Newspaper Page Text
VOL. II. NO. 40. $1 PER YEAR.
THY BROTHER.
When thy heart with joy o’erflowlng
Sings a thankful prayer,
In thy joy, O let thy brother
With thee share.
When the harvest sheaves ingathored
Fills thy barns with store,
To thy God, and to thy brother,
Give the more.
Share with him thy bread of blessing,
Sorrow’s burden share;
When thy heart enfolds a brother,
God is there.
—Theodore C. Williams.
A * LYING * L.OVB
J R. GREGORY
ga || Gilmour, solici-
|S tor, the Wakefield,
in County of
tm York, was bo-
K' lioved by a great
7. number of deep-
sighted people to
be one of the
’cutest lawyers in
England, He
was something
£ more. He was
an astute man of
dearly the world, who
loved pleasure, but who had far
too hard a head to ever allow the un¬
ruly jade to run away with him. His
wife had died in giving birth to bis
only son, Frank, and lie was certainly
one of the gayest widowers Wakefield
had ever seen.
He hunted, he kept a liberal table,
and he made love with a reckless
liberality that not a little scandalized
some of the good people of his native
town. At tbe period of our story he
was fifty years of age, upright as a
dart, tall, slim, with a young, fresh-
colored, hairless face. His appear¬
ance had not altered sinco he was
thirty years of age, and it appeared
probable that another twenty years
might; pass over him without produc¬
ing any material change.
/ One day his son, who, without tak¬
ing the trouble to notify his father,
was about to marry the lady of his
heart, received a letter from his father
ordering business him to go to Wakefield upon
of tlie utmost importance.
When he reached liis home he was sur-
prised to learn that Mr. Gilmour had
been called suddenly away to the
North. He had, however, left, a mes¬
sage to the effect that his son was to
remain in Wakefield until his return.
He stayed iu the pleasant, sleepy
little town for some ten days, at the
end of which period the post brought
him two remarkable letters.
One was from lady love, It con-
tained three words:
“Goodby for ever.”
The other was Bigned by a Mrs.
Chambers, under whose roof Frank
had hrst met the woman of his choice.
It implored him to return at once to
Paisley. Some villain, she said, had
stolen Rosa’s heart from him, and the
poor, bewitched girl bad run away
with her new- love.
Frank read these letters with
amazement. At first he refused to
belive that Itosa, whom he had loved
with such unselfish devotion, had
tricked and jilted him. Ho had such
faith iu her truth and purity that it
seemed impossible for him to associate
her with aught that was dishonest aud
cruel. During his tedious journey to
Paisley he promised himself that Mrs.
Chambers had been mistaken, and that
when he came to thoroughly sift the
matter he would find that his darling
Rosa had been wonderfully misjudged.
Rut when lie entered the little house
his heart fell within him aud nearly
all his hope fled. The good old lady
had so changed that he scarcely knew
her. Hor eyes were red with weep¬
ing and deep purple rings surrounded
them. The kindly face was worn and
haggard and was sadly thin.
*• He took both hor trembling hands
and pressed them gently in silence.
Then he led her to a chair and said:
“Toll mo everything. Do not spare
me one detail. I can bear the truth
better than doubt.”
, Ere she could speak Mrs. Chambers’s
tears flowed fast.
“My tale is a short one,” she said at
last. “Dear, dear! it all seems like a
nasty dream. Sometimes I sit here
and fancy that her bright face will ap¬
pear before me as it used, and that all
that troubles me is but the wandering
of an idle, foolish brain. I am sorry
for you, Mr. Gilmour; indeed, indeed
I am. ”
“Come, come,” he said; “compose
yourself, and let me know the whole
miserable truth.”
“Soon after you went away,” said
the tearful woman, “I noticed a great
change in Rosa’s manner. She be¬
came absent-minded, dull, she and more
than once I saw that had been
weeping. I pressed her to toll me
the cause of her sorrow, but she al-
ways maintained that she was very
happy and she had nothing to grieve
her. She went out more frequently
lian she had been in the habit of do-
ing, and often at inconvenient hours,
I did not care to chide her, but I con-
fess that her frequent absence from
home perplexed me. Perhaps I ought
to have inquired more strictly into her
movements, and God forgivo me if I
did not take sufficient care of her.
