Irwinton bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 1894-1911, June 05, 1908, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHE TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE AT CHILAPA. MEXICO. 3T ' “ ■ -Ms (Ikßr L ■ ■ X‘-W : i r IB MfiKb. <7 ■ '• Mwv > x < IwM ' IQ^k' S ^WWr ’ '’ ‘m» A ‘ISP ETH£Zs^jjaß4s&. '.■?*♦>. »j®jSßs?^tS3BW4*ST‘3i3»s^ v W WWW W : ' • X ^"Cr • j^'jgggsg&tja^ . ;>.- * ' BI ^ -<■ ■J '&jf^W ; HSiRA s' & Wi’feSSassKs? « fiP^v^wK-'ir k^i SY- t^Jii OWwI I £ll BfL ■ d -»Hi Owl 11 KI >PMI ®i£l^ I i < 1 : »■ & T*^-' i-I mI s» ® -W- * ^Swb 9 S I irsr >■»■ < .S^mE|k-4 ■?? WSSywigMMl^ - : »»«■ g-Att^ • ® gOsawiglß^^ ? IaOIS ;• WW wW« '^NKhP- ; VAOii!lys»a^ </vs3 AAS;|^ >?Ss.sSs^SS£«£KfH£l^^ TEL N^JSski^l l&^SslKjKggagS^Ssslilsfl^SM^S^s^^ J2»'’'“vFiSsSsi ? '• • '• '-5 EißllSS^^ RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF SAN FRANCISCO AFTER THE SEIS MIC SHOCK WHICH WRECKED THE TOWN OF 1200 INHAB- ITANTS AND, IT WAS FEARED, KILLED 300 PERSONS. —James Carson, Mexico, in Leslie’s. Gas Burner Attachment. For som,e unaccountable reason, persons desiring to commit suicide by asphyxiation invariably select a hotel for the purpose. By a recent inven tion of an Oregon man it becomes possible for the night clerk to in stantly tell if the gas in any unoccu pied room has been lighted, or if the gas is escaping from any jet not lighted. The device also acts as a prevention of accidents resulting from the accidental escaping of gas due to a failure to light the same, or due to the gas having been blown out after being lighted. The apparatus is shown in the illustration, and con sists of an ordinary burner and sup ply pipe. Attached to the latter, di rectly over the burner, is a smoke bell, connected to an electric circuit. The stop cock regulating the flow of gas is at the end of the smoke bell. \ 11/ As soon as the stop cock is turned on the electric circuit is closed and a bell or indicator located at any desired point is operated to call attention to the fact that the gas has been turned on. When the gas is lighted, the heat causes a break in the circuit and the bell stops. If the gas should be accidentally or intentionally extin guished by other means than the closing of the stop cock, the absence of heat closes the circuit and causes the bell to ring,—Washington Star. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi tion, June 1 to October 15, 1909, will have an interesting .educational ex hibit. Two up to date (city and country) school buildings will be erected. m • - ^- ~,-- y yg^SreL£- &^&%»JMKaaR~v 7 JXO; X g^jgEgiamWl^ e- ft-’ IMt ^.^HBmKl*' -' ■ ; ' ‘ ^'\ ’*' ■ t ‘.; t 'f - v'_ . yjag^M^jlF^ ■ ■ > ■ Ai^ ?’ f ^WMRwgiK ■■^ y z rs " “ \wl Mk. :^- MWI JF' ' / ; ^7 f? ? M® \ J ! A /•= ' ’aX’.' •■■; v*' /• /. ' i -'t ■' ” awfelk ■- 'Tz '3 - i £i awk. ■'^ i •*> . • »• d .?■*’■ / r * *"• » 1 ■ !:y ’’ ,! ■ l j i' r ''- * fJ * 5' Bi^2? : ' -' - * K ;- MBb& A Harvard Shrine. L; ■. ■ I i- ■ y ■ The John Harvard House at Stratford, England, With Carved Teams. i—From The House Beautiful. Nerve Stimulant. Taking up the old question of the effects of nerve stimulants upon the capacity for work, Armand Gautier has shown that when kola is given to a horse fatigue seems to be lessened, and half a mile or more is added to the distance the animal can travel per hour. It was further proven, how ever, that the liorseloses more weight than the one that has received no stimulant. This drug, like alcohol, can whip up the tissues, but the arti ficially produced energy is at the ex pense of the living machine. —Chris- tian Work and Evangelist. A Very Useless Life. There was a man named Socrates who lived, according to some modern standards, a very useless life. He did nothing but think and talk and walk about the streets and market places, asking questions that set other people thinking.—Christian Register. Hold the Pigeon Sacred. Russians do not eat pigeons be cause of tlie sanctity conferred on the dove in the Scriptures. CRYING NEED. First Legislator—After the rail roads? Second Legislator—Yes; I shall compel them to run over enough cows a year to-give a farmer a living.— Judge. FITS, St. Vitus’ Dance: Nervous Diseases per manently cured by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. IS trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline. Ld.,931 Arch St,, Phila., Pa. When women heed the call to arms, men must face the powder. 