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k ■ COURAGE. Ills thev never knew or fear who : Um knightly few Whose joy Is still to serve and save. Bnt they who, la the weary night. ■ ■HnniiaMtmffibd|Has*- A raid the eadbiigh*. With pitiful worl.l-w«»riness; They who have yearned to stand among Hi free and mighty of tbe earth, - Whose sad, aspiring hope seals and hollow are wrung mirth— a W ith starless Who die with every dsy. yet live Through merciless, unnrightened M Whose sweetest righ t is to forgive And smile divinely through their tears: They ara tbe noble, they the strong, Thev are tb« tried. th« trusted one*. And though their way is hard and long— Mttaight to the pitying God It run*. -sas. ft. Mootgomery, in Harper's • v A n CnrMat' OliVIvv. Qoru i/)D f 4 Uli ^wVjiuL A * Yes, sir; I have carried the Barnlmr- ough mail for 3ft years, seldom miss- inga day. Hard work? I have to tramp over 20 miles, snushiu* or rain, every day but Sunday. yonder— You see that house over that pretty white cottage with the lilac trees in frout? Well, I was wit- ness to a romance which was enacted there a couple of years ago- ju*t as romantic as any novel that I ever heard of. A widow, Mra.'Wllson, lived there — a refined, jits# genteel old lady—and her daughter, Bessie. Hhe taught the Barn borough Church school -a h*rd, dreary life that must lie. Every niorniug when she came dow u the grave! walk to the gate, on her way to the scliool, she was almost cer- tain to see me, and she would wait until I came and bid me good morning so sweetly, and ask carelessly if there were any letters for them. But they seldom received any. One evening I saw Miss Bessie walking with agentleman. His name was John Keen, and lie occupied some position iu connection with the general postoffice police inquiry department. And I was glad when f found that he often went down at nights from his lodgings — w hich were a mile or so on the way to the London and Brighton RteUop—to the cottage,for I had some- how grown strangely interested in the Wilsons. . One dnv l heard that John Keen hnd been selected by the heads of the set vice to go out to eland to fully v l ligate red some in the irr^ularities |\mtofficea in which the a__v n VaM ffic .t icr.'’ T gi tm 'or rr, _ of «Thlt the sure matter. he would g^it to the bottom l did not see Mis* Hesaie for a w hom week after that; hut one morning there she w as, standing at the gate, waiting mv approach, her face pahs and anxious. “Any letters.' she cried eagerly, as soon as she had said“<iood morning.'* I knew that there w as. for 1 had noticed a large square envelope ad dressed to her in a bold, handsome hand, with the postmark London- den y. After that I used to bring her a let- ter with that same postmark every week; and she always looked so con- tented and happy that when, at last, one morning l drew near the Wilson's gate and saw the dim, neatly-dressed figure awaiting me, l hesitated to ap- proacli,for 1 knew that l had no letter for her. There was no letter the next day, or the next, and so on for days and days, Miss Bessie was always at her post, lml she grew so thin and pale that I hardly knew her, and I would just shake my head and hurry by, and so she realized that there was no hope. One day, as I was passing the cot- tage. I saw a messenger boy from the telegraph office standing at the gate, Then Miss Bessie ran quickly down the walk, and jnst as I came np she seized the brown envelope atul tore it I hen she tottered a step forward and fell to the ground like one dead, I could not help seeing the telegram; it was like all such messages—brief and to the point. They know how to stab the poor heart through. This was the message: “John Keen was drowned three days ago in Lough Fovle.” 1 rang the bell and her mother came ont. Miss Bessie was restored to con- sciousness.and,pale as a ghost, w alked into the house, leaning on her mother’s arm. bnt you conld see that all the light had gone out of her life. Mrs. Wilson wrote at once to the man w ho had sent the telegram, re- questing particulars, and soon received a reply stating that Mr. Keen had been missing for some time, was last seen in a boat on the lough, and dually a body had been washed up near Cole- raine, so mutilated as not to admit of identification, bat in the pocket a card had been found bearing a name which looked like “J. Keen,’’ but was almost obliterated by the water. . One day I found in my bag