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. Ho ■U. * jT Cinw111 f/ /A r ^-* ■ YOL. V. KAIL TO OUR COUNTRY. Across the land from strand to strand They answer and an ocho comes Loud ring the bugle notes, From chained and troubled isles, And freedom’s smile, from isle to isle, And roars like ocean’s thunder drums Like freedom’s banner floats. Where glad Columbia smiles. One song—the nations hail the notes Ilaii to our country! Strong she From sounding sea to sea, Nor fears the war drum’s beat; Vnd answer from their thrilling throats The sword of freedom in her hands, The song of Ubertyl The tyrant at her feet. —Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitution. “An Awkward Fix.” '£■ — | ONFOUND i;t ! ry Wherever can Charlotte be?” Ell'f®'' "•* n is M - Chil ' p o u 1 o t who . i.Sbl'i Jl , speaks, and as 1 J s the words show, M. Chapoulot is out of humor. * Ordinarily M. Chapoulot is as good-tempered and easy going as one would expect in a man of sixty, who had been like John Gilpin, in his day, a linen draper bold, 'and has in good time retired to enjoy a modest competency in repose. Your •wealthy London tradesman, now, who has grown rich beneath the shadow of <Sfc. Paul’s, if he retires at all before 'death or disease puts him suddenly hors de combat, flies off to spend his fortune at Brighton or Bath, or Cheltenham—anywhere rather than in the great metropolis where he has inade it. But M. Chapoulot, like the true Parisiau he is, will never desert his Ville Lumiere, and has retired no further than from the bustle of the Boulevards d-e to the more peaceful Rue la Trocadero. There he now lives with his only daughter.‘Charlotte and an old faithful servant of the family, and it is the former whom he is at this moment im¬ patiently awaiting. It is dinner time with the Chapou lote, who dine at six. r- H. ’ Chapoulot always begins his dinner with punctuality, but he has never begun it without Charlotte. And Charlotte comes, not.. Five min¬ utes past six, and M. Cliapoulot’s'im¬ patience becomes annoyance; ten .minutes, and it Is evdii quarter past, and he is furious. ger, they say, will tame a lion, but it will none the less ruffle the equanimity of a saint. Wherever can Charlotte be? She has gone this afternoon to take her music lesson in the Boulevard Barbesse. She goes threo times a week, and always returns in ample time for dinner. Twenty past, anger begins to give way to nervousness; live-and-twenty, it is alarm; half-past six and no Charlotte, Ml Chapoulot is trembling with anxiety. Hurriedly he summons the old servant, asks for Ms hat and boots; he will himself go out and see whatever may have liap pened. ' But suddenly there was a merry little rap at the door, and Charlotte enters. No evil can have come, for there she stands in the doorway, smil ing radiantly, in all the ease and grace of la petite Parisienne. “Oh, papa—I-” ButM. Cliapoulot’s fear gone, his impatience again usurps supremacy, and reassured about the safety of his daughter, he begins to feel anxious for the flavor of his dinner. “Come to the table first. You can tell me while eating. I shall under¬ stand better then.” “Oh, but pap! You don’t know. I have had an adventure!” “An adventure!” exclaimed M. Cha¬ poulot, starting from his seat and drop¬ ping his spoon into the soup upon which he had already commenced. “Yes, papa! An adventure, in the omnibus with a young man!” “The omnibus—with a young man! Parbleu!” “But with a young man comme il faut, papa, I can assure you. ” “You ought to know, Charlotte, that a young man comme il faut has no ad¬ ventures, above all in an omnibus. Whatever do you mean?” “It is very simple, papa. You need not make such a cruel face. I had for¬ gotten my purse. That is the thing which happens often enough-” “Yes, yes; especially to thoso who haven’t got one. Go on. ” “I never discovered it until the con¬ ductor held out his hand to take my fare. What could I do? What could I say? I should be taken for a pauper —for an adventuress, perhaps. I was crimson, I was pale, Ifelt that I should faint; when, happily, a young man who sat next to me gave the conductor “a piece of silver, saying: ‘Take for two.’ This gentleman, seeing my embarrass¬ ment, had kindly paid for me.” “Well, miss, you have done a nice thing. Accept six sous from a stran¬ ger! You had better have explained to the conductor, to the driver, to all the company. But people should not forget their purses—I never do. And now, how will you return his money? You will never think of keeping it?” “I have his card, papa; M. Agenor Baluchet, clerk at the ministry of-” But papa, without hearing another word, had snatched the piece of paste¬ board from her hand, exclaiming: “What? This gentleman, not con¬ tent with insolently lending his six “To thine own self be true,and it will follow, Us night the day, thou cans’tnot then be false to any man. LINCOLNTON, GA.. THURSDAY, MAY 5 S 1898 sous, lias liad the impudence to force bis card upon you in the bargain! He is a very scoundrel, your young man comrne il faut. ” “But, papa, I could not return bis money if I did not know bis address.” M. Chapoulot has not a word to answer to this ingenious argument,but with a gesture of tbe intensest irrita¬ tion throws down bis serviette upon the table. “It is written that I shall not dine this evening,” he says to tAe old ser¬ vant. “Find me a cab at once. lam going to restore to this Agenor his six sous immediately, and to tell him a few truths as well.” “But, papa, that will be ingratitude. You must remember that this young man has saved your daughter from un faux pas.” rather led “Uu faux p>as! He lias you into one. But, silence, miss! I am not going to receive lessons, above all, lessons in memory, from a silly girl who forgets her purse.” M. Chapoulot has taken his hat, and looks even more en»aged than ever. The old servant comes back, “A cabman is at the door,but he will only agree to a single journey.” f-;, “Oh, that will do! I can easily find another to return.” And M. Chapoulot goes out in furi¬ ous "haste, while Charlotte timidly confides to the sympathizing servant that she knows even more of the young man than she has dared to say. For a month past be regularly traveled in the same omnibus, and she lias no¬ ticed that he has noticed, etc., etc. 'Agenor, in b .2 bachelor apartment, . his experience of sits thinking i £ er will the evening, and vowing he not wash until the morning the hand that had been touched by the dainty fingers of Charlotte when she received the card. Suddenly a sharp rap at the door, a violent opening, and a stout gentle¬ man, out of breath, his hat upon his ears and cane in hand, breaks in upon his dreaming. “Monsieur!” exclaims the invader, “your conduct is scandalous. You are not worthy the name of a French gentleman. An honest man would never take advantage of the embavrass ment and inexperience of a young lady. To profit by the absence of a father and a purse, to offer your money—and your card into the bar gain—to an unprotected girl, it may be a good investment, but it is a bad action. I have brought you your six sous again, and would have you to know, sir, that, as for my daughter and myself, we wish to have nothing to do with you. ” And the stout gentleman, trembling with his vehemence, puts his hand into his pocket to get the money, when, before Agenor has time even to recover from his bewilderment, a new actor enters upon the scene. It is the cabman, all furious, with an oath upon his lips, and brandishing his whip in a threatening manner. “Eh! you! What do you mean? You engage me for a single journey. I tell you I eaunot stay. You even order me to hurry. And then you jump from my cab like a madman, and rush in here without a word. None of that for me. I have only one thing to ask. Pay me my money quickly, or--” And the whip goes round again more emphatically than before. Agenor understands nothing of it. But the stout gentleman, who has searched vigorously in all his pockets, becomes suddenly pale, then red, then redder still, then crimson, then violet. He is silent in stupefaction a minute, and then, in answer to a more vigorous demand from the cabman, he manages to falter: 1 ‘I have—forgot tern—my—purse!” “Ob, yes! I know,” cries the en¬ raged cabman, “I have seen that dodge before. You needn’t try it on with me. Come along! you shall tell yourltale at the police office.” And he begins to drag away by the shoul¬ ders the unfortunate Chapoulot, who is ready to fall into an apoplectic fit. But Agenor, a true providence for the family, draws from his pocket the necessary sum and dismisses the driver. “You will allow me, sir,” he says to M. Chapoulot, who, all at onee under¬ standing that it is possible to forget one’s purse, and that of all friends a friend in