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The Pike County Journal.
VOL. VI.
JUSTICE COURTS.
ZEBULON
W M Hartley I P
C F Redding N P
Fourth Saturday
EPPINUEH
6 S Barrett J P
First Saturday
IIOLLUN VILLK
J W Dunbar J P
s N P
First Saturday
BRITISH
W J Coggtn, Justice
J P Baker, Notary
Second Saturday
d/EANSVILLE
C L Butler. Justice
H W McGinty, Notary
Fourth Friday
CONCORD
J T Beckham, Justice
Robt HMebendon, Notary
Third Saturday
SECOND
Robt McLeroy, Justice
J R Sykes, Notaiy
Third Saturday
PIEDMONT
T M Allen, Justice
J L Bussey, Notary
fourth Saturday
MOLENA
G B Rlount, Justice
E 5£ Eppiuger, Notary
rtdrd r rid ay
BARNES VILLLK
R L Merritt, Justice
G E Huglev, Notary
Third Thursday
MILNER
P G Moere, Justice
J E Gardner, Notary
Fourth Mon.l-y
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ZEBDLON, GA.
z lU Pike is KBUI.ON flanked e .tou?‘ county, on I» r iV situated and all 1 l»iw?S*t sides with in by it* Pike healthful gently 1 " 1 county iSttSo! sloping loca- ana
ids and fertile valleys. Hero is found every
Atlanta and Florida rah road, since its pUcei'm oomple
in*"a“w r Hfe mtoTe"o!d'm4m °i2d*
within about an hour’* rid© of Atlanta, the
C kriving *$arnpsvirle,N?Une- andpi-etenv.oastowns—the Concert and Melons are
twoformet
Toien other towns in the county of much local
!MlS^^b'vT';!SM!r.. people, it u instance of the , d li
*roa«ve an *ur.
, t roSnty‘iito ,C toJ r thl? iSge'liud
M the
prosperous county. toSSbSSekySnd'md
Dy more than 5.000 people. Ii is die recogi nizeti
jonotT paper and to it the people natu ; nu.
look information ou ail questions of loca
murest. aibantagci
inquiries witi. reference to special #t
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS .
S. N. WOODWARD
itlofney at L avi,
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BARNESVILLE. - - - GA.
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E. F. DUPREE. j !
A homey at Law,
ZEBULON. GA. I
Will practice in all tlie courts. Prornp
attention given to all business en
trusted to him. :
J. H- PHILLIPS,
Physician and Surcson ® ’
ZEBULON. - GEORGIA, 1
(Next door toJudge Dupree.)
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<:i. m. m’dowew,, J. HOOTKM ;
McDOWELL – HOOTEN. * j
Physicians n , . . and burge-ins,
MOLENA, - - GEORGIA, i
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DEMTIfe'V, _
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA ' 1 |
Office over Griffin Banking Company. :
Teeth smoothly arid permanently
filled or extracted without pain. i
E. w. Hammond. I.. CLEVELAND j
HAMmOnD 1 ■■■■nun – a ni CLEVELAND) mt-i ■ >1 n
Attorneys at Law, |
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. i !
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W. il. TYLER, j i
DENTIST, j |
BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA. !
D C BECKHAM,
Practical IFatclimaker and Jeweler.
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LIFE AND I.OVE,
Lite has hurried Love away,
As though he never knew its birth.
Love bolds no lasting fealty hero*
Upon this solemn earth.
Love, the bondsman, name an hour
To sport above t .e web of things {
Life, the master, went his way—
Crushed are the irised wings.
—Melville Upton, in S*n\>n?r.
OUR INVISIBLE GUEST.
IT U. C. PODGE.
S' v L were, spending v
a pleasant even
in# of' in tho parlor
my father’s
handsome coun
try home when
the front door
H|A ike AI 1*1 boll r«,io- rang , and tll1
started ns all
’ into guessingwho
fggtw onr visitor might
\ be.
