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VOLUME VIII. Church Directory. METHODlST.—Dovm.Aßvn.nK—First, tliite • •nd fifth Sunday*. SaittSphin&s—Second Sunday, aid Safr.rJa) before. < Medway—Fourth Sunday. wtl-Saiurdav !•*■. lore. W. K. F XHE, Pasicm. lUpim--DwigmTille, first and fourth Sun days. Rev. J. B. Vaughn, pastor. ** ,onic - D<»ml*,sril)o Lodge, So. 289, F. A. M.,meeh eti night before rhe first and third : , Mnndaya in ecofi month. J. R. Carter, W. M., i W. J. Camp, Seay. ,■ j County Directory. efilinary—R. T. ckwiper. Ulerk-8. N. Dorsett. Hherif -Ktiiiu Ward. Deputy Sheriff G, H. Sonter. W Receiver—E. H. Gamp, fax Collector—W. A. Sayer. Treasurer—Samuel Shannon. Surveyor—John M. Hney. Coroner-—F. M. Miloheb. Bt’PJBBIOH COURT. Meets on third Monday* in January and July ' end hold* two weeks. Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris. Hot Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reich Clerk—S. N. Dorsett. Sheriff—Henry Ward. COUNTY CODttT. Meet* in quarterly semon on fourth Mon- I days m Ifebruary, May, Angust and November and holds until ail the canes on the docket are sailed. Tn monthly session it meet* on fourth Mondavi iu each month, Judge ‘ Hou. R. A. Massey. Hoi. Genl.-Hun. W. T. Roberts. Bailiff—D. W. Johns. OJUMNAXTB COUBT “ Meets for ordinary purpose* on first Monday, I and for county purposes on first Tuesday in Hash month. Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper. justwm oourra. 730th Diet. G. M. meets first Thursday in each ! month. J. 1 FeWy, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. P., I). W. John* and W. K. Hunt, L. C. 790th Dint. G. M., meets second Saturday. A. R. Bumat, J, P., B. A. Arnold, N. P., 8. C. Yeager, L. C. 784th Diet. G. M. meets fourth 8* turd ay. Franklin Uanar, J. P., C. B. Baggett, K. E, J. C. James and M. S. Gora, L. Cs. 1269th Disi. G. M. meets third Saturday. T. M. Hamilton, J, P., M. J... Yates, N. P., 8. W. Biggers, L.C., S. J. Jourdan. L. 0. ilOQih Disc.. G. M. meets third Saturday. N. i W Camp, J,l‘., W. 8. Hudson, N. P., J. A Hill, L. <!. I 13715 t Diet. G. M. meets first Saturday. C. <>. Clinton. J. P. Alberry Hembree, N. P., 1272ud Diet. G. M. meets fourth Friday. > Qeo. W. Smith, J. P., C. J. Robinson, N. I*., ! - , L/C. 1273rd Diet. G. M. meets third Friday. Thus. White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P., W. J.'Harbin, ’ L.C. Professional Cards. ROBERTI MASSES ATTORNEY AT LAW DOUGLASVILLE, GA. (Office tn front room, Dorsett’s Building. / Will practice anywhere except in the County Court of Dougluss county. W. A. JAMES. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will practice in all iho conns, Stare an , i Federal. Office on Court House Square, DOUGLASVILLE. GA WM. T. ROBERTS. ATTORNEY AT LAW,! DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the Court*. All Jega business will receive prompt attention. Office »» Court House. C. I>. CAMP. ATTORNEY AT LAW. DOUGLASVILLE, GA Will practice iu all the court a. Au UtudneM intrusted to him will receive prompt attention. B. G. GRIGGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOU3LASVLLI.E. GA. Will practice in all the courts. Stave and Federal. JOHN IN, EDGE, j ATTORNEY AT LAW. DOUGI-ASVILIX, GA. Will practice iu all the courts, and promptly attend to all business entrusted to hisoare. J. S. JANES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGIASVHJ J, GA Will practice in the courts of Dong’am, GampbelL Carroll, Paulding, Cobh, Fnhon and adjoining counties. Tmtupi attention given to all businm. “ I H McLaRTYT ATTORN EV AT LAW, DOttGJSVILLE, GA. Will pravliee in all ths e>>urt*. both State and Fwh-rat. tJobeetfena a specialty. JOHN Y EDGE? ATTORNEY AT LAW. POUOLASVIIA-S, GA. JOB PRINTING NEATLY DONE H THE “STAR" OFFICE. Wte wtrfw sol HUMBLE BUT USEFUL A Short Sketch of the Evolu- tion of the Match. How Matches Stand in the World as a Factor of Econcniiy. Tn his address at the opening session of the British association. Prof. Lyon Play*- j fair, M. P., the president, said: “Let I me take a single example of how even a ]x?tty manufacture, improved by the teachings of science, affects the comforts ■ and enlarges the resources of mankind. When 1 was a boy the only way of ob , tabling a light was by the tinder-box, with its quadruple materials, flint and steel, iwmt rags or tinder, and a sulphur match. If everything went well, if the box could be found, and the air was dry, : alight could