need is one indeed, can only reply with a smile: “Monsieur—M. Blauchet, I believe —30 centimes for the omnibus and 1 franc 75 for the cab, that makes 41 sous I owe you. If you will be good enough to dine with me this evening we will settle our affairs at ouco. As an old business man, I like not out¬ standing debts. Besides, ready reckonings always makegood friends.” A quarter of an hour later the ser¬ vant puts a third plate upon the table in the Fate de la Trocadero. A month later there is a still larger party, when the wedding of Charlotte and Agenor is celebrated. And M. Cba poulot will often say to those who eare to hear him: “Beware of borrowing, oh! fathers of families. I made onee a debt of 41 sous, and could only repay it with a dowry of 20,000 francs.”—Strand Magazine. SCIENTIFIC AND ^INDUSTRIAL. A huge eel of the Fiji Islands, fif¬ teen feet long, is reported to have a peculiar throat formation causing it to whistle when excited. A Dutch physiologist concludes, con¬ trary to usual belief, that in man is no chemical regulation of heat, oxygen consumption being the same at all seasons. An association has been formed in Paris for exploiting the new method of purifying water by means of elec¬ tricity, which Drs. Tyndal and Boux have indicated. To hold an ear of corn for eating a neat device is made of a wire bow, with a handle twisted in the center and spring cones at each end to grasp the ear and hold it rigid. Crutches are now being made with a hinge in the center, fitted with a socket joint, so they can be folded up when not in use, thus occupying half the space of the ordinary kind. A difficulty of administering medi¬ cine to small children is overcome by Professor Aisnel, who affirms that a mixture of equal parts of soap lini¬ ment and aloes will act as a cathartic when rubbed in small quantity upon the abdomen. Photographs have recently been suc¬ cessfully taken under water, at a dis¬ tance of ten or twelve feet. The camera was carried by a diver; the light carried was supplied by an electric lamp in the diver’s headpiece. The experi¬ ments were carried out in the bay of Bio de Janeiro, Brazil. Experiments have been going on for the last twelve years for the purpose of trying to learn something of the characteristics of the Atlantic Ocean as a great moving body of water. As a result the whole Atlantic is shown to be slowly circulating round and round like an enormous pool. The intelligence of birds is illustra¬ ted by a discovery made tbe other day by a man in Stuttgart. Seeing that a swallow’s nest on his house had no opening, he got a ladder and exam¬ ined it. He found five dead sparrows in the nest, the swallows having evi¬ dently killed the intruders by closing up the nest with mud. In Berlin the firemen wear water jackets, with a double skin, which they are able to fill with water from the hose. If the space between the two layers becomes overfilled tbe water escapes through a valve at the top of the helmet and flows down over the fireman, like a cascade protecting him doubly. The smoke helmets, largely used in Germany, Austria, Holland and Italy, enable the wearer to breathe and see at his ease in a smoke-laden atmosphere. In some instances the apparatus includes a means of tele¬ phonic communication with the street below. Girl Wlio IBooks Like a MermaUI. If the mythical mermaid ever had a physical reality in every day life, Miss Fannie Minks, now in the Cincinnati City Hospital, might easily apply for the honor. At twenty, she is afflicted with what in medical parlance is known as ichthyosis, a term derived from the Greek, meaning fish-scale disease. This is not a misnomer in the case of this particular patient, as herarmsand limbs are covered with scales their en tire length. The scales are similar to those of a fish, and could not be dis tinguislied from them. The disease is extremely rare, only one other case being recalled in the history of the institution. The pres ent case is exciting considerable inter est in medical circles from the fact that it is well developed and its symp toms so well pronounced. Very little can be done for Miss Fannie, except to keep the affected parts as soft as possible with frequent hot baths and the application of unctuous ointments, for once the scales become dry they break off' at the joints and leave ugly and painful sores. the investiga The disease, as far as tion has