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VOL. X.
THE PRINTING PRESS.
THE REVOLUTION WHICH TOOK
PLACE SEVENTY YEARS AGO.
An Account of the First Printing Done
by Steam—The Triumph Achieved
by Koenig, of Saxony —l,lOO
Copies an Hour.
I Nineteenth Century.]
At the beginning of the century The
Times was at the bottom of the list of
London morning journals as regards the
numbers sold, its contemporaries being
ranked as follows in proportion to their
circulation: T The Morning Chronicle,
(2) The Morning I‘ost, (3) The Morning
Herald, 4 The Morning Advertiser. The
circulation of The Times did not then ex
ceed I.WO copies daily. Seven
years earlier the daily circula
tion of The Morning Lost was
but 85 1 copies, and its progress had l*en
rapid, yet that of The Times was even
more marvelous during the ten following
years. From having the smallest circu
lation of any London contemporary, the
circulation of The Times became so much
Ist ger than that of any of them that the
ordinary printing appliances proved in
adequate to provide the copies for which
there was a demand. When the uutnber
bought was 1,000 it was easy enough to
suppl- them with a press which turned
out between 300 and 400 copies an hour;
but when many thousands were caller! for
such a press proved wholly inadequate.
Mr Waller Lari matte several attempts
to effect improvements in the printing
press. He consulted Marclsambard Bru
nel. one of the great meehanicso' his day,
who gave his best attention to the matter
and then intimated bis li ability to execute
what was required. Mr Waiter ad
vi i< d tr. ,net 'O Thonrnr ':u !\n v.' >
th ugut he had made an important Uia
covet)’. hut the ideas of Martyn were not
realized in practice W hile engaged in
seeking for a person who could give s ope
and effect to his wishes, Friedrich Koenig,
a German, who was born at Lislelen, in
Sax ny, in 1774, was laboring to effect
improvements in the printing press, was
confident of substituting steam for manual
labor in his new press, and was anxiously
waiting for an opportunity to give scope
to his views and for a patron to counte
nance and advance them lie had visited
England !; the hope of finding there the
opening and the support which he could
not obtain in his native couulrv. lie
found a sympathizer in Thotnuu i ensiey,
witei whci-t he entered into an agreement
in H,.
Two yer-rs later, when a working model
of Koenig’s improved press had been com
pleted, Tensity brought the matter be
fore Mr. Walter, who. f- r the moment,
was so fully occupied with other engage
menu that he could not entertain a new
scheme, in 1812 Koenig hud finished om
of his new printing presses, ami the con
ductors of the principal London journal !
were invited to see it in ojieration. Mr
Perry, of The Morning Chronicle, a very
shrewd man. and the editor of a most suc
cessful newspaper,, would noteven accept
the invitation, declaring that, in his opin
ion. no newspaper was worth so ma y
year’ purchase as would equal the
cost of the new machine. Mr Waltei
accepted the invitation, carefully ex
amin'd Koenigs improved press, and at
once ordered two double pn .-ses on the
same model. Two yearn elapsed liefore
the presses were constructed and at work.
Humors of the new i , vention were <-ir u
lated, despite the secrecy to which ail
co: cerned had been pledged, and The
Times pressmen, who fs ieved that their
means of a livelihood would be at an end
when st'-atn was applied to printing,
vowed vengeance upon the inventor The
new presses were erected in rooms adjoin
ing tin se wherein the old presses were in
operation
At S o'clock in the morning of the <Tith
of November, 1814. Mr Walter entered
the 0.l ce with several damp printed
sheets in his hand, and informed the
startled pressman at work there that the
“Times was already printed b. steam!
that if they attempted violence there was
a force ready to suppress it. but that if
they were peaceable their wages should
be cm linued to every one of them till
similar employment could be pro
cured. ” In proof of his statement he
handed to them copies of the 1 rst
newspaper which had issued from a
steam press. The readers of that day’s
Tinies were informed of the revolution of
which it. was a visible token. Trilling
though the speed may now seem, it wits
then thought a-> ouud ng that a press could
throw off. as Koenig's aid, 1 lirf copies an
hour, and th s beginning is memorable as
the first step in a series of improvements
still more remarkable than that wh ch
was pronounced at the time to be the
greatest ’hat had been effected in the art
of printing since the discovery of the art
itself.
Splendora of StambonP* T®in pie*.
(New York S n.|
A French traveler lias just returned from
S.tamboul with a wonderful story of the
sights he saw. He is elo pieni about two
thio -es of enameled gold with incrusta
tions of pearls, rubies and emeralds. In
another room he saw two caskets, even
more magnificent, studded with rubies
and diamonds, in which the hairs from
the proph it’s beard are jealously pre
served. 1 here are also several curiou. in
struments made of gold and thickly
stmklod with gems on the bark which
were used as portable “scralching posts. ’’
Anothei room was h ng with armor
and scepters, caske-s and escritoires lay
on the table '1 he old escritoires are all
shaped like a pistol the inkstand is
placed at the spot occupied by the trigger,
and the reeds and a penknife are in the
barrel There are also inkstands in the
shape of trays, each containing five sau
cers, for ink, dying powder and other
odds and ends used by the writers In
another room are the costumes of all the
sultans down to Mahmoud II Tach of
the costumes has a silk scarf attached, to
gether with a magnificently chased dag
ger and a diamond aigrett-. Then,
heaped pell-mell, are the keys of the fort
resses of the empire, and finall. comes the
sacred treasure, consisting of the relics of
Islam: the mantel and standard of the
prophet, his sword and bow; the sw-ords
of the first caliphs, and the oldest manu
scripts of the Koran.
