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About The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1894)
Rome Mutual Loan Association. HOME OFFICE ROME GEORGIA, 325, Broaj Street. A National Building and Loan Company, Purely-Mutual, safe Investment and Good Profit Made by small Monthly Payments, OFFICERS. , A Gl.<>vl- R ’ President. J. D. MOORE, Sec’ty & Treas. ril 1- OKAVES,(Vice President. .1. H. RHODES, Mgr’ laud Dent. *- HAL.TED SMITH. General Council. ~40. 304 Broad Street* fall millinery, EMBROIDED SILKS, and ZEPHYS, At lowest cash prices, Cal! on us. Respectfully, A O- G-ARRARD, Oss j f qßMaMii ScilBSM b-< ""r-TTW.'C.;.V.<.g? ■~—LJsa—rTT ’ gg: ' ;g= > oknn - AVROUB iIIUMiUUB B M IUIIUU Madison Aven e and 58tr,Street, NEW YORK- day ano up. American Plan, fireproof an j First- lass in every 7 a RT'CULAd- Blocks ir<nt live i hird and >ixt'» Avenue Elevated The Madison an i b’ou th A v<m->c and Bed Line Cars the 1 > •■>!•, H Al»CXßj!k£itKi 9 2)Top/i6tor Pa center E runs ad night. while attending court, 000-3 ’Sis ,Vi r £> •■••••■;■.::• Restaurant and Boaruing ; ouse, 11 r 'fil, Avenue opposite the New Cou t House dales fieasaaabi P> E. Williams, Proprietor. THE HUSTLER OF ROME. SUNDAY OCTOBER, 7 1894 FAREWELL. Farewell. We tiro sLu.il still meet day by j day. Live side by side. But nevermore shall heart respond to heart. Two stranger boats can drift adown one (ide. Two branches on one stem grow green apart. Farewell, I say. Farewell. Chance travelers, ns the path they tread. I -Chiftige words and smile And share their travelers’ fortunes friend with friend. 1 And yet are foreign in their thoughts the while, I Several, alone, save that one way they wend. Farewell. 'Tis said. Farewell. Ever the bitter asphodel j Outlives love's rose. ’he truit and blossom of the dead for us. Ah, answer me, should this have been the close— To be together and to be sundered thus? But yet farewell. , —Augusta Webster. BESSEMER ON BESSEMER STEEL. I I Marvelous Quickness In Converting Cast Iron Into the Hardened Metal. In The Engineering Review Sir Hen -1 ry Bessemer has an article on the steel ■ industry which bears his name. He re I minds us that a third of a, century ago Sheffield steel made from the costly bar iron of Sweden realized from £SO to £6O a ton. Now, by the Bessemer proc ess, steel of excellent quality can be made direct from crude pig iron at a cost ridiculously small compared with former prices and in quantities which the old steel workers never dreamed of dealing with at one operation. In lieu of the slow and expensive process of converting wrought iron bars into crude or blister steel by 10 days’ I exposure at a very high temperature to the action of carbon, cast iron worth , only £3 a ton is, Sir Henry says, con verted into Bessemer cast steel in 30 minutes wholly without skilled nianip- ‘ ulation or the employment of fuel, and while still maintaining its initial heat it can at once be rolled into railway bars or other required forms. The article gives a vivid picture of , all that has been brought about by this revolution in a manufacture in which up to our own time there had been no change since blades of matchless temper were wrought in the forges of Damas cus and Toledo. Steel is now adapted to a thousand purposes of which our ancestors had no conception. Byway of giving some idea of the enormous production of Bessemer steel now, Sir Henry asks us to imagine a wall 5 feet in thr.ckness and 20 feet high, like a gigantic armor plate form- > ed into a circle and made to surround j London. The inolosure so made would ! extend to Watford on the north side, to • Croydon on the south, to Woolwich on t the east and to Richmond on the west. It would contain an area of 795 square miles, and this great wall of London, weighing 10,500,000 tons, would just be equal to one year’s production of Bessemer steel. Oratory and Wit. “A curious thing about political ora tory and wit is the side light I got upon one aspect of it years ago in Buffalo.” Thus Mr. Cleveland is quoted by a lis tener. ‘‘One morning a quaint looking old chap came into my office and said that he had read in the newspapers that I was to speak at a mass meeting the following night and wanted to know if it were true. When I told him that it was so, he revealed to me a new method of gaining oratorical distinc tion. He volunteered to interrupt my 1 speech at stated intervals with a remark ■ that should be agreed upon between us. ■ To this interjection 1 was to retort wit- i tily, and thus, as the old fellow pointed out, I would acquire a reputation as a witty speaker. “My first impression was that he was amusing himself at my expense, but he repeated to me several things I could reply to wittily and wanted me to pay him roundly for helping me to a reputa tion. But I told him I was indifferent to that kind of fame, and he went away disappointed. Not very long after that ; I was seated on a stage