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The Political Primary.
The approaching primary election
for the nomination of city councilors
appears to be coming on in about the
usual way of such elections of late
years, “fixed” for the voters before
hand. First there were dining
caucuses, then committees of twenty,
then the swell crowd of “140,”
to arrange the ticket, then a
so-called mass-meeting, which en
dorsed the candidates which were
set out by methods which the
“mass” pretended to condemn. So it
appears now that the “primary” is
already fixed by the thimblerigging
politicians, and the “mass” of the peo
ple are expected to ratify such action
by their votes at the primary polls. We
are frank enough to say that we do not
approve of such methode. If the white
people are to have a full expression for
choice of nominees, let them go to the
polls without any previous “fixing” or
arrangement of a ticket. Let the peo
ple choose for themselves by their bal
lots. Then let the politicians abide
by such choosing by the people. We
were asked some years ago to give out
views on the system of primary elec
tions.
We illustrated then how primaries
had been diverted from the true pur
pose of such elections, and had become
the “machinery” of political wire
pullers, to work themselves or their
friends into office. We still think so,
and the present method of engineering
a “primary” is a fraud on honest
voters, who desire to have a fair ballot
and true count. We condemn the
present method, for a “people’s pri
mary.”
COL. GEO. W. ADAIR.
It is with a sad feeling that we con
sider the loss of Col. Geo. W. Adair as
a citizen and as a Confederate veteran.
He has been for many years one of
the most active and enterprising citi
zens of Atlanta. As a Confederate
soldier he was with Gen. N. B. For
rest, and to say this is itself sufficient
to indicate the character of his service.
To go with Forrest meant “rough
riding,” hard fighting and dangers.
Col. Adair has been prominent in all
affairs tending to the progress of the
city. We sincerely sympathize with
his family.
CANDIDATES.
The Confederate Veterans’ League
has agreed upon a support of the fol
lowing named veterans to bo voted
for in the primary next Thursday:
Jacob Haas, Alderman South Side; A.
Q. Adams, Councilor for Fifth Ward;
Dr. J. A. Hutchison, Councilor for
Sixth Ward; Dr. T. D. Longino,
Councilor for Seventh Ward.
Among other candidates the veter
ans will take their own individual
preference.
COMPOSITORS WERE DISATISIFED.
Non-Union Type-Setters on New York Sun
Claim Bad Treatment.
A New York dispatch ssys: A num
ber of the non-union compositors who
took the place of the locked
out printers of the Suu struck
Tuesday night. They complain that
they have been unjustly treated and
that the management has not kept the
agreement made with them.
According to their story they were
to receive 50 cents per 1,000 ems,
which is the union wage scale. They
have received this, but from eight to
ten proof correctors have been em
ployed and their wages of 60 cents per
hour have .been deducted from the
earnings of the compositors.
Keep abreast of these stirring times by
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is Ul.le, and you cannot afford to be without
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n r e ln a r k a b 1 .T
large number of
friends of my
own Bex - Lest
this should lead
ll U (1 \\ x -' of credit for amia
bility aud sweetness of disposition, I
may as well state at once that I have a
marriageable brother.
Being possessed also of a fair amount
of brains, I was never for a moment
deceived as to the nature of the affec
tion lavished upon me by most of my
female friends. But when my dearest
chum, the girl I really thought loved
me for my myself alone, told me she
was engaged to be married to my
brother, Fred, my grief and anger
knew no bounds.
I had gone over to stay all night with
Maud, and had laid awake till 3 a. m.
exchanging confidences, and all the
time the sneak never said a word about
Fred. At last I dropped off to sleep
and was just in the midst of a glorious
dream, in which I was leading the
cotillon with a magnificent man with
soulful eyes and a bank account in
seven figures, when Maud suddenly
threw her arms about my neck, entire
ly shutting off my wind and scaring
me almost into nervous prostration,
and with a burst of tears confessed
that she had been keeping a secret
from me for two whole days, and that
we were to be really, truly sisters, not
just sisters in affection, as heretofore,
etc.
I managed to wriggle out. from un
dec Maud’s arm, and then I sat up in
bed and said things. I don’t remem
ber exactly what they were, but they
must have been pretty bad, for Fred
didn’t speak to me for a week (of course
Maud had to tell him), and Maud her
self went around looking like a suffer
ing martyr whenever we chanced to be
under the same roof.
I was convinced that I was the most
miserable girl in the world after that,
and the worst of it was that every
body, including Maud herself, thought
that I was only mad because she was
engaged first, an imputation which I
need not say was entirely unjust.
I’m sure I could not see what Maud
had done that was so wonderful any
way. Fred is anything buT brilliant,
aud I never considered him even
good-looking, while as long as mamma
lives he hasn’t a penny to his name
except his salary, which is by no
means princely.