New Orleans Girls Made Happy.
[New Orleans Picayune.)
On New Tear’s Day a Boston lady, who
is now in New Orleans, went byway of
the river to the exposition. On the boat
was a party of four young gir s and a ma
tron, al: strangers. One of the young
girls gazed earnest y at the Boston lady
and then said “Flease excuse me.
madom. but wuat is the name of the shawl
you have on?" “it is an India shawl."
“And what did it cost?” “About *2,01’0?”
“.Madam, wi.l you be so kind as to let me
show it to my companions? Neither
thev nor I have ever seen an India shawl
before.” The lady kindly agreed and
the girls were made happy.
<Ti t w W' wMHk OT X J?
AN ACTOR OF EXPERIENCE
Gives His Views of the Profession Stage
Fright Social Life—Salaries.
[New York Graphic Interview.)
“1 may be very conservative in my no
tions as to how a man or woman should
enter the profession, but in spile of
schools, lessons or coaching it is the same
opinion w ith experienced actors that a be
ginner must begin on the stage itself, with
ah its surroundings as they are at ihe
bot.om of the ladder. There have been of
course some exceptional < uses. b t they
are indeed very rare. Why, my dear sir,
1 could name some actoie who are on the
stage now who bad neither money nor
time t<> waste, thus began the profession
by going on as supers, for by this means
they got used to facing an audience, and
could see the curious methods adopt d by
old s agers "
“ \\ hat is the feeling a man experiences
when he first speak.-, before an -ludience? ”
“Were you ever seasick? Well, if you
remember Hat ei.cation, ust before you
are absolutely ill, yotf may form some
idea of the fear that comes over the aver
age actor on his first appearance be ore
any audience There s the same cold per
spiration, the mist before the sight, the
same parched lips and tongue, the sinking
feeling in the breast and palpitating
heart, t ome of course suffer more than
otli rs It is called stage fright, ami
there’s many a man and woman Inal
could not go through the same ordeal a
second t ine. Il: all xery well lor a
young man to recite liefore bis friends or
play at any amateur entertainment; but
when he comes before a large assembly
q | eople who have paid their admissio i
fee io be enter ained, with all the g nre
glitter and bustie of genuine show life
around him, t's a vastly different mat
ter. What may appear strange to you is
th; turn a man, as a rule, plays bett-t
when In- w slightly nervous-not. about
the audience, but his lines. It is per! ;>
better explaned by anxiety as to whelm'
he » correct, a d the vety doubt h li
nb.m it throws a degree of fire into hi
acting ’
“What about the actor’s social life?’
asked the journalist
“ ’ ell, sale those few engaged at tin
houses that have a stock company, the
h.-i-e n i sue’: >1 comfort or at >east nir.ii
the season. Ihe m ijority of Thespi :
sigh sot it. They go from railroad < -
hotel, .from hole, to theatre, a ui so v ;
’i ou canm t form any conception of In
a num o woman feeis when they arrive :
some town a: say 5 in the afternoon
This is barely time to bolt some sup,»
wbeu they have to burry off to the theat:>.
—perhaps a s ranee on* to them —div
and go on. Then p-e haps the train tec ■
them aw iy to the next st-.nd at multi ;,i
t . say nothing of wintry weather, 'i m
only time they get is oil Sunday, if lh<’>
happen to be staying in town on that du;,
then the want of a brine is impie.s
upon their minds. ”
“Lui tins receive good pay during th.
season ’’suggested the reporter
“That’s another exaggerated idea. ”
avowed the actor, will- a grave shake o
his ,ead. “In the first, place actor, •!-
not in very many cases recei c the :alai i
put down to them in many newspaper
and pcnrml gc««ip Tlidn you must ■ i
in mind that half the year they are nil-
There is always some.hi.ig to buy Io
every piece or someth g o repla e ,
instance, if an actor is playing in a |.ie.,
that requires every day clothing nothing
is found by the num.gers, and if its n
fancy dress piece t.,. re are tigh s. feath
era, shoes, wigs, and other thing - lie ha
to find, or if you have to travel llc-r • a ,
ozens < f ways for the money to go, t e
details of which cannot always be
counted for. A e'. for all it is a mis'aae
to suppose that actors .ire a very improi.
dent cla-s. A great number have mom
and there is a very good plan they now
adopt to place their earnings in safe keei
ing while on their travels that is, o
'tie., ury day,’ after k-e ing wiiatthm
might need for running expenses tin
get a post order for I lie ba'ance payab e
to themselves, if they have no family, in
New York cit ', or any other p ace they
may think ot making for when the sea
sun is O', er. ”
A Milage In the Sahara.
[New D'.ngo a Cor Nev. v o rk World.]
It was a few days ago th.it a place down
the ri-.er, near . ew Dongola was -ecm
ingly encompassed by an imponderable
mirror. 1 n the distance we thought we
►aw rocks moumains, a 4 ohl mimosa
trees, where we knew that all was sand.
In the afternoon the rwss and moui.tains
had gone and a g eat sheet of motionless
wat'-r was ni .rro ed before us. We thought
we could at times see the waves rippled
by some pass'n - breeze. I p to wiihin .00
yaidsofu- we thought we saw a regi
ment of red coated soldiers marching nt
ease where we knew no soldiers could
be Wegthought we saw camels ladeu
with munitii ns of war, on the horizon.
