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About Conyers weekly. (Conyers, GA.) 1895-1901 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1895)
THE WEEKLY. CONYERS, GEORGIA. The general opinion .in Europe seem to bo that Cuba will this time get away front .Spain. Emigration from Great Britain to the colonies of the South Pacific has been checked i>v the announcement that there is absolutely no employ¬ ment for tabor in these colonies. All tiie Australia*, New Zealand and the Cape tell the same story. The total output of the clay indus¬ tries of the United States for 1894, exclusive of pottery, was $05,000,000. More than half the product was brick, of which enough were made to layfca pavement eleven feet wide entirely around the earth. Ohio makes more brick than any other stute. The interdependence of the arts and trades is considerable, Every large architect’s office has to have a civil en¬ gineer or some one with engineering ability to calculate strains. And now a big firm of elevator builders has en¬ gaged a-staff architect for questions of design and construction. Now York is the first city to recog¬ nize the rights of citizens who ride bicycles, and who use them in going to and from business. A resolution previously passed by the aldermen to pave Church street from Chambers to Day iu granite was reciuded, and one substituted making asphalt the mate¬ rial. This is part of the bicycle path that will he established between the Battery and Central Park. The New York Sun says:—Large quantities of American carriage wood stock are exported annually, and this trade is steadily increasing. We send to France, England, Ru8sia,Germany, South Africa,Australia,and elsewhere, and our exports to these countries, in¬ clude spokes, rims, hubs, completed wheels, shafts and other parts, and carriage lumber. Our mills here are located in various parts of the country in proximity to the forests whence the supplies of wood are obtained. A petition from tfio inhabitants of tiie Londuu suburb, Shepherd’s Bush, reveals an entirely new difficulty which boomers have to contend, It seems that Miss Brachlon invariably put into her novels a very low, com¬ mon familioB, ami made them reside at Shepherd’s Bush. Other novelists followed her evil example, until now a-duvH every KnglisU novelist puts his low characters down as residents of Shepherd’s Bush. The result is that all the reputable people who could move went dowu, aud fiction became a fact. The laud and house-owners of Shepherd’s Bush ask the County Council to give the place another name, so that their efforts to restore its ancient respectability may not be in vain. Newport will have a summer rival right at Now York’s door, aunounces the World. The proposed cottage settlement on the shores of Sheeps lioud Bay 1ms not been abandoned, but while speculation was rife as to the magnificent intentions of those behind that euterprize, a syndicate of wealthy men have quietly bought up a park property of 230 acres at Dobbs Ferry on the Hudson at a cost of §1,000,000 and projected improvements to cost $1,000,000, a §40,000 dock on the river front now being actually in course of instruction. Among the members of the syndicate that has planned this enterprise are General Samuel Thomas, William Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt,Chaun «ey M. Depew, J. G. MeComb aud John D. Arehbohi. The grounds will be laid out in the most sumptuous manner. There is a white marble building on the grounds formerly owned by the Manhattan College, which will be used for club purposes. A large notel aud casino similar to that at. Newport will be ready for oecu pancy next Spring. This and other improvements necessary will involve an outlay of $1,000,000. Members of this country will pay §150 yearlv dues, They alone will be permitted te purchase plots in the park upon which to build, under certain 'restrictions a* to style of architecture and cost of construction. The Hidden Lifer, Deep down beneath the billows’ fingry sweep, Beyond the fury of the raging sea, There is a world of silent mystery. There corai mountains lift their hoary heads, And sea-shells lie in glowing amber beds, And ail is wrapt in deep eternal sleep. Deep down beneath the world’s distress and pain, « Beyond the fury of life’s ceaseless storm, To noble souls there is eternal calm. There fancy sits in bright illumed eaves And hoards the treasures of the stormy waves, And quiet truth and beauty ever reign. (Jeauesce Hawkes. in Lippincott. BY CHANCE. I don’t know exactly why Jack called me “governor,” but I suppose it was because I was some years older than he was and because, when he was a wee toddler, I had made him kites and showed him how to spin tops, and jierbaps because I used to help him out of scrapes, either with his teacher er some playmate too large for him to ‘lick. ” At all events, I got