In r spite of f my
blushing attempt
C – to ridicule the
idea it was pretty
well settled—by tlie youngest,
bors of our family, at least —that onr
ca! ! er I*™ t0 l ,e “ *»"“« mau
and neighbor supposed to be deeply
love with me, when our dainty
waiting maid announced a messenger
Of course that unusual , event *• in our
rural and sometimes too qmet
pn0 f T Ked *, htt,e conjw,, V on> and '
as the dispatch was addressed , to me, l
was watched with onrious eyes while 1
opened the envelope and read its con.
“Will start to-morrow to visit you,”
said; “have sent trunk to-day,”
signed, “Mary Norton.” She was my
very dearest girl friend on earth and
had long promised to visit me. The
anticipation of her coming made
everyone so happy that nothing more
was said about my ' “beau,” for which
I was thankful.
The next, afternoon the expressman
, brought the expected trunk. I had it
takc ? upstairs and placed in my room,
for i. insisted that my best friend
should share my lovely, sunny bed
chamber and not be poked away in the
cold apartment reserved for ordinary
Kucds.
After Borne trouble and complain
$»*. t™ the trunk whs unusually large
and heavy, the expressman, helped by
our gardener, carried it up and set it
against the foot of inv bed, there to
its beloved owner.
Ah 1 have mentioned, our house and
wore large and handsome, for
my father, being rich, prided himself
011 «>«>n»aiuing a borne befitting «
country gentleman. We also pos
eessed much jewelry and other rare
treasures, and, for fear of robbers,
out- house was well protected without
by dogs and within by bolts and bars
and electric alarms at each door
window. In addition we all had large
dinner bells by our bedsides to ring
furiously in case of necessity, and the
male portion of the family had no end
of guns and handy pistols
Consequently, on the following
morning when we discovered that we
had been robbed during tbe night, we
were frightened and shocked beyond
measure.
Almost every room had been eu
tered and nearly all onr jewelry was
gone. Even watches from under pil
lows and pocketbooks from father’s :
and And brother’s puzzling trousers had alarming been taken, j 1
most and of j
alt was the fact that not the slightest
sign of breaking in or out could be ;
found at a single door or window,
The electric contrivances were all nn
disturbed
IVho could have done the robbery? !
IVe couldn’t suspect, our servants of !
any share in the crime, for long years !
of faithful duty proved tho contrary,
If a burglar had secreted himself in
the house before closing time, which
seemed probable, how could he have |
gotten out and left no trace? The I
tnore we tried to solve the riddle the j
more mysterious it became to us,
’-hough tlie village constable, hastily j
sent for, said he’d soon have a theory :
to work on,
Iu the afternoon of that awful day
another telegram came to our house
from Mary Norton. It read; “Moth
er suddenly ill. Cannot come. Will
send for trunk. Please deliver to ex
pressman when he calls. Will write
particulars.” '
In au hour following that came the
expressman and, glad that Mary was
to be spared the unpleasantness of a
visit at such a forlorn time, we again
let onr man help bim away with the
heavy trunk from its place at the foot
of my bed.
For a week we did our best, assisted,
too, by city detectives, to discover a
clue to the robbers, but all in vain.
And every day we sent to the post
office for my friend’s promised letter,
but none came. Then anxious for
fear her mother was seriously ill, I
wrote to her. By return mail came
an answer, saying she had sent neither
trunk nor telegrams, that her mother
was not sick, and asking what it all
meant.
At once I understood onr robbery,
The burglar had been in the trunk
when it came, he had passed the night,
save when he was making the round of
the house, in my room when I was
alone; then with his valuable plunder
he had been shipped away in his queer
hiding place. No wonder the trunk
was heavy and big. No doubt from
peepholes in it the robber had watched
me certain I was sound asleep,
Then out at nuist have crept and—tho
thought , shudder and feel
faint. w
But, though we ired the cunning
and bold trick, wt* immediately set
about tracing the flunk to where it j
went after leaving m.r house. i
ZEBULON, PIKE CO.. GA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 13, 1894.
The eSpfetsmftfl. tvli am we found to
be honest and unsuspicious in the mat*
ter. had given it to the railroad which,
fcn telegraphic orders, had forwarded
it to an adjacent city. Therd it was
called,for and taken away by a dray*
man who likely was an accomplice of
the burglar, for at the station .
no one
knew him and nothing further could
be learned regarding the trunk, at least
was ou a week’s visit at my uncle s
house uoust in in a a distant instant town town. use bike in my
father s, it was spacious, and showed
evidence evuunee of ot the tne wealtn wealth it it nontainel contained.