a large business-looking letter addressed to Mrs. Wilson, aud soon they told me the good news which it contained. A relative had died leaving them some §2000, anil l thiuk that I was as glad as they w ere, for they seemed like old friends to me. Not long after Mrs. Wilson had de- cided to give up the cottage, and take Miss Bessie to Brighton for a time, hoping to restore her health, which xvas failing rapidly. An impulse prompted me to ask for theiv seaside address. One day, a month after, as I xvas passing the cottage—it was still nn- ocenpied—I saw » man standing at the gate, and as I drew nearer mv heait gave a gi eat bound, and then stood still, for. dead or alne, it was Ji'iin keen’ 'V . /I *■** W: ■ 4?* y' El mmmm r V 'T) N * ! V o I [l Ek f. J S?'.!UE rr |4 : f*' V , i ■ m: * £ E&. & v>* wT# * f — “Bn!—but,” I stammered j*i ont, vF. “ar# yon really wWT He looked at me as though he thought me an escaped lunatic. Bo then . w, I began an.l told ^everything, juat as f hare told it tc ft, sir. His face was quite white k**n my story was finished. “Mr. Jarvis,’ he said, let me tell yon I was sent aw ay on a delicate mis- sion, and it was necessary that my movements shonbl be guarded and investigation* conducted. And then I wrote to Bessie, explain- ing the situation and telling her that she must not be surprised or troubled if she did not hear from me for a week, as I had promised to commum- cate my movements to no one. ‘ Two months expedition—successful, afterward, I retnrned from the too -and I learned that the wagon with the mail bags from the country town from which I had last written had been attacked, the driver killed, the mail robbed of valuables and .he letters scattered to the four winds of he »Tf°- "Hat, thank ... heaven, , it was all a mistake, and here I am, safe and *o«®4. Prosperonii, too, for tiie post- ™a*ter general has recompense.!, me handsomely for my successful services, and with my increased ealary 1 am * ree to marry as soon as the little w<unan is r«uy, * he wedding took place m good style not loeg afterw ard, for John would not how <>f being separated from Bessie again, and what do you fkjnk I was the first to kiss the “rule. Loudon Evening News. ~ DEBT^‘COLLECTING Bj' STARVATION, Th „ Ah , urd M.hraua s»«Tho«i ■*» rrartirrd in ittiin mihv, r Mmnarh ivii». Many queer stories are told of the persistence and eleve devices of tbe collectors of bad debts, but even a professional humorist would find it hard to invent anything more absurd t han the method actually in use among the Mahrattas- at least, if travelers’ t a l^ a are to be trusted. In that country—sotheysav—when and a creditor cannot get his money begins to regard the debt as desperate, he proceeds to sit “dburna” upon his debtor—that is, he squats down at the door of his victim's tent, and thereby, in Home mysterious way, becomes waster of the situation. No one can g f , j B or ol ,t except In his sanction, He neither himself eats nor allow s his debtor to eat, and this extraordinary starvation contest is kept np until either the debt is paid or tbe creditor gives up the siege, and in the latter ease the debt is held to be catieelni, However strange it may gmmur fo Enroneai!". thi* ■■cJMUm : L ;l demahu is an estabnshed universal usage among tlie and seems to them a mere matter of course. Kven their “Bcindiah,'’ or chieftain, is not exempt from it. The laws by which tbe “dhnrna” is regulated are as well defined as those of any other custom whatever. When jt is meant to be very strict the claim- „nf takes with him ■•a number of his followers, who surround the tent, and sometimes even the bed of his adver- sarv to make sure that he obtains no morsel of food. The code, however, prescribes the same abstinence'for the mau who imposes the ordeal; and, of course,the strongest stomach wins the day. After all, we have little right to ridicule this absurdity, for our own | aws w till provide, nominally at least, for starving a jury into » verdict. \ similar custom was once so pre- valent in the province and city of Benares that Brahmins were some- times systematically put through a course of training to enable them to eudnre a long time without food, They were then sent to the door of some rich person, where they publicly made a vow to remain fnstiug until a certain sum of money was paid or nn- til they perished from starvation. To cause the death of a Brahmin was con- sidered so heinous an offense that