Thinking that she would soon leave
to be your wife I felt that it would be
ungracious of me at such a time to
scold her or to compel her to pay more
.attention to her duties. One after-
noon a gossiping woman, who often
comes into my shop, told mo she had
Been Rosa walking arm in arm with a
gentleman in a little used
fare in the outskirts of the town. I
lost my temper, ami I declared that
Nevertheless the woman’s statement was untrue;
I questioned Rosa on
XI thy soul, with power uplifted,
Yearn for glorious deed—
Give thy strength to serve thy brother
In his need.
Hast thou borne a secret sorrow
In thy lonely breast?
Take to thee thy sorrowing brother
For a guest.
the subject. She indignantly denied
the accusation, but something iu hor
manner convinced me that she was
guilty. I cannot properly explain to
you what a cruel shook this discovery
was to me. I was too upset to pursue
the subject then, but I resolved that
when evening came, and after tho
shop was closed and we were alone,
that 1 would strive to bring her to a
sense of her duty to me. But I never
saw her again. Within half au houir
after I had spoken to hef she had
flown, and this was all she left behind
her."
Mrs. Chambers drew a crumpled let¬
ter from her pocket and gave it to
Frank; then she buried her face in her
handkerchief and appeared to ho dis¬
inclined for further conversation. This
was the letter Rosa left for Mrs. Cham¬
bers. It was written hastily and there
was a certain hardness about the phrase¬
ology that bespoke a heart numbed by
grief:
“You have been kinder to me
my mother ever was, and you will think
me very bad and ungrateful to
you as I do. God knows 1 have
chance. I must go, and go even as
go now, It is all for the
you, for Mr. Gilmour, for my
self.”
So it ended. She had forgotten to
sign her name.
in “Is low there tone—“no nothing else?’* he asked,
a other clew?”
For some time Mrs. Chambers re¬
mained silent. After an effort she
said, though still hiding her face:
“She did leave something else,
not -willingly—not knowingly.”
“What did she leave?” he
anxiously.
After another pause she placed a
in his hand, saying:
“That is the key of her bedroom.
have kept it looked over since she left.
On her dressing table you will
something I picked up from the floor.
She turned from him, for her
was so full she could scarcely speak.
He pressed her forehead gently with
his lips and left her.
As Frank went up stairs, lightly
holding the key she had given him in
his baud, ho muttered between his
set teeth:
“I will find the man who has taken
her from me, and when I find him I
will kill him.”
He paused before her door. Ho
turned the lock with strange reluc¬
tance, and when he stood upon the
threshold of the little room, which was
still fragrant with the odor of sweet
flowers, he again hesitated.
She had gone and was unworthy of
him; she has proved truthless, and he
of all men should no respect for her.
Still that apartment seemed to him
sacred, and a feeling of guilt took
possession of him as he entered it. He
walked to the dressing table and at
first he saw nothing. Then he noticed
that a photograph was on the centre
of it, lying faco downward. He thrust
his hand out greedily to secure it—
the thought running through his brain
that it was tho likeness of the man
who robbed him of his love, and that
now he would not have much trouble
in tracking him.
He picked up the carte. There were
some words written on the back of it,
and these lie read with a feverish
haste. As he perused them his face
became even more pallid than before,
and beads of perspiration stood upon
liis forehead. These words were:
“Yours very dearly. Gregory Gil¬
mour. ”
He let the thing fall from his hands..
As it fell it turned, and now it lay upon
the dressing table face upward. This
face was his father’s—the fnee of Greg¬
ory Gilmour, of Wakefield, solicitor
and esquire.
Mr. Gregory Gilmour, composed,
pleasant looking, and dressed irre-
proachably, sat in his easy chair,some-
times smiling, more often studying his
almond nails. Before him—white,
passionate, a fiery indignation blazing
liis eyes—stood his son, speaking
hoarsely, and trembling as lie spoke.
“I swore in my heart,” Frank de-
dared, with intense though subdued
earnestness, “that when I discovered
the mail who had stolen her from me I
would .kill him. I had scarcely so
sworn before the horrid truth was
made manifest to me that the scound-
rel was my father, and, being my
father, bis villainy must go unpun-
ished."
Mr. Gilmour smiled.
“Well done, Frank! Quite melo-
dramatic I declare. When I was your
age I would have done the same thing
myself; though perhaps not quite so
well—not quite so well.”