be obtained in two minutes; but very often tiie time occupied was mndi longer, and the process became a great trial to the serenity of the temper. The consequence of this was that afire or burning lamp was kept alight through ; the day. Old Gerard, in his herbal, tells us how certain fungi were used to carry fire from one part of the country to i the oilier. The tinder box long held its ! position as a great diaeovery in the arts. | The pyxidietiUt •igniaria of the Romans I appears to have beon much the same implement, though a little ruder than the I flint and steel which Philip the Good put I into the collar of the Golden Fleece, in 1429, as t he representative of high knowl edge hi the progress of the ai ts. It con tinued to prevail till 188a. when phos phorus matches were introduced, though I have been amused to find that there are a few venerable ancients in London who will stick to the tinder-box, and for whom a few shops keep, a small supply. | Phosphorus was no new discovery, for it had been obtained by an Arabian called Bechtel in the eighth century. Howev ja, it was forgotten, and it was rediscov ered by Brandt, who made it out of very stinking maloriuls. in 106*1. Other dU- * had, fit could Tie uw-d for luejfer matches, f The Bcttmee of enmhwflon was only de- ' " i veloped on the discovery of oxygen a ; century later. Time had to elapse be fore chemical analysis showed the kind of bodies which could be added to phosphorus to make it ignite readily. So i it was not till 1838 that matches became a partial success. Intolerable they then were, dangerously inflammable, horribly ; poisonous to the makers, and injurious to the lungs of consumers. It required 1 another discovery by Schrottcrin 1845, to j change poisonous wax into innocuous red brick phosphorus in order that these de fects might be remedied and to give us the safety match of the present day. Now r, what have these successive discov- I j cries in science done for the nation in this single manufacture by nu economy of time? If, before 1888, we had made ’ the same demand for light that we. now i do when we daily consume eight match- A per head of the population, the tinder box could liavc supplied the demand under the most favorable conditions by an <'X|H-nditure of one quarter of an hour, i The hicifer match supplies a light in fif teen seconds on each occasion, or in two ! minutes for the whole day. Putting these differences into a year, the venera ble ancient who still sticks to his tinder ’ box would require to sja nd ninety hours i yearly in the production of light, while the user of lucifer matches spends twelve hours; so that the latter has an economy of seventy-eight hours yearly, or alwut ; ten working days. Measured by cost of i productiou at 1 shilling 6 |»ence daily, the economy of time represented in mon ey to our population *5£28,000,080 annu- * ally. This is a curious instance* of the ! manner in which science leads to eeono ' my of time and wealth, evea in a emull manufacture. The ImporUßce of a Sneeie* Ace-ording to th? old superstitions, 1 there is mwh iuq>ortan<T in a sneezr. : (Homebody has been hunting up the sub- , ject and has found the following vener able saw: Saeere on Monday, you snrew for danger, ftneeae on Tuesday, you kiss a stranger; ftneere on Wednesday, you snreae for a letter, Sneenw on Thursday for something better; Bneere on Friday, you sneeae for tonwr, oa Saturday, your sweetheart to- i morrow, j Sneaae on Sunday, ynur safety seek. The oM Nick will have you the whole of the ’ When IU G?t» Raoad. Wife—" John.dear, I notice that your I brother James never makes a friendly call upon ua units* he is intoxicated/’ Husband—“No, my dear, hr doesitt. James reminds me of the moon/’ 5 Wife— H Ri nnmU you of the wkmhiF* Husband- “Yea, dear; he nevrr gets . /dcitl Ul hcl IkUL“- . FA.W SISG TO NONE-CHARITY T O ALL. DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. APRIL 2(1: 18S(>. ‘•Uhip’s” Letter. “Chip,” a Chinese house-servatrfc long employed by one family in San Francisco, j having accumulated a snug little sum of money, recently determined to pay a visit to his relatives in China. Desiring to correspond with the family during his ab sence, and not being able to write in the English language, he hit upon the follow ing novel expedient: He applied to a friendly neighbor-—a young lady—to write from his dictation, enclose and ad dress a letter to his mistress, be taking the same with liiin