the cash was generally forthcoming, but never without a resolute struggle to determine whether the man was likely to prove stanch, for the average Oriental w'ill almost as soon give up fijg jjfc aa his money. — Boston Jour- ‘ ua p within *n inch of Heath. A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press relates a peculiar experience that happened to a friend of liis during a stay in Burnish. We were sitting on the veranda of our bungalow one evening, enjoying our afternoon eherdot. Finally my friend arose and sauntered into his bedroom. Usnally lights were placed in all the bedrooms, but this evening, for some reason—probably the moonlight—the servant had not performed his duties, I could hear my friend fumbling about his dressing table, and then suddenly he gave a cry of horror and rushed i out to the light. “I have been struck by a snake ! ” Ire gasped, and his face was deadly ! pale, Show “> Where is it ? Quick ! me !’’ I exclaimed, as I whipped out a kuife. He held out his right arm. There was no mark on the hand, which I ex- amined critically, but on the cuff of the shirt were two tiny scratch-like punctures, and two little blobules of poison sinking into the starched linen j j and leaviug a sickly, greenish-yellow mark, “You've had a close call, old man,” I exclaimed, with a sigh of relief, “and now let us settle the snake.” We found him coiled up on a small mirror, which lay on the table, and an ugly looking reptile he was,too, ready to strike again, He was a very poisonous snake. known as the Deboae Eusselli, but after my friend had done with him it would have been difficult for any nai- j nniiist to have placed him in his j proper genus. STILLMORE, GA. hill)AY? MARCH 4. 1898. AN AUCTION FOR WIVES. Under the Greenwood Tree in the Colonial I>«V* of Virginia. From the earliest settlement of the coloaies there has always been a defect j n tb e distribution of women in this coaatr y. It is a historical fact that while one section has always suffered f ro m an embarrassment of riches „ nother has P i ne d i n a needless priva- tion At t!ie ontRet of American coi- ouization the wilderness was hungry u , r men to till it> and thousand* of the i( H e laborers of London and Bris- tol pom . e(i into tbe neir Eldorado, Robert B ev«rlv, in b is “History of Virginia,’’pnblis'lietl in 1705 a d 1722, that . .. Those that we ut over to gentry fi rg t were chiefly single men, wbo had not the incumbrance of wives and children in England; and if thev had i thpv J di(1 not expofle 1 them ' d of long lo the fmtiR # hazard srt a roynge, until they saw how it should fare witb themselves. From hence it canie t 0 p a8s tliat when they were set- Fietl there and in a comfortable way of subsisting a family, they grew sen- a iuie of the misfortune of wealing w j veB) an j snt ,jj a3 had left wives in England sent for them, but the single meu were put to their shifts, “Under tbe difficulty the v had no hope*;bot that the plenty iu which ^hey lived might invite modest women of small fortunes to go thither from England. However, th y would not reee j T8 an y hot such as could carry sufficient certificate of their modesty at id good behavior. Those, if they were but moderately qualified in all other respects, might depend upon marrying well in those days, w ithout any fortune. Nay, th^ first planters were so far from expecting money with a woman that twas a common thing for them to buy a deserving wife that carried good testimonials of her character, at the prise of £100, had and make themselves believe they a bargain. “In one year Sir Edwin provided a passage for 1201 new emigrants, Among these were ninety agreeable young women, poor but respectable, lo furnish wives to the colonists. This new commodity was transported at the expense of the colony, and sold to the young planters, and the following year another consignment was made of sixty maids of virtuous education, young, handsome and well recom- mended. A wife in the first lot sold for lftft pounds of tobacco, but •* the value of tbe new article became known iu the market the price pounds rose, *»d a wife would bring 151) of tobacco. A debt for a wife was of a higher dignity than other debts, and to be paid first. “ ^ da Iron ■ »«* don, » lrtf August 21,1621, and directed a "ortby <s>!onist of that settle- ment, the writer “We send j'ou in the ship one widow and eleven maids for wives for the people of Virginia, There hath been especial care had in the choice of them, for there hath not one j of them been received but upon good ; commendations. j “In ease they < annot be presently j married, we desire that they may be I put with several householders that i h**'e wives. But the writer.