“Don’t mock my misery,” the
young man cried, impetuously. “It
is a hard, a bittter, a wicked feeling
to cherish, but I despise you, I abhor
your name. I wish to God I had died
before I knew this shame.”
“Sons,” said Mr. Gilmour, with a
I tinge of bitterness in liis tone, “are
slow to pardon their parents’errors,
This is strange, seeing how much
pare nts have to forgive, Even now
POPULATION AND DR AINAOE,
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER IS. 1897.
ftm ing doing insdlence.’’ a great thing—I am pardon¬
J'Our
Frank turned from the speaker with
a gesture of impatience and disgust.
“Come, young gentleman”—Mr.
Gilmour spoke authoritatively—“I
want to talk to you. Don’t run away;
so far you have had all the conversa¬
tion to yourself. You must now listen
to me.” disposition Seeing that Frank in evinced
no to remain the room,
ho Cried, sternly:
“Sit down, sir! While yon are in
my house you shall obey me. ’*
Snlleuly Frank threw himself into a
distant chair, and his father again
smiled.
“I’ve a little story to tell you,
Frank. It is all about the young
lady you know by the name of Rosa
Noyce. Last year, while you were
away in Scotland; I became mixed up
with a very extraordinary forgery
case. The crime had been committed
in London, but one of the principal
sufferers chanced to bo my very oldest
client, and so it came that I was con¬
sulted about tho matter. I need not
bother you with the details of the
case. Tlie important facts for you to
know are simply these: The culprit
was a mau named Morris, A hekrtleSS;
designing knave, who, unfortunately
for society, had the fascinating man¬
ner of a cultivated man of means* Men
Of the world were deceived by his
plausible tongue and his elegant ex¬
terior, and he was particularly success¬
ful in blinding the ladies. Some time
before his conviction lie liad won the
Confidence and affection of a young
lady of blameless life and good family.
He induced her to run away from
home to bo secretly married to him.
Shortly after this union the infatuated
girl discovered the true character of
the fellow who had tempted her to for¬
get her duty to her father. She was
wedded to a penniless Swindler of the
worst class. What the feelings of a
confiding, stainless girl would he
upon making such a discovery you
can perhaps understand. She re¬
garded her husband with abhorrence,
and she hated himself for ever having
listened to him. She resolved that
she would leave hitu forever. Taking
nothing with hei* bttt a small handbag,
she escaped from her husband’s house,
and was never heard of again by her
friends. Some thought that she was
dead—others, that she had gone
abroad. It happened that before her
marriage to this fellow Morris I had
known her and her family, aud during
the time wo were prosecuting him I
often thought of the poor deceived
girl. He was sentenced to a longterm
of imprisonment. What I have to tel)
you Mechanically now directly concerns yon.
the young man did as
ho was told. A change was slowly
passing over his face. His head was
no longer bent upon his chest. He
looked into his father’s eyes eagerly.
“My friend at Glasgow, in whose
office I placed you some time back, re¬
cently wrote to me to the effect that
you were making an ass of yourself
over some obscure girl at Paisley.
Mr. Redfern had seen you with her at
Glasgow, and it had come to his
knowledge that you had taken a house,
aud it was pretty evident that yon in¬
tended marrying her almost im¬
mediately. Sinco you had not thought
it subject, worth while.to determined consult me upon the
1 to see for myself
tbe woman you contemplated giving
your name to, I wrote to you asking
you to come here, and I journeyed to
Glasgow. Mr. Redfern accompanied
me to Paisley. I was saved the trouble
of calling upon Mrs. Chambers, for in
the street we met tho young lady to
whom you were engaged. To my
amazement I recognized her. She was
Mrs. Morris, the convict’s wife.”
“I was afraid that was coming,” said
Frank, in a low, nerveless tone.
“I had always sympathized with the
girl’s unhappy lot, but my sympathy
was not sufficiently strong to close my
eyes to the fact that the bigamous
marriage she proposed would irretriev¬
ably ruin my son. I had more than
one interview with her, and at these
interviews I urged her to abandon
you. She said that she could never
look you in the face if she jilted you.