for the purpose of mailing from China. A few day before his departure the lady of the bouse chanced to go into Chip’s room, and there saw lying upon the table a scalfed letter addressed to herself. Thinking its presence there to be an oversight on the part of Chip in not promptly delivering, she opened the letter, and on reading it, discovered the true inw-ardness of the same. Not wishing to have Chip know . that she had surprised his litile secret, she had a new envelope properly prepared and addressed in close imitation of thv original and left the letter where she had found it. The letter graphically de scribed the trip from San Francisco to Hongkong; it dwelt particularly upon a terrible storm at sea, during which.nearly every one was seasick except the writer; , Chip's arrival home was touched upon; the joy of his mother and faintly;;was feelingly described; finally the of his intended return was given a answer requested. Chip, having seeded his certficate, departed hence asarrafiscd, and, sure enough, the last China mail ! brought the wonderful letter from Chip, : and, no doubt, when he receives the an- ] swer, which was promptly sent, his heart will swell with pride and gratification, and his importance among the circle of his acquaintance in his native home bfi duly increased, by his foreign correspond cnee.—JS®n ArfioiMut. -Ill——lll Two. Ben Maddox, who for some time ar ried the midi between the towns of boro and Whitney, Texas, is the posses sor of a variegated voice. He usually be gins speaking in a very high, asjierate voice, and when about half throtigh she ' sentence falls to a very deep l>ass, in which he finishes. One day in returning ; from Whitney his team ran away, tlirew Ben out. in the mud and turned the light covered hack which he was driving, over on him in such a manner that, although uninjured, he was unable to get from un- j der it. While he was there a stranger came by, when the following conversation took place: Ben (in his fine voice) —“Hello, mister, will you please' get down an’ raise t his back up so as I can git out?” Stranger-—“ Yes, I guess I can, but how did you get under there?” Ben (in bis coarse bass voice)—“The horses ran away and turned the hack over on me.” Stranger—“Lookee here; if there are are two or three of you under then* you are able tn raise that hack up youXelf, '■ and I am not going to get down in the mud to help you.” And away he rode, leaving poor Ben to get out the best way c could. - Ihtroit F,-w Mudstones for Hydrophobia. North Carolina boasts of no less than four mudstones carb of which is alleged to have certain specific virtues, making each the great »md only madstonv. Won derful apparent, cures have been effected by the use of these mad«tones during the past half a century. Some of them are even older than that, but faith in theii efficacy has never diminished. There i* a famous stone in Halifax County, and people bitten by rabid dogs have been taken to the stone or the stone has been taken to them for years. Another stone is know far and near as the Painter madstonc. and is owned bv Mr. Painter, of Person County. It is in demand by both Virginians and North Carolinians, and there are cases known of person-s having been taken hundreds of miles to be touched by this stonei—Aeu lent FaHd. The Wrong Date. The widow of a German army office! went to the pension office for th»* purpose of drawing her pension. She presented the usual <'ertificate of the mayor of her village to the effect that she was still I alive. “This certificate « not right,” said the i official. I “What is the matter with itf* “Because it bears the date of December 21st, but your peusfou was due De xmber 15th.” “What kind of a certificate do you want f* “We must have a certificate that you were alivt on the 15th day of Dec—tber. Os what use »this one that says yo» were alive on the 21st day <Deceniber— AMONG TIIEPERSIANS. An Afternoon’s Walk in the CFiief City. Our Late Minister Describes Some of the Sights of Teheran. S. G. W. Benjamin late United States minister to Persia, describing an after noon in Teheran, says, in Harper’s: It is the hour of peace; a rosy light bathes the house-tops, but tire stately avenues leading north and south are in shadow, and cooled by the water thrown by the sakkahs. The tender evening light also rests on the snowy crests of the vast ridge ol the Shim Jrain, or Light of Persia, which soars to a height of 13,000 feet across the northern side of the plain, but nine miles away. The evening glow, be , fore it. fades into twilight, lingers last on the snowy cone of Demavend. 