25c. WH.I, CUKE YOUR CORNS If you invest it in a bottle of abbott's bast Indian corn paint. It removes hard or soft corns, bunions or sore, eallous spots on tho feet, warts or indurations of the skin. No pain, no cutting, no “eating” of the flesh, no after soreness; quick, safe, sure. At druggist or by mail from The Abbott Co., Savannah, Ga. THE INFERENCE. ‘‘Mr. Purslington says he 'believes a man should pay as he goes.” “Judging from the way he gets in debt he must be accustomed to trav elling backward.”—Washington Star. Hicks’ Capudine Cures Women's Monthly Pains, Backache, Nervousness, and Headache. It’s Liquid. Effects imme diately. Prescribed by physicians with best results. 10c„ 25c., and 50c., at drug stores. HIS MALODOROUS JOKE. De Style—When he swore at the odor of gasoline was he in a rage? Gunbusta—No; in a ga-rage.—'New York Press. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrttpfor Children teet king, softens thegums.reducesinflamma tion, allays pain,cures wind colic, 25c a bottle Germany’s trades unions number about 2,215,000 members, which is 25 per cent, of the total strength of the labor organizations of the civil ized world. _____ ECZEMA CURED. J. R. Maxwell, Atlanta, Ga., says: “1 suffered agony with a severe case of ecze ma. Tried six different remedies and was in despair, when a neighbor told me to try Shuptrine’s tettbrinb. After using $3 worth of your tktterine and soap I am completely cured. I cannot say too much in its praise.” Tettebinb at druggists or by mall 50e. Soap 25e. J. T. Bhuptrine, Dept. A, Savannah, Ga. CAMPAIGN CIGARS. Public Opinion Wrong About Their Quality, a Manufacturer Thinks. ‘‘l see that a member of the Ohio Legislature is trying again this year to have the bill pas» <l he introduced two years ago to prohibit the giving of tobacco in any form for campaign purposes,’’ said a Pearl street cigar manufacturer. “It is clear enough that this is a direct slap at the cam paign cigar, but even if the bill went through in Ohio and in every other State in the Union, the cigarmakers wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. “It is a peculiar fact that although it is well known that in every cam paign, whether it is for the election of a school trustee or a president, a great quantity of cigars are distribut ed by the candidates, the manufac turers never observe an increase in their business. On the contrary a presidential election Invariably has a bad effect on business. “One of the mysteries of the trade is why so much odium should be at tached to what is popularly called the ‘campaign cigar.’ I have never heard that manufacturers turned out peculiarly evil brands of cigars in presidential years. “Isn’t It possible that these are the ordinary five cent cigars of commerce which are having ithelr reputation dragged in the dirt by professional Jokesmlths? Anyway, why do can didates hand out campaign cigars? Nobody ever heard that one cigar or even a whole box of them ever chang ed a voter's attitude toward an office Beeker.” —New York Sun. THE FIRST TASTE Learned to Drink Coffee When a Baby If parents realized the fact that coffee contains a drug—caffeine— which is especially harmful to chil dren, they ■would doubtless hesitate before giving the babies coffee to drink. “When I was a child in my moth er’s arms and first began to nibble things at the table, mother used to give me sips of coffee. As my parents used coffee exclusively at meals I nev er knew there was anything to drink but coffee and water. “And so I contracted the coffee habit early. I remember when quite young, the continual use of coffee so affected my parents that they tried roasting wheat and barley, then ground it in the coffee-mill, as a sub stitute for coffee. “But it did not taste right and then went back to coffee again. That was long before Postum was ever heard of. I continued to use coffee until I was 27, and when I got into office work, I began to have nervous spells. Especially after breakfast I was so nervous I could scarcely at tend to my correspondence. “At night, after having coffee for supper, I could hardly sleep, and on rising in the mornfngwould feel weak and nervous. “A friend persuaded me to try Pos tum. My wife and I did not like it at first, but later when boiled good and strong it was fine. Now we would not give up Postum for the best coffee we ever tasted. “I can now get good