It wasa mirage, and none of u. were de
ceived by it. But en route we saw more
than that. < nly yesterday I witnessed a
sub ime ph nomenon. It was not a
ntfrage, but a reality 1 saw three saml
spo'.i s rising perjiendicuiar y to a great
height Their beads were lost in swelling
capitals, which appeared to reach the
clouds. They looked like co unis which
had the sky as their vault It looked ike
the rui ,s of some su, ernatural pantheon,
i tier sand-spouts ooked lie balloons
dragging their curs over the plains. ' n
the desert these sand-spouts are dangerous,
but we will know bow to guard agai st
them as well as our Beduoin or Arab
guides.
Practical Value of “Science.”
Detroit Fr e Press.]
While the anti vaccinati >n “cranks”are
protesting againnt tiie meth dos protect
ing the public from the small-pox, the
process has actually stomped out the
p.ague in localities where it had taken
Bohl. And while Luskin and other vivi
section “cranks” were declaiming in one
part of London against experiments on
live anima s, a man was haring his life
taved in a London hospital by a
surgical operation that depended upon
vivisection. Jor I rofessors harrier and
Teo, by experiments upon the brains of
live animals discovered, that certain symp
toms w re the result of pressure upon a
particular part of the brain, bo when a
patient Iv-tra ed these symptoms they
b diy cut into the r ght place in his brain
and removed a tumor which they found
there. Its growth would ine itably have
killed the man. Its removal saved his
life, it was the first operation of the
kind ever performed, and would never
have been possible but for he experiments
upon the bra.ns of live animals
£nglish Co-Ojieratlve Associations.
i Chicago Herald. I
In England there are 1,180 co-operative
associ itions. with 100.000 members,
which d alt in merchandise last year to
the extent of SII7,<XW,OO ». They were
first organized in England in 1877, and
last year the members -aved on go sis
bought over $3,000.000, which, l-eing re
duced to an individual average, is equal
to one fifteenth of the annual income of
each member.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7. 18S5.
Where Inactivity Is Deemed KnnobHng,
(New York Cor. Inter Ocean.]
There are various views of ancestry, by
the way, in that happily small circle of
our society where inactivity is deemed
ennobling. 1 overheard a 16-year old
dandy say to still younger belle: “1 am
glad that my lamily got out of trade fifty
years ago. My father wan never in busi
ness. but devoted himself to science as a
hobby. He made several discoveries, you
know, that have got a permanent place in
books. ” Then he looked into the girl’s
face for admiring wonder, but saw only
gentle commiseration. “So y- ur poor
papa bad employment?” she said, and
then a weak tincture of proud discia n be
came visible as she added: “My lather
never, never did anything at ail
Nor was the further conversation of this
dainty bud of exotic culture less interest
ing. She dwelt upon the artistic laws of
harmony in colors, as she deemed them
obeyed or violated in the hangings of the
drawingroom. Anything inharmonious
ma le her positively ill. The sight of ill
contras ed hues sent a sharp pain through
her eyes She really didn’t know how
her sense of propriety in color bad be
come so abnoimally developed, but she
suspected that it was partly through the
inh< riiance of a sensitive nature. She
was sure that the peculiarity went out
from her and pervaded all of her belong
ings.
“Why, do you know,” she murmured,
“my horse shied so dreadfully at a bon
net in ventral park yesterday that 1 was
nearly thrown from the saddle. ’’
“It was too bright, I suppose ”
“Oh. no; but the combination was aw
ful. Why, there was a blue feather on
green velvet Could I expect to get my
horse past that?"
Fascinated by a < hanioi*.
[Clinton Dent.]
We made good progress, when of a sud
den Franz gave a loud whistle and then
fell flat down. The other two guides im
mediately followed bis example and beck
oned to us with excited g sticulations to
behave in a similarly foolish manner.
Thereupon we, too, sat down and in
quired what the purport of this perform
ance might be It turned out that there
was a very little chamois about half a
mile off. Knowing that it w-ould be im
possible to induce the guides to move on
until the animal had disappeared, we
si zed the opportunity of taking an early
breakfast. The guides meanwhile wrig
gled about on the.r stomachs, with eyes
staring out of their heads, possessed by
an extra' rdinary desire to miss no single
movement of the < b ect of their attention.
“See, it moves," said Franz in a whis
per. “Himmel! it is feeding. ” said Bur
gener. “It must be the same that Joha in
saw three weeks ago,” “Ach! no, that
was but a little one” mo true chamoi !
hunter will ever allow that a brother
sporsman cun possibly have set
eyes on a larger animal than
himself). “Truly it is fine. ” “Thun
derweather! it moies its head.” In
their excitement I regretted that 1
could not share, not bring well versed in
hunting era t; my own experience of
sport in the Alps being limited to missing
one marm->1 that was sitting on a road
licking its paws. in due course the
chamois walked away. Apparently mn li
relieved by there being no further neces
sity to continue in their former uncoin
iortable attitudes, the guides sat up and
fell to a warm discussion as to the size of
the animal
Wall of a Cant-Writer.
(New York Tribune.]
“I am $l5O out this year, ’’ said a well
known writer of New Year s visiting
curds who occupies :» portion of tlie en
trance to one of the Broadway hotels
“ How du you acC' unt for it?"
“There has been no falling off in the
number of cards written, ” he continued.
