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OGILLA DISPATCH. OCILLA, GEORGIA. 1UWIN COUNTY I’UHLISIIIMJ CO., Proprietors. ----------- T« life one frequently meets with men who are not getting down the oorn row very rapidly because they are using too heavy a hoe. The information received by the Interstate Commerce Commission shows that the total increase in railway lines of the United States during tho calendar year 1891) was 4587 miles, the largest increase being in Iowa, 572 miles; the next in Minnesota, 310 miles, and the next in Arkansas, 209 miles. Consul-G eneral Guenther reports to the Department of State at Washing¬ ton that the courts at Frankfort, Ger¬ many, have decided that an employer is entitled to all the results of the thought and labor of the men in his employ, including any inventions they may devise. Iu the particular case referred to a workman was found guilty of larcencv in selling Lis own invention to a stranger, the court holding that it was uot his property, but belonged to his employer. A Chicago woman has undertaken lo solve the “servant question” by i having , . two gangs of , servants, who di- , vide the work between them, each do- j iug eight hours work. Thoso people I who have so much trouble with their ■ servants now ’ will perhaps find ! double trouble ill dealing with twice I the number. Moreover the question of wages come in. Undoubtedly the ! servants will not want to take less, ’ I and it . not supposable that the ; is aver- ■ age family can afford to double its ap- : propriation for outside help. Iu hotels and largo establishments tho plan mav work. ! J : -It lias long been known that ; 1 ozone j is the active agent by which bleaching is effected in the open air, but for many yoars, owing to the difficulty of ! producing ozone in quantities, at- tempts to bleach mechanically by this agent proved unsuccessful. More re- ! eontly, thunks to electricity, the trick i has nas been been done done. There nneie aic are now now se\ sev- era! ozone generators on the market, j nud a big plant for the bleaching of yarns entirely by means of ozone has i recently been established at Greiffen- , burg, I foiicsia. . It T , takes , little ! in a longer to bleach cotton by ozone than ; it does by means of chlorine, but the i former method precludes the possi- ; bility of the cotton fibre being dam¬ j ; aged in the process, while, remarks the Dry Goods Economist, cotton goods are frequently tendered in the process of bleaching now usually ern- | ployed. ____________ “The Reformation of Youth” was among the topics discussed recently by legal and medical officials at a gen¬ eral debate in Chicago on “Society aud its Relations to Criminals and Crimes.” Speakiug on the subject, Superintendent Terrance of the Illi¬ nois State Reformatory is quoted as saying that he was inclined to discard the theory of hereditary crime, aud regard environment as the greater cause and sourco of criminal conduct. He thought an administration of the law of kindness would be more effec tive thau a rigorous enforcement of the penal code. He made a distinc¬ tion between tho delinquent boy and the dependent one, as to treatment and care, arguing that the latter Bhould not b8 brought into contact with the former, and should be placed within a different environment. These remarks emphasize the advisability and desirability of preventing as well as punishing crime. One of the glories of California is her superb growth of redwood trees. The finest of these ale iu Calaveras County. For size and majesty these trees are not equalled anywhere on earth. They are one of the attrac¬ tions of the Pacific slope, and thou¬ sands of persons travel far every year to see them, The grove which con- tains the greatest of these wonders of nature was purchased by a specula¬ tor, who intended to proceed to cut thorn down and convert them into timber. This exercise of vandalism would have entailed an irreparable loss upon tho United States and the world, if the National Government had not intervened and assumed con¬ trol of the great redwoods. We shall not be surprised to hear of a scheme to cut down the natural bridge in Vir¬ ginia to get the rock that is in it, or to blow out the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky and use it as a railroad tun¬ nel. It.seems that any outrage upon nature will be attempted iu this coun¬ try provided there is a prospect of making money out of it. POWER OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Widespread Krror In Regard to Their DoriMlatlrifl' 1C fTec U There is a widespread misapprehen¬ sion in regard to the devastating effect of theao high explosives, for when un¬ confined the effect even of large charges of them upon structures is