One evening after supper and while
Were gathered in the parlor n
telegram was brought in and handed
to my Cousui Alice. Of coarse my
deiective eunosity was aroused at the
8imll *rity of the event and when it
turned out to bo almost identical in
re ,. wU * , 1
j™ the night ?'"“8 before onr burglar, , I , in- .
stantlv knew what was cowiimr So
did ww’n he rest f he ir,. as von may
f ® 8S - WLrc aot i 1 * norant to
tH1 *’
roi some moments we gazed at each
other in speechless astonishment,
Alien U ncle John, bound to joke* no
matter what happened, asked mo with
mook a ! I j OUBaes8 ! f 1 wonW Hk ,°. tl 10
expected , trunk set . in my room,winch, 1
being the guest chamber, was the
right place for it.
terror made him snule
' spite of hu straight face.
in
No ^o I I gasped I should
,,e t he MKk f oflt V (h : trnc, ° Jokn *
do sen , 1 for , the police at once. I m
««ro we’ll all be murdered in our
sleep.
‘res, but we want to trap your
gist friend,” he laughed, “and maybe
recover your jewels. However, if you
are so uuhospitablc, perhaps Alice will
take the stranger in.”
Alice, with a face more soared
than mine, declared positively that
she wouldn't.
“Well, then, I will do the honors,”
«ai‘I uncle, glancing mischievously at
his frightened wife
dolin I you sniiii clo no such tiling,
spoke np auntie, with a trembling
voice, ill nave the trunk till own
^owb the well as soon as it arrives,
No burglar, dead or alive, comes into
my room* ike idea.
Finally we settled down to business
and fixed on a plan to catch the com
»■* burglar red-handed and without
any danger to ourselves.
Early next morni.» K I morel .W
the guest ft chamber to \i\y room with
cousin Alice. Then my deserted apart
mf ' n ‘ bad its window b securely barred,
that our expected guest could not
escape through them should he leei bo
inclined, and its door was fixed to be
strongly bolted lroin outside, in the
hal1 - Some old watches and jewelry
ot small value were carelessly left on
ihe dressing ease to tempt tfie rascal
«ud keep him in innocence of our
cr ^ lt >' scheme,
Several well-armed men were to lie
stationed 4 quietly m and about the
house, to do whatever fighting might
be necessary, though our plan was to
}f* the burglar rest in fancied peace,
if possible, llien, after Insidepaitim.
111 th « trunk, we were to follow and
capture liiB puls in the city, and. so le
cover the previously stolen articles.
’T' 8 needless to mention our excite
m<? nt, of waiting all the next day for
the trunk, or our scarcely concealed
agitation when, toward evening, il
arrived.
Uncle John himself, loudly proclaim
ing his gladness at the pleasure of tho
visit it promised, helped the unsus
pecting expressman up the broad stair
ease and carefully left it in the guest
chamber, right side up and where it
could bo observed from the hall by
peeping through the key-hole of the
well-fastened door.
Before dark I mustered courage
enough to steal in stockinged feet to
the key-hole and peek in.
Yes, the trunk was the very one I
had entertained and oven sat on iu my
room at home, with never a thought
of iti horrid occupant. Ugh! The
sight of it sent chills through me and
aroused a feeling on my scalp, as if my
hair was tryiug to erect itself. Hastily
I ran away from that worse than Blue
Beard chamber, and never stopped
shivering till supper was over,
Yon may bemire no eyes were closed
in the house that night. The men
guarding the hall heard the knob of
the jirison-room door softly tried,
but, of course, it didn’t open, which
was Ineky for the rascal within.
At last daylight came and relieved
us of some of onr awful suspense.
After breakfast Uncle John noiselessly
unbolted the door and, carelessly bum
ming a tune and concealing a handy
weapon, entered the room. The trunk
stood just as it was left the evening
before. But the jewelry and stuff had
disappeared from the dressing-ease.
