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About Wayne County news. (Jesup, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1906)
OVER THE YEARS AWAY. "O dear farm, O lost farm, O fields that face the sea! O garden Old, where the children etroH’d, ■ In the likeness of you and me, Iiow the dreams call’d, and the lanes call’d. Till our feet must needs obey, fiver the beckoning roads, dear, Over the long gray roads, dear, Over the roads away. “O sweetheart, O strongheart, O dearest of all to me! Out - \>ast is dead, ©nr dreams are fietl, We stroll by a vaster sea; But the storms call and the waves call. And we dare not say them nay, Over the, years we tare, love. Over the lands ot care, love, Over the years away!” —Frederic Lawrence Knowles, in the Watchman. K A TRUTHFUL WfBOW. <*T JJ GEORGE Z By A V/ILUAMS. & [ fe¬ ^ The Widow Drummond did not hesitate to call ugly things by ugiy names. When she lost her husband, an easy-going, pleasure-loving man, she scandalized everybody by openly wondering where horses went to, as she could not imagine him existing anywhere without them. And yet sh-j had been devoted to him, and he meant no harm. That was the pity of it; she meant no harm, but did so much by her uncompromising can¬ dor. Her intimates, with a smile, called her “Truthful Jar.e,” hoping that by a little gentle ridicule a certain discount might, be made to ■ attach to whatever she might say next, for she was no respecter of persons. But, though she would make no truce with conventionalities, she was warm-hearted and sympa¬ thetic, and she did an immense amount of good, though she would as often as not undo it with her tongue. She would speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That modified form of truth sometimes spoken of as fact she ab¬ horred. She stoutly maintained that it was but a refined name for lying, and she would have none of it. It was certainly a curious thing that, being what she was, it should have been her bell that was • iolently rung one day. A battered, dazed looking coachman had rung it, and he brought with him ah entirely un¬ foreseen opportunity for the testing of her principles. He was so badly shaken that he was incoherent at first, but a few di¬ rect questions from Mrc. Drummond roused him sufficiently to enable him to make a confused statement as to a carriage accident and the necessity of help being sent immediately. “Where?” she asked, sharply. “Close by your barn, ma’am. Oh, my head!” moaned the man. With businesslike promptness she had him attended to in the house¬ keeper's room, sent orders to the stables for a groom to gallop off at once for a doctor, and then, accom¬ panied by some of the servants, carry¬ ing blankets, brandy and whatever else? she thought might be needed, she hurried down toward the barn. On reaching the road, she was hor¬ rified at the seriousness of what had occurred. A light wagonette was lying upside down, completely wrecked. The horse had broken away and was not in sight. A female ser¬ vant was wringing her hands in help¬ less despair. “Oh, ma'am!” she cried, as her mistress eaino up, "they are both of them dead! isn't it awful, ma'am?” It was awful to see. A young lady had been hurled upon her head, and she lay quite still in the middle of the road. The other was a man, and, to judge by his dress, a gentleman. The carriage had fni’.cn on his hands ’and head, which were mangled in the most terrible way. The men sickened as they removed the car¬ riage from the body, and then car¬ ried it onto the grass by the road¬ side. He must have been killed in¬ stantly. The lady was breathing faintly. They dared not move her, so Mrs. Drummond and a servant placed a blanket under her head and did their utmost to revive her. But in vain; she was alive, but she remained nn conscious. On removing her gloves. Mrs. Drummond caught sight of her left hand, and muttered: "Poor, poor thing! He was her husband.” When the doctor arrived she was unconscious still. He turned away abruptly from the motionless figure on the grass, biting his lip. “Nothing to he done there!" said. "It is the unfortunate lady must attend to. Ah, his wife, 1 sec! She will have a miserable 1 fear, if she awakes at all in world. But it is imposihle for me judge of her injuries here, Mrs. Drummond, will you allow her to carried to your house? Thame you. Her husband can be taken to the pital in my carriage, if one of men may go, too. Now, the 1 can make a proper examination better!" A litter was