21,000 feet high, ever present in evciy view, like the presiding genius that protects the capital of Persia. | With slow and dignified steps the Per sian gentlemen stroll through these invit ing avenues, engaged in genial converse. Their long robes, their massive beards, their lofty caps or voluminous turbans, give them a lofty stateliness as they wend ' along, undisturbed by the numerous hor i ses or carnages, or the hideously unkempt and filthy dervishes who claim alms on account of then- sanctified rags. ■ At this hour the tea-houses arc in lull blast. The reader may be surprised to I learn that the national beverage of Persia is not coffee but tea. One would natu rally suppose that a country so near Araby the Blest and the aromatic groves of Mocha would, like the Turks, prefer i coffee. Os course a great deal of coffee, prepared in the Turkish way, is con- i sumed by tin Persians, hut the fact re mains that they are «-ssentially a tea drinking race, drinking it in vast quanti ties, flavored with lemon fine . and sweetened almost to a syrup. The habit is probably the result of the rommen'ial intercouite which ut an early period exist- ,ed between I’ersia and t’hina, and i : which, as is now well known, gave an ' Impulse to the art* of Persia, of which evidences appear at various stages of her , usthetic history. At Teheran the tea- j houses t ake tjie place of the coffee-houses J of Constantinople. One meets them fll j ' every turn, of every rank, but all alike resorts for rest, leisure, and entertainment. There one may see public dancers, who by law are now invariably men, although women contrive to evade the laws some times and exhibit in the harems. The male dancers arc brought up to this voca tion from boyhood, and invariably wear i long hair in imitation of women, and shave their faces smooth. What interests an intelligent European more at these tea-houses than the dances are the recitations from the poets. The songs of Hafiz may be heanl there, and entire cantos from the great epic of Fcr doonsee, repeate<l with loud, sonorous modulation, heard sometimes at quite a j distance at the more inspiring pa-sages. ’ and listener! to with enthusiastic rapture. | Here too, one may hear the “Arabian | Nights" titles given without any attempt ‘ at expurgation, exactly as in a recent translation. The reader will recollect that the characters in the “Arabian Nights” are constantly and at every op portunity quoting long and appropriate passages from the j>oets. This may to the European appear to be an affectation ■ or a freak of poetic license on the part of the author of these tales. On the contra ry, he was simply giving us another of those traits of Oriental character the reeortl of which has given to those ini mitable narratives immortality as the fin est picture ever given of the life of the East, which, after thousands of years, is only just beginning to feel the transform ing influence of western civilization. As one eontimua his riunli|c through Teheran at this hour, h< secs a jeprad, amused by balxmns dancing to the beat of tamlHjurine-—animals which, if they do not get all the happiness they deserve, at least well fulfill their mi--ion in minis tering to the pleasure of myriads by their absurd antics and grimaces. Or we see a chained lioness put through her paces or, fatigued by the j»art she has been forced to play in life, and unable to es cape from it by suicide, is sleeping heavi ly on the pavement. But one of the most common spectacles of Teheran in the late afternoon—a sight which always draws a crowd—is a match of trained wrestlers, or athletes exercising with clubs, as both of which the Persians are very expert although they make no grer:t figure in _ Grandpa-—“ Tell me, Ethel, why do you have six buttons on your gloves?” Ethel—“ Yes, grandpa, dear. I will tell you. The reason is, if I had seven but tons or five, they would not match the s {kJ. A Character of the Frontier. A recent number of the Chicago Her- I aid says: There came to the city yestcr- ■ day and slapped his name on one of the hotel registers one of the simon-pure ori ginals of the wild West. II was “Jim” Whitlachj of Nevada. “Jim” Whitlach i is a character. He has been a miner and , prospector in the far West for more than twenty years. He is one of the best, un scientific