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Life After Forty.

from the Hospital
The best half of life is in front of the man Of
forty, if he be anything of man. The work he
will do will be done with the hand of a master.
and not Of a raw apprentice. The trained in
tellect does not see ''men as trees walking, but
sees everything clearly and in Just measure.
The trained temper does not rush at work like
a blind bull at a haystack; but advances with
the calm and ordered pace Of conscious power
and deliberate determination. To no man Is
the world SO new and the future 80 fresh as 70
him who has spent the early years Of his man
hood in striving to understand the deeper
problems of science and life and who has made
some Roadway toward compromising them
To him the commences things are rare and
wonderful both in themselves and a. parts of Q
beautiful and intelligent whole. Such Q thing
as staleness in life and its duties he cannot
understand. knowledge is always opening out
before him in wider expanses, and more COM
manding heights. The pleasure Of growing
and increasing power makes every
year OF his life happier and more hopeful than
the last
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GOLD MINE within sight of the Wash

a GOLD MINE within sight Of the WASH
IA ington monument Certainly; why not2
There is almost everything else to be had in
the capital city or near it, and why not gold
mine, and not one, but a half dozen. This
does not have reference to q particularly profit
able real estate subdivision either but to real,
genuine gold mines, where quartz ia quarried
out, and sooner or later substantial deposits
are made in bank. For over a quarter of
century il has been known that there were
veins of gold bearing rock to be found in Mary
land, ir the region of the Great Falls but it
has only been of late years that this rock has
been worked for the precious metal that might
be in it. When the big tunnel was made for the
aqueduct from the Great Falls to this city, it
was found that about a mile or two this side of
the falls the tunnel passed through several
veins Of white and rose-colored quartz that ap-
peared TO contain gold in some uncertain
quantity.
THE OLD MARYLAND MINE.
Soon after tina. the old Maryland mine was
sunk. but gold was not found in paying quaint
ties and the mine was eventually abandoned
Ii now appears shat if those early miners had
only used little more head work in their
search for gold and had sunk their shafting q
little more to one side or out tunnels in
that direction little way from the bottom OF
the shaft they would have been more successful
aud might have found that mining in MARYLAND
can he made quite profitable.
Work has recently been resumed in the
neighborhood Of that old mine, and it now
looks as though there was pay dirt to be
had in quantities to suit. In all there are now
some half dozen mines in the country to the
north and east Of the Great Falls. and it has
been reported of late that the owner of one of
them has been offered more than a quarter of
million dollars for his hole in the ground and
the land around it One stamp mill has already
been erected and another one Is 20 be built in
the near future. All is activity and life. and
some of the more hopeful seem to think that
before long MARYLAND will be supplying the
home market with gold and have something
left over for the export trade. There is prob
ably some e1aggeration in this, however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27
TO SAVE THE EYES.
A Series OF Good Suggestions for the Props.
Use Of Visual Organs.