quickly improvised with the blankets, and it was not loug before the insensible woman placej upon the bed that had been prepared for her and the doctor was given a fair chance of whether she was likely to live. then approached Mrs. Drummond with a very grave face, and said: "She will recover hut after thae all depends upon you. Her life is hanging by r. thread. further saock would certainly her. 1 tell you this frankly and without reserve, because i must go away for an hour or so to a ing case. If sne comes to herself in my absence, the whole will rest with you. I know views, Mrs. Drummond, and I honor you for them. But, believe me, in this Instance you must suppress the truth. Your good heart will best tell you how. She must not know in her" present state that her husband is dead. I solemnly declare to you that, if she finds it out, by even a look in your eyes or any hesitation in your voice, her death will have been caused by you. Have I your promise?” "No, doctor, yo . have : ot; - v.t 1 will remember what you say.” With that he l ad to be con.eut, knowing it was useless to urge her further. He went away, and she re¬ turned to her patient, whose beauty she had not noticed before in her agitation. She sat down and began to think of the warning the doctor had given her. If trite had had time to think longer, she might have been persuaded, but settled convictions are not readily abandoned, and she was taken by surprise when the young I wife opened her eyc-s and looked at her in wonder. “Where am I?” she whispered. "What is it?” “Hush!” Mrs. Drummond an svered. "You are with friends. There lias been a carriage accident and you were stunned. You must not talk yet.” The troubled eyes of the injured young woman searched the room from end to end, then rested on Mrs. Drummond’s kindly face as a feeble hand was held out to her. "My husband?” she asked. Mrs. Drummond had taken her hand, and she still held it as she re¬ plied, but in a trembling voice: "M.v dear, the doctor says you are too weak to be told the. truth, and that it would kill you. Heaven help you, for I can't! I, too, am a widow.” There! She had done it, or bet¬ ter or for worse, and she was pre¬ pared for the worst. But, to her amazement, a strange ring came into the other’s voice, as she started vp a bed, and cried: "Tell me again, and tell me plainly —is he dead?” “Yes, my dear, I am sorry to say he is.” "Sorry! Ah, you don't know!” She lay back, r-umuring "Dear father!” and, "fter a long ■ lence, she turned to Mrs. Drummond. "ion have beci very good to me,” sue said, "and I am afraid that I have only pained you by ray want of feeling.” “No. my dear—nothing of the kind!” T'rs. D: mmond inte.rupted. “You will understand it better when 1 have tc. I you my wretched story,” the other went on. "My father had got into financial difil culties, and one man had it in his power to ruin him. This man told me one day that, if in twenty-f«ur hours I did not promise to marry him, he would do so. He was coarse and brutal, but to save my father I did marry him three months ago. It sounds wrong t> speak so of the dead, but 1 line- suffered horribly. My life-sacrifice was in vain. He laughed at me whsr. I reminded him of ms promise. T never before knew tnat any one could be so treacherous ard vile. To-d" - h - had forced me to go with him to see him turn my father out of his old home. We had missed the train at Charlton, and were driving to Hazeldell, to go by another route, when this acciuent/ happened. Oh, if I had seen him in the room when I recovered, or if you had told — - that he was waiting for me downstairs, 1 do be)!'' - it would have killed me!” The “truthful widow" had dis¬ tinctly scored for once. , When the t' - it she had a good deal to say to him, and she said it.—New York Weekly. A Ileal Stukor. An illustration of the difficulty of making a practical machine in which the Government io vitally interested is the postage stamp sticking ma¬ chine. According to Machinery there is no practical machine for sticking i postage stamps on letters, although ] the demand for such a machine is considerable,, The difficulty of the problem lies iu the fact that postage stamps come in sheets gummed and perforated, a stamp sticking ma¬ chine should, of course, have the stamps printed in strips which should uot be perforated, but should be slightly notched on each side at the junctions of adjacent stamps. With the stamps prepared iu this manner, the problem of a successful sticking machine becomes a comparatively simple one, but where the invention is restricted to the use of stamps iu the present form the difficulties are so great as to make the scheme in all probability impractical. To get the Government officials to print stamps in strips and supply, them rolled, ready for use in such a machine, would require great political and business influence and pressure, and is something that would certainly cause a very great scandal on account of appearing to favor a patented de¬ vice which must necessarily be a monopoly.