When brave Uncle John returned to
us to report his eyes shone with a
hunter’s delight. His game was
trapped and ready to be bagged when
the time came.
Just before dinner the other tele
gram, almost a duplicate of mine,
arrived, and after it the expressman
for the trunk. Again uncle and the
still unsuspicious man lifted the
burglar’s receptacle and placed it on
the wagon to go to the railroad sta
tion.
Then, as we watched it driven away
with uncle and a pair of constables
following in a buggy, we dared speak
above a whisper. told
The rest of the story uncle us
on the following day, when became trip.
home safely from his hazardous
“At the station,’ he said, ‘we
found a nice looking, respectable chap
waiting. When the trank appeared
he paid the expressman and checked
the trunk through to New York, to
which place I bought my ticket, and,
also, telegraphed on for city police
detect Ives to moot me ou arrival of th«
train,
“When the trank tms placed in the
baggago part of the smoking cur its
owner got on board and took his sent
among the smokers. As innocents
a babe I plumped down beside him
; , ,ul in aright friendly way offered
bim a cigar, which, like a gentleman,
] ie accepted. Then, puffing onr cigars
mighty " careful to avoid ? other ,!T, topics. f
"When n we reached , New York 1
f 0 uml n it u necessary necessary to to attena attend to to some some
, business, which concerned him rather
tn ore than ho thought, so shaking
Lamia ‘good-bye,’ ami J expressing* I
h ope / to become better n«uted.
Ia t fi im watched by my town con
stables while 1 sought my smarter city
detectives and put them‘onto him. 1
"His n, s dravman may man was was mi on hand hand wait,’,.™ waiting
near the the haggage-room. As soon as
he cot ’ trunk triinl. on on bis Ins eart cut and and drove line
^ 1,tltV f, l "' 1 a " d ?* f" W ? T "'1
marched in • an opposite direction be*
tween two valiant poh^mau. lhen
tin. detectives audiny sell took a eat
and started after the trank.
“T hrough streets becoming airtiet
and wickeder we followed, without at
•« 8 P ioi ? a f J om the
nut, 1 ho stopped before an apparently
unoccupied house and prepared to nn
oad. lire he could do so one
f ive jumped on his cart, and without
speaking started his horse ahead again.
The other, aided by me, grabbed the
felUnv Ullf prsvented him from male
mg an outcry to alarm his pal in the
trunk. Immediately several police
men who I dirtn t know were follow!eg
behind suddenly appeared anil burst
into the house which turned out to be
a ‘fence’for the thieves.
"Leaving our surprised drayman in
charge of some oi the officers wo
seated ourselves in the cab and again
followed the trunk to a police station
house, into which it was .carried and
placed in front of the captain’s desk
on the floor.
"Then silently we awaited results
j{. wftg dusk, and as no lights were ye!
burning to let onr game see where he
wtJ riglitly aupposetl ho would
think himself safe at home and. act ae
cordingly. Prepared to turn did on the
gas full blaze when he so, wo
watched the trunk. For perhaps fit
teen anxious minutes it seemed life*
l e8S . Then we heard a movement iu
side, heard a bolt drawn and saw the
lm 8lov vly rise ana a beam cautiously
appear. Up we,nt#tho gas and over
wont the trunk's lid pulled by an
armed ollice. At hrst the head, or its
face rather, wore a happy, tri
umplrniit, broad grin; then as things
didn’t look familiar its eyes opened
wider in an effort to understand mat
teM . while Then, the grin faded away like a
raiu |,„w. as the facts of the
cagH forced themselves on the Inn
gU y t startled brain the poor fellow’s
hair straightened, his eyes bulged out
like a lobster’s and the astonishment
and terror depicted on his youthful,
but evil features beat acting all hollow.
“ ‘Come out of that, you scamp !’
shouted the police captain as soon as
he could talk for laughing, and give
au account of yourself. What s the
name of this particular racket any*
how?’
“The burglar tried to lough also,
but it was a dismal failure. ‘Oh, that’s
all right,’he grinned, ’I took yea for
tlie conductor. That’s why I was
seared. Yer hoc, 1 ve been beating
the railroad, boss. I'ai.it every chap
kin git ahead of old Vanderbilt and
Chauncey Dee-pue. But don’t tell
’em, kors they’ll bo a-opening- all the
trufiks on the lino and the wimmiu
might object. Ha, ha, ha! Say,purty
slick trick, wasn’t it?’