^uf this epistle had little reason to feifir that any of the “maidens faire” would be left over, The archives of Virginia prove that these first cargoes of young ladies »'«»'« put up at auction beneath the green trees of Jamestow n, where probably the most anxious and inter- ested crowd of auction habitues ever known iu the history of the world were gathered, and sold for 120 pounds of leal tobacco each, and it was ordered that this debt should have precedence of all others. The solitary “one widow” went along with H*® others., for they could not be par- ticnlar in those days. The good minister of the colony no doubt bad a | !) usy time fees, that day. did He the did bridegrooms not men- tiou any nor think of tendering any. All was joy and gladness.—Buffalo (N. Y.) News, Perverted School Method*. 1“ the Nineteenth ward of Chicago, the poorest working class district in the city, the girls in the seventh of the public schools spent, last winter, more time upon commercial arithmetic than upon any other two studies. Their work would have been valuable, perhaps, for bank clerks ac- '-^ttiug finally engaged in the business and themselves for positions as Cashiers strictly technical of large institutions. work, theonlytech- It was nical education offered these daughters of Italian, Polish, Russian and Bohe- iniau peasant immigrants. Yet, with all this outlay of time, there was not a girl in the class who conld have cai¬ culated, at the end of the year’s work, what per cent, of her father’s earn¬ ings had been spent for fuel, light, food, clothing aucT car fare respective¬ ly, though this is the problem in re¬ gard to her own or her husband’s wages which will have to be solved in practice every day by every one of these children after they leave school. —The Chautauqnan. And He Still Stayed On. It seemed as if he never would go home. “riir,” said the maiden at last, in¬ dignantly, “I must show you the door!” Rising, he gently walked in the direction toward which she pointed her index finger. “Yes,” he said softly, after a criti¬ cal inspection. “It is a very nice door.” Theu he sat down again. A Modern Dorcas. “I will now proceed to give them fits,” said the beautiful maiden. Theu she took np her scissors and began to cut out red flannel garments for the lar away Ueatheu. Chicago News. TX HW^iFSICKNESS, "’ar- CUEER NOS : | N WHICH JOHN .CHINAMAj^Bk.g FAITH. ” chtnese Aa.tou.r.s.rr:* vector* l . , ... K or Mave orti.t w » Mi*tur»s—*|fosry. W&!’ ‘,, Mv exneriem 1 Chinese, • Sm!» writes J T Sc r "22TS2 the strangest 4-_ ln • tk t > * w orld. If anv A’*? c J >n fi^ 7 societr w ere t lnto tk ®. m ® tktK ^ pursued l»v in the found mater! ■ugh to keep society occup . the law courts for years. It is a gtMrdly _ „ . moam a that nearly eve Chinese mercantile 1 store in tbis cq i'ry has attached to fin c and a pharmacenti- chooses his otftf China C every j one a-^ , J person mav fj 11 ? * title of p y- si<-iau without G“ “« fZl .vide.™ of professional com- patency, TherJ J a T* .“""tette* leges and no e if'ainution tests exist exist to worry the vf 11 .* 4 ’ practitioner*, askec\^ , “old diplomas mCl “ , gr * D Anv T quack q or the ue n ‘^t ignorant . bumpkm , * may become a mcticmg physician, and by his sne Sgr® * u oon-suecess fix profession ’ tbe iJS/m an*!! unlimited libeilj cupation has re? * e l ln m «ktng the e Chiuese medical . and when the O * b f a Chinese doctor l “ 2 , ?^ , as one of the pat th!^ physician Chined an dap 'fc?elrte* for in China le b * * they ol ’ can <>arrv t'lul’mnst**xhil.it , pass an exannnat. a diploma from cci^‘" tl ‘“‘ .'. * Medical study olfiShTnle llv learning the wheM Cb ^f 1 works, and’ knowlei®* ) J' *„ . limited 1 , , “ “ . accordance with! lA'^ , blne8e maxlm ini ’ “The older the Jc' cesBfttl a ife^^retir d - 1 'f l 8 l !