the name and it lias stuck to me. What sur¬ prised me most, however, was to hear it a few weeks ago, when I supposed Jack was thousands of miles away. I was strolling leisurely down an old street in Dublin, looking about for some old landmark of the “stamping ground” of my childhood, How things had changed! Yonder where the little frame church had been was a stately stone edifice; over the old golf links had been built long rows of stores and houses, but there—yes, it must be—there was a house that had not been changed “Governor,” said a voice behind me, “isn’t that the house where Alice lived?” I never should have known the speaker had it not been for the epi¬ thet; it was Jack, careworn and gray and looking thirty-five instead of twenty-seven. “Jack, old boy, what brings you here? I thought you were in Amer¬ ica.” “I have been in New Orleans for a good many years; Helen used to like the climate. But the company’s agent here has left, and I must needs come and take care of the business until another man is appointed. Besides, the president knew that I once lived here, and thought it would be both a change from my surroundings and a pleasure to see the old place. But, isn’t that Alice’s old home?” “Yes,” suid I, “I am quite sure of it; but yon ought to know best;wasn’t she once a sweetheat. of yours?” “Oil, don’t speak of that! You pain me 1 It brings back such a flood of sad recollections even to look upon the old scenes. I don’t know that you have heard, but I am a widower.” “My poor fellow! I extend you my most heartfelt sympathies. But I didn’t know that you had ever mar¬ ried. However, wo have kept such poor track of each other that I don’t wonder at my ignorance. But can’t yon tell me something of yourself? Come, I’m ‘governor. > >> your 1 1 Well, ‘governor,’” said he, with a faint shadow of his old smile, “I left for America nine years ago. I went straight to Quebec aud lived there three years. It was there that I met her who became my wife. We were married just six years ago last month. Her health failed and we went South. She grew worse, gave birth to our first child and died. That was a little over two years ago, and as the child is iu good hands (my sister-in-law’s) I consented to come here.” “But Jack, what made you go to America? Why didn’t you say here?” Well, it was the same old tale of the young workingman not being fit to marry his idol. As you said, Alice was my sweetheart; she said so her¬ self, dear girl, but her brother Tom— there was the difficulty. I called on Alice very often and had asked her to be my wife, though I was but nineteen. Sho said ‘ Yes > hut Tom wouldn't hear of ib 1 tried to brin & bim sro,iad b T all manner of means, but he was res Mute. He had never liked me and he never hesitated to tell me so; in fact, he took S reat pleasure in berating me before me, as well as behind my back. “One night-—I think it was Haiiow een—a crowd of young fellows got oa a l ftrk aud hi their sport took Tom’s small donkey out oi its shed, and, pushing it upon the roof of a wagon ' house, which sloped almost to the ground, tied it there. Tom thought I was the prime mover in the trick, though I knew nothing of it, and ac¬ cordingly the next night, when I called, promptly showed me the door, with the injunction m»ver to set foot inside it again. “I saw Alice at times, but she seemed somewhat changed. So, after I hacl tried all in my power to straighten things, I got angry about it, and when I was offered a position in Canada I was glad to leave. My marriage was not spite work. I loved Alice and always shall, but I knew I could be happy with Helen, and then she said she loved me.” Just then we jmssed the house. It was the same old place we both re¬ membered. The same trees and bushes spread their branches about lawn; in one corner of the yard stood a large, old-fashioned bucket pump, and on one of the boards of the side fence was the rude weather-stained carving: “JACK HIGGINS, ALICE NEAL.” Jack turned red, then white, as he looked at the names and then glanced at me. “Do you suppose she lives there now?” he asked. “I’m sure I don’t know.” I replied, “but let’s ask some one’.” Several persons passed, but all seemed in a hurry, so we went into a store across the street and inquired. Yes, Tom Neal and his sister lived there. Did we know them? Indeed 1 No, his sister was not married; some fellow off in America jilted her, so they said. “Well, Jack,” said I, after we came out, “I’m not a matchmaker, but if, as you say, you always have had warm affection for Alice, why don’t you be¬ gin again? It isn’t too late.” Jack blushed to the .roots of his hair and said he should never go there, after having been shown the door. I tried to coax him, but it would not do, yet all the time I could see he wished to meet his old “flame” once more. Jack and I lived together at the same hotel and daily