gone, seems to be due to im perfect capillary circulation aud the failure of shedding particles of dead skin, which in the normally consti tuted being goes on unconsciously. Miss Minks is receiving every atten tion that the hospital with its facilities can afford, and the best ot nursing, al though a cure cannot be effect ed. Aerine. We have liquid air, or aerine, a liquid which maintains a temperature of 200 degrees below zero, but we scarcely know how to use it. Possi bly it might be used for hardening steel, ns we know the quicker we can cool red-hot steel the harder it be comes. For drills, cutlery, etc., its use as a cooling agent should bo very effectual- HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Boasting a Joint. First see that a good clear fire is burning and sweep up all ashes that there will be no need to make a dust while the meat is before the fire. Allow quarter of an hour to each pound of meat and half an hour extra to each eight pounds. It is necessary to cook close white meats, such as pork and veal, rather longer. Place the meat first close to the fire for about seven min¬ utes, then draw it further away. The object of the fast cooking to start with is to close up the pores of the meat and keep in the gravy. To roast prop¬ erly meat must be constantly basted aud be carefully watched that it does not burn. Turn the joint from time to time so that it is equally done all over. Coloring For Soups. Essence of spinach is used for color¬ ing soups, dressings, creams, pud¬ dings, etc., etc. It is prepared as follows: Wash thoroughly in cold wate# a half peck of spinach. After washing it let it soak a couple of hours in cold water, then drain it quite dry. Put it in a big wooden bowl, chop it up a little, then pound it with a •pota¬ to masher until it is a pulp. After this put it in a cheese cloth bag and dip the bag with the spinach in a saucepan containing a very little cold water. Press all the juice of the spin¬ ach with a potato masher into a sauce¬ pan and stand it over the fire. When it reaches boiling heat take it from the stove’ and strain it through a hair sieve, add two tablespoonfuls of fine sugar and stir it till the sugar melts. When cold bottle it or put it in a glass jar, stand it in'a cold place and it will keep for some time. Cements and Paste. Ktfife Handle Cement—Besin, four parti; beeswax, one part; plaster Have of Paris or brick dust, one part. all finely powdered and mix well. Fill handle, heat the end of tho blade, and press it in. Cfiment for Glazed Surfaces—Two ounces of granulated gam arabio dis¬ solved in a half pint of water; dissolve one-half ounce starch in cold water; add with one-half ounce of granulated sugar to the gum solutiou, and boil all until clear. A little oil of cloves may be added to keep it. Cement for Glass and Earthenware —Dilute white of egg with its bulk of wat.jr. Mix to a thin paste with pow¬ dered quicklime. Must be used im¬ mediately; will not keep. Cement for Fastening Tops on Oil Lamps—Three parts resin, one part caustic soda, five parts water. Mix with half its weight of plaster of Paris. It sets in about forty-five minutes; is of great adhesive power. ■Strong Cement for Mending Broken Crockery—Mix together equal parts of glycerine and litharge to the consis¬ tency of soft putty. If articles are al¬ lowed to stand until cement is thor¬ oughly hardened they will resist acids and hot water. To Fasten Paper to Tin—Break clear glue in small pieces, soak over night, in clear water. Squeeze and drain, put in a wide-mouthed bottle, add sufficient glacial acetic acid to cover, and stand bottle in warm water until melted. Scouring Paste—One part oxalic acid, fifteen parts peroxide of iron, twenty parts powdered rotten petro¬ stone, sixty parts palm oil, four parts latum. Pulverize the acid, add iron and rotten stone, sift well, gradually incorporate ths oil aud petrolatum. Perfume with oil of lavender.