«*medicine T en nD ‘'" C ' Chinese adage. *- V for sickness, but f f»* ’’ The visits aud exai prhW^ Sk, J, erv reasonable in from lo cents tcM V , • wrapped up iu * * “golden thanks. '■ ** ‘f ^ furnished are vcM uJ'rrT g The'fnt^plogyjl-' verv’iMr • j f If® .. Chinese especiaU^K' is eases, •q«h2iiii^K'T Y in ; ''iseases, C jtre o^'anTwarn^^Bors - etc!,"itre'Vs- i signed in accnrdAWe F w ith their benign 01 malign ch«ru? to Yo (the good pviaciple) m Yu the evil principle.) To Yo belongs cate inflammatory fever, to Yu, hectlcfever, etc There are, aceort ling to Chinese pathology, 10,000 varieties V>f fevers. They imagine there is a distinct and differ- ent pulse in everrJp&rt of the body. They “play npoif’ the pulses as is done in playing tile piano, where we feet it. In this practice the changes of the moon and -th: season of the vear are eonsiderei The performance often lasts several hours in the “heavenly spot’ <-0 upper the “earthly part of the carotid arterv. m- on spot.” Jot,” near the ankle, or the “human at the wri-i "'th three fingers -sometimes on tite right arm, some: times on the left, now higher up now lower down, now <,m one side, again on both sides, etc,] The three fingers used are the index, the middle aud the little finger. Devnse, the index finger, indicates the spirits of the liver; Quan, the middle finger, the spleen, and Shakir, beak. the little finger, indicating the klse In diseases of the heart, the left li*r is investigated, in those of the the right. Each sjieck of the tongje and every dis- coloration of the Jt organ points to special diseases a viscera. Thus, a red tongue tudicnus warmth of the heart-and the so£h; a white tongue the lungs anil the west, etc. Anatomy and pfevsiology occupy the lowest giade m Chinese medical science. In the|l veneration of the dead dissection of*he human body is ot comse, exclude*, and they never practice amputati«> They do not know the distmctin between arteries and veins, and ciWtheheart “thehue- band and the luAfi the wife. The Chinese emim* -3b.> bones, in- cluding the female eight i'A^gjttale twelve and ribs six for cramuri, in meu and fourteen in women. The , circulation, according to their ideas, flows outward fron the lungs hve times m twenty-foil-hours and termi- nates in the liver. , die bile is tbe speciai origin to tm voice, the spleen is the seat of reaA, and with the heait, furnishes iii*s; the liver is the granary is the resting of the place* soulL|hile the the stomach etc. Chrnese phrenoloAts look for the principal characteristics of a man in his forehead and Hr a woman in the back part-of the cratmm. There and is a dist^im between pby- sicians snrgeot ana it is more sharply defined thai with us Every man is expected to fstick to his own branch of the profusion. The sur- geons signed are to inferior extreme^ swvice ignorant, and receive at e as¬ little pay, so tha* their shops are poor. Chinese suij-ery (wae-ka) em- braces the regarcKajft^Jjib-ersal pract ice | of g cupunchere, w hich is v«Cjectthe rerne- dy, and has for >*lkit-i. quicken¬ ing of the “vital f- ” It is prac¬ inserted ticed by twisting, into tl<s b|ty, driving and in a the needle first case it is called rifdschibari, in the last udschibari. this operation a free passage is supposed to be made for the “winds.” Insides this, Chi¬ nese surgery indua-s application of moxes, cupping, noeulation, para- centeris of the eye ail-iji^ny fud bleeding, Sur- gieal operations confined to removing a tooth, j -/“king sores and humors with needles and trying to re¬ duce discolorations and reunite frac- tures by pressure or bandaging. Un- der ordinary circumstances, they make shift with poultices—in this live-cat s liver is specially popular—while frae- tures *r« treated by extension. Poul- Uee* made of many strange or dis- gusting substances are applied rarely to in- jnred parts. Vivisection is at- tempted, but leeches and cupping are *^^ em ph)ved to remove the blood from a 1 - .**.. k^h.* « .*. mnscles ^massage), which is said to have been in use 2000 years before] Christ, is likewise practiced. The Chinese also claim to have been able for thousands to anaesthesia by means of the prepara- jo , The Chinese despise defini onr mighty aud prefer to swallow m j ltm es fearfully and wonderfully brtwed, which for ever so many him- TearR have been mentioned as in- '* mbU t, “ tbi " e “ pharmacology consists of forty octavo volumes, aud contains remedies from »o»tAolo.i,.lT,..di.Ter,co vegetable and animal kingdoms al- 1 no» ! . Jt inc j u< ] e! , R50 different kinds of ie " r< ‘ ! '’ * bout 350 vegetaWe medicines, 50 mine; al and 78 animal. The use of acids and reagent* is unknown, for ,1W T ““P 1 -'' ,uore kuonlet 1 K < * o{ chem * - Chinese Their istrv than the possess.