sleep, am free from nervousness and headaches. I recommend Postum to all coffee drink ers. “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever rend the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. The Story of an Ancient Mine. By HERBERT W. HOffWILL, M. A. The modern graduate of a technical I school who has specialized in mining would probably be rble to give a sat isfactory list of the most important recent publications on his own sub ject. It is not so certain that he would be ready with an answer to the question: What is the earliest recorded description of mining opera tions in the literature of the ancient world? He would naturally excuse his ignorance by the plea that the scientific portions of the ancient classics are of uo practical service to-day, and that, such as they are, they belong properly to tho domain of the philologist or the antiquarian. As it happens, the passage in question does not occur in a technical book or indeed in an out-of-the-way and obsolete volume at all, but in a poet ical composition which is easily ac cessible, which is still read by a large number of persons, and which is sup posed to be more or less familiar to every man possessing a fair general education —the Book of Job. _ The fact that this most interesting passage is so little known is largely due to the obscurity of its translation in the Authorized Version. One might easily read through the twenty eighth chapter of Job in that version without the least idea that it con tained a detailed account of the pro cesses by which the miner earns his livelihood. The first two verses, it is true, point to something of the kind, but at the third the writer appears to diverge into a not too intelligible panegyric of Divide omnipotence as shown especially in floods and earth quakes. Turn to the Revised Version, and the puzzle at once becomes a pic ture. From the first verse to the eleventh inclusive we are now able to follow an exact description of the methods employed by the ancient miner, and still pursued in the main wherever there is discovered a de posit worth working. The key to the whole interpreta tion is in the meaning of the word “he” in the third verse. In the old version it appeared to denote God; the Revisers apply it to man. Ac cordingly, the passage refers not to Divine omnipotence but to human en terprise. “Man,” we read, “setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.” Here we see the miner with his lantern bringing light into a re gion hitherto sealed from man’s gaze and searching not only near the sur face, but, as “stones of thick dark ness” seem to indicate, the very gloomiest recesses of the earth’s in terior. “He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot that.passeth by; they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.” This is severely scien tific, but it is poetical also. As Dr. Samuel Cox has said, the writer brings out, in a few deft strokes, “the pathos of the miner’s life and occupa tion —its peril, its loneliness, its re moteness even from those who stand nearest to it.” The ancient poet had probably in his imagination the wil derness of Arabia Petraea, but the same feature of distance from crowd ed cities has usually been a charac teristic of the beginnings, at any rate, of a great mine, whether in Cali fornia, or in Nevada, or in Australia. And even if it is not so utterly re mote from human habitation, the casual passenger goes on his way ig norant or oblivious of the burrowing far beneath his feet, where the miner “hangs” or “swings” at his work, hav ing been lowered to the desired spot by some primitive cross-bar slung be tween ropes or chains. The picture is now relieved by a suggestive parallel. The earth, on its surface as well as in its recesses, con tributes to the welfare of man and supplies a sphere for his industry. “As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.” Man, the worker and magician, both cultivates the soil that it may yield him his food, and pierces far below in quest of hidden treasure. The second clause of the verse is generally interpreted as a reference to the Egyptian method of removing ore by “fire setting,” i. e., by lighting a fire at the base of the rock to be removed so that the heat might split the harder portions and make cracks in which a chisel or pick could be inserted. The value of the miner’s finds is next