miners in the country, and next lo Senator Fair and. George Hearst, of ; California, the best judge of a mineral ... prospect the mining regions have ever ' known. When “Jim” Whitlach looks | down a shaft or “skins” his eye along a ( hanging wall he seems to know intuitive- ; ly what is behind it. When the great ' bonanza was discovered in 1874. in Vir- i ginia City, Whitlach went into the mine ■ and made the closest guess of all as to ; the extent and value of the deposit. And ! there were many wild guesses made by \ very scientifie persons. A. Yale professor : said the great bonanza was worth $700,- 000,000. Phil Diedeshehncr, a German . mining expert and geologist, went nearly ; crazy over the find, and wildly asserted ; that the bonanza was w orth $1,500,000,- 000. He had bought a little stock and on the strength of the millions he was i going to make he went to a big hotel in San Francisco, hired a suit of eight rooms, stocked them with champagne and cigars, and kept open house for a week. Everybody laughed at the crazy I German. Even John W. Mackay guess- ! ed wide of the mark on the value of the ! find, lie put it at $300,000,000 and de- J dared that it would take ten years to ex- J haust the mine. But Whitlach guessed within a few millions of the truth. He said there was $125,000,000, in the bo- t nanza, and that 120 st amps would use up i the orc in. five years. The actual yield of • the mine was and the pay ! orc was exhausted in four years and eight months after the mine was opened. In 18fH Whitlach himself made a dis- ; covery in White Pine, Nevada, which showed some of the richest silver ore ever found in tins country. Jlis mine, contained ore worth $14,000 a ton. He sold If. for $175,000, put the money into ilv San Francisco stock market, and in two inontiis he was again in the saddle, and with a little pack mure trailing be j hind, enroute to the mountains. Whit ! Inch is now scouring Colorado for new mines, with Leadville as his headquarters. He says there is more money underground ! at Leadville than has ever been taken • out. “The camp hasn't begun to boom : yet,” he says. Exercise for Aged People. M. Bouchardat. professor of hygiene at : the Paris faculty of medicine, protested i in strong ternw at a recent lecture against the advice given by some hygienists who recommend almost complete rest to the 1 aged, in the following terms: “I protest against the oft repeated adage that old ; ago is the age of rest.” This sentence ' ■ has led to a very great error in hygiene. ; j The regular general exercise of all organs j of nutrition and of locomotion is necessa iry to persons of all ages. The greatest < attention on this point* is all the more ' necessary that the tendency to rest brings on a gradual deminution of the strength, i If the old man does not resist, his i strength will visibly and progressively diminish, and the few days he may have i to live may be transformed into just so many hours. In proof that regular daily exercise is beneficial to the aged one has only to observe the results in gome of the handsomest ohl men, who take little or no rest. Moderat': exercise, particularly walking, should be the leading precept ' of | the hygiene of the aged, without which longevity is well nigh impossible.” Professor Bouchardat also recommends ! that old p'Ople should maintain their in tellectual faculties, or otherwise they will get into a state of incurable torpor. This j is best accomplished by having some steady intellectual pursuit, and by taking an active interest in the events and pro gress of the day. In our boyhood we re member a very old man, who told us he kept in as perfect health as an old man I can be by chopping wood for an hour or two every flay. This he regarded as suf ficient exercise for him. Another old man we know finds his health greatly benefited by sawing wood with the ordi nary- buck saw. — Herald oj Health. She Was Satisfied. “Doctor,” said an old lady to her phys ician, “kin you tell me how ’tis some i folks arc born dumb?” “Why, certainly, madam.” replied the doctor. “It is owing to the fact that thi y come into the world minua the pow er of speech.” “La. my!” exclaimed the old lady; “now just see wbat it is to have 3 physic education. I’ve axed my ole man a hun dred times that air same thing, and all ‘ that I could ever get out of him was, | k iai 1 ’ _ ‘ NUMBER 11. THE NATIONS PAGES. The Boys Who Walton Sena» tors »nd Congressmen. Peculiarities