SSS " shsuat ofEste.
From Harpcr's Young People.
1. Never read by a dim light 1t is q COM
mon habit for children and even grown people
to read between daylight and dark, or in the
darkened corner Of . room. The strain thus
produced is often sufficient TO impair .
healthy eye, and surely viii weaken one that
Is diss8sea- III ,n1Cy to
2. NgHsr Rad or grito with the light shining
direotly sinv tAs-fpa fdhs light should either
be csvErsd by xiaads OF be placed above and
behind the reader, shining over the left shout
der il the person is right-handed. In this way
the page will be illuminated. and the bright
rays Of the light will not enter the eve and -
irritate it,
s. Do not read living down. II is an un-
natural position, for IL requires an extra strain
on the muscles Of the ewes, and favors con-
gestion Of these organs.
4. Do not read or write with the head bent
far forward. IL is a common practice for
young people TO lay the book on a table, bend
over IL, and. with face close 20 the page, con-
tinue reading or writing for q long time. This
position causes increased flow Of blood 10
the eyes aud head, producing symptoms Of
weakness and increasing any existing near
s. Avoid reading on the cars or when riding
in q carriage. The strain made necessary In
the endeavor to overcome the unsteadiness Of
the page and to BEE distinctly il often sufficient
to cause great injury 20 an eve.
6. Avoid bringing the book too near the eyes.
hold it as far as the print IL distinct and clear
about fourteen to sixteen inches, but do not
carry il SO far away that IL IL an. effort 20 sse
clearly When the book is brought too close 90
the face an undue strain IL required both upon
those muscles which adjust the vision ct diffsr-
ent distances and also upon those which turn
the ewes inward. As q result marked symp-
toms of weakness in reading will in time be no
ticed.
2. Never read or continue the use of the ewes
after they begin TO tire or the head commences
to ache. These are certain indications that
you are doing too much and that rest h
necessary.
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The first view Of the first mine was not an i'm
posing one. Il was in the woods, somewhat off
from the main road Two shafts dug into the
earth two big windlasses. rude tool house and
Q huge pile Of quartz rock that was said to con-
tain pure virgin gold-that was all, and nothing
more. There was nothing Of the romantic side
Of mining life to be seen, nothing of the wild
and semi-barbarous, but always fascinating
spirit that gave the charm to Poker Flat. Roar
ing Camp and Simpsons Bar. Jack Hamlin,
that picturesque personihcation of the mining
gentleman, gambler by profession; Truthful
James and Yuba Bill were all conspicuous by
not being there. and there was no ore TO fill the
vacancy. Some day poet may arise to create
. fiction around these effete eastern mines as
was done in the case of the mining camps in
the Wild and Woolly west, but il will not be this
unknown writer. and whoever he may be he
viii need more picturesque material than was
10 be seen last week. To all surface appear
ances the score or more of men who were at
work, most Of them Of African descent. might
have been quarrying out building material or
paving stone, and in point OF fact the macadam
road above the aqueduct is largely made of this
same quartz dug up before it was thought to
have any value as gold producer. Who
knows but that some day that road bed NAV be
removed bodily and run through the mill and
stamped into gold dollars or double eagles?
Stranger things have happened
DOWN THE SHAFTS.
Above the two shafts IN this new Golconda
are big w1ndlasses that lift the bucketfuls Of
rock from the depths beneath. The visitor to
The mine may go down in one Of these big
buckets IL he wishes. but to the average man
the ladders down the side Of the shaft offer a
more satisfactory means of getting there. These
shafts are about fifty feet deep and are con-
nected by q subterranean tunnel a couple of
hundred fees in length, which follows the vein
Of auriferous quartz. This vein varies in width
from four feet down TO eighteen inches. run
ming, u general, from north 10 south, and at
various intervals there are shoots which run
downward ct an angle Of thirty degrees. When
operations are begun on a more extensive scale
those shoots are 70 be followed wherever they
nay lsad, even ''down to China" as the man
ager Of the mine tersely put it. So far, how
ever the work has been largely in the form of
prospecting TO see II there is gold in paving
auaatiees. Several hundred tons have been
caxted TO . neighboring stamp mill and found
10 contain gold Of a value largely in excess of
ths cost Of production, in addition 10 the con-
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Fruits In japan.

From the Chicago Tribune.
''My wife and I have been in Yokohama
seventeen years." said Thomas L. Boag yester-
day, land we are going back to England to
live. Japan is q good enough place to live
in"
III You can't get away" put in Mrs. Boag.
''The climate is pleasant. but it's only q
place to make money in. Old married people
such as we are can get along, but it's lonely Tor
young man. 1t isn't like home"
There's not o fruit there fit to eat EXCEPT
grapes said Mrs. Boag. land they are
woolly."
Eyes, the grapes have few hairs on them,
and they taste queer" admitted Mr. Boag..
They have tried apples and pears up in tie
northern part Of the Island Of Yeddo, and they
Yokohama il 'nashi,' which has meat ike 8
coarse pear and favor Ike nothing else I
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From the Chicago Times. -
"Are you" said the customer hesitat-
ingly to the naughty young woman at the glove
counter, who kept her eyes fixed on spot
three feet above his head.
'Wellr' ing tired the naughty young xoman.
'.Are you the proprietor OF the storeS'' asked
the customer.
"No, I'm not" replied the naughty young
woman. -
"Ah," continued tbe customer 81 tAouslss n
much. The proprietor would kksly ~ S1pe11
me pair Of gloves, psrhaps.s ID eao sno2sd o
IA Gafra t1us2 bYsr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27