indicated. “The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold,” or, as the marginal rendering gives it, “he winneth lumps of gold.” There follows a graphic contrast between the boundless ingenuity of man and the limited sagacity of the brute. “That path”—the road w’hich the miner hews out for himself—“no* bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it; the proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.” Man's detection of the secret gems of the earth is keener than the acutest predatory instinct of hawk and vul ture. His strength in pursuit of his spoil excels that of the tyrants of the jungle or the forest. For “he putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.” The last phase of the description reminds us of the cleverness of the underground explorer in preserving himself and his operations from dis aster, and of the persistent thorough ness of his investigation. “He cut <eth out channels among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. He biadeth the streams that they trickle not (Heb., from weep ing) ; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.” The miner is here depicted as using mechanical expedients for preventing leakage through the roofs or walls of the passages in which he works, and as cutting canals tp drain away water that may have percolated through. An alternative explanation of “he bindeth the stream from weeping” is that a reference is intended to the damming up of the waters in the river while the auriferous alluvial gravel is dug out. In either case the result is that nothing escapes his scrutiny, and that his energy and skill are rewarded by the discovery of the riches he seeks. The whole passage is thus a strik ing poetical representation of the art of mining as practice! in early times, and, except for the absence of elab orate machinery and powerful ex plosives, as still carried on to-day. And it is a picture with a purpose— to impress us with the wonders wrought by human enterprise so far exceeding the utmost marvels of ani mal instinct. As we read further on in the chapter, we find that this ex ulting tribute to the achievements of man is introduced into the poem that it may emphasize the limitations of even his intelligence. The close of the above description is immediately followed by the question: “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?” There are some darknesses of which man cannot make an end; some priceless treasures that baffle even his re search. Wisdom and understanding, of far greater worth than rubies, are neither to be purchased by the gold the miner discovers, nor are they to be attained by the exercise of his most penetrating ingenuity. The date of the book in which this remarkable passage occurs is by no means a settled question among Bib lical scholars. The traditional view which ascribed its authorship to Moses is now generally abandoned. The majority of modern critics place it somewhere between the seventh and the fourth century B. C., so it may be accepted as of a sufficiently remote period to make its description of the mine one of the earliest, if not absolutely the earliest, to be found in any literature. The four metals mentioned in the beginning of the chapter—silver, gold, iron and brass (or rather copper, as a more exact translation would render it) —are those which were discovered and worked in the first ages of w’hich we have a record. It is thought that the writer of this book was best ac quainted with the mining operations of the Egyptians, who worked gold and silver mines in upper Egypt, and copper and turquoise mines in Arabia Petraea or the Siniatic peninsula. There were no mines in Palestine it self, which explains the fact that this is the only reference to them in the Old Testament. The Egyptian copper mines in the Sinaitic mountains are known to have been carried on suc cessfully as far back as the times of the early Pharaohs. Shafts, slag heaps, smelting-places and ether dis tinct relics of the working of these mines may be seen to this day in some of the “wadis,” or channels of dried watercourses. Many of them appear to be in the same condition in which they were left by the Egyp tian workmen four or five thousand years ago; “the very marks of their toolfe,” it is said, “being so fresh and sharp in that pure, dry atmosphere, that more than one traveler has felt, while looking at them, as though the men had but knocked off work for a spell and might come back to it at any moment.”