comparatively slight, says Popular Sci¬ ence. At tho naval ordnance proving grounds, so long ago as 1SS4, repeated charges of dynamite, varying from five pounds to one hundred pounds in weight, were detonated on tho face of a vertical target consisting of eleven one-inch wrought iron plates bolted to a twenty-inch oak backing, until 440 pounds of dynamite had been so de¬ tonated in contact with it, and yet the target remained practically uninjured, while at Braamfontein the accidental explosion of fifty-five tons of blasting gelatin, which was stored In railway vans, excavated but 30,000 tons of soft earth. This last may seem a terribio effect, but the amount of explosive in¬ volved was enormous and the material one of the most energetic that we pos¬ sess, while, if we compare it with the action of explosives when confined, its effect becomes Quite moderate. Thus, at Fort Lee, on the Hudson, but two tons of dynamite placed in a chamber in the rock and tamped brought down 100,000 tons of rock; at Lemberic, Wales, two tons and a half of gelatin dynamite similarly placed threw out ISO,000 tons of rock, and at the Talcen Mawr, in Wales, seven tons of gun¬ powder placed in two chambers of the rock dislodged from 125,000 to 200,000 tons of rock. We might cite many such examples, but on comparing these Ws find that the gunpowder confined in the Interior of .the Talcen Mawr was over forty-two times as efficient as the explosive gelatin on the surface at Braamfontein, while the dynamite at Port «Lee was over ninety times as de- ^tractive, DAWSON OF 1900. City Has Changed Greatly Dor log the Pant Tear. The Dawson of 1899 is no longer the ? the h av;son year of previous. 18 ® 8 ’ ^ Tne “ thousands less that of of bateaux that were formerly lined up against the river front, in rows six deep and more, and comprising ail manner of craft from the small canoe *° s,iced se f ti0] \ s of s '™ s ’ haV ° m ° 3tly disappeared, and m their place , we now find the graceful and ungraceful forms of varying types of steamboat. It is no uncommon thing nowadays to find five or “ore of these larger craft tied up at one time to the river front, and the amplitude and majesty of the Mis- issippi boats gain but little in com- parison with some of the larger craft of the Yhkon river. Overhung signs ca ^ attention to the flying queens of the river ’ thfi Bonanza Kins ’ Canadian &nd gibyl> and thousands are o££ere d upon the resuit of the race to the White Horse rapids. So here, as in the olden days of the Mississippi, the struggle for supremacy has led to the opening of the throttle and to the scraping of the a , e . box _ Upwa rd of a hundred arrivals from down the river were registered at Dawson during the season of open water of 1S99. Apple- ton’s Popular Science Monthly for Feb- ruary. EDOUARD DRUMONT. The leader of the anti-Semite party In France, Edouard Drumont, 3trange as it may seem, is a Jew himself. His career seems to have been one of in¬ consistencies. At one time he was in the service of the imperial police and employed to shadow and draw up re¬ ports against such people as the Mar¬ quis de Rochefort and others, who are now his friends. Some time later he acquired the confidence of the great Jewish banker, Isaac Percire, who at¬ tached him to his newspaper, the Lib- erte. When the old banker died, Dru- 'ill! B A? m i m Si V.i •j EDOUARD DRUMONT. moat wrote the most fulsome eulogies of him, but when the heirs of the old banker dismissed him from the paper and he learned that he had been left nothing in the will,he became the most bitter' enemy of the family and like¬ wise of all members of theJewish race. Since then his time and effort have been devoted to opposing the interest and advancement of the Jews in France. He is considered a fanatic by his countrymen and is seldom seriously taken. Despite his peculiar actions and apparent ingratitude he is not a cow¬ ard and has fought several duels Ho is undoubtedly one of the most unique characters now before the eyes of the French public, Sheet Lead in Formosa. The method of making sheet lead for tea packing in Formosa is most in¬ teresting. The lead ie from Australia in pigs, and after being melted is poured between two large tiles, the required degree of thickness for the sheet being obtained by pressure by tha feet. The sheet is afterwards trimmed to suitable sizes and shapes for soldering and is used for packing. MB. WEBSTER DAVIS. WHOSE VISIT TO OOM PAUL CHEATED A STIR. IIo Bosun T.lf© as a Sl»oe*na?cer, Then Turned to L»w and Ultimately Be¬ came a Power In tho Political World —Ills Din Ike for Trade. The career of Webster Davis, assist¬ ant. secretary of the iuterior, whose recent visit to South Africa and to O ora Paul occasioned considerable