I advised her to leave Paisley. I pro¬
vided her with the necessary funds. I
had, I thought, at least saved my son
much pain a fid suffering. ”
“You must forgive mo my violence,”
Frank pleaded in a scarcely audible
tone. “I am sorry for tho words I
used to you just now. Still—still,”
ho went on wistfully, “perhaps I would
rather have been left in ignorance.”
“Wait until you have heard all I
have to say;” he smiledat Frank as he
spoke. “When T saw Mrs. Morris at
Paisley I had no idea that her wicked
husband was dead—”
Dead,” cried Frank, joyfully,
“A 6111 ]' 11 ”
“ Yes > Acad. Tho foolish girl did
not tel1 me so - imagined that I
objected to her lnarriage with my son
because her husband had been a con-
vict > al *A not because I thought he was
still alive. It appears that he died in
bis cell——”
“Thank God for that!” Irr,nk mur-
mure A, forgetting how indecent his
gratitude was.
“Now that the girl is free,” Mr. Gil¬
mour went on, “I confess I am indit¬
ferent whether you marry the young
lady or not. I may, however, mention
that within the past few days Rosa’s
father has also died and has left her a
' ttr S e sum °i money, nearly *£15,000,
on A that Rosa herself is in this house
at this present moment.”
Frank started from his chair and
ran to the door. Suddenly lie paused,
Turning to his father he said:
graph. “On^Rosa’s ’ tuole J found a plioto-
“Possibly,” Mr. Gilmour returned,
dryly. “It seems that at one of our
j interviews I dropped it—pulled it out
with my handkerchief, or something
! j that kind, and she carried it home with
hor, intending to give it, back to me.
j !■* a few days you'll know who it was
itAemled for, I am tiled of
There, you mercenary
rdscal, gd fttld comfort your
000. ‘
Ere his father had finished speiiking
Frank had left the room. In another
Kosa was nestling in his arms.
“When I went to Paisley,” he
whispered. “I thought that you were
a Lying Love——”
“And so I was,” she said, dropping
swimming eyes; “but I could Ills not
——She said ild more* pas¬
sionate kisses smothered hef voids, —
Boston (England) Guardian*
Sliows All the Flrtis in it Citys
The toposcope is it maohlile that ex¬
hibits td the eyes bf the observer a
whole City and all tlie fires that break
out iu it. It is now iu use iii Vienna,
Austria. The toposoopo consists of a
good telescope, which is solidly at¬
tached to au arrangement of levers,
while graduated sections of a circle
are arranged horizontally and verti¬
cally iu such a way that the moving of
the telescope sideways or up and
down results in a change of tho posi¬
tion of the hands attached to the
levers in reference to the graduated
scale.
It la obvious, the stability of the
apparatuses being assured by their
being firmly fastened, that, whenever
the telescope is focussed upon the
same object the hands Will point, to
the sanie figures on tlie horizontal and
on the vertical sextant, and, since au
index of the whole city has been made,
it is ii matter of but a few seconds
when a flare is discovered at flight to
direct upon the spot of tlie toposoopo
on the respective side, to read off the
numbers, to read off the numbers, to
look up the object and to wire it to
tho central fire station, with all the
details observed.
Local conditions are necessary for
tile successful operation of this appa¬
ratus, but Irt this case they are almost
perfect. St. Stephen’s tower is over
500 feet high; the great area of the
city is situated in the broad valley of
the Danube, allowing an uninter¬
rupted panorama to the city limits.
The atmospheric conditions are also
favorable. The toposeope up there
works so accurately that eveil at night
the exact house and number were
often given to the central by the
watchman on the tower, while the
next fire alarm box, being at a dis¬
tance of three or four blocks, could
not have given tho exact location of
the fire, and this would have delayed
the arrival of the fire department ac¬
cordingly.
The 1M S Pee*.
Among the more recent and im¬
portant arrivals at the Zoo are two
young bahirussaS, presented by tlie
Duke animals, of and Bedford—comparatively rare
tlie only examples seen
at the Zoo for about fifteen years.
The word babirussa means pig deer,
and the animal has been so called by
tlie Malays on account of the remark¬
able development of the tusks of the
males, where emerge close together
near the middle of tho faco and sweep
with a strong curve backward, fre¬
quently attaining a very great length.
The tusks of the lower jaw rn-ise like
those of the boar. What the male
babirussa needs the Upper pair for is
a point which nobody apparently can
satisfactorily settle.