* me a icines are arrft nged under eix heads—tonics, astringents, resolvents 1 )U 1 . gatire s, alteratives of poisonous humor9 ftn(1 of tbe blood Among many herbal medicines, which 1 m- doubtedly are more or less tomes, we fiud that ti,e Rame , l nalitieR » r * (ls ' eribed to stalactite, fresh tops of stag horns, dried red spotted lizards, siik- WOTra motb9 blsck “ nd whl,e Sea<1 ’ > ‘“ rtoise flheU * nd do 8 ' R meat * Oinseng, which used to be sold for eight ,imeS i,S nelght in R ‘ iver ’ the bead of all remedies. Tea, in various modes of preparation, is much VftIu * d ** a medicine, and different parts of rare animals are included in the list with the reputation of prop- erties as multifarious and inconsistent as the pills of a quack. A Or.., GolU Mine? „ In ,nan y °‘ bl P l »‘' e8 throughout the - found silent slid southwest are to be melancholy mins of smelters and ore- decay. Once they w e»e famous x.eaith producers ; now they are the property of anybody who should think it w orth his while to pay freight on the old lumber and iron work. Of them all, perhaps, the most melancholy semi- ruin is tha^of the old Vulture, at the t( , wn 0 j Wick^burg. in (Jfutrai Ari ’* HT '“ ”*, k *' d 7 * 8 s "” ,li ^ '| 8 a - v wonderfui ' “J j V\ 1 * 1 ’. vriutl "\ ' s «* 1,1 the ® ar y 8 f. t * n tb ® v ultnr « was mil . lonwrea. . It made at least thirteen of them, and if half the sto- ries told of it be true, not less than twenty millions were stolen from the mine which never was accounted for on the books. It was located by Henry Wickenburg in 1803, and soon became tbe greatest gold mine in the United States, The old workings give evi- ' deB , f , « almOB . , t f abu, . °' 18 d , f slt .™ that ° ? I ed 1 to P ? was wo lhe r “ me was alw ^ a ™>mdered » , howev r a,ld “ ot Ie8S ra P> « - known . have been »•» lo I>«»ed beneath its walls of precious ore ' 1“ the heyday of Senator Tabor s Parity he purchased the \u tore and lf scientifically, only to find that nothing remained of its vast richness but the pillars of rock that supported acres and acres of under- ground , chambers , , and , vaults In T order , to P^. 1 / reimburse h.mself for ns «Penditnre on the property, benator Ta >or had these pillars “shot out” and f onvar ted * uto bu,Il ? n * but thls left tbe 1 1 Vulture penniless I and , an un¬ a ”PP orted cripple. - San Francisco *' New York the Railroad Centre, “Reasoning Out a Metropolis” tfae mle of an article in St , Nicholas, wriW en by Ernest Ingersoll. Mr. Ingersoll says: Railroads began to be built about 1830,and the New Yorkers were soon pushing them out in all directions, supplying the money for ^tending them farther and farther nor th an( j west, and connecting them into long systems controlled by one h ead. Other men in other cities did the same, bnt by aud by it was seen that no railroad between the central wes t and east could succeed in com- p e tition with its rivals unless it reached New York. The great trunk roads> bllilt or ftided by the Baltimore men to serve their city, and by the Philadelphia people to bring trade to them, and by the capitalists of New England for their profit, never suc- ceed ed, therefore, until they had been pu8h ed on to New York, where the volume of commerce was coming to be &8 gre4t aB> or greftter than> that of a n the other American ports put to- gether _ Now New York has become the rea , headquarters of every impor- tant railwav 8T3tem in the United States; that is, it is here that the financial operations—the money part Q £ t he management^—are conducted, thongh the suprintendents of its trains and dailv business may keep their offices somewhere else, N«wspaper Rack. One aud a quarter yards of ordinary linen crash fringed at both endip and neatly herring boned together,’ A casing run across the top for the in¬ sertion of a brass rod, which is sus¬ pended against the wall by means of ribbons tied in a bow- at the top. On one side have the word “Newspaper” stamped in large letters, a spray of flowers or anything you choose. Near the Caspian sea there are sev- eral “eternal fires,” so called by the natives, where natural gas issues from the ground and ha* been on fire for ages, WrightsvillecfcTennille Railroad Company. U. W. Perkins, Pres. & Supt. F. H. Roberson. Hen. Pass. Agd Teintillc, Da. Dublin, Da. RE vD 1)3 v : X . ....... ♦ [I ------- : —liKAD rr. 7. 1 So. ; | also. I '■ Pccemb-r Vi, 1897. (No. Ex. ‘.'j Kv 4]. .(No. Ex. 61 So. S No. r Ex. So. 1 |Sund. 