I spoke to him of going to call as a friend. At last the day before he was to return to New Orleans I got him down near Neal’s home. We passed it six or eight times, and I began to feel foolish at promenading up and down the street. Once he stopped in front of the gate and he put forth his hand to open it, hut drew hack like a young schoolboy. Then I told him I had had enough of such fooling and that when we ap¬ proached again we have to go in. We came up, I opened the gate and pushed him forward up the steps. “Heavens, ‘Governor,’” hegasjiecl, “ring the bell for me !” Tom Neal cam to the door and greeted us warmly. “Jack,” said he, “I owe you an apology—have owed you one for years. I found out who did that work with the donkey and I’m sorry I ever treated you as I did.” We began to chat of old times, and shortly Alice came down stairs. She was the same girl we had known only matured. I felt sure that she had seen us before we entered, for she was dressed in her lovliest. She met Jack not quite like a sweetheart, but very tenderly. It did me good to tell them of Jack’s diffidence and what a hard time I had to get him to come. They were a lit¬ tle displeased that he had not come before, and when we said something about sailing, Alice exclaimed— “Sailing! What! Are you going back?” “Yes,” returned Jack demurely, “I start tomorrow.” Alice hummed to herself a moment, then going over to him and taking his hands in her own, said :— “Well, I don’t propose that you shall go without me. I have loved you and you me; you once asked me to be your wife but we were separated. I know yon are too bashful to ask me again, so I ask you to be my hus¬ band.” To say that we were surprised is putting it mildly, but Jack turned to rue and said:— « * Governor you are a matchmaker, after all.”—Chicago News. In London there is a street collec¬ tion for one benevolent institution or another on almost every Saturday in the rear. Antarctic Explorations?. Cape Horn was rounded for the first time in lfilfl by a Dutch expedition, which had set out from Amsterdam in the Hoorne (or Horn) and Eendracht, (or Unity,) to find a new r western route to the East Indies, and so to evade the ordinance of the States General prohibiting ail Dutch ships not engaged in the service of the Dutch East India Company from passing by the Cape of Good Hope to the eastward or through the Straits of Magellan to the westward. The Hoorne was burned at the entrance to the Straits of Magellan, and some of her timbers were found on the spot half a century later by Sir John Nar borough, whom Charles II. sent to Patagonia for gold. The other vessel pushed on,doubled and named the Horn after the lost ship (which had also received its name from the place of that name in Hol¬ land, of which one of the principals in the undertaking was a native,) dis¬ covered and named (after the Amster¬ dam merchant who conceived the idea,) the Straits of La Maitre, and finally reached the Pacific. Seventeen years earlier another Dutchman,Dirck Gerritz, in a vessel of only 150 tons burden, which formed part of the East India squadron of Simon of Cordes, had been driven by bad weather from the western entrance of the Straits of Magellan as far south as latitude sixty-two degrees, and dis¬ covered the islands now known as the South Shetlauds. To him it was a coast resembling that of Norway, mountainous and covered with snow. His statement was regarded as apoc¬ ryphal until Mr. William Blythe, in the year 1819, rediscovered the islands while on a voyage from Montevideo to Valparaiso. The Dutch navigator De Gonneville was creadited with having, even before Gerritz, discovered a Terra Australia to the south of Africa, but we know from Pigafetta, the biographer of Magellan, that the phrase “Anarctic Pole” was a very loose one, and was taken to mean the southern hemi¬ sphere, which is a vastly different matter. Moreover, De Gonneviile brought home to France with him the son of the sovereign of his new found land, which is of itself sufficient to prove that he did not penetrate far south. But his stoi'y and the sight of his dusky captive set the hearts of his countrymen beating with wild hopes for a century and a.half.