ky, thirty barrels of gin, ten barrels of
rum, 420 cases of whisky, 100 cases of
wine, four oarloads of beer, five bar¬
rels of ale and five barrels of porter.
Uncle Joshua—We’s got ter have
some more coaling stations. Uncle
Jedediah—What do we need 'em fer?
Uncle Joshua—Why, ter accommodate
our navy, ye know. Uncle Jedediah—
A bigger navy? We don’t need that,
either. Uncle Joshua—We don’t?
Plow’d .we defend our new coaling
stations, then?—Judge
FIREMEN ON BICYCLES.
Novel Appliance* Introduced by the
Washington Fire Department.
District Commissioner Wight Is im-y
proving the Washington (D. C.) fir#
department, says a Washington dis¬
patch to the Baltimore Sun. Several
months ago the old fire-alarm system
was replaced by a now one with key¬
less boxes. Mr. Wight was then im¬
pressed by the uselessness of having
all the firemen in the city called out
of their beds when only a few were
needed, so he Introduced a noiseless
alarm system. At each engine house
a watchman is on duty day and night
at a desk where fire alarms are an¬
nounced on an indicator. If the watch¬
man sees the alarm is one to which
his company must respond a switch Is
. urned and the next , call ,, comes on a
large gong. Otherwise the firemen
have undisturbed repose Commission-
er Wight next decided to mount a fire-
man at each engine house on a bicycle
who, whenever his company is called
out, shall precede it to a fire. It s
estimated that . the mounted firemen
should be able to reach a fire several
minutes before and _
their companies
be able to accomplish a great deal be¬
fore the engines can arrive. Each bi¬
cycle fireman will be equipped with a
small chemical fire extinguisher. The
latest Innovation is a megaphone,which
will be efficiently wielded by Assistant
Fire Chief Belt. Mr. Wight had no¬
ticed that on many occasions it was
almost impossible for the firemen to
understand the orders of the chiefs,
and each was therefore compelled to
act almost entirely on his own respon¬
sibility. The megaphone is fifteen
inches in length, and through its use
there should be no difficulty in dis¬
tinguishing orders. It is expected that
each of the foremen and probably the
bicycle firemen will later be equipped
with a megaphone. It is intended also
to introduce automobile fire engines.
RELIGIOUS FORMS.
Aoessorle. Now in High Favor Were
Once Forbidden.
The use of incense In churches was
forbidden as a heathen custom till the j
fifth century. The use of holy water ;
j was equally denounced as a practice of
! the pagan priests of Rome and of the j
ritual of Isis. The asperging of Julian
j in Gaul is perhaps the earliest instance
of the Introduction of this practice,
which became a source of superstition
in the fifth century. The wonder-work¬
ing power of the relics of the martyrs
began to be believed toward the close
i of the fourth century, and Immediately
: after we find complaint made of the
j sale of forged relics, both in the east
and in the west. The sale of relics was
forbidden by Theodosius, yet they con¬
stantly increased in numbers and im-
I portance until the holy table was con¬
verted Into an altar to hold them.
| In the fifth century also ex voto of¬
ferings began to be hung on the church
; walls—a custom which was of heathen
,
! origin. The use of fights was forbid¬
den in tbe second ceniury, in the day¬
time, but crept In in the fifth century.
The Mithralc altars had much earlier
supported candles, but these may have
been necessary in underground chap¬
els. Jerome wrote that it was slan¬
derous to say that wax candles were
burned “in clear light,” but Paulinus of
Nola, in 307 A. D., so decorated his
church on festivals.
A NOTED BRITISH DIPLOMAT.
Sir Claude Macdonald, the noted
British diplomat and minister plenipo¬
tentiary to China, has returned to Eng¬
land considerably advanced in public
favor on account of the masterly man-
ner ln which he has met the wiles of
LI Hung Chang in dealing with Ori-
ental questions. Sir Claude is a K. C.
B. of the creation of 1898 and for three
years he has lived n the east as a
diplomatic agent of the J nlted King-
dom. He is a s on of the late Gen. J.
D. Macdonald. He was educated In
Sandhurst, and when a youth he en-
tered the Seventy-fourth Highlanders.
In 1882 he was given the brevet of ma-
Jor, and In that year he served through
the Egyptian campaign. He was In
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the Suaklm expedition (1884-85), and
won the medal with three clasps, the
khedive’s star, and the fourth-class
order of Osmanich. For five years he
was a diplomatic agent In Egypt, and
he was consul-general at Zanzibar In
1887 and 1888.
Naturally Enough,
“I gave that poor man $1 a few days
ago, and told him to come around and
let me know how he got along.” “Oh,
that was good of you! He was your
bread east upon the waters.” “I sup¬
pose he was. Anyhow, he came back
‘soaked.’ ”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Was Human Weakness.
“Didn’t he say he would never speak
to you again?” “Yes. But he saw I
had a cold, and he couldn’t resist the
temptation to tell me of a sure cure,”
—Boston Journal.
RUSKIN IN OLD AGE.
I GRAND OLD SOCIALISTIC PAIN¬
TER IS FEEBLE NOW.
rho Lamp of Light Show* Sign* of
Coming Extinguishment—Closing l»nya
of a Life Well Spent — Scenes at
Ilran t wood.
The recent celebrations at Brant-
i wood have called prominent attention
to Mr. Ruskin's Increasing years, and
also of the declining powers of the
seer who wrote "Modern Painters.”