'Daily,tSnn’.v Idund. mi t. iStm’.v lOtuiy.iDaily. Central Time. Lk.' rfli.TpTjL ArM i’.H ~ ~ ,p, m. pa.m. .......I 900 9 00 84- 9 00 Lv.... Savannah ....Ar 6 00 8 0i 606 6 00 .......i fhltj 7 5 f 7 50 7 SO ......Atlanta...... 7 35 7 45 7 45 7 35 .1 8 40 840 8 20 8 40 ......Augusta...... 6 55 6 35 6 3 6 55 .( 1138. 1133 rnss ;i 3S Macon....... 3 45 3 55 3 55 3 45 furfur ...... 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E upne an I S.m !««■ n Rulw.y ft!at;ona North and Snuili. and from IhiKitW WrijihUvilte A IV n iillo Ita E a I Htanoin with the Control of Georgia Railway ifia for all noiu a Soutii, East an'il West. T ckets fold and Checked through to and from princq.al points. Stillmoro Air Lino Railway. Schedule Taking KfTc. t Sunday, Teh. Oth, 18!>8. EAST BOUND— Bead Down. WEST BOUND -Bead Ur. STATIONS. IPa-s. Daily Mixed DailyEx.Snn Mixed DulvEx.811:1 I Pass D .ilv. I | 7777 No. 17..... No. 3. J »•*. i. NS'2. No. 4. No. 16. 12 35ptn.... 7 00pm J 7 30am 47am Lv.... ......McLeod... Swainsboro. ..Ar 11 11 30am 10.ro to II 00pm 40pm j 10 10 35am 15am 1 oopm 7 17pm 7 10 40am 10 10pm 9 40am 2 30pm.... 7 50pm 8 20am . .Stiilniore,. . 25am 55pm 8 58am 2 45pm.... 7 57pm 8 27am .. Hnrryliill.,, 10 9 05pm 8 12pm 8 42am < 'or-’ica... 10 16am 9 46pm 8 42am 8 ... ..Oobbtowp.. 9A8.m 9 29pm 7 50am 3 30pm.... » ‘27pm 8 57am; . 9 5t 9 2lpm 7 15am 3 40pm. 8 34pm 9 04a mi 1 ... .Scctionville. . Lv 40 am 9 !0pm 7 00am 4 00pm .. 9 45 pm 9 15* mi I Ar......Cifdli’m. .. 9 am ... UoNSlv "tloSTc Alabama Railway At Collin* Train No. I makes close connection with Georgia A westbound, for Lyons, Helena Cord. 1c. Americng, Montgomery and points west, and With Collin* and R edavdle lta lwav for liiedsville. A Alabama Railway, out¬ At Collin# Train Hrt. 3 msk.s elosc connection with Georgia Uie.tavi'.m. bound. riving at Savannah at IJ :20 p.m., and with Collins UiedaviHe Uaihvay for a wilh Milieu A Southern Railway for Mdlen and Augusia, At Stillmore trains conn-et M. A B. B. Ry. for Midvilte. At Swainsboro trains councc*. with S, BRINSON, Prcsidentsiml Supenniorob nt. GEORGE if. A QUEER DOME. An Oddity in Method of Construction 00 th* blond of Malta. There are few places in the world where one may stand and count, with¬ in range of the naked eye, thirteen domes, among which is one of consid¬ erable dimensions; yet this can be done on the island of Malta. Stand ing on a hill above SUema, a short dis¬ tance fi*om Valette, thirteen domes are xdthin sight, an,l that of Moat a i» one d^them, to-ering high squalid tin above village, Its neighbors. Mo?,fa is a sitAnt i chon*, onr - the ritt’ of Valctta Lnt .........ftim7 It was » toVn of consldetable importance. tit the early part of the p esent cen- tury the villagers and cure, finding the o!d ,. Uim>h too small to accommodate the increasing population, determined to enlarge the church or build another. The village mason xvas consulted, and after several confabs over the matter, it was decided to build a new churel altogether, and that n must be built on the site of the oid one; and it was also decided that the old church should not lie removed until the new one was ready to occupy. Here was a dilemma. The whole mat.ter, however, was left p the hands of the priest and the ma- Dn. These two men set about the lork, built the new church over the yld one, and as soon as it was ready the old church was carted away so rap¬ idly that not even a single Sunday service was omitted. The great dome was built without the aid of scaffold¬ ing within, yet it is one of the largest in the world and is considered among the finest. The mason who erected this structure applied many original and novel devices that are not permissible in general building practice, yet time has proved that, his methods were in the main correct, for, so far as can be discovered, the church stands as solid to-day as when built, and the great dome that surmounts the edifice shows out the least, sign of movement. Here is a list of the principal domes of the world and their dimensions, showing the importance of that of Mosta: St. Peter's, Rome, is 333 feet in height, with an interior diameter of 137 feet. The Pantheon, Rome is only 14t’> feet high, hut it has a diameter of 142 feet inside. St. Maria, Florence: Height, 275 feet; diameter, 137 feet. St. Paul’s, London: Height, 220 feet; diameter, 108 feet. Santa Sophia, Constantinople, Height, 182 feet; diameter, 107 feet. The dome of Mosta is 200 feet high and 124 feet in