Another peculiarity of the animal is
that it falls short of the number of
teeth usually possessed by the ordi¬
nary pig, having only thirty-four iu
all, a fact which indicates that it
must be directly descended from one
of the extinct genera of pigs marked
by a similar type of dentition. In
other respects tho babirussa is not
very different from other wild swine.
It is lighter a splendid swimmer, has a some¬
what gallop than that of the
wild boar, and when hunted will fight
gamely and ferociously to tho last.—
London Graphic.
A Wonderful Uimp.
It is prophesied that present meth¬
ods of illumination are to he super¬
seded by a lamp nearly perfected by
Puluj, of Vienna, one of the earliest
experimenters on cathode rays. For
fifteen years he has been working
upon it. Not only does it generate
intense Roentgen rays, but it also
transforms nearly all of the energy of
the electric current into light. Pro¬
fessor Ebert’s experiments prove that
a single horse power of electric energy
would he sufficient to operate 46,000
Puluj lamps. 'Professor Lodge, head
of the department of experimental
physics in Universal College, Liver¬
pool, says that “if mechanical energy
can he converted entirely into light
alone one man turning tho crank of a
suitable machine could generate
enough light for a whole city.” Puluj
claims that his lamp fulfills this con¬
dition. «.
Utilization of Garbage.
The utilization of garbage question
is again on tlie tapis, with apparently
as little prospect as ever of being
brought to a conclusion that will set¬
tle the long mooted question. It is a
subject with which more municipal
cities than ours have been wrestling
for many years. The fertilizing value
of tbe garbage of a great city like
Philadelphia should, in these days
when manurial material is in such
strong request, be very valuable, and
wo hope the sanitary authorities will,
for health as well as economy’s sake,
persevere in their endeavors to discover
a method by which such a vast amount
of fertilizing mulorial may ho saved
and the health of the city improved
also.—Philadelphia Star.
Iii* Wants More Spend.
A. Washington correspondent tells
of a Western Congressman whom he
once heard declaiming in a Washing-
ton hotel about tlie now navy: “We
must have speed in our new ships,”
he said; “if I hod my way about it we
would never build another cruiser
that could suil loss than twenty
an hour!”
BILL ARP’S WEEKLY LLI1ER •
PHILOSOPHER GIYES GOOD ABtiCfi
TO YOUNtf AMERICA.
THE BOYS SHOULD BE OBSERVANT
And Accumulate a Utile KiiotvletlgjO of
to very thing: They See Around and
About Them*
He.i'6 is rt letter for tlie boys,
I believe thrtt evtoi an imperfect
knowledge of many callings renders a
man happier than perfection in utiy
one and comparative ignorance of all
the rest* Great scientists, discoverers
dud irivhiitors sttem to be necessary
for tlie world’s progress find tlie good
'of mankind, but their work is gene¬
rally at the expense of their health
and happiness. Sir Isaac Newton in
his last days exclaimed with a sigh,
“I have made a slave of myself.” His
great mind was always on a strain iu
tbie direction. It is said of him that
lie hail a hole cut iti the lower part of
the door for his favorite cat to enter
and exit, and when she had a pair of
kittens he had two Smaller holes cut
foi- them* The mind is like tho body.
It must httve a variety of food. It is
like the muscles iii the arms or legs;
If only one set are used the others be¬
come weak and will gradually perish
away.
I was talking not long ago to a
learned judge, a man of fine judicial
mind and literary attainments, but
who acknowledged his very limited
knowledge of nature and nature’s laws.
other,*’ “I hardly know ono tree from au-
chestnut, said lie,” excepting, of course,
the A hickory nut and walnut.
es, of course, I know the pine and
the oak. Indeed I liavo never had
any occasion to know more, for I
was raised in town aud books have
absorbed me.”
I was ruminating about this be¬
cause our little girl's mother Is teach¬
ing lier to draw and to paint, and I
asked her to draw me a chestnut tree,
au oak tree and a maple tree. She is
working on them now and has to go
out and look at them aud examine the
bark on the trunk, and the shape of
tho limbs aud tlie leaves, 1 wonder
bow many boys aud girls en n
draw a hickory leaf without
looking at one. I should liko to
sec their specimens. Thousands of
boys, especially country boys, know
all tbe Common trees of their neigh¬
borhood, but it requires oloso and
careful observation to describe them
and point out tlie difference, Now
there are ten different kinds of oaks in
this country, but very few town raised
people can name half of them. Then
there are different kinds of hickories
and pines and ash and elm trees,
besides tho hackberry, box elder, pop¬
lar, beech, locust and cottonwood.