comment, is in many respects a re¬ markable one. He began life as a shoemaker’s son In Gallatin, Mo., and ills father was barely able to give him the education which town schools afforded. Young Davis, however, pushed on, took a course in the poor boys’ school at Parkville, where he received the idea that he was cut out for the ministry. He found his way Anally to a religious seminary near Chicago, and there, he A v f •; _ m f^i§gt , 1 #3 : .Mpf ! I U El 1 ' m SV- ) m ]Pp WEBSTER DAVIS, said afterward, he discovered that the more he learned the farther he got away from the idea. So lie went back to his father and set to work at the cobbler’s stool. His dislike for the trade did not escape the attention of his father. One day ho made a bad job of a pair of shoes, which came to the notice of Judge McDouglass, of Kansas city. “Send him over to my office,” said the judge. “Ke is certainly a poor shoemaker, but he may make a good lawyer.” That was the beginning of his climb to the present official posi¬ tion, which he left to go to South Af¬ rica. From the beginning he attracted the attention of rich and influential men and they started him for the law school at Ann Arbor, where he com¬ pleted his course. Upon his return as a full-fledged lawyer, Maj. Warner, one of his pa¬ trons, found a place In the office of the surveyor of the port in Kansas City. There lie was thrown into contact with politicians and started on this bent of his career. He had a command of lan¬ guage and a fluency which made him what they were pleased to call “a won¬ derful orator,” and he came Quickly Maj. into demand as a stump speaker. Warner becoming a candidate for gov¬ ernor in 1892, Mr. Davis took to the field and went up and down the state, and, through Warner’s influence, he himself secured the nomination for congress. Both went down to defeat, but Mr. Davis had won fame through¬ out the state which was to help him in the future. The campaign over, he went to Colo¬ rado, thence to Chicago, where he held a position with the Harrison Tele¬ phone company during the world’s fair. When the company failed he re¬ turned to Kansas City. It was the eve of a mayoralty campaign, and, since no one else cared to run, Mr. Davis was easily persuaded to make the race. The Republicans did not expect to succeed. Neither did Mr. Davis. The Demo¬ crats said that he had forfeited his residence by going to Chicago, and in¬ dulged in several riots before the elec¬ tion was over. Mr. Davis won, to everybody’s surprise, including his own. He inaugurated an aggressive policy, began the building of an exten¬ sive park system, but went out of of¬ fice retaining only sufficient popular¬ ity to name liis successor, “Jimmy” Jones. Upon the election of the president, Mr. Davis had come to be called ’’the administration orator.” Following the election there came a period of inac¬ tivity for the orator until 1897, when, under Secretary Bliss, lie wa3 made assistant secretary cf the interior. During ail his career it has been ad¬ mitted on all sides that his claim to attention is his ability to hold large audiences. He is emotional, tearful, but his speeches do not read so well. Marching While Asleep. “Two days after the battle of Glen¬ coe we were suddenly told to get what things we had, as we were going to march to Ladysmith,” writes a British private to London Tit-Bits. “We had hardly left tho camp when the Boers started shelling it again. They did not know we had shifted. The whole brigade was about two miles long. We were marching all night until abdut 5 o’clock in the morning, when we had three hours’ rest, and then started again until five o’clock in the after¬ noon. On again at night, then another rest. On again at 6 o’clock next morn¬ ing, till 3 o’clock In the afternoon. Forward again at 6 o’clock, marching all night. The transport kept losing the path, and could not keep up with us. Raining all the time. Through drifts up to our lcnee3, nothing on but khaki. We reached Ladysmith about 8 o’clock next morning, very nearly dead. Most of our fellows were walk- ing while fast asleep, Others fell out and dropped to sleep directly they touched the ground. I don’t mind the fighting, but I never want to go through such a march again.” UNIQUE HAND-WRITING. Roumanian** Nt rvou* Malady Compels Hina to TVrlte Backward. An almost, unique case of nervous disease was investigated at the last sitting of the French Academy of Med¬ icine. Tho patient is a young Rou¬ manian, whose malady has boon ob¬ served by Dr. Marlnesco of Bucharest. The most curious manifestation of his disease takes tho shape of what is known among scientists as “mirror,- writlng,” which means that the char¬ acters are written backward, so that when reflected in a mirror they