“The burglar's bluff was good, but
it didn’t work for a cent.
“ ‘What yer doing with those
watches in tho trunk?’ asked a police
mau as lie fished them out alter tho
fellow had painfully managed to crawl
out himself.
“ ‘Beein’ if tho. road runs on time,
boss. The blamed train was ten min
utes late and I’m goin’ (>> report it.
Say, yer bain t got a swallerof whisky
yer could lend a tired traveler, hey ?
Couldn’t get at the water cooler, yer
know.’
“ ‘Well, you’ll have no trouble get
ting at the ‘cooler’ now. Lock him
up, Sergeant. We’ll give him another
free trip to-morrow. ’
“Off to the cell they took the
wretch, and then we examined his
trunk. It was padded inside so that
being tossed about by baggage
smashers couldn’t hurt. There were
pockets made to button in the lining,
but only a couple were filled with his
plunder. Somo empty flasks and
crumbs of food we found. Inthe bot
tom arid sides were ventilating and
peepholes. A man might live a week
iu that trunk, I think,if his provisions
held out. ”
In a week or so I received a notice
to appear in a New York court to give
my testimony and identify the things
stolen at my own home, most of which
we recovered. I saw the trunk again,
and its occupant, but I guess he knew
me better than I did him. -—Detroit
Free Press.
Heads Grow Till Sixty-five Years ol Agi
“Head’s grown, sir,” observed my
hatter one day to me, manipulating
tho interior of my topper with a foot
rule; and when I indignantly dis
claimed the soft impeachment he
“All _ my customers heads
grow, sir, up to sixty-five, excepting
the ecclesiastical gents, and theirs
don’t grow after twenty-five. Here
in, doubtless, lies the reason why
clerical headgear is bo characteristic
of the man beneath, for never was a
greater fallacy than the adage that
“it is not the cowl that makes the
monk.”—London Globe.
^ E KTIL i [V UNI) [’. ll W ITER
POSSIBILITIES OF THE BOTTOM OF
CHESAPEAKE BAT.
is One of (he Richest Agricultural
Regions in the World—Adapted
- Only For One t'rop.
/—V HFSARFAKF BAY” says the
,i ihat of “i,, th 1 » 11 valley e of °m! the A, Nile and ‘ V , n the
I; 11 # 0 ® aml othcr great r . Hut,
, t is . adapted for producing only one
Tins mollnsk it,
mnatbe remembered lives on vege
ivt ‘ r i q | animals nef direotlv udJ
^ ml v f ere ver d
VII human food is vegetable ibaue in its
°P^ n ’ whether eaten bi m the the shape of ot
f, la „ tf) or as beef, mutton and eggs. In
? BCa 1110 *. w mue M nsu preys ou on 8ma!ler
|} . g li ea J many of these on smaller ones;
the*, in turn, upon minute ernsta
oeaus; these on still smaller creatures;
all ,; thes0 , 1M ,t pasture on the micro
poopio ])lBllts wi, ic U swarm at the sur
ta ce of the ocean. All animals op land
and water depend for their existence
T.fthc vegetable food
snuorficial observer tli« TC ®.
tation of t ,,o sea appears to be very
8Calltv „ ml except for tho fringe of
s( , a W0e(lH alon the shore, the ocean
so flU . as plant, life is concerned,
be a ,,« r rc« desert. But the miero
bU ows that the surface swarms
m . ‘ , moat of them of
°’ form ’ having 4 nothing b'erbs in com*
... n , , »n,l
8 of the laud except the power
chftI1 g 0 m iner al matter into food
,. ,
m ' 1K 1 ° lm R '
Most of these plants are so small as
to be invisible to the unaided eye,
and, even when they are gathered to
gether in a mass, it looks like slimy,
discolored water. They seem too in
signitieent to play any important part
in the economy of natur”, but the
great monsters of tho deep, beside
which the elephant and the ox and t he
elk are small animals, owe their exist
ence to these microscopic plants.