Eugene Le Hardy was a very learned
and scientific Frenchman, but thought
that American cotton grew on the cot¬
tonwood trees and that we gathered it
by using ladders. It is said that a
Mr. Jackson, of Atlanta, is trying to
introduce the ladder kind now, and
has got the trees up to M feot, high.
The study of the trees and shrubs of
this southern country is a delightful
and instinctive recreation for young
people, and I wish they would pny
more attention to it. Of course this
study requires some knowledge of bo¬
tany, but that, is easily acquired. This
kind of knowledge is more useful and
more ing comforting than a college smatter¬
of calculus and conic sections anil
rhetoric and logic. I do not believe
there are ten men in Bartow county
who would know ginseng if they were
to see it. Not many more know what
is father graybeard or white ash,
tho medicinal shrub from which old
A. Q. Simmons first made the original
Simmons liver medicine in Gwinnett
county. I know about that, for when
T was a young merchant I sold tho first
he over made and continued to sell it
for him for several years and he told
,
me what it was made of. ; think,
though, that father graybeard gave
out. about tho time the old man died.
I wish that our young people would
acquire habits of observing things
more closely as they journey aloiq_
through life. Some people see every¬
thing and some see nothing hardly.
When should trees he cut down that
are wanted for wood? What kind of
wood is the strongest and will hear the
greatest burden? What kind is the
most elastic? What kind the hardest
to split? What kind will last the
longest in the ground? What kind
most suitable for pianos, chairs, furni-
tore or wainscoting? What kind for
mauls or wedges or canes? Dr. Oliver |
Holmes must have studied all about
these when he wrote tho “One Hoss
Simv "
“go the deacon inquired of tho village folk
Where he could find the strongest oak
That couldn’t he split nor Lent nor broke;
That was for spokes and floor and sills;
He sent, for Jancowood to make the thills;
The crossbars were ush from stralghtest
trees:
Tlie panels were white wood that cuts like
cheese; j
And the hubs of logs from the settlor’s
1 ;
But perhaps Dr. Holmes got it all
from some old honest wagon maker,
for they know. I’ll bet that Mr. Brad¬
ley, of our town, can answer every
question. The hoys ought to find out
that black locust and chestnut and
osage orange make tho best jiosts, and
block gum the best hubs, and persim-
mon tho best wedges or gluts, and sas-
safras the best bows, and white oak
tlie boat baskets. In England it is
cluimod that a yew tree post will last
longer than au iron ono. The hoys
ought to know that the harks of ail
T. P. GREEN. MANAGER.
trees ftr*i nonconductors of heat and
cold and keep them cool in summer and
warm iu winter, and the greet* 1 eaves are
the lungs that inhale the carbon from
t he air and not only make wood for the
tree, but purify the atmosphere that we
breathe* And hence every habitation
ought to have Some trees about it.
The boys ought to know about those
bekutiful islands in the sea that are of
coral formation and kept growing un¬
til they got above the water, and then
some cocoanutd came floating along
and bulged there and sprouted and
grew and the leaves of tho trees it!]
and rotted and made a soil for more
cocortnUts, and in course of time tho
island became a paradise, That is the
testimony of the rooks. The boys
should wittcli the little gossomer ball
tliat floats away iu the riir from tho sweet
little dandelion plant. Ho light and
feathery that it would lake a thousand
of them to weigh an ounce and yet
the seeds arc there for rriOfO plants,
and they are wrapped, as it were, in fl
blanket to protect them from the win¬
ter's cold. Ho it is with the seed of
tho Scotch thistle that is blown about
by a breath of ait liko it was nothing,
but, it has tho norm the smlirtn of
life in it, and will tind a lodging jilac.e
somewhere ami sleep until spring, and
then make no mistake. It will not
come tip a dandelion, but will surely
make a thistle, In the horticultural
gardens at London are raspberry
plants that came from seed found in
man’s stomach who had been
.1,700 years.
Study nature a little aa you go
along, boys, and it will make you
wiser and better and happier men.