—Scientific American. How to Bo a Chauffeur. If you have a low front veranda to your home or boarding house, crawl under it, after first saturating the floor above with gasolene and other greasy and ill-smelling sub¬ stances that will leak through on to your face. Lie on your back under the floor where it leaks, and try to trim your finger nails with a dull monkey wrench, swearing loudly all the while. When yon get out. go to the police station and pay a fine. This procedure, accompanied by the wearing of a paiir of fierce goggles, will make you feel like the real thing. @fi'flfiflflfi QMN New York City.—Such an attrac¬ tive blouse waist as this has almost innumerable uses. It can be made with skirt to match or as a separate waist, and is adapted to all fashion ■ {? m. v mm \ Wmm mm ,y I W-v able soft silks and wool fabrics. In | this cat*s dove gray crepe de Chine j is combined with lace and with vel- ‘ vet -a shade darker than the crepe, hut while crepe de Chine is a favor ite, there are a great many other i lovely silks of equal vogue, and voile i // i 7 ittfm % & u VilMk K<A \ 0 Vt 1 :■ 3Z n mm m • / 1 m ffl m II mm If alt 1 mm A< m 1 1 ' i fi ^ k> A 1*1 if A' ", trm .1 V 4 R.i I ML •u 4 * mi ! m f Bt|n« m / \ :n m l if I 'IT*: fc.fi:.. j I ' ' uff-- - f a A V- sail m g • : a Hj: m J > i !|if 4 - ?f{ t m m f Y ’ \\v M : ' fffl Si I- : 1 11 A and other light weight wools ave much to be desired. Again the trim ming band and the belt can be of taffeta, while the waist is of wool or of thinner silk and various other combinations cau be made. A chem¬ isette of lace is always pretty, but there are a number of lingerie ma¬ terials that are essentially dainty and make variety. The waist is made over a fitted lining and consists of front and backs that are gathered at both upper and lower edges. The lining is faced to form the chemisette, and the trim¬ ming finishes the lower edge. The sleeves are arranged in tuck shir riags at their lower edges and are finished with shaped cuffs that match the ifclt. This belt is fitted with per feet smoothness and both it and the waist are closed invisibly at the back, The quantity of material required for the medium size is four yards twenty-one, three and one-fourth yards twenty-seven, or two and one half yards forty-four inches wide, with one-half yard of ail-over lace, four yards of lace edging and eight jards of banding. A Novel Schetno. An ingenious way of cloth has just come In. The paper pattern is pasted upon cloth, which is then placed in sewing machine. There is no needle. But the paper i s stitched along the line of the sign. And when the pattern or sign is lifted there is a handsome tern ail outlined underneath. little fine needle has marked it out the prettiest mauner possible. Vcry Light Colors. White biscuit, pale gray, a grayish light blue, soft strawberry and green, the shade of the tinder side of the leaf of an apple tree, are all modish and make daintily becoming wraps suitable for carriage and evening wear. Misses’ Fancy Pony Coat. Unquestionably the pony coat or the short jaunty jacket is to be a pronounced favorite of the season and is suited to young girls particu¬ larly well. Here is one of a quite novel sort that is trimmed to give the elaboration, while in reality is quite simple and which is as as well can be. In the illustra¬ the new Russian green broad¬ is trimmed with black braid and with holding silk, but there a number of fashionable shades season and Jacqueminot red is to recommended for young girls, as as the many beautiful browns tans. The jacket has the great of cutting both the cos and the separate wrap and can be made both from suit materials and from those used odd coats. The jacket is made with fronts, backs and side-backs, and applied bands that are arranged the seams above the trimming between which the trimming is The Tuxedo collar finishes the neck and the comfortably full sleeves are finished with prettily shaped roll-over cuffs, -SP-S M fa t! 