listening to a > speaker, when who should arise in the I audience but my quaint visitor and bawl out one of the very things he ■ wanted me to pay him for interrupting me with. The orator answered him with the same retort that I was offered the privilege of making, and the audience exploded into laughter, and I heartily joined in, but my amusement had not the same foundation, I fancy, as that of I the rest of the laughers. And during the rest of the evening the old fellow made an occasional interruption from different parts of the house, and the re- j torts were of the same manufactured sort. lam a trifle skeptical now on the I subject of witty retorts.” —Cincinnati, Commercial. Collecting Astor House Kents. Possibly it is not generally known that the Astor House block has two own ers, whose relations are strained, to say } the least —John Jacob Astor and Wil- j liam Waldorf Astor. Although the rent of the hotel itself is necessarily paid in a single check, that of the stores and offices at one end of the building is col lected by the representative of one As tor, while the revenue from the other end is garnered by the representative of the other. —National Hotel Reporter. Unjust Discrimination. Officer Phaneygan—lt’s thin you’re lookin, Mike. Officer O’Morphy—”Tis the fault of the chief, be handed to ’im. Officer Phoneygan—How’s that? Officer O’Mjffphy—Shure, an ho put me on a blffi with never a fruitsfand on it, the discrimiaiating blaggardl Chicago Record. Knowledge will not be acquired with out pains and application. R is trouble some and deep digging for pute waters, but when once you come to the spring they rise up aad meet you. Empress Josephine owned the finest . opal of modern times. It was called I “The Burning «f Troy. ” Its fate is uu- 1 known, as it' disappeared when the al lies entered Paris. CURIOSITIES OF PLANT LIFE. '' i trees That Distill Water, Funiisi, Light. Change Color, and Catch Fish. I On the Canary Island grows a fouu . tain tree, a tree most needed in some j parts of the island, says the San Jose j (Cal.) Mercury, It is said that the ’ leaves constantly distill enough water to furnish drink to every living ereii -1 j tore in lliero, nature having provided , this remedy for the drought of the ) > island. Every morning, near this part j of the island, a cloud or mist ari. es from the sea. which the winds force against the steep cliff on which the tree grows, and it is from the mist that the tree distil the water. , China, 1 -o. claims her remarkable j tree. Thi. .s known as the tallow tree. so called from the fact of its producing a substance like tallow, and win.4l I serves the same purpose, is of the same consistency, color and smell. On the j island of Lewchew grows a tree about the size of a common cherry tree, which possesses the peculiarity of changing the color of its blossoms. At one time : the Hower assumes the tint of the lily, ' and again shortly takes the color of the rose. In Thibet there is a curious tree : known as the tree of the thousand im ages; its leaves are covered with well l defined characters of the Thibetan I alphabet. It is of great age and the only one of its kind known there. The caobab tree is considered one of I the most wonderful of the vegetable kingdom. It appears that nothing can kill this tree; hence it reaches an astonishing age as well as enormous j size. The natives make a strong cord from the fibers of the bark; hence the trees are continually barked, but without damage, as they soon put forth ! a new bark. It seems impervious to fire an 1 even the ax is resisted, as it I continues to grow in length while it is | lying on the ground. In Mexico there is a plant known by the name of Palo de Lechc. It be- I longs to the family of euphorbia. The Indians throw the leaves into the water and the fish become stupefied and rise to the surface and are then caught by the natives. In this case the effect of the narcoctic soon passes off. The milk of this plant thrown upon the fire gives out fumes that produce nausea and headache. The milk taken inter nally is a deadly poison: it will pro- I j duce death or insanity according to the ' size of the doze. There is a popular j ! belief among the lower class in Mexico ! that the insanity of the ex-Empress ; i Carlotta was caused by this poison. AN ARTIFICIAL NIAGARA. England’s Scheme to Utilize the Current. of the Irish Channel. ■ England does not propose to be be- I hind the United States in the utiliza- j tion of natural waterpower for electric , lighting and machinery. Since she 1 has no Niagara, she proposes, it is said, I to make one. The force to ba borrowed , is that of old ocean itself, says an ' article in the Boston Traveller. The North sea flows through the | Irish channel with a swift southward j current. At the Mull of Cantire, , only fifteen miles from Scotland, the average depth of the strait is not more than three hundred feet. A dam built ' at this point