diameter, being ,0 feet larger than the great dome of St. Paul’s. One of the largest dom.es in India, the land of domes, is that of Gol Go- muz at Beejapore, which is 175 feet high and 124 feet in diameter, ranking like that of Mosta between St. Peter’s and St. Paul's. The exterior height is 198 feet. This dome covers the tomb of Mohammed Sbaw, the sixth king of the Moslem dynasty in Beejapore, who died in 1089, so that the building Is nearly contemporary with St. Paul’s. The name signifies the “Rose Dome.” The- Sultan is buried under it with the simple inscription, “Sultan Mo¬ hammed, a dweller in Paradise.” Internally the extreme plainness of ?he Mosta dome, increases its‘appear¬ ance of size. It is perfectly smooth, and if the exterior was as simple the building would be much more agree¬ able. It is built of a beautiful yellow stone, but possesses no architectural merit other than what pertains to the dome, as the building itself Is disfig¬ ured with a series of mongrel carvings and mouldings of a very debased kind. —Architecture and Building. Don’t forget that we are always pleased to contract for advertise¬ ments or enter subscriptions to our paper. We would like to hear front V0U. we*?. DARIEN & WESTERN RAILROAD AND CONNECTIONS. aoHsntrms now in kffeot. Leave Darien............. 9 UO a m Arrive Darien Junction. ...1021am Arrive Savannah....... .12 00 m Leave Savannah....... . 4 20 p m Arrive Darien Junction . 5 42 p id Arrive Darien......... . 7 02 u m Leave Darien........ .... . 4 10 p m Arrive Savannah..... .....11 10am Arrive Everett .. .felt.... Jacksonville... Arrive Atlanta....... Leave Atlanta..... .....10 50 p m Leave Savannah,.. ..... 5 38 a in Leave Jacksonville. ..... 8 15am Leave Brunswick .. ..... 9 25 a m l eave Darien Junction .....10 50 a m Arrive Darien........ ..... 12 10 p m Both trains leaving Darien make close connections at Savauuah for all points north, and trains arriving at Darien make close connections from all points north. Train leaving at 4:10 p. n. makes close connection at Darien Junction for Everett City, Brunswick, Jackson¬ ville aud Atlanta, and all intermediate points. Trains run daily. Standard time. F. H. McFarland, Gen. M’gr. ScMole of tie Watoy& Mailt VerioiBl Effective September 13tb, 1895. The Wad ey A Mount Vernon R. R. i* now giving much moio satisfactory and excellent service to the traveling public, having doge put on * regular schedule train, making con nem tion wish the Cential and L- A W. railroad at Wadley and the Atlantic 8 ort Line at Adrian. We confidentially trust the people on the line of road and the traveling men generally will ap- preciite the following uchodule: Side* No. I No. 3| No. 2(\o. 4 A. M. P.M. STATIONS. A M. P.M. 0 7 80 2 OOLv Wadley Ar 11 3 6 06 8 7 5.5 2 52 Lv Pin tucky Ar 11 10 5 43 12 8 0 2 52!Lv S an cton Ar 10 4 5 20 15 8 30 3 OOlLv Kite Ar 0 3 5 05 17 8 45 3 15’ Lv Hotlo Ar 10 25 4 .'0 19 8 50 3 20 1 i liiner Ar 10 20 I 56 ,v 21 9 00 8 301 35jLv i.v Me ka Ar 10 lv 4 40 21 9 0i: 3 Ethel Ar 10 05 4 36 25 28 19 9 2:) 15 3 8 45!Lv 5>ILv Oil. Adtian .mville Ar Ar 9 9 45 55 It? 30 I 9 30 4 OOjAr RUville Ar « 35 4 0? N m. 2 and 3 m*ii and ex pres*. T. J JAJ1E-. Presidi-m. G D. Tyson. O F A P. Aa’t. The “ Smartest Dog.” John N. Conover, the liveryman, hat perhaps the most intelligent dog in all this country. He is a shepherd, and id valued very highly by his owner. George Coffey went out home with Mr. Conover a few days ago, and upon his return related the following to a rep¬ resentative of “The News:” “Well, 8ir, John Conover has got the smartest dog I ever saw, and if he was mine I wouldn’t take $100 for him. I was out at John’s to-day, and it was raining. The dog was lying by the stove and John said to him, calling him by name: “This fire is about out; go and get a stick of wood.’ The dog sprang up, went hastily to the woodhouse and returned with a stick in his mouth. Mr. Conover then remarked: ‘Go up¬ stairs and get my old hat.’ The sum¬ mons was obeyed, and in two minute# Mr. Conover was presented with his hat, but it was not the one he wanted, so he told the dog to take it back and bring another one, describing it, and this time no mistake was made. He then said to the dog: Tt is raining; go and see that the cattle are in the field convenient to the barn.’ The dog started with a yelp, and it was not long until he came in, satisfying his master that his orders had been obey¬ ed.”—Columbia (Ky.j News,