Their vegetative power is wonderful
past all expression. yields Among land plants
corn, which seed about a hun
dredfold in a single season, is tho em
blem of fertility, but it can be shown
that a single marine plant very much
smaller than a grain of mustard seed
would Jill the whole ocean solid in lees
than a wpaV. if ill (if i.H (1 PRI‘“nilm>f*.
were to live.
As countless minute animals are
conHtttMtIy pasturing upon them the
multiplication of these plants is kept !
jn check, but in calm weather it is no
r}ire thine- to find great tracts of water
many miles in extent packed so full of
them that the whole surface is con
verted into a slimy mass, which breaks
the wav08 Rnd 8moo ths the surface
like oil The so-called “back water”
o£ tUe Arctic and Autarkic Oceans con
(>f a ynaS8 oi ; these plants crowded
togctUor uut ii the seas are discolored
^hem
Through these seas of “black water”
the right f ^jpi^ whales the largest ani
mals oa eM h( ttt e aeh month
f|ll ) iun( i reds of gallons of the little
mo n us | tK an ,i crustaceans which feed
on tho plants. In tropical seas ships
sometimes sail for days through great
floating islands of this surface vege
tation, and tho Rod Sea owes its name
to the coloration of its water by
swarms yf microscopic plants which
aro of a reddish tinge. It has been
surmised that man may at some future
time assert his dominion over the
flshes of tho sea, sending out flocks
herds of domesticated marine
animals to pasture and fatten upon
the vegetable life of the ocean and to
make itH vast wealth of food available.
Chesapeake Bay receives the drain ■
age of more than 40,000,000 acres of
fertile land, the most valuable part of
the soil from which is received eveutu
ally in the bosom of its quiet waters,
There it is deposited all over the
bottom m the form of fine black sedi
ment, known as oyster mud. This is
j UKt as valuable to man and as fit to
nourish plants as the mud which set
f[ clj every year on the wheat fields and
rice fields of Egypt. It is a natural
fertilizer and it is so rich in organic
matter that it putrities iu a few hours
when exposed to the sun.
In the shallow waters of the bay,
under tho influence of warm sunlight,
this mud produces a most luxurious
vegetation, but with few exceptions
the plants which grow from it are mi
croscopic and invisible. They are not
confined like land plants to tho sur- j
face of the soil, their food being dif
fused in solution throughout the whole
body of tlie water. As they aro
bathed on all sides by nourishment,
they do not have to go through the
slow process of sucking it through
roots aud stems, and they grow and
multiply at a rate which has no par
allel in the land plants. In fact, they
would quickly choke up tho whole bay
if they were not held in check by
countless minute animals which feast
upon them.
The oyster is an animal especially
adapted for living in such waters and
for gathering up these microscopic
plants and turning them into
food for man. Microscopic animals
also contribute to its diet. These are
rather abundant in all water, though
not so much so as most people ima
gine. When a professional exhibitor
B (, ows yoUj under the microscope, what
be ea j[ 8 a c j rop 0 f pure water, it is
uo tfi ln g 0 f the sort. It iseither a col
] eo ti on made by filtering several bar
re j g wtt ter, or else it is a drop
8( ,ueezed from apiece of decay#.! moss
()V £rolu 80m e other substance in which
f)ae j 1 Bmai j organisms have lived and
mu [ t ipli 1 e d
General de Galtifet and his staff will
be mounted on bicycles at the spring
maneuvers of the French array.
WISE IV OH IIS.
Love trusts; it never sells for cash.
Forgiving grows easy with practice,
A fragrant mind is the choicest per
fume.
Cupid not unfroqucntly drives ia 1
carriage.
Don’t cry over spilt milk; drive up
another cow,
A cynic always tries to pick a rose
up by its thorn.
Poverty builds nobler natures than
wealth ever did.
We admire excellence in others with
a tinge of envy.
It’s a very poor hive that hasn't
some honey in it.
God givei the foundation and man
builds on it to suit himself.
By the time a man learns he is a
fool, ho begins not to be one.
Fashionable society is a dehuman
ized association of individuals.
Friendship has been known to stand
nil tests save money transactions.
We love those we love, for what they
are to us, not what they are to others.