Find out why it is that a dead bird
weighs more than a live ono and by
what force or power a buzzard can sail
round and round in (lie air above you
and never bat a wing nor Wave a
feather.
It isn’t every boy that can be a Ben
Franklin, but every boy can learn
something every day, and even one
fact a day will in course of time make
him a wise man, IVliat a boy was
Franklin! What, a man! The young¬
est of seventeen children, apprenticed
to a candle maker, next to a printer;
rati away from Boston to Philadelphia
when seventeen years old and hired to
a Ml 1 , Bend and fell in love with De¬
borah, Ills daughter; was never idle;
read and studied in every leisure mo-
incut; mastered French, Italian, Span¬
ish and Latin; became postmaster of
Philadelphia, then postmaster general
of all the colonies; established the Phil¬
adelphia library, the Philosophical So¬
ciety and the University of Pennsyl¬
vania, and not long nftor ho drew
lightning down from honven with a
kite and a string and a key.
What a man lie was! What, a boyl
■—Bill Aup, iu Atlanta Constitution
COMPRESSED FOODS.
TItb Necessities OT Life In Alaska Hnv#
Increased the Demand.
The necessities of life in Alaska gold
fields lias already begun to express it¬
self in trade relations. From every
traveler to that inhospitable laud,
(lime Is a demand for compressed
foods. Transportation is exceedingly
difficult and expensive, and tho saving
of every pound of weight in tilings
carried over glaciers and mountain
passes through snowbanks and rocky
paths, Is almost equal to a pound of
gold dust. The manufacturer and
scientist cook are, therefore, studying
how to coiqpress various kinds of food
with a view of utilizing this special de¬
mand from the far north.
If they succeed it wil please the min¬
ers, anil it will also please other
classes in tlie community—yachting
parties, camping-out parties, soldiers
at the Stale camps, and above all those
luckless housekeepers who live In flats,
and for years wanted everything of
tho nature of .food put lip in the
smallest possible limits. Something
has been done in this field, both at
home and abroad.
The Germans compress cabbage until
it is nearly as hard as a bale of com¬
pressed hay. Potatoes have been de¬
siccated and compressed in France un¬
til they filled only one-quarter of the
space they required in their normal
condition. The beef extracts are an¬
other Illustration of what can be done,
especially those which have been con¬
densed in the form of a tough and
glue-like solid.
In the north they compress animal
foods i*y mixing meat cut up with lard
or suet, and with this mixture fill large
skins or tins. It is known as pemmi-
ean, and is a valued treasure to every
northern explorer. The Japanese are
very skilful in drying and condensing
clams, oysters, fish, the meat of crabs
and lobsters.
1,10 large Japanese clam, which In
. 10 c 'Kht ’ n(:ll0B long, two deep and
,liree to f,,ur wlde > *» reduced to what
resembles a piece of wood three by
l ' vo three-quarters of an inch, prac-
th'aliy one-tenth of tho original size.
'I’lio same thing p'/ibably could be
done with most of our vegetables. The
tomato, for example, is nearly !)0 per
cent, water. Were it desiccated pro¬
perly, ten cans of that healthful food
could bo put into one.
Professor Ellen Richards, in her in-
terosting lecture, has shown a largo
amount of water which abounds in
most meats, fishes, vegetables and
fruits, and has suggested that this
might he removed with commercial ad-
v,intn Se in many cases.—New York
Mail and Express.
Twenty-Rfst Birthday; Age Eightv-Four,
Fresslngfield, Suffolk, England,
boasts among Its citizens the oldest
hell ringer in the kingdom, He id
Edmund Chandler, and in 1890 he
celebrated his twenty-first birthday,
being at that time eighty-four years
old. ills birthday occurs on February
20 whenever that infrequent date ur-
rives, lie has rung the Fresslngfield
bells on the Queen’s birthday
since her accession
i in an ii um
DR. GFITF.RAS REPORTS EIGHT
CASES IN GALVESTON.
LOCAL PHYSICIANS HAVE DOUBTS.
The Situation as Reported at New Orleans
ami Other Stricken
Sections.
Dr. H. A. West, a member of the
Galveston, Texas, board of health and
the nominal head of the board during
the sickness of City Health Physician
Dr. G. W, Fisher, made the following
announcement Saturday night: ’ 1
"Pr, Guttoras has reported to Pr. Wyman
that there tire eight positive ranee of yellow
fever in Galveston, Wo, the local physi¬
cians of Galveston, hold tm informal meet¬
ing .Saturday night to discuss tho matter.