“I have executed quite ns ninny as in
previous years, but people won t buy
good Curds now. Times are hard and
money is short. Where I formerly sold
half a dozen packs of the best fringed and
fancy cards 1 don’t sell more than one
now. All the run this year has been upon
p ain white cards, and the more expensive
cards have been left on my hands "
Pointing to a pile of handsomely
fringed cards, many of exquisite design,
the card writer continued: “Those are a
dead loss to me. 1 -asl year they would
have all been sold, but now people can’t
afford to pay for them I am off to New
Orleans to the exposition in a few days,
and shall return to my old stand at Coney
island in the summer. ”
Th® Pug of th® Period.
[New York Sun.]
The pug of the passing moment must
be of a de icate fawn color, with a black
mask extending to a line just almve the
eyes, black lips, and one or two black
moles on the sides of its face. It must
carry its head up when in action, and its
tail well curlod over its back, to right or
left, according to sex. It may have a
little, but only a little, smut on its head,
down the spine to the tip of the tail, and
may have a slightly smutted saddle, but
no smut on the rest of its body. It must
wear a c oak of Napoleon blue trico
cloth, lined and bound with red, and a
harness (never a collar) of yellow leather
decorated with silver, gilt, or steel Ixisses
and s eigh bells, and lined with pinked-ont
red cloth. It shou d Wear a i e.low, red,
or blue ribbon bow on its left shoulder.
Its ears should not be cropped, and it
should not weigh over fifteen nor under
seven pounds.
With Thumb and Finger.
[Chicago Herald.]
The Japanese dentist performs all his
operations of tooth-drawing with the
thumb and fore finger of one hand, and
thus he never terrifies his patients with
an array of steel instruments. The skill
necessary to do this is only acquired by
long practice, but once it is obtained the
operator is able to extract about a half
dozen teeth in thirty seconds without once
removing his fingers from the patient’s
mouth. The dentist's education com
meaces with the pulling out of pegs that
have been pressed into soft wood it e. ds
with the drawing of hard pegs which
have been driven into an oak plank with
amallet. It is said that no human ;aw
can resist the delicate but power, ul man
ipulation of the Japanese dentist.
A Pl* Albnm.
The album can be easily made by cut
ting several pieces of card-board or stiff
paper, twelve inches long and five wide.
Fold them together, run a ribbon through
the back, and tie Hie ends in a bow on the
outside, l.et each one in lurn draw a pig
and write bis or her name, with the eves
closed, upon a page in the album. The
strange figures thus marie will furnish
abundant amusemeut among a gathering
of young folks.
Hereditary Di tease.
A Boston physician advises everybody
to ascertain what diseases have earned off
his ancestors, with a view to guarding
himself against inherited tendencies by
adopting the requisite manner of life,
place of residence, and general seli lreat
taeut.
AHAB LOVE SONG.
[Sydney Herbert Pierson.l
The love tii,.- gluter in the sky.
The earth is tide i with dreamy light,
Oh, come to me, for 1 am nigh!
Oh, come to me, my soul’s delight!
The earth i < filled with dreamy light.
The night wind scatters odors sweet
Oh, come o me, my soul’s delightl
Lol I am waiting at thy feet!
The night wmd scatters odors sweet,
It wake - the liunber-ladoii flowers,
Ix'l 1 am Woii itig at thy feet—
Ob. lea; -: thy jasmine-scented bowers!
It wakes the -lumber-laden flowers.
The n;-rhtin.-:ilo breaks forth in song,
Oh. leave thy jasmine-scented bowers!
My heart, why tamest thou so long#
The nightingale breaks forth in song,
The roses sway above the gate.
My heart, why tarriest thou so long?
M lieu they awake wilt thou still wait?
The roses sway above the gate,
Thy sister blossoms, red and white.
When they awake wilt thou still wait#
Oh, cmns to me. mv soul's delight!
The “Virgin of the Napkin.”
[Clara Erskine Clement in St. Nicholas.]
When painting the pictures for the
Capuchins, Murillo dwelt in their convent
nearly three years, it is said, without once
leaving it. He painted for the monks
twenty pictures with life size figures, and
several small works. Seventeen of these
are now in the museum of Seville, for
the monks had the wisdom to serd
their pictures to Cadiz for safe
keeping before “ Plunder master-general
of Napoleon,” as Soult has been called,
could reach them. When the French wars
were ended, Hie pictures were returned to
Seville I cannot speak of them separ
ately, but will say that the Madonna
ealled “La Virgen tie la Hcrville a ” or the
ViiT.inof the Napkin,now in the museum,
has this pretty story connected with it.
The legend is that the cook of the con
vent grew very fond of Murillo during
his long service to the artist, and Wirnn
the lime came for them to be separated
the cook licggi'd the painter for a keep
sake. The painter said he had no canvas
left; the cook quickly gave him a napkin
and asked him to use that. iVilh his
u ual good nature, Murillo assented, and
soon painted this picture, which is now
one of the famous art treasures of the
w rid. It is not large and represents the
virgin with the child Jesus, who leans
forward, almost out of the picture, as if
to welcome anyone who approaches it II
has a briilia it color, and so a reels one
that it is not easy to lurn away from it.
Supreme Court ICtiquotle.
[dor. Chicago Tribune.]
The etiquette of the supreme court-room
is very rigid. Lawyers appearing liefore
the court are given just so much time in
which to present their arguments and not
one minute more is nil wed them. No
one is (.ermihed to take notes of the pro
cecdiiigs outside of the law ers inside the
bar. This is particularly true upon de
cision day. If a spectator takes out a
piece of payer to make a note ce is in
stautly warned by a m -avenger that he
must desist or leii-e -be c mrt ro >m. The
reason of this is to uvoiii the sending out
of incorrect statements about the position
of tiie court.
