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cafflMWs supposed to be a soldier. Most
of the citizens are experts iu the use of
the rifle. Such sports as cricket and
football are, of course, common in the
republic, but one of the chief amuse
ments in the country districts is target
practice, and, moreover, the old people
have had to live gun in hand all their
lives, fighting wild beasts and savages.
Iu times of necessity the commandants
in the districts call for their quota of
burghers.
“Ostensibly the reasons for the Jame
son raid were that the outlanders had
no political and representative rights,
but it is my opinion that the promoters
of this invasion were a combination of
Johannesburg inhabitants and some
members of the Chartered company,
which controls Rhodesia, and their de
sign was to influence the share market
and value of other properties so as fur
ther to enrich themselves. The govern
ment has always done everything in its
power to meet the requirements of the
mining population, and further conces
sions were under consideration when 1
left
“A local committee in Johannes
burg had been elected, which will see
that the English language is taught in
the schools where the English speaking
communities predominate. Instead of
the former government commissioner in
that city, the people there have now
the privilege of electing their own mu
nicipal officers, and a mayor is appoint
ed by the government. Notwithstanding
the outlanders’ complaint that they
have so far had no voting power, how
ever, few of them seem to care to avail
themselves of their right to become citi
zens. Out of 60,000 in Johannesburg
only 2,000 have renounced allegiance
to their native land and have become
citizens of the South Africamßepublic. ”
—New York Tribune.
A PET TROUT.
It Feeds From the Band and hikes to Bt
Tickled.
Ia the rear of a little shoe factory at
New City, in Rockland county, N. Y.,
there is a small trout pond, the fish in
which have excited the wonder of every
one who has seen them on account oi
their extraordinary tameness and uu
usual size.
The trout is naturally one of the
most timid of fish, but so tame are the
trout of this little pond that one oi
them takes worms from a person’s hand,
and its latest accomplishment is to lie
still while someone tickles it under the
belly.
A short time ago someone thought
of trying if the trout would eat from
the hand and held-a worm dewfi su the
water. To his surprise, one of the trout,
the largest, came up cautiously, and
after a short time spent in getting up
its courage made a dash for the worm
and* bore it away triumphantly.
This has been done quite frequently
since then. The trout no longer dashes
for the worms, but comes up gently, as
a horse would for a lump of sugar. Nei
ther is the fish now in haste to get
away, and, indeed, has degenerated to
an Oliver Twist, refusing to be satisfied
until another .worm is offered.—New
York Sun. .
Gomes Is Stubborn.
At last accounts General Gomez still
exhibited a stubborn reluctance to being
pacified during his absence from the
place of the proceedings.—Chicago Rec
ord.
HERE AND THERE.
A Welsh colony is flourishing in Ar
gentina.
Gerard Wallop, Esq., is the name of
the secretary of the British National
Society Tor the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children.
Since the year 1880 the Paris police
_h.aY£~ari£sted as many as 20,000 chil
dren who were being trained for beg
ging and vice.
During the past few weeks there have
been some of the highest tides ever
known in the Thames.
Thiers’ hundredth birthday passed
unnoticed in France while Germany
was;celebrating the anniversary of Wil
liam -
Mi.'
oil' in triumph. A n< wsbny g..t
Mr. White gathered up the
went back to the hotel. A complete
search of the neighborhood was made
afterward by the small boys. No more
snakes could be found. The wind was
blowing from New Jersey at the time of
the fall.
In the country the fall of snakes and
frogs during the progress of a heavy
shower is not considered a rare phe
nomenon. These reptiles were probably
taken up in a waterspout or carried
away by a heavy wind blowing over
somo lake or river.—New York Herald.
SEYEH LIKES TO KISS.
He May Make His Penchant Popular In
His Native Land.
Seyoh, the 8-year-old son of Y tng
Yu, the retiring Chinese minister, has
been under the tutorage of Miss Ham
ner for the past year or two and has
made fine progress in learning not only
English, but also our ways and man
ners. He is naturally a very bright boy
and has the inborn Chinese idea of po
liteness and courtesy.
Ho was devoted to his school, and
when Miss Hamncr found that Mr.
Yang Yu was to be transferred she told
Seyeh that she would give him a fare
well party, and accordingly invited his
own two sisters and eight other little
girls and gave them the most delightful
children’s party imaginable.
Seyeh felt the full importance of his
position as guest of honor and devoted
himself most gallantly all of the after
noon in entertaining his small lady
friends, and when it came time to go he
put hits arms around each one and gave
her a resounding American kiss in bid
ding her goodby.
Evidently lie related the circumstance
at home, for the next morning he came
back to school almost in tears. “Miss
Sallyab,” said he earnestly to his teach
er, “Seyeh is no going to be a Chinese.
Seyeh want to be ’Merican. Chinese no
kiss, no kiss at all, and Seyeh is going
to cut off his cue and be Chinese no
longer, for Chinese no kiss, and Seyeh
he like to kiss. ’ ’
Perhaps Seyeh may go back to his
own country some day and do somo
missionary work iu this direction.—-
Washington Post.