would incidentally per- ' mit of railroad connection between the : sister islands. But the main purpose ; of its construction would be to Lank , up the waters and create an artificial difference of levels. The sea north of such a wall would I at once rise higher than the Irish sea, which would be turned into an inlet or I bay. By tapping the dam an almost in- i | exhaustible power could be drawn . upon, since the greater width of the wall would more than make up for the steeper descent of the narrow Niagara ' river. Secondary advantages, such as I increased navigability of the now stormy Irish sea and improvement i:i the ports of eastern Iceland are claimed for the plan. Sensitive About His Asre. j When a distinguished man like M. : Grevy refuses to tell his age, surely or- ■ dinary women may be excu.-?.l for so ' 1 purely feminine weakness. By thi.-, sub- I ; terfuge the president misled his country- : : men into believing him to be six years ' younger than he was, according to an anecdote, as follows: “M. Grevy was al- j ways very reluctant to tell his age and ' , openly admitted that reluctance. At a ■ dinner party given by one of his ' friends in 1872, the future president of the republic said, with a smile: ‘Peo- I pie may try as much as they like, they will never know my real age.’ And, in fact, when M. Herold, who was some time a minister of the third republic, endeavored to obtain definite particu : lars of M. Grcvy’sage for a new edition j of ‘Vapereau,’ M. Grevy persistently re fused to supply them. The archives I of Mountsous-Vaudrey were burnt in ! 1813,’ he said, ‘and you must do the best you can. You'll get no informa tion from me.’ As a consequence, all ' M, Grevy's biographers gave the year ! 1813 as that of his birth, while in real- ; ity he was born in 1807.” The Discovery of Glass. There is little or nothing known , with certainty in regard to the inven- I tion or discovery of glass. Some of the ) oldest specimens are Egyptian, mid the ' age of certain glass vessels made by that people, which are now kept in the British museum, is believed to be at least 4,194 years, dating back to the year 3300 B. C? Transparent glass was first used about 750 B. credit of this latter discovery being given to tebe Plfaepicians. The old story of its occi dental discovery ifl-familiar; Merchants who were,resting their cooking ppjts on blocks of subcarbonate of soda found gfess produced by the union, under heat, of the alkali and the sands of the desert. A Russian Charm. The Russian method for young girls to find out when’they will be married is for a party ut them to assemble and tak<v>ff their rings and drop them into a basket of ccm, stirring the grain I meantime till all the rings am hidden ' akid then a hA is brought in and in vited to partake of the corn and the owner of the first ring uncovered will be the first to enter matrimony. . ' PARALYSIS FOR SALE. . Alcohol as a Destroyer of Health, Moral, ity and Prosperity. - | Paralysis has long been deemed one i of the direst misfortunes that could as- • Hict humanity—a death in life —the • heart still beating, the form perhaps • unwasted, but the hand powerless, the - 1 foot bound more fast than by fetters of I iron, the tongue refusing to speak the > words of affection, counsel or com ; maud. To escape this the man of > : wealth will spend money like water, ■ , and the physician will send him to . j wander afar over land and sea to flee , the withering touch of Palsy's grisly hand. Yet this dread plague is now on sale, and daily pins based at fabulous prices . by thousands of the American people. j Whoever has seen a. drunken man or a , , ( dr: tkard has seen a ease of paralysis. | There is paralysis of muscle. Itmani-I fests itself early in thelips and tongue, | so that, like the Ephraimites who could not say ‘'shibboleth” at the fords of i Jordan, the i victim can not say “een- , tenary celebration,” and soon the baby 1 words “good night” become too much ! for the stammering lips. The eyes I grow heavy, the head droops, the hands I lose their grip, the feet stumble, and I soon, in one chaotic mass, what was a man rolls under the table or into the gutter. There is paralysis of vital energy. 