But Maud! You’d have thought
she’d landed a Vanderbilt or a poet
laureate the way she acted.
I pretended not to notice her airs
and nursed my grief in proud silence,
but I had no doubt that I was the
most wronged and unhappy creature
that ever lived, until subsequent
events taught me that our affairs are
arranged by an all-wise Providence in
whom we may safely trust, no matter
how dark our way may seem at the
time. I shall never doubt the wis
dom of Providence again.
To begin with, I found I was likely
to get a lot of amusement out of this
engagement. was madly jealous
of Maud all the time, though anyone
could see with half an eye that she
was simply mad about him and in
deadly fear of losing him herself.
He would come home at least three
times a week, pale, haggard aud wild
eyed, a man bereft of hope. The
rest of the time he was madly joyful
and talked about Maud as if she was
several degrees higher than the
seraphim. It was enough to make a
St. Bernard dog laugh just to see
him.
I also found further consolation in
the fact that his state of mind inter
fered seriously with Fred’s appetite,
that I got all the extra pudding aud
things that had always fallen to his
share (Fred was always a greedy
thing), aud then Perecvai Jones came
from abroad.
Perceval was a millionaire’s eon,
with a face too beautiful for words
and a taste for Ibsen.
Os course all this made him desira
ble beyond most other men, but I
must say the way the girls of Archer
ville made different kinds of fools of
themselves about him was enough to
disgust even a woman’s rights advo
cate with her sex.
I need hardly say that I was smart
enough to treat Mr. Jones with
marked coolness. The first time I
met him my behavior seemed to puz
zle the pampered youth. The second
time he appeared distinctly grateful.
On the third he asked permission to
call, and I went home at peace with
all the world, even Fred.
For five consecutive afternoons
after that I sat by.the tea table in the
back drawing room, attired in my
best gown, expecting Perceval—in
v*iu.
On the sixth he came.
“What a delightful surprise,” I said
gushingly. I was a trille nervous
from waiting so long.
“Ab, thanks,” he remarked, look
ing disappointed.
And then mamma came in, and in
spite of my previous warnings fin
ished things by treating Mr. Jones as
if he were Albert Edward or Mark
Hanna or at least a royal duke.
Mamma never could resist a million
aire.
Our visitor took his leave in less
than half an hour, and I know that
unless I adopted jlesperate measures
Perceval Jones was lost to me for
ever.
But I’m not one to give up easily,
and after thinking hard thinks all
night I finally hit on a plan and went
to sleep at daybreak and slept till
noon ns sweetly and as innocently as
a child.
Early in the afternoon I telephoned
to Maud and asked her to go with me
out to the golf links at 4 o’clock.
Then I telephoned to Fred to meet
us there aud proceeded to make a
.fetching toilet with a light heart.
When we reached the links there was
Mr. Jones (he had mentioned that he
was going the day before).
He was looking bored as usual, but
cheered up when F treated him with
haughty coldness.
I eluded his attempts at conversa
tion, however, and threw Maud in his
way whenever I could.
I was rewarded by seeing him seat
himself by Maud’s side and commence
a disquisition on Ibsen as Fred came
round the hill on his bicycle.
Nq sooner did Fred’s eye light on
the couple than lie commenced to
glare like a madman, and in spite of
my innocent efforts to keep him away
he wound up by being so outrageously
rude to Mr. Jones that that gentle
man was confounded and Maud went
home in tears.
As for me, I went to bed happy.
My plan was working to a charm.
A day or two later I got mamma to
ask Mr. Jones to dinner and managed
to have him take Maud out. That
settled it; Fred treated Perceval in
such an insulting manner that even
he could hardly overlook it, and he
left early, to mamma’s distress and
my secret joy.
After that I began to meet Perceval
every time I went out of the house.
No matter whether I walked or drove
or rode a wheel, I was sure to en
counter him before long, and he would
escort me on my way, leaving me al
ways on our return at the end of the
street leading to our house.
“Since your brother, who is your
guardian, dislikes me so, I cannot go
to your home,” he would say regret
fully, and I would blush and stammer
an apology. “But I must see you in
spite of him.” Perceval would add
with a melting I w r ould go
litjujo in the scvenffi Vfcavenf*”®*
At last, after three weeks of this
surreptitious courtship, Perceval could
stand it no longer.
“Be my wife, Rosamond,” he cried
one day. “Never mind what they say
at home; I must have you — 1 never
knew what love was before.”
Poor boy, he had never known tli«
bliss of trying for what ho wanted,
Before this it had always dropped intc
his lap.
But I couldn’t trust him even then.
“Oh, no,” I said timidly. “I dare
not, Fred would kill you if he thought
of such a thing.”