of the Little Chaps, Their Mode of Life and Dissipations. , An Indianapolis coircspondent at Washington writes: Some interesting character and peculiar hits of life are found in the pages of the Senate and House of Representatives. In the upper branch of congress there are about fifteen and in the lower branch about thirty-five pages. Their duties arc well-known to the average reader. Their fields of labor . are the floors of the two branches of epn -1 grass. A page for the senate, however, never does anything for a member of the : house, and vice versa., Sometimes a page is found who is almost ol age and nearly ■ full-grown; but they average from fl ta 14 years, and most of them are very small in stature, ami. npon first appear ance boyish in character. As years go on, if they are retained, the little fellows become sagacious, often proud, and not infrequently imitate the statesmen in bearing and conversation. Tltere is no better school for a boy in which to be come an actor. He has the best of oppor tunity to study every phase of character. Speaking of the pages sometimes imitat ing the acts of their superiors, reminds me of an incident that occurred a few •lays ago. A very diminutive page v.ho ; was borne upon the rollfl bf the last con gress was superceded. When he learned that his place ha<T Ifeeii given so another he became considerably dejected, for this little fellow had dissipated in a mild ; way and had been profligate, so that he was found almost without funds, and was as far away from home as the state of Missouri is front Washington. But the boy had been an observer and knew a trick or two. He studied the situation. ’He solved it. Going to his boarding house he hastily pfoked up his effects without attracting the attention of any one. With great caution he removed them to another quarter of the city. Then he went out to bid his old confreres adieu. Meeting one of them, who was about ten years old, and as tall as a man’s arm is long, he said: “%ell, good-bye, old fellow; I’m off. My constituents have given me the shake . 1 was defeated in caucus and beaten in I convention. The situation, however, leaves me a little flat. I am nearly broke; but I-have founu away out. I will jump' my board bill. They all do it.” Sometimes the pages run in schools, like fish, and become clannish. Not in frequently one meets a crowd of them, all under three feet in height, at the mid night hour, making the town howl. Many of them smoke cigarettes and play billiards. Frequently the little fellows drink beer, for they can buy it any where at the counters. There is not r very great proportion of them, however who fall into these channels of dissipa tion. Those who do generally conv from the larger cities. Then the page have away of “hazing,” and some of the capers they play upon plebeians or inex perienced boys are wonderfully severe and terribly embarrassing. One of the favorite tricks in the line of hazing is to take a new boy down into the basement under the hull of the house and ;<how him the “rubber man.” This basement is very dark and very broad and cavern ous. Portions of it are unlighted, and the unsophisticatfcij yoqtb soon finds him self lost. The surroundings are weird and frightful, and it sometimes takes an hour to get out. Pages receive $75 per month during the session. Those in the house are generally changed every two years, but the boys in the senate arc re tained, and some of them grow up to manhood from '.hi:Mh<x>d at their posts of duty, as did Senator Gorman, of Mary land. It is said that a considerable num ber of pages in the house are blood rela tives to memlrers, and sometimes the members have their sons appointed. Had Heard the Name. *‘Don't know L’raniner, of Colorado!” queried a Montana man at the Merchants * few days ago. “Well, I thought every body knew Cranincr. He is one of the biggest cattlemen, not only in Colorado, but in the world. His cattle, and there are a good many of them, too, are all branded with three circles— the three circle brand, as he calls it. Cranmcr was at a convention of cattlemen at Hugo. He was conversing with a party of cat tlemen when one of tbe party happened to mention the name of Bhalwsi>eare. ‘Shakespeare V observe* 1 Cranmer, -when have I heard that name before? Whai kind of a brand docs be use on his cat* tief”— St. Paul Pioneer-Preu. Some people are willing to be good if they are well paid for it. Others prefer to be good for nothing.