TROUSERS AND A PIPE.
A Young Woman Hum Addicted Herself to
the l : se of Both.
A pretty young woman, arrested fcl
masquerading in mule attire on the
Bowery at Coney Island, when arraigned
before the police magistrate said she was
Eleanor Penrose, 20 years old, a law
strident, and that slnllivt-d in Plainfiold-
Conn.
She refused to say anything furthet
than she believed she had a perfect
right to wear man’s clothes and travel
anywhere in them.
“But smoking cigarettes,” queried
the justice—“ is that proper for a young
lady to do?”
“Yes,” she replied. “I know the
law. It is perfectly proper. I would
smoko a pipe if I felt like it.”
She was held in S2(JU bail for exam
ination.
Outside of the court she would only
say that she would dress like a man and
smoke cigarettes in the street as long as
she felt like it.
Mitring Fourteen Years#
In 1883 Edward Pedersen, after a
quarrel with his wife, left his home at
Morlecau, Norway, and came to this
country. lit* had given his wife nearly
all his possessions for her own support
and that of their four children. In 1880
the wife, not having heard from her
husband, followed him to this country,
bringing the ch j Iv en with her. It was
her intention to effect a reconciliation
with him, hut her death occurred while
she was still searching for him. One of
the children, Regina Marie Pedersen,
has now resinned the search and will he
greatly pleased to receive information
about her father at her home at 1503
Fulton street, Brooklyn.
An Awful Charge# j
If jll the names in Hellas y *
Were jammed into a
Both projjfr and improper,
Omitting nary onei
And if the gun were A doted
Right where the ' i !•< lit flies,
’CLwould blow the wBl . caboodle
From Greece to paw jwe.
Plain Deale j.
. ~• ■; 1 ;
r n t
seems to be straightforward and sincere,
frank and truth loving. Trickery and
intrigue, diplomacy and politics he alike
detests. His subordinates and those
who see him moro intimately are very
fond of him.
“‘He treats us, ’ one of the aids-de
camp said to mo, ‘not as a superior, but
as a father.’ Edhem Pasha is very
proud of his army.
“ ‘The Greeks report,’ lie Raid, ‘that
we have no cavalry. They should see
our Circassian horsemen. ’
“A baud of Greek irregulars had
crossed the frontier and fired on the
Turkish troops. I asked him whether
there was any chance of reprisals.
“ ‘No,’ he answered proudly, ‘we do
uot make war iu that dirty fashion.’
“Edhem Pasha understands war thor
oughly, but it took him a little time to
appreciate the functions of a war corre
spondent. He seemed to think that the
latter should be hedged about by many
restrictions, tenderly fostered, and safe
ly deposited during a battle among the
baggage animals and knights of the
hospital. It was some time before he
realized that the expectation of witness
ing and describing a battle was the one
thing which procured him the honor of
these gentlemen’s company in his camp.
One anxious morning, at a time when
war was thought to be imminent, on
sending round to headquarters it appear
ed that the general and all his staff had
fled during the night and had gone no
man would say whither. No orders had
been left, and the guards would allow
no one to pass. Here was a case of dire
disappointment, but no man may run
the gantlet of an Albanian guard with
impunity. When the general returned,
a joint representation was made, and he
was entreated to allow this kind of
thing not to occur again. Ho expressed
his penitence and promised a timely
warning of any unexpected move.”
G. W. Steevens, correspondent of the
London Daily Mail, has this to say of
the Turkish army:
“The first impression of the Turkish
army on an ignorant mind is one of
melancholy. The men axe so old. The
Boers at Krugersdorp paid it went
against the grain to have to shoot
young men. But surely ti e spectacle of
these middle aged privates is far more
pathetic. As you ride down the long,
dark coated, dusty gaitered, loose san
daled liues, nearly every man must be
the father of a family. Brown bearded,
solidly set, almost stiffening into elder
liness, steady eyed, but sober eyed and
giuve, with faces speaking of the toils
and dim perplexities of half a lifetime
—who are these to bo called away from
their sheep pens and their opium gar
dens to meet bullets and shell?
“I know nothing of war, but to me
it seems natural that war should be for
the young. Iu our own army it is differ
ent. A man chooses to be a soldier; it
is his trade, and he must live by it; if
he ties himself up with wife and chil
dren, he does it at his own risk and at
theirs. But these men have come from
the hills of Macedonia, from the Mar
mora, from distant Angora and Trebi
zoud, because they must. It is not their
chosen life, yet they have no other. From
20 to 64—in war time even until 40—
one month, two months, six months,
eight mouths almost every year they
must turn out on to bleak mountains to
defend their race and their faith against
disaffection at home and menace abroad.
“Smart, it must be owned, the Turk
ish army is not. I saw a battery start
ing for the frontier the other day. The
gun carriages and the horses were piled
up with ragged bundles, beside which
a bank holiday excursionist’s baggage
is a model of trim ness. When a battal
ion lines up on parade, you will see one
man iu a blue faced uniform and anoth
er in a green. Their sandals look like
old list slippers, their gaiters like bad
ly wound hospital bandages. They aro
tied up with loose ends of string. In
the marching regiments, and especially
those of the reserve, the officers aro
sometimes out at elbow and at knee.