A woman in love is so charitable
that she sometimes gives herself away.
Take good care of your insides and
your outsides will take care of them
selves.
If the rich shivered when the p.oor
were cold, the poor would not be cold
so often.
The egotist lias a certain kind oi
bravery in that he admires that most
which most people do not admire a (
all.
About Your Boys.
Treat vonr boys as though they
were of some importance, if you would
have them manly and self-reliant.
Be careful of the little courtesies.
You cannot expect your boy to be re
spectful, thoughtful and kind, unless
you first set him the example.
If you would have your boy make
you his confidante, take an active in
terest iu all he does; don't be too
critical, and ask for his views and
opinions at all times.
Don’t keep your boys in ignorance
of things they should know. It is not
the wholesome truth, but the unwhole
some way in which it is acquired that
ruins many a young man.
Don’t aot as if you thought your
boy amounted to nothing, or be con
tinually making comparisons between
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disadvantage; nothing will dishearten
him quicker. good
Don’t think that anything is
enough for the boys, and that they
don’t care for nice things; have their
room fixed up as nicely as possible; let
them understand it is to be kept in
order, and the result will justify your
pains. with good, whole
Furnish your boy
some reading matter. Have him read
too, and with you. Discuss with him
what you read, and draw out his opin
ions and thoughts upon the subject.
Help him to think early for himself.
Make home a pleasant place; see to
it that the boys don’t have to go some
where else to secure proper freedom
and congenial compauinship. Take
time and pains to make them fee]
comfortable and contented, au.l they
w j]( „ 0 t want to spend their evenings
away from home,
Pick your son’s associates. See to
it that he has no friends yon know not
a t>ont. Take an interest in all his
troubles and pleasures, and have him
feel perfectly free.to invite his friends
to the house. Take a littlo comfortable pains to
make kigi and his friends
and happy. Hie will not be slow to
appreciate it.—Detrot Free Press.
Bali it ha’s Decadence.
“Tho town of Cahaba was once tne
capital of Alabama,” said a citizen ot
Mobile, “and a visit to the old place
is amply worth the trip, No one
lives there. The town is tenantlesa
and deserted, but many of the build
ings still stand. Here can be seen tho
court house where Aaron Burr spoke,
the house in which he stopped. Will
iam L. Yancey thrilled thousands of
people with his eloquence where now
nothing can be heard but the song of
some wood bird, Home of the dwell
show that once they were Oaha- occu
pied by fashionable people, for
iu its day was not only the capital,
i Jn t, the centre where the wealth and
of the State met. Many of the
are gone, and all of them are
falling into decay, but thoso
n .j J( j think America too now to have
interesting ruins should go to this
and while upon tho spot where
mally memories of the past cluster,
ad tlie early history of Alabama and
com p tt re the past Cahaba with the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
A Seventy-Foot Dragon.
The Elasmosaurue, a giant serpent
which lived in one ot the latest of the
ages, frequently attained a
length of seventy feet. Its chief habit
seems to have been the shallow seas
that formerly lashed their waves over
the prairies of Nebraska, Kansas and
Indian Territory. A skeleton of one
of the creatures found in a West Kan
sas canyon a few years ago proves that
thirty feet of the beast was neck; tho
remainder body, tail and flippers. —
St. Louis Republic.
Why the Fish Are Red.
The prevalence of crimson colors in
certain fishes on tho New England
.mast, on portions of which scarlet
aud crimson seaweeds abound, is ex
plained by Professor J. Brown Goodo
by the red pigment derived by the
crustaceans from tho seaweeds they
devour, aud which in turn form the
food of tho fishes. — San Francisco
Chronicle.
NO. ‘>3.
Ruffles are cut circular.
Coxcomb red and tan are extensively
worn.
Mrs. Mary Anderson Navarro is said
to be an accomplished banjo player.'
Katherine E. Kelsey ia Probate
Register of Shiawassee County, Miehi
gam
Although the parents of Mme.
Kames-Story are Americans, the prima
donna was born in China.
A woman in Iowa who boxed a man’s
ears will have to pay $500 damages
because she injured liis ear-drum.