are to bo read in tho ordinary way. Dr. Ma- rinesco had observed that the hands of his patient, when unoccupied, were af¬ fected with a nervous trembling, which ceased to a great extent when they were used for a definite purpose. Wish¬ ing to see what effect this symptom of the malady had on tho handwriting Dr. Marinesco asked the patient to write a few lines from dictation; to his astonishment he found that the en¬ tire passaga had been written back¬ ward with absolute accuracy. The ex¬ periment was repeated several times with exactly the same result, and it is, in fact, impossible for the patient to write otherwise. When asked to trace a word with his foot on tho ground it, too, was found to be written backward. The patient being a Jew, a final ex¬ periment was made with Hebrew. This ; language, as Is well known, Is al- I ways written backward, but the pa- tient, reversing, as usual, the normal j process, can only write it from left to right. Partial cases of mirror writ¬ ing have been observed before, but none in which the tendency was so ir¬ resistible.—Pall Mall Gazette, DUTCH STREETS. Delightfully Suggestive of Tranquil Eo peso and Old Fashion. Commend us to the ever-tranquil Dutch streets with their mellow an¬ tique houses, says the Gentleman’s Magazine. These mostly follow cir¬ cles, as is to be expected in a fortified place. But the typical Dutch street, found everywhere, is tho line of houses by the canal, a range of old trees in front, shading the Indian red brick behind, with its bright white window sashes, as bright as much polished ^JT’Zv , \-JV P Zv o!d fashl0 “’ .. Tfle/ , ! I Ch , S h^« r ZZ! ! them ’ where " 1 ” crn ' ' he together ,, alongside. , .. Even m very popuous cap ta s ve come m the su- 1 uurba on some delightful, retired bits j of canal leaving much the shine effect as does Church row at Hampstead. Old fashioned wel.-.o-do folk live here m j retirement. 1 aere is one such at the entrance of The Hague on the Sche- veningen side, where the charming j woods begin; anything more old world J and solemnly attractive cannot be im- 1 agined. Wo might well fancy our- | selves back in Sir William ’ the days of Temple and of William of Orange, who may have strolled along these banks. FIRST WOMAN LAWYER. Two years ago Mile. Jeanne Chau*- . van of Paris applied to the authorities to be admitted to the bar as a lawyer. she had passed her examinations far ; more brilliantly than most men and j only waited the verdict of those in au- j thority to make her a full-fledged ad- I vocate with the right to practice. It 1 was a very sensational scene at the ! Palais do Justice when the affair was brought up. All the students of the Sorbonne were there and cheered her as she appeared. They admired the MM sr 1 £ ■Xi * W&' ’ kY jg t m : i »i@s- iisip l 1C- IZ m W MLLE. JEANNE CHAUVAN. girl who had been cleverer than they. The verdict was that no woman could practice law in France, and Mile. Chauvan went out amid the cheers of encouragement, and she has never ceased to press her claims when they would work the most for her good. At last she has succeeded, for recently the courts granted the right to women to practice law with the full honors of men, and Mile. Jeanne Chauvan is the first to go to the bar. She is also one of the editors and founders of the fa¬ mous woman’s paper of Paris. Driest Spot on Earlli. Payta, in Peru, is said to be the dri¬ est spot on the face of the earth, a 3 the average interval between two showers of rain is seven years. The flora of Payta consists of about nine species—of these seven are annuals, the seeds of which must remain dor¬ mant in the ground for eight years. Notwithstanding the scarcity of rain, the natives subsist by the growth of the long-rooted Peruvian cotton, which is able to maintain itself without rain for seven years in tho dried-up river bed, and yields profitable crops of col¬ ored short staple cotton.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Glove Trad© in Franco. France makes nearly 26,000,000 pairs of gloves yearly, and of these IS,000,- 000 pairs are exported. GEORGIA NEW? j Brief Summary of erestinjj Happenings Culled c and cm. H Dublin To Have Two sepots. The town of Dublin is ,;o have two new depots at the end oil sixty days. The railroad commission /a few days ago directed the Macon, /Dublin and Savannah railroad to prepare plans for a stution to be erected at w|hich Dublin, giv¬ ing ibe road ten days in to com¬ ply with this order. The plans for the station were submitted to the commission and were approved. Work on the station will begin at once. Tho second road entering Dublin was di¬ rected some weeks since to build an entirely new structure, and that work is also under way. Sesame Seed For Farmers. The