—Scientific American. Newspapers as "Personal" Organs. In Leslie’s Weekly Charles J. Bon aparte, Attorney-General of the Uni ted States, writes an article on this subject.„ Mr. Bonaparte states his views as follows; “As soon as a paper is recognized as somebody’s ‘organ,’ as expressing the views and wishes and opinions of any particular man or set of men, its healthful influence as a newspaper is gone; it may, indeed, have another kind of influence, for those who con trol or conduct it may be powerful men, but its editorial utterances are simply their ‘open letters.’ In my judgment, this is a matter of very se rious and urgent concern to the Amer ican people to-day. Certain of our newspapers, including some whose in fluence within my memory—indeed, within a comparatively few years— was a power, and a power for good, in the community, are now firmly and widely believed to be virtually, or even literally, owned by well known ‘interests’ —or, in other words, by wealthy men engaged in far-reaching enterprises. This widespread and very confident belief as to such own ership makes them virtually ‘trade organs,’ with but little more influence than the papers published avowedly as such.” How Very “Radical.” They order some things with a sterner sense of justice in France. In Paris a Professor having been run over and killed by a taxicab, the chauffeur was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and damages of SIO,OOO were awarded to the vic tim's widow, together with SSOOO to an unmarried daughter. Four other children received SI4OO each. The total cost of the accident to the com pany was $2 5,000. —New York World. HELPFUL ADVIGE ■■j lx-iihi ■ m rm Ji 11 isw»aj"- 'ji iiiMtn You won’t tell your family doctor the whole story about your privates ’ illness — you are too modest. You need not be afraid to tell Mrs. Pink ham, at Lynn, Mass., the things you could not explain to the doctor. Y our letter will be held in the strictest con fidence. 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Tbttbrinb is the surest, safest, speediest cure for eczema and all other skin diseases. Sold by drug gists or sent by mail for 50e. by J. T. Shup tbisb, Dept. A, Savannah, Ga. Lots of men buy experience by put ting on horse races. REMOVES CORNS WITHOUT PAIN. Abbott’s bast Indian corn paint removes corns, root and all, without cutting or burn ing and leaves no soreness. It cures soft corns between the toes, bunions or sore, callous spots. It cures all quick and per manent. Get it at your druggist or send 25c. to The Abbott Co., Savannah, Ga. Decadence of Wagering in England. We have lost our love of wager ter fcr general regret. Yet it seems to me that there was much harm le?.s merriment in the readiness with which men of all classes staked sums, according to the means at their dis posal, to show that they had at any rate the courage of their opinions. In these strenuous times, few’ have the opinions, and fewer still the mon ey with which to back them.—-Fry’s Magazine. Increase in Lunacy. Within the last half century there has been a remarkable increase of lunacy in Ireland. In 1901 there w’ere 25,050 lunatics in Ireland, or one in every 179 of the population. In 1851 there were only 350 in the entire county Antrim and Belfast, but to day there are 2,300, an increase of 1,950. In 1881 the percentage of lun atics per 10,000 of the population in England was 30.4, in Scotland 34, and in Ireland 30.5. Last year the Ag ing, and perhaps this is not a mat ures were: England 40.8 per 10,000 of the population: -Scotland, 45, and Ireland 56.2. —Boston Herald. Girl Telegraphers in India. Acting upon the recommendation of the telegraph committee, the In dian government has just authorized the employment of women operato rs.' The candidates must be 'between 'eigh teen and thirty years of age, and they must undergo a training of twelve months in the 'telegraph training classes, during which time they will receive $6.65 a month, the same al lowance that is drawn by male learn ers. Selected candidates on leaving the training classes will be on proba tion for one year. Upo2 appointment they will receive salaries varying from $lO to $26.65, which, are -very large upon the scale of living ex penses in India. There will be pen sions, with no liability to transfer; but resignation will be compulsory in the event of marriage.—Harper’s Weekly.