“The men move a little heavily at
their drill, and their double gives an
impression of rheumatism. What won
der in a peasant of five and thirty? But
all these are small matters. The uni
forms me* be curious, but they are
tin !i y vms ] --
ran iffiav fi. m-|-<k.!, vvlmH
mastered the English
a little money, made his way to Liver
pool and came to this country on a cat
tle steamer.
All this Jacob told tho lawyer. The
latter at first did not place much confi
dence in the man’s story, but after giv
ing it careful consideration for months
he decided that there might be some
truth in it. So he wrote to a counselor
at Havre and received a reply that Ja
cob’s rich uncle—unnamed, by tho way
—had died several mouths ago, leaving
an estate valued at #38,000. It was only
necessary for Loesing to go there and
prove his identity and the property
would be turned over to him. What
ever money lie needed for expensed
would be advanced, but Loesing cannot
be found. He stopped at an Eighth ave
nue lodging house three weeks ago, it is
said.
If this meets tho eye of Mr. Loesing,
will he please come forward and claim
the $38,000? —New York Herald.
BUSY WITH BEET SUGAR.
WiscoiiHin Has Taken Up the Induntry In
Farneat#
The beet sugar industry has been
started in earnest in Wisconsin. The
plant at Menomonee f alls is now turn
ing out the product in fairly largo
quantities, having successfully passed
the experimental stage.
It represents an investment of $300,-
000 and has a capacity of disposing of
275 tons of beets every 24 hours. An es
tablishment of this kind cannot fail to
be of great benefit to the neighborhood.
Practically all the material it uses is
grown in the immediate vicinity, and
nearly all the money it spends in con
ducting the business stays in this one
locality.
It furnishes employment to men,
women and children in the fields raising
the beets and employment to hundreds
of others in the factory, where the beets
are converted into sugar.
There ought to bo 100 of these con
cerns in Wisconsin, and there ought to
be hundreds of other factories erected
in the other states which are in the sug
ar beet region, such as Michigan, north
ern Illinois, lowa, southern Minnesota,
parts of Kansas and Nebraska and the
rest in the fur west.—Chicago Tribune.
High Winds In Kausas.
Speaking of wind, a traveler down in
Osage county, Kan., was astonished re
cently to see a lot of farmhands walk
up to the house at the dinner hour and
place their hats against the wall. The
wind held them in place as firmly as if
they had been hung upon so many nails.
—Kansas City Journal.
Mexican Naval Academy.
President Diaz of Mexico has issued a
decree establishing a naval school at
Vera Cruz, to bo opened July next.
Youths desiring to enter the navy or
adopt careers as pilots or ruarino en
gineers will be admitted.—San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.
Queen Victoria’s favorite novelists
are Jane Austen, Charlotto Bronte, Mrs.
Olipliant, George Eliot and Edna Ly
all.
Henry Russell, who was born at
Sheerness on Dec. 24, 1812, is the old
est living English composer.
Lurene Rudy, 4 years old, of Hagers
town, Md., is said to embroider beauti
fully the daintiest fabrics.
Governor Itamsdell of New Hamp
shire appointed a day of fasting and
prayer, not, as be says, that he believes
the people will fast and pray, but sim
ply because “my council has advised
me to. ”
The library of the late Sir Augustus
Harris, the well known theatrical man
ager, has been sold at auction in Lou
don.
Atlas
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W Cl JF). HflHold only by
W. J. Butts, the druggist, corner
Newcrstle and Gloucester streets
Brunswick, Ga. Moderate prices. Tel
ephone 27. Prescriptions a specialty.
La grippe may have left you weak
and run down. Johnson’s Chill and
Fever Tonic is more t han its name im
plies. It is a great tonic. It gives
appetite, renews health and restores
vitality. tf
To the Grand Lodge.
For the accommodation of parties
desiring to attend grand lodge,
Knights of Pythias, Savannah,Ga.,May
18-20, the Southern railway has put on
a rate of one first-class limited fare for
the round-trip for parties of ten or
more Knights of Pythias traveling to
gether in uniform on one solid ticket,
and a rate of a fare and a third on the
certificate plan for individuals. Sched
ules : Leave Brunswick 9 :45 a. m. and
7:45 p. m., and arrive Savannah 12:18
p. m. and 11:10 p. m. respectively.
Shorthand
Frj’s shorihaud clashes are
now running. Arrangements should
be made to enter before they advance
too far. For terms and particulars
write or call on him at Jeffers, Monk
and Union streets. His little booh,
“VV hat It Is and What It Does,’’ given
free.
Rob Roy flour is fine. Try it.
Brace im. Throw off that tired
feeling. There is life and health and
strength in the crimson tint of John
son’s tonic. The only recognized spe
cific for la grippe. Cures and pre
vents grip. Completes unfinished
cures. Try it. tf
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