—Macmillan’s Magazine. Precocious Roses. A new race of roses has been intro¬ duced by some Paris growers. They belong to the Polyantha group—that i.s to say, they bear their flowers in trusses. The new roses have advantage over the others of being “perpetual,” aud consequently they flower con¬ tinuously all through the summer. This advantage they owe to their ori¬ gin, a natural cross (croisement natu¬ re!) observed in the Lyons gardens, between the flowers of the first speci¬ mens introduced from Japan, and some hybrid perpetual roses. By repeated and careful selections a new race of roses has been produced, which, like annuals, germinate, flower and pro¬ duce seeds in less than a year. The term “dwarf” is justified by the height, which in adult plants is only about twenty inches. The flow¬ ers are single, semi-double or double, in almost equal proportions, and pre sent almost all variations of color ob¬ served in cultivated roses. Flowering commences in the first year and even a few months after sowing. --Garden¬ er's Chronicle, An Imposing Mansion. Lowther Castle, where Lord Lons¬ dale has been entertaining the Ger¬ man Kaiser, is one of the most impos¬ ing mansions in Great Britain. Its great terrace, nearly a mite in length, is carried along the brink of a steep cliff, and its park is filled with forest trees of immense size. This park is famous throughout Europe, and has been likened to the great park of the Emperor of China at Gehoi—“the paradise of 10,000 trees.” A British ambassador to China, after wandering through the Emperor’s magnificent preserve and enjoying a “prospect as sublime as his eyes had ever beheld," wrote home that if any place could be said to be anything like it that place ■<uist be the Lowther Castle Park.— New York World. FEARLS OF THOUGHT. Every child must learn to walk br using its own legs. Oak trees cannot be grown under green-house glass. The man who lives on the rock n ever has to lose any sleep in bad weather The heart is larger than the world because the whole world can not fill jf’ Those who have, no money are not always rich, and those who have it are seldom rich. It is better to wear a clean dress of homespun, than a purple robe filled with smallpox. Parents often destoy their children because they haven’t the wisdom to know what is best for them. It is likely that, more sin and suffer¬ ing has been caused by the overin. diligence of parents than by the hatred of enemies. By doing too much for our children we often render them incapable of doing anything for themselves.— Ram’s Horn. The way to be a true disciple is not to make a specialty of looking for feet to wash, but to do in kindness and love whatever needs doing. Gilded Gold. “It takes Chicago to reach the limit of refined elegance. I mean elegance as Chicago knows it. Here’s an illus¬ tration of it on my watch chain, and I value it as much as a wild Western¬ ism as I do for its personal associa¬ tions. ” The speaker held gold up a coin about the size of a five-dollar gold piece, fastened to his watch chain by a small eye. It bore the stamp of the South African Republic and was gliteringly bright. “A friend of mine who has traveled much in Africa, brought home a dozen of these to give to his friends aB souvenirs,’’continued. “The coins were of a rather deep red hut; originally, and just an pure gold as is practicable for continual use. My friend laid occasion to go to Chic¬ ago on his return from Africa and found himself compelled to pass a fortnight there before coming back to civilization. He took the coins to a prominent Chicago jeweler with orders to affix on each an eye. ‘All right, sir, said the jeweler ; ‘we’ll fix ’em up in good style. ’ A few days later my friend stopped in for the coins. They were returned to him, fixed as he had ordered them and a little more. ‘I thought they looked ft bit dull and wouldn’t be the worse for brightening up a bit,’ explained the jeweler. ‘You! find they look more natty now.’ And they did, for h,e had gilded every one.”—Boston Gazette, Voracious Pike. A little school of large suckers, or mullets, emerged from the outer depths and swam peacefully along the bottom, feeding as they went on such slugs and snails as lay in their way, when this same pike darted out from cover, and closing his jaws upon the head of the leading fish—which was probably eighteen inches long about three pounds in weight, at¬ tempted to regain his hidiug-pl Mft while three-fourths of the body of the struggling captive still protruded fro® his mouth. He was not, however, to bear off the prize so easilys for, even ■ as he strained to gulp it dowu, an- fl other and much larger pike shot into ■ the arena, and seizing it crosswise, in the middle, savagely tried to wrench it from the hold of; the lawwfnl miner. The latter, even if he would, conW H not relax the grip of his backward-■ pointing teeth so long as there w®* strain in front, and the enraged coin batants tugged and tore with fnrioMj jerks until, finally, they actually arated the unfortunate sucker two parts and each of the water-tig ® 11 retired with his portion. Outing. Acute Kleptomania. said ® ; “When I in India,” 1 was who had traveled, “the nat’- re man uni 1 sheets from * thieves stole the me while I slept, and I never it.” North-] “Yes, and when I was in the west during the boom,” said the admit that Am e ^ who will never j ^ be outdone, “I had to sleep in can room where there were fear stoM estate agents, and one of them wiH porous plaster from my back awakening me.”— Indianapolis jouq fifth