“Let him try,” said Perceval val
iantly. “I’ll have you in spite of him.
See, here is the minister on his porch,
Rosamond. Come, darling, he will
give me the right to claim you from
your brother.”
And before I knew what I was about
I found myself in the minister’s par
lor being married iu a bicycle skirt
aud pink cotton shirt waist.
Ten minutes later I walked into
Fred’s office, leaving Perceval waiting
outside, looking a little pale about
the gills, but with a combative gleam
in his eye.
“Fred,” I remarked coolly, as I
looked my brother square in the face,
“I want to thank you for what you’ve
done forme. I’m Mrs. Perceval Jones,
by your leave.”
'Then a smile of incredulous relief
spread over his face.
“Gosh!” he ejaculated. “To think
that the fellow actually wanted you!”
Hot Men-of-VVar.
I heard months ago that the hottest
ship in the fleet around Cuba was the
St. Paul—not her upper works, but
down in the hold. But she was not a
marker to the Cincinnati, in whose
hold temperatures as high as 205 de
grees were registered. In one ol the
tirerooms was located a forced draft
blower to which it was impossible to
give proper attention on account of
the intense heat. When Captain
Chester went below to investigate he
had his face scorched. Water boils
at 212 degrees.—. New York Press.
The Manufacture of Caviar.
Formerly caviar was all imported,
but now it is made in considerable
quantities in the United States. The
weight of the roe is about ten to four
teen per cent, of the sturgeon. The
roe is taken from the fish, and thrown
into tanks; it is then washed and
rubbed through screens until the
eggs are all separated. They ars then
packed in kegs with salt and kept cool
until it is c tuned.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A process has recently been patent
ed by a Bradford (England) syndicate
for removing wool from skins by
means of an electric apparatus.
Fire-engine manufacturing com
panies have lately begun the construc
tion of portable electric lighting out
fits, consisting of boiler, engine and
dynamo mounted on wheels.
Experiments have been going on
with an ingenious machine which
shuts over a man’s eye so that the
eyelid as it works opens and closes a
chronograph. So far the quickest
wink ou record is about oue-sixth of a
second.
There are eight inches more rain
fall annually on the south shore of
Lake Superior than ou the north
shore, aud three inches more in the
cases of Erie and Ontario. There is
also a greater precipitation on the
eastern shore of Lakes Huron and
Michigan than on the western.
A dispatch from Paris tells of some
recent researches concerning cancer
made by Dr. Bra, who finds parasites
similar to those of cancer in fragments
of diseased wood, particularly apple
wood. The Government gave him
permission to inoculate the forest
trees with cultures of human cancer
aud six months later he found spots
of dry rot on the trunks, and one elm
died. Dr. Bra forms no conclusion
that anima! and vegetable cancers are
caused by the same ftwigus, but the
similarity is striking.
A paper by Professor G. F. Sever
and Mr. R. A. Flioss, read at the gen
eral meeting of the American Insti
tute of Electrical Engineers, gives
valuable information regarding the
relative economy of horse anil electric
delivery wagons. They have found
that the average delivery wagon cov
ers a distance of about 11,268 miles
per year, at a cost of 13.86 cents per
mile for a two-horse vehicle. An
automobile will cover the same dis
tance for 2.65 cents per mile less,
equivalent to $298.60 per year. A
further advantage is the higher speed
if the electric vehicles, enabling the
deliveries to be accomplished with
greater celerity. z
The straggle for existence is a con
test for carbon, in the view of M.
Charles Bichet. The activities of life
depend on the force set free by the
burning of carbon and hydrogen in
oxygen, these three elements being
the essential foods, the oxygen being
abunaant for all purposes while the
available carbon is only oue three
hundredth-thousandth as much. Life
is a small quantity of carbon in very
complex aud unsable combination.
This carbon is continually uniting
with oxygen in slow combustion, pass
ing from one form to another and end
ing in carbonic acid, which the sun’s
heat, through the chlorophyl of plants,
decomposes, the carbon reappearing,
first in the vegetable, then in the ani
mal, and so on. There is an inces
sant circulation of carbon, kept in
motion by the sun’s heat.
Enthusiastic descriptions are given,
according to the Philadelphia Record,
of a new hand fire engine for use in
suburban aud country towns where
the public service is not within easy
call, which has lately been brought
out in England. This machine is
portable, being mounted on a pair of
strong iron wheels, aud can pump
some fifty gallons of water per minute
against a head of sixty-five feet, or,
when used in emergency, can be
forced to deliver one hundred gallons
per minute. The engine rests on four
iron feet, this position being effected
by raising the handle of the carriage
and lowering the boiler. It is of the
quick raising steam type, and may be
run up to a working pressure in a few
minutes, which for emergency work
is, of course, of great importance.