'JJ m ' v ► , #1 l® P/I fi l 'VA m ; ® C’ * i \m 1 / OTIA The quantity of material required for a girl of sixteen years of age is i f our yards twenty-seven, two and j one-fourth yards forty-four, or two yards fifty-two inches wide, wRh j twelve yards of braid and three and j three-fourth yards of silk for lining, ; Paste! Shaded Veils. Automobile or other veils with a 1 border iif graduated chenille dots are unusually pretty in a fine grade of j chiffon, and come in many charming pastel shades. rsfft m V 3 and urN" I . : l \ / i M uri !5Ra> An Australian flower of the hibis¬ cus species is often used as blac^S’ the juice squeezed from four bios soms giving enough liquid to r oat a shoe with a fine lustre. Hunters in Canaan, Conn, do not have to gun for partridPf iS ’ get honelesslv dr u *rk feeding on pose berries, ana are then easily captured. A number of intoxicated partridges have been taken there. Daniel R. Lash, of Reading. Pa., picked thirteen bushels of apples from one tree on the William Gun gelman farm, and they weighed from seven to thirteen ounces each. Edgar H. Benson, o. Oak Ridge, ^ e > has been experimenting in pea nut raising for two years, and this >‘ ear has raised two bushels of nice large peanuts. New England s fil¬ mate is not favorable to peanut rais ins - One of' the oldest wills ever pro¬ bated in New York came in the other day after the death of Henry J. Behrens, an inventor, It was filed by John A. Foley, a lawyer, who pre¬ pared it for Mr. Behrens, March 1, 1867. The ‘village of -Stowe, Vt., has voted to adopt the curfew law to ap¬ ply to all pupils in the public schools, without regard to their age. The cur¬ few will ring every evening in the week at 7.30 p. m., except Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Of the ice-kept flowers of Vereier, a French florist, china peonies have been most enduring, some being fairly preserved after five months in the refrigerator. In his latest ex¬ periments he hag cut peonies with stems sixteen inches long, putting them in water, trimming the ends every three weeks and renewing water each month. In some parts of France walnuts form a regular article of diet. The peasants eat them with bread that has oftentmes been rubbed with gar¬ lic. The hygienic effects are consid¬ ered good, replacing meat to a large extent. These nuts are also used to make oil. It is much cheaper and similar in taste to that pressed from olives, and is employed to adulterate the latter. The prisoners in certain prisons are engaged in cracking wal¬ nuts and picking out the kernels, which are pressed into oil. A miner who lost his life two thou¬ sands years ago has been taken from a copper mine in Chile recently, (top¬ per oxide had mummified his whole body. Coarse sacking, evidently the clothing of the ancient Inca work¬ man, was found with the body, as were also two mallets, one fashioned out of granite ur.d the other out of ironstone. These implements were tied with thongs into bent sticks made as double handles. Both the hide and the sticks were as fresh looking when found as if they had been in use only the day before. CHINESE CIUCKFT FIGHTS. , How the Combatants Are Trained and Pitted Against Each Other. A. L. Parker has just returned from a trip to San-hui, a large walled city in Kwangtung Province, and while there visited the guard house, where he saw six or seven earthen¬ ware bowls of fighting crickets. He was much amused as to the description of the methods of sta¬ bling and dieting these insects. Dur¬ ing the day the female and male crickets are separated, but as soon as night falls they are mated. Their diet consists of water, boiled rice and a little ginseng, the latter being to give them stamina. In matching the insects to fight they are weighed, and a lightweight would not be pitted agair.st a welter¬ weight. The insects are spurred on to combat with a very fine piece of glass, which treatment naturally rouses their anger. The belief that crickets are dis¬ tinguished by pieces of colored wool is a fallacy. They are recognized by their owners as we recognize our canine pets. In a contest the first cricket to run away is adjudged the loser. The officer in charge of the guard house mentioned that a dispute which had arisen over a cricket con¬ test three years ago had yet to be settled, each party holding that the other man's cricket ran away first. Some of these crickets are indeed worth many times their weight in gold, several hundred dollars being sometimes paid for a real cham¬ pion.