—New York Times. Recipes, Cream Fritters Beat the yolks o three eggs with a gill ot cream or good new milk, add a M n ot 8 ’ half , lemon rmd . on e ounce of sugar, grated, and three crumbled macca roons. Whip the white of one egg o a stiff froth, ^ and stir it lightly into t le ingredients; fry like pancakes, drain, sift sugar over and serve hot, with j aEa sauce Pain’s Perdus—Cut thin slices of sweet homemade bread into pieces two inches wide and five inches long, Spread with thick sweet cream and peach and apricot jam; roll up and fasten with tiny skewers, if the pieces will not stay rolled; dip in beaten egg and fry a delicate brown in deep hot fat. Serve with hot melted jelly poured around them, Cranberry Glace—Boil one quart of cranberries, one pint of water aud one cn pf u i Q f augar until the berries are perfectly soft; strain them through a s i eve an( j add three ounces of gelatine w jjieh h ag soaked in cold ivater enough to cover for thirty minutes; a q ow them to come to a boil and pour j nto mo idg. Set in icebox to stiffen, alld serve with whipped cream. ch a , a Maintenon—Melt ovei fte ()ue table spo 0 nful each of but ter ftnd flom% add one -half teaspoonfut of 8alt> half t kat a*»*nt of pepper, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, four tablespoonfuis of finely chopped canned mushrooms and one-third cup ful of stock; stir and cook for two min utes, and set aside. French six rib chops cut an inch thick, make tv inch cut in the side of each, running the knife down to the bone to form a pocket. Put a portion of the mixture in each chop, press the edges together and broil over a clear fir*. DUTY. The longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how most are fugitive aud then—• Or iltfui gifts at best, of now daughters of Wind-wavered-copse-lights, tlie ten— stern-foaturod The more we feel the high, beauty devotednoss to duty, Of plain and still, paid with mortal Steadfast nor praise, Rut finding ungarlanded amplest recompense For life's expense la work done squarely and unwasted days. —James Russell Loweil. PITH AND POINT. Jim—“Is Maud’s hair gohlen?” Mab—“No—it’s plaited.”—Standard. ^ Staylate—“Won’t you giveme a kiss before I go to-night?” Miss Wary— ( < When do you intend to go?”—Stan¬ dard. When in doubt about the freshness of eggs, they can be’tested by essaying to play “Hamlet” in a country village. —Norristown Herald. Nell—“Mr. Sillious is only an apology for a man.” Belle—“Well, wouldn’t you accept an apology if it were offered?’-^—Boston Traveler. An Irish tenant observed that it was “a hard thing for a man to be turned out of the house which his father built and his grandfather was born in. ’— London Tit-Bits. “We are going to give up having Johnny get an education.” “For what reason?” “Well—ive can’t get him sterilized every morning in time to go to school.”—Pack. He (theatrically)—“You have re¬ fused me! To-morrow I go to seek my fortune in the Klondike.” She— “May I have the refusal of you when you return?”—Puck. Uncle Hiram—“When they talk about tbe lower branch of the Legis¬ latin’’they, mean tlie Assemblymen.” Uncle Abner—“Well, Idunno! I think some of the Senators is jest as loiv.”— Puck. ■jii -T Ethel—“I was just telling Mr. Ban¬ gle it costs Cousin Bob only five hun¬ dred a year to live. Penelope—“How does he ever manage it?” Ethel— t < Why, he runs in debt for the balance.” —Judge. “What decoration is that you are wearing?” said a recruiting sergeant to a new recruit. The man blushed deeply and responded: - > It’s a medal our cow won at tbe cattle show.”— Standard. “I wonder,” said Mrs. Meektpo,.. “why they say that silence is golden.” “I guess,” replied her husband, very unguardedly, “it must be ’cause gold is so hard to get sometimes.”—’Wash¬ ington Star. Gertie—“Pa’s awfully cross with me for coming in this dress. ” Bertie— “Is he, really? I don’t see much in it—er—to object to.” Gertie— “Neither could he. That’s why he’s so angry.”—Standard. “I am afraid that actors sometimes deceive about the salaries they get, ’ us remarked the milcl-mannered citizen. “No,” replied the keen observer; “they may think they do, but they don’t.”—Washington Star. First Citizen—“Pete is gettin’ to have a lot of new-fangled notions.” Second Citizen—“What’s the latest?” First Citizen—“He says he has a pre¬ judice ag’in lynchin’ a man on circum¬ stantial evidence.”—Puck. “Miss Da Sweet must have said something very harsh when you were trying to whisper in her ear. I saw you jump away.” “You are entirely mistaken, I happened to lean against her hatpin.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Emperor of China—“And all this trouble results from tlie attack on the German missionaries?” Li Hung Chang— “Apparently. As soon as Kaiser Wilhelm heard of the attack on the missionaries he got religion.”