1 Never was there anything more deceps i tive than the idea that alcohol is a sus- ■ taining power. It is from first to last | a paralyzer. Its very stimulus is due I to paralysis. Why does the blood fly j to the faee and surface of the body till [ all tingles with the glow? Why is the I brain stirred to momentary vigor and i unwonted brilliancy? For the same i reason that a railroad train dashes 1 down the grade when the brakes refuse | to work. Every artery is provided witji an elastic coat which acts as a brake, • restraining the flow of blodd. Alcohol 1 paralyzes the delicate fibers, the re straining agency lets go, and the blood ‘ rushes in full tide on its way. It is as J if the throttle of a locomotive should ■ be set wide open and engineer be , powerless to close it. But what is the ; result of throwing all the blood in the ' body swiftly to the surface and back : again? The same as the result of pour- ■ t ing hot tea from the cup into the ’. | saucer. The te.i or the blood is cooled, I i and the infall: ole test of the chemical ! j thermometer shows that the tempera- • | ture of the whole body will fall within ■ I a short time after the taking of aleo- | i hoi. Hence it is that the drunken man : j so readily freezes to death. Pure health for every human organ , ism depends on the constant and I prompt removal of the waste matter i of the system, every vein and cell send : ing to the surface through some one of ; myriad outlets the rnat.wial that has . done its work and become dead matter ’ foreign to the animal economy. If we I check this process by closing the lungs I or skin or any other channel, the I naan speedily dies, poisoned by his own | corruptions. Alcohol checks this re i moval of waste matter. The man i "bloats,” as we say, perhaps prides him self on his fullness of flesh, and goes , about an incarnate sepulcher, ready to i die of lockjaw if he runs a splinter into . Lis hand, or to become the ready prey ’ of any disease. There is paralysis of intellect. The man of intelligence, or even of high ability, utters maudlin folly with the , confidence that it is supreme wisdom, i and takes the laughter that greets his idiotic absurdities us a tribute to the brilliancy of his wit. Poor mental 1 paralytic! In a fair, bright day, on a i calm sea, a commander orders an im possible maneuver, persists in it against all remonstrance <-f his subor i dinate officers, and sends a great I battle-ship, with four hundred men, to the depths of the Line Mediter ranean to rest till the sea shall give up its dead. The current explanation is i that the commander's usually clear ; mind was cknided by alcoholic mists. ' Whether that was the fact may not be> surely known. But this i.< sure; all the i world instantly feels that, if true, this was svflicient cause. All men know ! that a few glasses of liquor would be j equal to producing just that result, j There is no wisdom tnat may not lie , turned to folly by the paralysis of drink. I There is paralysis of affection. Alco hol makes the man who comes home I one dav with love and tenderness for I ■ wifa and children to come home the next night an incarnate fiend, more dangerous to that family than a savage from the jungle. It leads him to drag them through years of poverty, hun ger, cold and wretchedness, while he squanders upon himself and his vile comrades in the saloon the wages that might support them in comfort. There is paralysis of will. Who has ever tried to help the drunkard who has not found this failure of that god like power? Here pledges fail. Here resolutions die. The man who knows ! that every step to the saloon is a step I to shame, woe, and death, goes, drawn by an invisible but resistless power, as if un 'er an enchanter's spell. He has come to what Coleridge called “com plete impotence of volition.” There is one greater depth, and i that is paralysis of conscience. I While conscience lives, even with i enfeebled will and mighty app - I tite. there is hope. There is something in the man to which we may appe. L But alcohol deadens, and at last p. r alyzes, the inoiad sensibilities, so t'lu.t , eight-tenths of the world's crimes are , committed and most of its vices per- ( petruted uqder its power. Either the liquor instigates to the crime, ov it is ; taken expressly to deaden the eon science so that the crime may be done. Ina Word, the magic effect of alcohol , Is to paralyze the nerve centews that are ■ the scat of all the finer, nobler powers, while it stimulates to fierce activity | these that are the seat of all the coarse, I animal instincts. It paralyzes all t*ha< is godlike in man, and maddens an< lets loose all the wild-beast instincts o. , his nature. Did space permit, it might be show » how for the nation this results in 1 .-<• paralysis of industry, as every shopa.i l factory suffers ft'MU drunken worker. : the paralysis of trade, as liquor de strevs the buvir Duwwr till millions nrc rngged and hungry and cold, whfli the bread and clothing and fuel thej need are left unsold on the dealer’i hands; that it is the paralysis of goo< government, as drunken citizens be i come the dupes or the purchased took of the corrupt politician; that it is th< - paralysis of religion and the church winning ten young men to the salooi for one that is drawn to the sanctuary But it is enough to say that this fel plague of paralysis is in the market, that half a million men are engaged in its manufacture and sale: that it is sold at a profit of four hundred pel cent.; that the American people pay one billion two hundred million dol | lars every year in buying the palsy; j and that the national government, I most of the states, and a