Some of tho physicians do not agree with
Pr. Gtliteras, and they thought wo should
not submit to his opinion; others agreed
with him. Scan* of tho physicians did not
fool that tho facts justified the opinion that
the cases arc yellow fover.
Dr. Gniteras would not give out his
report Saturday night, but through
Dr. West it was learned that Dr.
Gniteras thought that the disease would
not he widespead of or a virulent char¬
acter.
Dr. 0. W. Truehart, who has been
through several yellow fever epidem¬
ics, says:
"I have examined two of tho cases which
Pr. Gniteras considered suspicious and I
saw not tho slightest truce of yellow fever.
1 have found no symptoms of yellow fover
In my practice, and I do not believe itexists
In Galveston today.’,
There is every indication that if the
disease is yellow fever it is a very mild
type and will be attended with little or
no mortality.
The opinion of the majority of tho
physicians at, Galveston is that there
is no yellow fever at Galveston, but a
type of dengue fever lms existed for
the past sixty days; that there have
been 15,000 eases of dengue aud
not a single death.
l*co|»I« Are Slum pod in#.
Despite tlie assurance of Dr. Guite-
ras that there is no need for alarm or
excitement, or necessity of leaeing the
city, a perfect hegira has set in, and
every regular train leaving the city is
packed with people fleeing from tho
disease, and special trains are in de¬
mand.
SllutiUon At Other Valntn.
The fever situation at New Orleans
Saturday was practically what it was
on Friday. Now cases were numerous
and the deaths as early as fi o’clock
had almost reached the highest num¬
ber heretofore reported. The official
report of hoard of health Saturday was
as follows: Oases of yellow fever, 25;
deaths, (!; total cases of yellow fever to
date, 540; total deaths from yellow
fever to date, 56; total eases absolutely
recovered, 222; total cases under treat¬
ment, 202. Sunday’s record was
thirty-seven new cases nnd five deaths.
Mobile’s health officers roported
Sunday seven now cases of yellow
fever, two deaths in the city and ono
at Magazine Point, three miles dis¬
tant., and three recoveries.
Biloxi board of health report for
Sunday: Yellow fever under treat¬
ment, 93; now cases, 15; total yellow
fever to date, 291; total deaths to
date, 12.
REPUBLICANS RATIFY
Their Greater Now York Municipal Nomi¬
nation* At M jink Meeting:.
The republican municipal nomina¬
tions wore ratified at New York Satur¬
day night at a mass meeting at Cooper hall
Union. Every seat in the big
was occupied and the assemblage was
an orderly one.
Tlie several candidates as they made
their appearance on tlie platform were
received with cheers. Senator Joseph
B. Foraker, of Ohio, was the principal
speaker.
The most remarkable thing that oc¬
curred during Mr. Foraker’s speech
was tho wild cheers which broke out
among the audience when the speaker
mentioned Henry George. Tho body
of tho hall was well filled with George
men who broke out like mad at the
mention of his name.
ENGLAND INTERESTED.
Her l'nperfl Coimnniit. On tlie Greater New
York Municipal Contest.
A London cablegram says: Not even
in the case of a presidential campaign
in tho United States have the English
newspapers displayed such interest as
they are now taking in tho struggle
preparatory to the election of a mayor
of Greater New York.
Even the heavy weeklies devote
much space to the subject. The Spec¬
tator and the Speaker, both print ar¬
ticles on the mayoralty contest. The
Speaker says:
‘ Never since tlie days of imperial Athens
er Involved republican Homo It:*-* a municpal contest
Hindi important issues. Many a
king lias not had so much power ns tho
mayor of Greater New York will have.”
HENRY GEORGE DENOUNCED.
Philadelphia Uilmr Lungue Vailed To En-
dorne lllm t or New -York Mayoralty.
A resolution to endorse tins candidacy
of Henry George for mayor of Greater
New York was almost unanimously de¬
feated at a meeting of the United Labor
League at Philadelphia Sunday after¬
noon.
During tho discussion that followed
the presentation of the resolution Hen¬
ry George was severely denounced by
the speakers as a “fakir” and a friend
of capitalists, ,