There have been several propos tions
before the court to have its proceedings
rep irted verbatim for the benefit of the
legal publications, but the court has al
ways been against auyth ng of tiie sort.
They have held that it would be a needless
waste of expense with mt any compensat
ing advantages to the legal profession.
Even where decisions are actually deliv
ered they are o ten bold beck for weeks
for polishing before publication. Theeti
< uette of the court has been so rigidly
n>a ntsined during its history that 1 am
in’ormed that there lias only been one
case of contempt of court since ite estab;
lislnii.-nt. ’l ids was a case where a man
before the court was ordered to do some
thing lie could not do. He was lined $: >O.
This is the only sum that the court lias
derived from this source in its history.
A Valuable Bride.
[Tucson Star.]
Mrs. Jesus Castro, an aged Mexican
lady, now r. siding at American Flag, in
the Lanta < atnlimi mountains, is |>erhaps
the only woman who, literally speakiu”
ever cost her husband her weight in gold.
It is said that in the early gold digging
days of California she wa» a resident of
Sonora, in which stale she was born and
grew to womanhood. When about the
age of 17, a paternal uncle, but a few
years her senior, returned with his com
panions, gold-laden, from the El Dorado
of the west, and became desperately
enamored of her. He sought her hand in
marriage, and was accepted, but the
church refused, because of the near rela
tionship existing between them, to sol
emnize the marriage.
Persuasion being in vain he tried the
power of gold to win the church his
way, and succeeded only by the payment
of her weight in gold, bhe at Hie lime
weighed 117 pounds, and against her in
the scales the glittering dust was shoveled.
Her affianced husband still bad sufficient
of this world s goods to provide a com
fortable home and they were married.
They lived happily together and she bore
to her h sbaud eleven children. In the
course of years he died, and she married
again, Mr. (astro being her second hue
bund. '1 he above is a fact and not fiction,
as living witnesses can prove.
Not Altogether a I’ara'li*®.
[(Jhi ag > Time®, j
A correspondent who does not wish to
be guilty of terming Florida a paradise,
saistliat Jacksonville is the largest and
best place in the state, and that a worse
excuse di es not exist on the American
continent. There is not a paved street in
the place; the sidewalks are wood and
mud; the atmosphere hot by day and
awfully damp by night More unti es
die of consumption than any other com
plaint. A young married lady said:
“i ou need not doubt the s atement
made by father, for I have lost three sis
ters and two brolhers by consumption,
and all of in were born in St. Augustine. "
From a Letter of IS-’S.
■ C'incin mti Enquir r.)
The meals in America are served with
amazing dispatch. We were generally
first and last at lable, ye only fifteen min
utes by any watch elapsed between our
sit: ing down and rising up. Within that
time 150 persons bad crammed down a
breakfast. “You Europeans,” said an
American, “eat as if y u a tnally enjoyed
your food.” ■'Assuredly wu do; and vou
Americans will never e;ca;»e fro n dys
pepsia and headaches until you also learn
to enjoy your meate ”
Not at All Dangerous.
Chicago Herald.]
An analysis of railroad accidents com
pared with the amount of travel tends to
show that if a person were to travel ten
hours a<liy at a spee 1 of ten miles an
hour during every day in the year ho
would probably be killed at the end of
1,8if5 years.
A FOLLOWER OF JOE SMITH.
An Anti-l’olygainy Mormon —The ('reed
“Healing by Faith.’*
[Cor. Philadelphia Times.]
Later in the day we talked with an in
telligent young man, who was, as he said,
a born and baptized .Mormon, lie was
bitter against polygamy and spoke freely
-f the greed and tyranny of the elders
during and since the lime of Brigham
Young. He was a follower of Joseph ;
Smith. In speaking of polygamy he
said:
“Bt. I’aul said to st. Timothy in the
Bible, ‘A bishop shall be the husband of
one wife,’ but St. Joseph, in our revela
tion, said: ’A man shall be the busband
of one woman.’ When Brigham Young
taught plurality he had to go against
bold. ”
“ Will you kindly tell what is the faith
of the Latter-Lay : aints?"
“Ask me what you want to know and I
will try to answer. Yes, we believe God
is the creator of everything and tiie
Heavenly balder of us all, and that Jesus
Christ, His son. died that He might redeem
all who would believe in 11 m. We believe
in baptism and regeneration and that
this is the reign of the Holy Spirit ou the
earth, among the elect. We know the
Bible is God s word and we believe th U Ho
sent another revelation to St. Joseph to
prepare a place and a people, who are
called the : after-Day taints, and who are
set apart from the world’s people to re
ceive Christ at His coining. We have an
other belief, which 1 know the Gentiles
do not receive. It is healing by faith.
W hen any one is sick among us who are
true Mormons wo send for the elders, woo
pray and anoint with oil, as St, James
and" St. Joseph taught us. ”
"How does it work, practically?"