The pump can be disconnected
readily.
The importance of mica in elec
trical and other industries makes the
discovery of now deposits of this ma
terial a matter of some interest. One
of the most recent finds of the mineral
is iu Chautung, China. The Chinese
make use of the substance only for
lanterns and transparent pictures, and
it has been found in several other
parts of the empire, but the industry
has never been developed. Hitherto
permission has been refused to open
mines, and the samples obtained have
been acquired from the natives or
from individual prospectors interested
in the subject. The matter now, how
ever, is said to be receiving the atten
tion of European mineralogists, par
ticularly Germans, aud the mines may
be started under modern methods.
Canada and India furnish the chief
supply of mica, and there is an ever
increasing demand for it.
Bate to Red and Marly to Bine.
Queen Wilhelmina goes to bed at
eleven and gets up very early. Her
first toilet is a quick one, for it is
merely a preparation for a good, brisk
walk in the park. On these excur
sions she wears a rough woolen
“mante” made like those of the Freis
land peasants. When she comes in
from her exercise she has a cup of
shocolaie in her room and then makes
«■ elaborate ioiUL.
Waking r Child Too Quiet.
Play Is the proper and natural outlet
for a child’s thoughts. To restrain his
motion is to drive back his living fancy
Into the recesses of his mind, and this
results In his confusion and unhappi
ness. Some children who are forced to
be still and passive when they are long
ing for action -find relief in whispering
over stories to themselves, but ft is nn
unsatisfactory substitute for dramatic
action. And it Is also morally inju
rious. for the necessity of concealing
one’s Ideas destroys after n while the
ability for fluent expression, and
brings about timidity and distrust of
our friends.—Florence Hill Winterburn
In Woman’s Home Companion,
A Migrating Salmon
A salmon was taken in the Sacra
mento Rtver, near Black Diamond,
Cal., which had had Its adipose fin re
moved, Indicating that it was set free
In the Columbia. River three years ago
and bad Journeyed down the coast, en
tered San Francisco Bay and traveled
up the river to where it was found.
Its exact weight is not given, but it
Is said to have been a fine big fish.
To His Credit.
"That young Perkins who comes to
see you owes S4O at the laundry and
sls nt the barber shop.”
"Well, papa, he deserves credit for
trying to loook like a gentleman.”
The Beet Man Winß.
Prise fighting may not be a pleasant subject.,
but It teaches a Ices n nevertheless—the In
ability of man to hold the championship for
any length of time. How unlike that groat
champion of h* a th, Hostetter’s Stomach Bit
ters, which hae never been beaten, and for
fltty years has met and conquered the worst
cases of constipation, dyspepsia, biliousness
and liver trouble. See that a private Revenue
Stamp covers the neck of the bottle.
There are In the United States over fifty
distinct secret orders.
Beauty is Blood Deep.
Clet.n blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all Im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, bolls, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascnrets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
In Berlin radishes are dipped Into aniline
dyo to make them look fresh and pink.
Plbo’s Cure for Consumnti'on is an A No. 1,
Asthma medlcine.—VV.R. VV ill, a ms, Antioch,
Ills., April 11, 1391.
Flu permanently cured. No flu or nervous
peaa titter first day’s übb of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. AS trial bottleand treatise tree.
Da. K. H. Klink. Ltd., 031 Arch St., Phlla., Pa.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothins: Syrupfornhlldren
teething, softens the gums, reduces i n II amina
tion. allays pain.euree wind colie. 25c. a bottle.
Shipment of Welsh coal has declined to an
alarming extent.
“The Prudent Man Setteth
His House in Order.”
Your human tenement should be given
even more careful attention than the
house you live in. Set it in order by
thoroughly renovating your whole system
through blood made pure by taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla. Then every organ
will act promptly and regularly.
jCocdS SaUapadtittci
BAD
BREATH
•• I h*vc been uctut; CALSCAISET'S and as
a mild and eiTsctivo laxative they aio simply won
derful. My daughter and 1 were bothered with
sick stomach and dur breath was very bad. After
taking a few d,;ses of Cascarets we Lave improved
wonderfully. They are a great help in the family.”
Wilhelmina Nagel.
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Why take
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Ara you suffering with
UiDI&ESTiOH?
Are you suffering with
KI3NEY or BLADDER TR3U3LE ?
Are you subject to COLIC, FLATULENCY
or PAINS in the BOWELS?
De you hufTer from RETENTION or S! P
PRESSION ol URINE?
Do you feel LANGUOR, and DEBILITA
TED in the morning?
WOLFE’S
Aromatic Schiedam
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.BEWARE US’ WMIMPUTES.