multitude of | towns and cities look upon the spread* I ing of this wasting paralysis among 1 the people as one of the choicest ! sources of revenue, and that any at* I tempt to stay ths march of the disease | is regarded as an infringement of per- I sonal liberty. Across our land strides the grisly specter reaching out bis deadly hand* for all our noble, beautiful boys, the ' hope of the future of America and of i the world. More than against the cholera that comes on the winds from afar, let us quarantine against the dread paralysis that is bred in the vat and the still, and sold over the bar | within our own fair land. Let us make the quarantine wide as the nation sus | tained by the true hearts and strong i hands and pure ballots of all the good, i That quarantine against alcoholic ; paralysis we call national prohibition. I —Rev. .lames C. Ferna.ld, in Demorest’s i Magazine. ; THE POWER OF EXAMPLE. : Social CiiwtoniH Which I .cad the Voun< to Drink. A child’s character and beliefs are ' largely shaped by the daily unconscious . teaching of his father’s example—far more, too, by that example than by his | precepts. The effect of the most elo ■ quent and oft-repeated warnings to , shun even the taste of rum is entirely - dissipated the moment that boy sees his 1 father drinking in a saloon, or notes its : fumes upon- his breath. Children early I learn that there is a wide difference : between precept and example; and where a father’s practice in the matter ! of rum-drinking differs from the pre i cepts he lays dovzn from the guidance ' of his boy, we may be quite sure that the father’s example will be followed as to the practice, and the precepts be ignored. Actions exert more inlluenoe than words; example is far more potent than precept; < This principle of unconscious yet potent teaching by example extends! much further than over the period of ' childhood and youth. Many a youiig man has been led into the habit of drinking through the example of Li employer, or of his fellow-workmen - fellow-clerk. Thousands of rsen ha wrecked their lives by assuming t there was no harm in a habit in w’ they found their associates or their eg 4 ployers habitually indulged. Another striking instance of the ev of a bad example in the use of stror drink is found in. the fashionable hab ot having wines upon the table a forma] dinners, receptions, e.tc. T1 harm that results from this perniciot custom is Largely due to the examp' of a comparatively very few of tl ultra-fashionable set. They are tt leaders of fashion—they set the exan pie, and the others, desirous of beig ultra-fashionable, too, follow blindly What more striking instance can I>4 given of the power of example and on the imitative instinct of humanity,! prompting us to follow blindly the die-1 tates of others? We are Like sheep; we 1 follow a leader, even though that lead- ' er leaps a precipice, and we go to our deaths upon the jagged rocks of ruin below. In view of all these facts, it is the plain duty of every parent who wishes his sons saved from the vice of intem perance; of every employer who has young clerks or workmen; of every one who has the slightest influenca over his fellows (and who has none?) to i abstain utterly and entirely from in- i diligence in liquor. It matters not whether we believe indulgence on our . part harmful to ourselves or not; each of ns owes a duty to those under him, or dependent upon, him, which we must not shirk. No man desires to have the ruin of a life placed to his responsibili ty. We must set the example of absti nence, if we wish to rear a generation that shall be free from the drink curse; and that generation will add its power and its influence to the effort to pulver ize the rum power.—Toledo Blade. TEMPERANCE TIDINGS. Drunkenness is said to be ver in Rio Janeiro, coffee taking ■ i • .„. • of alcoholic beverages. T. V. Powderly, a 11. > -• . to how far the nearest saloon / > 1 ‘ from a schoolhouse, said: ‘’About . • hundred miles would be a reasonable distance, according to my way of think ing.'’ T;:'i 4-rand jury of Cometa county, 't. sometime since, made the fol lowing-report: “We note with sorrow lie marked increase of crime in this eou'ity, and that the same is traceable >-im >-t in' ariably to the influence of whLky.” "Earthquakes are supposed to have bei n responsible since the beginning of r rded history for the death of fully thirreen mllUon pesple.” And •..-ifsk hww many? We db m* vat. undoubbei the eartdt<«*« is the lesser curse. Still we are not tak ing tickets for Constantinople ju»» yet. —N. Y. Ob-erver. Os the enormous national dri*h h®l forthe!’’’” ’ "’ngdom last dd»<.- • S). 'd_- was d ■ u tlm :r:’ ■■ - ' »>f t Lt-I.ix. i ■: estiinaAss that di .id I'.iq . sons at about t i'.e a week. But if the -. i- ic ol h» were expended In t. ■ • ,11 an”. articles nearly five t::;iesas vrork people would I cm ycd. *-»t «R th ing ami v ‘.3>-le mas dis place lags vi b».'vAc4’.