“I have heard of the blind receiving
sight and the deaf made to hear, but I
haven't seen it myself. 1 have seen many
raised from fevers and other sick beds,
but what 1 know happened in my own
house. ” He threw great intensity into
the words “I know. “Our baby, the
only one wc had, was taken very ill. We
sent for the elders, b it after praying and
anointing, they told my wife it was 1
borne in upon them by the Spirit that
the child would die. My wife was well
nigh crazy and wanted to send fora Gen
tile doctor. The baby was lying all cold,
its eyes turned up in d its head and only
just oreiithing fainty. 1 determined to
go and wrestle wtih the Lord myself. 1
could n it bear to give up my faith in the
I.oitf and 11 ved llaniiiih and the baby I
better than anything on earth. Said I: ’
•Hanuali. give me one hour to prevail I
with God, and then if 1 fail 1 will give
over the child to you.’ I remem I
tiered David and cast myself along !
the floor and cried to iny Heavenly Father |
for the life of our child. 1 rose and went '
into the room, and there it lay as cold as |
ever and ite mother reproaching me out of |
her eyes. Again I went before the Lord j
aid prayed to Him with strong crying I
Iris own prayer in Gethsemane: ‘Oh, |
1 atlier, if it be .pi ssili e. let this cup pass
from me.’ Again 1 went to the child,
but there was no change, only- it
Breathed and uannah hid her face in tho
lied clotuue and wm ed. i lie third time
1 iay before my God the burden of niy
sorrow siiddi nly lifted, and it seemed
almost as if a voice ha I said to me, ’Thy
prayer is heard.’ I just sprang to my feet
ai d went into Hannahs n om an,i there
she was looking with nil her eyes and
pointing with her finger to tiie baby. The
pink had come back to its little bands and
feet, its eyes had grown natural like, it
was looking right up in ite mamma s face I
and trying to iaueh. 1 tell yon before I
God. lady, an hour after it was sitting up i
playing with ite toj s, just as well us ever. ”
111® Thisi® 11’b.
[Labour® here.]
When I consider how very few things
there are in this world really worth know
ing, and Hint most of these can tie picked i
U|> in convei sation; that reading, writing
and arithmetic Kre all that a man wants
to start with in life, and that the largest
fortunes have been made by men setting
out with no other equipment, I can t e
lieve that it is necessary to catch a child
from his mo her s arms at 5 (the legal age)
and keep him in school all day long till
he is 13, and thereby ruin his health and
destroy his happiness, at the expense of
tin- ratepayers, in order to give him a fair
chance of earning his living.
Vhluabln Deposit*.
[Philadel phla I ledger. ]
In Norway and Sweden accumulations
of moss, often more than a foot thick and
half decomposed, serve to make paper and
mill board as hard as wood, blocks of
will' ll formed by the hydrau.ic press may
even be turned in the lathe and polished.
This substance is said to possess the good
qualities of wood without the defects,
such as warping and splitting, so tiiat it is
suitable for making doors and windows.
Flant has, it is said, been laid down in
Sweden for working up these deposits of
a hitherto waste substance into a useful
material.
The Actress of Geniu*.
[Burnand in \ he Fortnightly Review.]
If a young lady of attractive personal
appearance posi-essea histrionic talent,
then in proportion to her talent will iajber
temperament. She will be impulsive, pas- ;
sion.ite, impressionable, self-wilieil. imps
tient of control, simple, confiding and
vain, but artistically vain, and desirous of
applause. She will lie illogical, incon
sistent, full of contradictions, fond of va
riety, anti unable to exist without excite
meiik It only requires her to be a genius
to lie duped by the first schemer who
throws himself in her way.
A Pointed Epitaph.
[Exchange.]
Genius, eccentricity or an ambition to
be heard from after death, puts some an
ular inscriptions upon the grave stones in
almost every i hurchvar lof the land Cp
in New Jersey the following is found i
upon the headstone of a crabbed old man
who did not care very much foi mankind
when he was living:
Reader, pa s on—l .n’ -vagte your time
On bad bio.raphyai I bitt rrhym-;
F r what I am, this erainblin? clay icsures,
And what I was is no affair of yours! i
The More Gradual Way.
[Alex. E. Sweet in Texas Slftlngs.l
Some people prefer to sit down on the
ice more gradually. One foot slides out
The unllap >y man endeavors by spasmodic
contor -ons to re-establish his equilibrium, I
He assumes a “ha! is this a dagger 1 see
before me?" expression, clutches the air,
as if flgnting unseen foes and collapses
into a pile of legs and arms on the side
walk.
Cayenne Instead of Club*.
[Exchange.]
The Norwich, Conn., "watch"of many
years ago did not carry the clubs which
are now part of a policeman’s outfit but
had a handful of cuvenne pepper to throw
in the eyes ol roughs who resisted ar
rest
J. A. Macon: ’Tis hard to make clo’ea
fit a miserbul man.
CAPITAL HANGERS-ON.
BROKEN-DOWN EX-OFFIC’ALS AND
THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.
The Respectable Deadbeats Which One
Is Likely to Meet in Washington—-
KcauPs of Drink and Chronic
Ottce-Seeking.
[Washington Cor. Cleveland Leader.]
It is a wonder how many respectable
deadbeats one meets in \v ashiugton. Tua
leading dveryman of the city told me the
other day that lie had been asked for 25
cents to buy a drink by the son of a
former president not long ago. and every
day 1 see anout the hotels here great men’s
Soin, whose fathers are dead, leading the
lives of .> cent adventurers. One had a
father who long stood at tho head ot the
bar of the country, and another’s father
was in the seuat i and had a place in <ach
Taylors cabinet. That little old
man there, who goes about with
Ills shou.ders stooping and his small
form clad in the mustiest of
threadbare clothes, was at the beginning
of tho war one of the beaux of At ashing
ton, and he has been the second in due.a
in which senators fought senators. L uce
fortunate and wealthy, he was a necessity
at any big social gathering; now ho is
gad to take a drink with a messe iger,
and. like ileuu Hickman, lives by his
wits. There, on the opposite scat in the
hotel lobby, is a well-dressed man who
has the title of judge, and who once held
an important o.i.ce in our diplomatic
service, fie has hobnobbed with states
men and presidents, but he will borrow a
dollar of you if you let him. and is iar
from adverse to drinking without ask ng
the pedigree of the man who treats.