Brantwood is a fitting place for se¬
clusion and repose, well earned, at the
end of a life long and strenuous, far
beyond , , the .. ordinary. ,, Its T .„ windows
shining levels of the
of tranquility
and A correspondent who has
recentl vlB , ted Brantwood says that
Mf Kuskin now ig able t0 take but Ut -
tie recreation. Most of his time is
Bpeat i n b [ s study, from which there is
* and the
a fln view of Conlslon lake ,
great falls at the southern end of it,
falls wbia were pain ted by Turner,
and which figure so prominently In the
descriptions in the “Idyls of the
King.” For some years past visitors
have been forbidden an audience ex¬
cept In very rare cases. Brantwood,
as the many know, Is quite a temple
of art. Turners have been crowded
Into the place to the overshadowing of
all other artists, even men like old
Crome and William Hunt. Mr. Rus-
kln’s tiny bedroom Is hung all round
with specimens of the great master.
There are two studios at Brantwood,
and at the time of the correspondent’s
visit there stood on the easel of one
of them Mr. Ruskin’s last study, an
enlarged peacock’s feather. On being
ushered Into the professor’s presence
the visitor was received very kindly.
There was an Inquiring look in the
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S^/Taded . „„ ... their evl-
fires. Warning had
given that a long conversation
no{ ^ aUowed> but the talk
4rlfted round ^ & sub j ect in w hich Mr .
Rugk j n bad hggn interested nearly for-
years ago. He remembered a cer-
p | cture and contrasted it with a
Modern work by the same artist. His
memory had not fa n e d him nor his
crltIcal acumen. The portrait is from
thg latest photograph, taken by Mr.
McClelland, Llseard, and has not pre¬
viously been published. It was taken
in Mr. Ruskin’s study at Brantwood
and shows him with all his recent,
wealth of hair and silvery beard. It
will be remembered that the deputa¬
tion which waited upon Mr. Ruskin
on his eightieth birthday wished his
portrait to be painted by Holman
Hunt. His health, however, would not
allow the project to be encouraged.
There are already Ruskin portraits by
Millais, George Richmond and Herk-
omer and portraits have been quite re¬
cently painted by Arthur Severn and
G. W. Colllngwood.
PRESENT INSANITY CAUSES
Prevailing: Hallucination. Are Now of a
Material Type.
Freedom of thought in matters of re¬
ligion has changed the character of
the delusions and hallucinations of the
insane, eays Dr. John H. Glrdner, in
the North American Review. Insanity
keeps pace with the changes in hu¬
man development, and the character
of the delusions and hallucinations of
the insane at any time Is a reflex of
the interests which are then uppermost
In men’s minds. We now seldom find
the spiritual type of insanity among
the inmates of hospitals for the insane.
As doctrinal discussions have ceased to
Interest the masses, theology has ceas¬
ed to be a cause of insanity. This Is
an age of material development, of
making things and having things. Men
are much concerned with the problem
of amassing treasure here; that, with
the long line of social questions which
belong to it, is now uppermost in their
minds, and these material problems
are the ones pressing hardest for solu¬
character tion. Hence of the It delusions is that the prevail theS
and novWB
luclnations of the insane are
a material type. The struggle for
Istence, modern Inventions, steam wealth! arM
electricity, and the mad rush roj
result In ever increasing demands up¬
on the brain and nervous system. And
under the strain many who have con-,
genital organizations or acquired become defective nervoiflj just
insane, asdtfflH
the same class fofmerly did
suit gical of problems. fear and brooding over thool^H nM
The insane are
now tormented,by the devil and hfl
imps, but telephones and phonograph?
are continually ringing In their ears.
Others suppose they have steam en¬
gines in their heads, and many im¬
agine they are persecuted by men of
large fortunes or of great political
power. Formerly those who were af¬
flicted with delusions of grandeur were
prone to imagine themselves to be the
Savior of the world or the Virgin Mary,
or some eminent saint. Now they are
more apt to think themselves to he
great investors or powerful politicians,
or the possessors of untold wealth. The
delusions of the insane always take
this form and color from the questions
and problems which are most absorb¬
ing at the time.
PURELY PERSONAL FIRE.
A Householder's Earnest Efforts to Save
His Home.
There was a smell of fire in the
house, the deep gray odor of burning
cloth, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. The man of the house be¬
gan nosing about to find out what
caused it. He prides himself upon his
keenness of sense. He went across
the room. “Hum! It grows strong¬
er,” he said. When he had placed his
nose flat up against a brick and plas¬
ter wall it was stronger than ever. He
backed off. “No, it’s somewhere over
here.” At the door of the hal;
odor was very pronounced. Hi
ed downstairs into the dining.
The odor was there, too. He i
down cellar. It was overpo'
He put his hand into his coat poc
for a match. He found went the upstairs* fire bjj
sense of touch and
poured a glass then of he water carries into his hisJH mfl
et. - Since
in a box and is disposed to be ifl
ulous when stories of incendiarj$H
narrated. He says eonflagrati^H
charity, begins at home.
WROTE MANY DRAMA
Edouard Jules Henri Pailleroji
noted French dramatist and autH
dead. He was one of the best <1
French minor poets and was a ml
of the French Academy. Of lax
had done very little writing and
not produced a play for some ya
M. Pailleron was 65 years olq
was born in Paris, and made hiM
in letters in 1860 with satirical ’
which were very well received,
first volume was called “The ;
sites,” and he wrote a one-acy
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to which he gave the name ‘Vh
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Odeon with great success. dozW
1863 and 1887 he wrote about a
dramas, which enjoyed much popular-!
ity at the theaters in which they were
staged. He was not very well known
outside of Paris.