state department of agriculture has secured from the United States botanist at Washington a supply of sesame plant seed, a plant very little grown in the United States, but one of more than ordinary value to the farmer. The sesame seed has been examined fully by the state chemist, who is satisfied that the plant can be produced with success in Georgia. The principal product is the oil taken from the seed. This is known in the market as sesame oil, used largely in cooking and for pharmaceutical pur- poses. The United States botanical depart¬ ment has placed at the disposal of the state chemist, John M. McCnndless, forty pint packages of the seed re¬ cently imported from Russian Turkes¬ tan, and already a number of requests have been made for samples. It has been found that the sesame plant can¬ not grow well north of Virginia, but in the warm soil of the south, and par¬ ticularly of Georgia, it will thrive. The time remaining for planting the seed is short, and for that reason all who wish to receive samples should apply at the state department of agri¬ culture at once. Teacher Stabbed* News has been received of the se- : t« 6 stabbing of Prof. W. J. Wynn, in Mariana, Fla. Prof. Wynn is a native of Eatonton. A few days ago, accord- ing to the information, he punished of Mg ilg> a bv elve year-old sQn of ex .(j overuor y. Atkinson, The boy had a knife concealed with in his j j s | eeV(J and str uck the teacher it. ! Th<j bJade entered near the heart, pro- duoing a pa j n f u i wound. The physi- c ; an gaya tbe esca j ie j rom f ata i results was a narrow one. Must Use “Official” Uallot. In » notice directed to the chairman of every county Democratic committee in Georgia, Vice Chairman E. T. Brown, of the state committee, who is acting in the absence of Chairman duBignon, calls attention finally to the rules and regulations of that body governing . the ballot to be used in the ) ® 0 » ,1 . lfli 7 a 0 °, 6 ,IKe< 111 le F” i miiry is expected t cf conform to_ the j “official” arrangement of the ticket niade by the sub-committee of the state committee appointed for that purpose at the last session. The attention of the Democratic committee has been called to the ac¬ tion of several counties that have al¬ not conformed to the general and the reminder of the state committee's rule has been given in order that no misunderstanding may exist, or no claim of such misun¬ derstanding be filed after the ballots are cast on May 15th. ed Copies by the of sub-committee the mod^l ballot prepar¬ sent were several days ago to officers in each county so that by thi' time all are aware of the arrangement of the ticket. Vico Chairman Brown stated that the only object of the state committee, in providing for an official ballot had been to avoid unnecessary friction and insure justice to every man who is a candidate for office. It i3 understood that some of the county committees, actiug possibly before the rule of the state committee had become generally known, have prepared their ballots in various man¬ ners, and consequently are beyond the pale of the controlling committee’s rule on the subject. What action the state convention will take when it meets in June regarding any county that voted an irregular ballot at the primary is not even a matter of conjecture at this time, since it is presumed that every county will follow the direction of the committee. Stale Sunday School Convention. The state Sunday school convention at Augusta the past week was declared to be tho best yet held in Georgia. The time aud place of holding the next convention will be selected dur¬ ing the year by the executive commit¬ tee. Rains Belay Cotton Planting. In his monthly talk to tho farmers of Georgia, issued last Saturday, Commis¬ sioner of Agriculture O. B. Stevens gives the growers sound advice on the management of the general crops dur¬ ing Mayfc The article is oue of the best compiled by the state commis¬ sioner, for it deals with subjects that cannot fail to be of interest and im¬ portance to tho agricultural classes, subjects on the soil and its cultivation in order that the greatest amount of plant food may be at tho control of planters. Farmers are particularly warned not to allow the May grasses to remain un¬ disturbed, and by clearing off tha grass at the very start the grower can remain the master of tho situation for the rest of the season. Tho monthly publication contains in addition a valuable treatise by the state ohemist on the production of beef, butter and milk and the import¬ ance of the production of these sta¬ ples. State Entomologist Scott, gives at length his remedy for curling peach leaves, as tho result of experiments on a large orchard in Cobb. Cotton Grower** Convention. The Cotton Growers’ convention to be held in Macon, beginning May 12, has become a matter of national im¬ portance and will prominent bo men from dis¬ tant states in attendance. Some of the largest cotton bouses in New York will send representatives and have telegraphed friends iu Macon to engage rooms for next Saturdaj'. Tho cotton growers have invitod bank¬ ers, merchants and business men to meet with them and a number will be there. The farmers are taking a great in¬ terest in the, meeting and many coun¬ ties have elected delegates. Thirty counties heard from directly or indi¬ rectly will send about. 