Miss Emma K. Henry, an evangelist,
is meeting with great success among
the Congregational churches of South
Dakota.
In the beginning two women British were
appointed members of the
Royal Academy. None has since been
elected.
There are twenty-two woman physi
cians in the foreign field who are sent
and sustained by the Presbyterian
Church, North.
The First National Bank, of Lexing
ton, Nel)., has for its President Mrs.
R. H. Temple, and for Vice-President
Miss E. A. Temple.
Airs. Ellen Spencer Massy succeeded
to the law practice of her lata hus
band, General Massy, and is one of
the most successful lawyers in Wash
ington.
The richest young woman in her.
own right in Washington is Ileleu
Carroll. She inherited $10,000 a year
from her grandfather, Royal Phelps,
of New York.
The influence of the Columbian Ex
position is apparent, for there aro a
lot of new and strange fabrics shown
that have never been worn before in a
general manner.
Pet dogs across the Atlantic are now
dyed to harmonize with the prevailing
tint of their mistress's boudoir. Two
shades of violet form the most popular
coloring for white dogs.
Ex-Empress Eugenic, who was not,
long ago a guest at dinner with Queen
Victoria, has now only careworn lines
and a sad, dullish expression on jdw.
face that was once the admiration oi
Europe. keep their
There are women wno
silver in woolen bags and wonder why
it tarnishes. It is supposed that tho
sulphur in the cloth causes the metal
to blacken. Chamois bags are best
for silver.
Mrs. Laura M. Johns, President of
the Woman’s Suffrage Association of
Kansas, gives her entire time to the
interest of the cause she represents, travel
She is on the road all the time
ing through Kansas.
The Princess of Bulgaria has won the
hearts of her people by her simplicity.
She attends the weekly market ou
foot, going from stall to stall to make
her purchases, escorted only by a re
spectful crowd of peasants.
Lady Battersea spoke before the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
of Brecon, Wales, some time since,
and women acted as stewards, attend
ing to all the details of tho meeting
for tho first time in history.
The new fad now in Paris is for
young girls to appear as old as posssi
i,le, ingenues being out quite of often, the mode.
Young girls are seen with powdered par
ticularly debutantes,
hair and make-up as elderly as can be
assumed.
In the face of the absolutely stu- .
pendous number of pictures which
represent Queen Victoria or any and
every domestic occasion with her
crown on it is rather curious to learn
that she has not, as a matter of fact,
worn it more than twenty times dur
ing her whole reign.
Tho finishing push to the animal
srazo has come in the bow cravats of
lace, pinned into position with dainty
sticker pins, jeweled or not, as the re
sources of the wearer may permit. suit No
woman now considers her street
complete, without cravat, which is su
persediug both feathers and fur neck
boas.
In a ballot taken among its women
readers to ascertain their favorite au
thors, Figaro (Paris) .found Bonrget to
occupy first and Pierre Loti second
place. Many of tlie women who ex
pressed an opinion wrote gratuitously
and with much energy, pitching into his
Zola, denouncing him and all
works.
Tho novelist Ouids is decidedly
plain-looking, about fifty years old,
and “overdresses shockingly.” Sho
drives on the fashionable thorough
fares in Florence every bright day, u
gay picture against the turquoise blue
satin of her smart orougham, in an
orange-colored batiste, much trimmed
with lace, and a black guipure man
tilla.
Mrs, Robert Louis Stevenson pos
eesses beauty of face, figure ami mind,
and her big, soft eyes can, if the oeca
gion demands, bosteru and impressive.
gj, 0 j s a blue-stocking who disowns
b–iestookingdom. When sho wants
ex t r a pin money she knocks off work
j u fig,. Samoan flower garden and
[l a8 fi es off stories and articles for which
there is always a market.
The Duchess of Sutherland is the
OI , iy Httle lady entitled to be called
“Vonr Grace” in Great Britain. When
a child Lady Milhetent St. Clair Er
skine, as she then was known, was an
active contributor to tlie writing coni
petitions in various young p.opes
periodicals. Shortly a er o r mai
riago she went published on o yaoh mg our am , ,
on her return a vo u re
travels, “How 1 Went Round the
World in My Twentieth Year.