The Strange 0entlsmaA.
From TIE Harvard LAmpoon.
eundays2"
Mother-"why thsss your father, ehild"
tsWhere II he ths other days2'
| r4A1 the club"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27
DIGGING FOR WEALTH.
Men Who Are Looking for Riches in
the Rocks of Maryland.
POTOMAC GOLD HUNTERS.

Incidents of . Trip to the Mining Region
Holes in the Ground Where the Glittering
Quartz IL sought-The Descent Of . Shaft
and Scenes in the Tunnel.
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Jawkins-"Havs you seen this man who A.
lows rocks 10 be broken on his head?"
Hogg-"No; but i 0w q woman yesterday
Who stopped . street car with one Angss."-
Tsoas 81 ftsaga
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Born So.

From the Boston Journal
at was born in her and she couldn't get il
out" was what Judge Walton said 70 Waldo
county, Maine, man who wanted Q divorce fron
his wife on the ground that she wss cross, and.
reasoning that she could rot be blamed for
what was born In her, he refused 20 grant shs
lbellant's prayer.
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Practice and Preachine.
From the New York Herald.

He told his people of the avful vos
The love Of money brings into this spAeeN.
And two weeks later packed his TRUNK 20 70
To whore they'd PAY hun tvsnfy norS ( ~
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Underground the mine is rather more inter-
esting. The curious visitor, arrived at the bot
tom, must needs pick his way along through
the narrow tunnel by the meager light of a tai
low candle. On either side the prospect il not
encouraging, for the walls are composed of
slaty or a soft clay-like rock. The narrow vein
Of gold quartz has been removed and now lies
piled up above ground. Overhead and under
foot. however, one notices this white fiinty rock
on which the miner builds his hopes, and sooner
or later that too will probably find its way TO
the top to join the pile Of the already excavated
But Look out there" shouts your guide, and
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centrates that are expected 10 add materially
TO profits. Most of the ore a. it il now dug
out is left piled up on the ground awaiting the
construction Of a stamp mill on the spot
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The support given by this is as sensible as
the relief by smelling salts or champion in
faintness. A spoonful of fresh ground coffee
to smell il great refreshment to GONZALES
cent who cannot drink it. Old John Caius,
court physician to Queen Elizabeth, left a pre-
scription for persons with headache ITO smell
to Q SWEET appl," which has not lost its virtue
yet as any one may find.
1t won't do TO give John cup Of beef broth
made three days ago in the usual way Of boiling
and kept in . close ice box.
The way to prepare meats for dyspeptics is
to scrape them clean, put in q stone Jar closely
covered in an oven and bake till perfectly ten
der and falling from the bones. Let this cool
without removing the cover, take Of the fat
and You have q concentrated jelifed extract of
meat, with its strength and flavor in its highest
expression. A cup Of this twice or thrice day
viii put digestion under . mans ribs quicker
than pepsin. 1t viii keep covered for week,
whereas your watery beef tea or broth goes Hat
in few hours.
Tho extract will bear dilution, but - your
invalid needs tonic Why not give 1t 10 him in
this ntrated form? The nerves know how
70 make good use Of Il and any one wishing to
call on his brain fos it, best, on occasion,
should take . cup Of such extract once in two
- three hours 70 know what b II capable o.
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HOW n Vas THAT rur OLD AND NEW ryrrA-
AESrs CONDEMNED THE ANrnAIr-REeARpEp
Ri noHAnnKDASs AND HrNpoos A. rScLrAx-
TloHrISe KNOWING AND SWIFT RUNNING poos.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-17