— Puck. Klondike Bride—“And do you still think I am worth my weight in gold, love?” Klondike Bridegroom— I < Worth your weight in gold, pet? Why, blame my eyes, if I don’t think you’re worth your weight in canued goods!”—Puck. Skilful Shooting. A private performance was given on Friday afternoon at tlie Boyal Music Hall by Colonel Gaston Bordeverry, who is represented to be “the greatest pistol shot of the world.” Two of b;s tricks were striking. He cut with a pistol bullet a swinging thread, caus¬ ing the dependent bell to fall and ring, aud he hit from a most uncom¬ fortable attitude the edge of a card held sideways to him. Also with a pistol bullet and at short range be grazed tha hsad of an erect lucifer so as to set it aflame. Bat tbe gilt of that .exploit seemed less bright when a bystander with a rifle performed pre¬ cisely the same feat.—London Times. A House Full of Treasure. A baker residing in a very old house at Melines has just made an interest¬ ing discovery in his garret, where it had been frequently been noticed that the rafters, when tapped, emitted a hollow sound. A vigorous search brought to light a rusty lock in the corner of one of the rafters,, and, on being forced, the cavity was found to contain Spanish gold coins of the six¬ teenth century to the value of $5000. .The smallest humming bird known weighs only twenty grains. ISO. 4^ “OLD MORTALITY.” House Where Prototype of One of Scott’s Characters Was Born. The Hawick Arcbaelogical Society lias preserved a literary landmark dear to every lover of Sir Walter Seott’a writings. This is the house in which the prototype of ‘’Okl Mortality” was born. Every reader of that admirable novel, in which Scott touches with so firm a grip the conflicting tastes and interests of Covenanters and Royal¬ ists. will remember that tiie story was made to revolve round tlis reminis¬ cences of a famous old man, who was a repairer of tombs in Scottish church yards. The original of "Old Mortal¬ ity,” whom Scott had met only onee. *,< i Ri 1© WH esS=--j OLD MOUTALITY’S” PIKTnPLACF.. and then at his occupation, was a cer¬ tain Robert Paterson, who, as tills stone commemorates, was born at Hag - giesha, in 1712. Paterson was little more than a beggar, receiving such charity as was giveu to him from day to day by tlie Uinmy people among whom ho moved. He traveled about with his little pony from churchyard to church¬ yard, interesting himself in taking away <he dirt and moss which accumu¬ lated on the other tombs, many ot which were those of famous Covenant ers. It was tlie knowledge of this man which, undoubtedly, inspired Scott, to tell the story which common assent has placed In tlie very front of his great works. ____ BIG MULE, SMALL PONY. The Two Make a Combination Such as Is Seldom Beheld. Colossus, who is said to be the big¬ gest mule in the world, is destined to take up a permanent home at a men¬ agerie in London. He weighs 1,873 pounds, and is 20 hands 1% inches in height. From his nose to the tip of his ear Colossus measures 42 inches. His eyes are about the size of overgrown clam shells. Dot, which is said to be the smallew il I kg, !■/ Wh n % m N~r%, TWO REMARKABLE ANIMALS. living pony, reaches only to the mule’s knee joint. Dr. E. D. Colvin, lately found in Mis souri a mule that measured 19 hands and one inch in height. Tills will bu shipped with Colossus. Origin of “Norway Oats.” David W. Ramsdeu, aged seventy three, died at his home, near South Roya-lton, Vt., recently. He was horn in Washington. Vt., and always lived in that state. In 1801, in a package of x-eds he received from the government at Washington, Ramsdell found a pe- ■ euliar variety of seeds which experi¬ ments showed to be a new kind of oats which he named "Norway oats. Aamsdell in ten years made an enor mous fortune from the sale of this grain. Over $3,000,000 was spent in ad vertising it. Poor business ability, however, dissipated his riches, and he died practically n poor ma:i. GEORGIA RAILROAD. —A. IV I>~ Gonnections. For Information ns to Boutes, Sched —ules and Bates, Both— Passenger and Freight Write to either of the undersigned. You will receive prompt reply and reliable information. m ■ JOE. Wl WHITE, A. G. JACKSON, T. P. A. G. P. A, Augusta, Ga, p S. W. WILKES, H. K. NICHOLSO: I O. F. & P. A. G. A. Atlanta. Athent W. W. HARDWICK, S. E. MAGILfe I S. A. C. F. A. Maoon, ’ Macon. M. E. HUDSON, F. W. COFFIN, S. F. A. S. F. & P. A. Milledgeville, Augusta,