—South China Post. Music in the Workhouse. The Isie of Wight Workhouse now boasts an official harpist. Her du¬ ties are to lighten the dull hours of the inmates of the imbecile wards with solos cn the harp and piano. The appointment was made by the guardians on the recommendation of the Lunacy Commissioners, and an elderly woman named Grace has been selected for the post. Grace pos¬ sesses her own harp and piano.— London Tit-Bits. Al i-AiN l lC UM^T LINE* PASSENGER. SCHEDULES. "NOTICE: The'se arrivals and de¬ partures are given as information, as. well as connections with other com¬ panies, but arrivals and connections, are not guaranteed.” Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Qa^ in Effect May 27th, 1906. Departures. For Savannah and points North and East. Train NO. 68 leaves 7:40am Train No. 82 leaves 11:25am Train No. 80 leaves 11:20pm For Waycrcss and South, west. No. 89 leaves 5 ^Oam No. 85 leaves ll :30am. No. 21 leaves . 4:45am. No. 57 leaves . 8:35pm For Jacxsonviile and points south via Short line. No. 85 leaves 11:30am For Foikston via Short Line. No. 27 leaves 5:05aus Arrivals. From Savannah and North and Bast. No. 89 arrives .. 4:55am. No. '85 arrives .. 11:15am No. 21 arrives .. ,. .... 4 : 40pm' Nb. 57 .arrives .. . .. 8:30pm From Jacksonville and points South, via Short Line. No. 82 arrives 11:20am ■From Waycross and points South end West, via Waycross. No. 68 arrives .. .. .. ..7:35am No. 82 arrives .. ... . ..11:05am No. 80 arrives .. ... . ..11:15pm No. 22 arrives .. .... 7:45pm From Fblkston via Short Line. No. 26 arrives 7:30pm Nos. 26 and 27 daily except Sunday. All other trains daily. Connections made at Port Tampa with United States mail steamship of Peninsular and Occidental Steamships, line of Key West and Havana, leaving Pori Tampa Sundays, and Thursdays, at ll:4o P. rn. For further information, through servxiee, trains making local stops iti.d schedules to other points, apply TICKET AGENT, JE3UP. OA. Is. '1. MORGAN. Traveling Pas¬ senger Agent, Savannah Ga. E. M. NORTH, Division Passenger Agent, Savannah T. C. WHITE, Gen. Pass. Agt, mington, N. C. W. 1. CRAIG, Pass. Traffic Mana¬ ge l. ilmingten, X. C. after larger game. Ballot Box Stuffers Pardoned in Order to Testify Against Mayor. A special from Sacramento, Cel., says: At the request of Attorney Hen ey. Governor Pardee has pardoned Steffins and Wyman, the alleged bal¬ lot box stuffers, in order that they may testify against Abraham Ruef and Mayor Schmitz of Sfin Francisco. Steffins and Wyman were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for stuf¬ fing ballot boxes at the local prima¬ ries held a short rime before the last election of Mayor Schmitz Through the result of this primary election. Abe Ruef secured control of the county Republican convention. Charges were made that Steffins a:id W win an. who were actinv f.s election officials, had stuffed the ballet box in favor of certain delegates, They tvere tried before Judge Lawler and convicted. When Judge Lawler came up for re-election, November 6. lair, Ruef and his adherents made a bitter fight against him. and it wa? the nomi¬ nation of two mer. as candidate’s for superior judge on both the Republican and the Democratic ticket; in ordcr to make Lawler’s defeat certain that brought the present prosecutions for graft to a focus SLAYERS THANKED BY JURY. Remarkab’e Verdict Over Kill ing of Asheville Negro Desperado. At the inquest held over the body of Will Harris, alias Rufe Lindsay, the desperado, who was shot to death by a posse of officers and citizens, the coroner’s jury at Asheville. N. C., returned the following remarkable verdict: "The said Will Harris, alias Rufe Lindsay, came to his death at the hands of public-spirited citizens who at the time were in the fearless and unselfish discharge cf a public duty, that the law might be vindicated and justice administered: that said Will Harris, alias Rufe Lindsay, at the time of his death was resisting ar¬ rest and attempting to shoot and kill the citizens, above referred to. con¬ sisting of the posse who were attempt¬ ing under due authority of the law; to affect the capture of the said Will Haris, alias Rufe Lindsay. “That th'» citizens above referred tc. ronstiuting the posse aforesaid, as well as others who participated in the search and spontaneous efforts t'r bring to justice this incarnate Send and savage desperado, are entitled to the commendation and thanks of the whole community.”