300 delegates. After carefully going over the reports from different counties, Mon. (J. £i. Jordan, of Monticello, and Mr. N. B. Hutchinson, of LaGrunge, Ga., who are acting as a committee of arrange¬ ments, estimated that the convention would have something like 1,000 dele¬ gates. Editor* Will Visit Athens. President W. S. Coleman, of the Georgia Weekly Press Association, has accepted in behalf of the associa¬ tion the invitation of the University of Georgia, the State Normal school and Athenaeum Club to spend the after¬ noon and evening of July IGtli in Athens previous to attondin; the an¬ nual convention at Elberton lie next (lay. The press delega’es will be shown over the university aUl State Normal school during the afternoon, and at night will be banqnetted by the Athenaeum. Pat Kearney Pardoner l A day or two ago Governo Candler signed a pardon which giv r liberty i once more to Patrick Kearne , the Sa- vannah citizen who shot auc Af’i!, skilled J. W. Wyness in that city, in 1890. Eat Kearney was convicted of mur- der in the first degree and Vnfenced to the penitentiary for life. tThe sen- national trial which ended in the con- viction of Kearney was eclipsed, so far as human interest is concerned, by the subsequent proceedings iu which an entirely different jury determining the suit of J. W. Wyness’ widow for the payment of her husband’s insurance policy, declaring that the killing was not murder, but the result of accident. Thus two juries passed on tho facts in the case. Under the verdict of the first jury Kearney was sentenced to tho penitentiary for life, while the ver¬ dict of the second jury held the shoot¬ ing to bo accidental. The policy for $5,000 taken out by Wyness recited at length that if the holder should meet his death at the handg of a mnrderer , the policy should bq void. When the jury of‘.the superior court of Chatham declared Kearney J guilty of murder, the insurance com¬ pany refused to pay the policy, and a suit was begun by the widow to force the company to meet its obligation. The facts of the shooting were gone over agiiu at length, with the result that the jury declared Wyness had not been murdered, and the insurance company was liable for the payment which it was forced to make. The application for thq pardon of Pat Kearney was argued i before the pardon board by his Savannah counsel some days ago. * Embalmer# To Me^t. It is expected that there will be fully two hundred embaliners in Ma¬ con on June Gth to appear before the state board of examiners, which meets on that date. The visitors will be given a reception while in the city. Under a law passed at the last leg- lature this board was created and the governor given the power to make the appointments. It will be necessary for every em- halmer in the state to appear before this board, pass the examination and secure a license before they will be al¬ lowed to practice the profession, 'the law makes it a misdemeanor for any one to practice after July 1st without a license. It is expected that there will be em- balmers present from every city and town in the state and fully two hund¬ red in all. The examinations will be in writing, but it has not yet been de¬ termined what average will be required. Getting Heady For tlio Fair. Preliminary steps are being taken to put Exposition park in Atlanta in proper sliapo for the coming southern industrial fair. In about a week the board of directors will have acted on reports as to what changes are needed and men will begin work at tho park. Mills For Woodstock. Arrangements are about completed for building a cotton seed oil mill and a rope factory at Woodstock, This mill and factory will be built by the citizens of the community. There is a rope factory iu three miles of the place, which has paid so well aud the demands for rope being too great, for it to fill, it has been decided to build another at once. For Constructing Bridges. Senator Vest has reported favorably a bill authorizing the Mobile and West Alabama railroad to construct bridges across Warrior river between Walker and Jefferson county, Ala., and across the Alabama river between Marengo and Choctaw counties-