Last night I asked him how he liked the
climate of the country in which he was
located as minister. I was sitting ou the
sofa beside him, and, though J was not
much acquainted with him. wp dropped
into conversation. In reply to the above,
e said, with the most winning smile
imaginable: “Ah. the climate? It
was delightful. lam not very particular
about the climate. I can live in anv
country, and I always eu oy myself.
There are many pleasant things every
where. 1 always find them. len joy life.
1 ca ■ do anything, in fact," and here he
looked me straight in the eye—“l can take
a drink!”
I received his gaze without flinching,
and my eye did not give a res: ouse, and
after fully thirty seconds he said, in a
sad tone "Ah! i.ut you don’t drink?"
“No, ” I replied; "it does not agree wi h
me. ” There was an awkward pause, and
then the talk went on as though nothing
had happened.
The same judge was at the White
House one day during the Hayes adm’nis
tration, and he was beseiging the mess -ti
ger for admittance to the president. Tue
messenger said; “But the president is en
gaged, judge, and he has given orders thal
he will see no one. ”
“Yes, he will,” was the judge’s reply.
“Tell him that Judge Blank wants to see
h tn. "
“The president said, ‘No one’ " was
the reply.
"I know he will sec me, ” continued the
judge. “In (act. 1 have an appointm nt
withhim. Tell him Judgeß , of K
is at the door. ”
In this way he finally tired the messen
ger out, und he consented to announce
him. In a moment he returned and said
he had not seen the president but he
had seen the president’s private secretary,
and the pi irate secretary bad told him to
tell Judge B. he could go to tiie devil.
The samo judge was once appointed as
consul to an African is.and. He cruised
about for a long time through tiie Indian
ocean, and then came back to Hie state
department, saying “he could noi find
the darned place. ”
He is, howe er, only one of a type.
There are numliers of them, some belter
and some worse than ho. Borne of them
pretend to be lobbyists, some have big
cotton claims, and are all millionaires in
prospectu. I know of men who have
claims against the government aggregat
ing hundreds of thousands of dollars, who
board nt restaurants where ratals cost 25
cents apiece, and I see every day a white
whiskered old man wearing a coat which
a street-car driver would be ashamed to
put on, and I know ho is trying to collect
from I ncle Lam S3OO i(X) which was
taken from him during the war. (in the
other hand 1 have seen standing by this
man s side one who has grown wealthy in
the government service and is now worlll
his tens of thousands, but whom the star
route jury failed to convict. Truly, for
tune is blind!
Commercial IntelliKciico.
[Texas H-ftinx*. ]
There is a commercial college at Aus
tin. Tho students have a balik. and every
effort is made to give the pupils a practi
cal business education. The professor,
for instance, instructed the boys to write
a letter to a delinquent country customer.
There was a sound of scribbling on slates,
then the voice of Mose Schanmburg,
Jr., who is one of the pupils, was heard.
“I shay, Mishler Professor, shall I
write dot tetter in, dot ven he don’t bay
up, I closes him out mit dor sheriff?”
To Wake the Engineer.
(Detroit Erne Preus. [
In spite of the noise and motion of the
locomotive, overworked engineers will oc
casionally fall asleep or become inatten
tive To remedy this, the management
of one western road requires the engineer
to answer a red signal for stopping by a
bS't from the whistle Failing that, the
signal man is instructed to throw a lan
tern or whatever may be convenient
through the window of the locomotive
cab The rule has already prevented ac
cidents
AHlcatoni tn Nevada.
(Chicago Herald.)
Near the mouth of the Sntro tunnel. In
Nevada, there is a small lake, the water
in which is kept continuously warm by
tiie hot water which flows into it from
the mines. Recently the mine superin
tendent sent to Morida for two alligators.
When they arrived the temperature of the
place was 12 degrees below zero and the
alligators were barely alive. Upon being
put into the warm lake, however, ihey re
vived and are now growing rapidly.
Colfax in tho Chair.
[lnter Ocean ]
“The model presiding o fleers of this
day and generation, ” said an Indianian,
“were Colfax, Blaine, and Lanka Blaine
could do <ne thing that Colfax couldn’t.
He could look past a man and « the
fellow believe he didn’t see him. Colfax
never tried that He erred on the side of j
sympathy if at all, and Jlds fair-minded-1
neas was so apparent that he controlled
the house easily. ”
Accoiding to the decision of a debating
club then- is more pleasure in seeing a
man thread a needle than a woman driving
• nail.
NO. 245
, CELEBRATED A
BTOLIACM _
«itteß s
By th- u«» »t Hottriter’a B torn eh Bitter* ths
htegsred *ipu*->Lce ci tho coainen>i>m and
Bsno-n*‘aoi djapiptca aia auppianto* by a
b> a thh'r look, ana >a the lood la *atlmi>a:ed,
tbe bod> acqu re* *ut*l*ree. sypitt* la ro
r cored, «ud tue uerv ua qiUm i*'h* bed v'th
ui'o neece a uali*r, ih oils he ear of thia
iLOdic'ne, vhico 1* * e o« tic floral t-- pi r»< ca of
a rbeuiua.lc tend i oy, ano an if «a imable pro
t*uve o I ver ana *gne.
For »>e by all fifn.pieia and Dea’eta
»*n*vall-,
I'th.bl I'llAhll Hl.Eßllt
Bure cure lot Bn, a, Bleeding atfl Itch
log Ptire. One box tiae cured tbe worst
earee of 20 yeaib‘standing. No one need
suffer five minutes after ueiug William's
Indluii Fite Ointment. Il absorbs ttimots,
ailaye Itching, acts as poultice, gives In-
Blunt reller. Prepared only lor I’llee.
Itching oi the private parts, notblng i Ise.
Li op. 4. !1. Ceffenbury, ot Cleveland, says;
"1 have Used eccres oi Fili- cures, and it
affords me pleasan* to say that 1 have
nevei louuU anything which gives eueh
immedtete stifl pmiueneut reliet as Dr.
Wtilluu/B iualbti Pile Olntrm.nL" Bold by
(li ugglbte and mulled of receipt ol price,
sl. Foi eale by Brann-'n A Oarsoti, IL
Carter, John F. Tpruer and Geo, A. Brad
lord. Columbus. Ga.
Dr. Frailer’* Knot Bluer
Fruiter's Kiel Bitters ale. not a dram
shop beverage, but at e strictly medicinal
tn rveiy ett.ee. J hey act strongly upon
i fit- Livei and Kidneys, keep the bowels
open and regular, make tbe we»k strong,
beiti me lunge, buiia up the nerves, and
cli arise tiie blood and system ot rivet> Im
purity, bold by druggists. JI.OO,
For rule by BrannoD <t Oar eon and Jno.
1. Tui Her, Columbus, ua.
Dr. Frailer'* Magic Olntmeßt
A rule cure 10l Llllit Oiur-B in the.bkln,
Bough bkm, etc. it will remove that
lought'eer Horn the bm ds and lace and
make you bi-Hutnui. Price floe, bent by
inuli. Foi sale l y Bistuiun 4 Carson and
John F. 'I urnei, coiumbue, tea.
Chip. E G.cver, Utrmorsello, M'X’co.
July 16 IHB3 >ayr; ‘1 tike piearui’ tn
-dCinb’i gy.u <u e aon, or ,i>u tiava
been Vi steal bet-Stl' ip hie. 1 a Kite to
you Hh< u> ole aid oti-h-jf vim ego,
’Mtn Arisctm, lot Dr. Wiliirm’s Irdlan
e 1 0 n m* i t. J IK elvru II BI d It < un-d
me<-nt i. ,y. 1 e’lli tied e< me Oteimint
cmil Ing. wlu wi hb 1 have (lords, ven
or eight mine. Il is wotideriui.
Nurutogu High Boek Bpring Watrr for
«tlr bv *»!> iiroocfF-io. r: t»
MALI AI.D FINaIT AMOY.
CUbSVI’A, MEUBOIA.
The wo kof this Sei oo will begin again
JAMAID 6 IBHBfflre' Mtmdu>)
Till, nsl 30 SZ 30 anil S 3 60,
According to gtad . Board never more
Tltnn SB. Prr Month.
musk; peh moatd,
LOlAiluN til AuTH. UL
W.E. Ju DBF HET,
Innltrjr.pnilwS Principal.
OR, JOHN NOhWOOD.
OFFICE AT
BREEDLOVE & J'JHHtOh’S Drug Stora.
Randolph btrest.
Residence with H. L. WOODHOFF,
Ortwlord. briaien Trcup and fctejU ►!><*!
*UtLiai
k. b. t, minis,
Ptiydcian and Surgecn.
OFflCBt
T. H. EVANb 4 CO. 8 Drug Store.
Htmidtnce, Jackaon 8t„ East Loan Hoqh.
DnjMy '
W. A.TICNER7jr7
Attorney At Law.
OiFICB IN GALKAHD ICILDJNG
COIUMFUH, - - . GEOE GIA
Ureal B.rgalb* ,
At Phllllpe’ New btioe Btote, M Broad et,
Uulutnbus, Ga. Stock all n> w, tine and
<i»np
IMPORTANT
TO
Farmers, Trucksttrs and Gardeners.
——o
1 will furt.teh on boatd tbe Care it Flora,
Alabama, a very
Rich Marl
V'F J.IX tiOLLA ’tS PUiCTO.V
CLASH I
And a Very Low Rate of Freight
te offer*d by the JU- bls 4 Girard B. B
By euabsteof me State Grologtet this
HAUL cob tn ice troin 6 to 8 per cent, of
Ftiorpbate with nth’ r >ei Uliziu« qualities.
For ccmpoetii g and brc’ndcusritig for
giaiti fields, uicnaids and lawns it will be
teuniL ' -.,
A Valuable Stimulator.
Tele. lc not a Gup uv, but a IxiUU MABL
—o—
Anycrden orwstded to
K. J. OHR, Agent, Flora, Ala.,
M. bile 4 Glratd B> nrosd, will meet with
nr<-mr>t ottartten. deoil-W
NOTICE I
CX EOKGU Mrsocohe < UVS7Y.—I iMteb
j Broe*. hu’b.rZ or Ko.* Brod*, *1 raid
. mil) «ud Bute. I.reij »'v>n<tlr. to lb a
pnbl o ol ny ct-i »«nt tl a. niy *ald vIN. > os*
bro-*, rbo'i re ,td breor,, from are alter tot*
date a public or lr.< trader, otth *ll o| ige
right* aad privilege* under the tlat- te Is each
Mae* made and provtdM. JACOB BhQDA,
..Joaaaiy fl, UN*.., hahe-la
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