of Savannah run, inasmuch as there are
no swamps suggestive of malaria. 1t is a
country destined to have a large
white population, of the best
farming class. Lands are cheap, and if
what the country really is was keown to
people elsewhere who are continually con-
tending against mortgages. malaria, floods,
droughts, bad crops and the many ills which
affict the tillers of the soil in other parts of
the world, there would be such rush for
homes and farms on the line between Sa-
vannah and Americus that the railroad
would not be able to carry the people with
out borrowing the entire rolling stock of
the Central. This is not an Eli Perkins
story, Those who think that IL is should
take a trip over the route.
Cordele, the new town at the junction of
the Savannah, Americas and Montgomery
and the Georgia Southern and Florida rail-
roads, is one of the phenomenal settlements
of the south. A year ago the site of the
town was an old cotton field. 1t is said that
it was there Senator Joe Brown raised those
"collards" about which so many mean
things were said during the war. Cordele
has now several banks and ma 1ufac cries,
three brick blocks and as far as the eye can
see buildings are being erected. OF course,
these improvements are scattered over a
large area, but it will not be very great
while before there will be solidly built up
streets.
NEW TOWNS sPRINGING UP.
There are quite a number of other new
towns laid out on the line of the road, at
all of which houses are going up, at Ly-
ons, Rochelle, Milan and Seville. Pembroke,
thirty-three miles from Savannah, is appar-
emily growing place. 1t has number of
substantially built stores and neat resi-
dences.
The lumber and the naval stores men, as
usual, are on hand in force. Between
Americas and Lyons. a distance of
ninety-four miles, are thirty-nine sawmills
in operation, and four more about to be put
up. The saw-mills will soon clear away
the timber near the railroads for the
farmers who are to cultivate the land. In
year or two immense crops of black seed
cotton will be raised from this virgin soil.
Lands a little off the railroad are still
selling for so cents to 81 an acre. There is
no better investment offered to-day than to
put money into such land.
Fifteen miles of the Abbeville and way
cross railroad, which crosses the Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery railroad at Alb
beville, is built, and work is progressing
rapidly. The present purpose of this road
is to open up immense areas of virgin for
ests, the gentlemen who are building it
owning large tracts of land which they pur-
chased at very low figures aud which will
increase in value 900 per cent. when the
turpentine and lumber product is made
available by means of railroad transporta-
ton. There is a great future for the coun-
try that lies to the west of us, and Savan-
nah will be largely benefited by its devel-
opment
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-17
GEORGIA THRIFT.

The street railways Of Athens are to be
run by electricity.
Plans for Cuthbert's new 5000 hotel
have been drawn and In day or two the
specifications will be in, and bids will be ad-
vertised for.
Cuthbert is daily growing. The latest
addition to her interest is the bank of Cuth-
bert, organized within two days, with a
capital stock of $50, 900. The new bank
will begin active operations by the last Of
September.
The first national bank of Albany is doing
a thriving business. 1t declared a 5 per
cent dividend in January, and now its sur
plus has reached the amount required by
law, and it also has on hand 4 per cent. of
undivided profits
The work of remodeling the old city
buildings at Americas mas been begun. A
handsome iron front will be placed III and
the ceilings will be IA sed. Other minor
changes will be made which will render the
block one of the neatest in the city. Two
new store-rooms will be made by the
change.
J. w. Stanfords new brick stores are
nearing completion. W. w. Daniel and j.
L. Sanders botn have plans for new and
handsome residences. c. L. Tumlin will
build brick stables for his livery establish
ment. j. A. Foster is to follow with two
brick stores. The Baptists will build new
10000 brick church. The Methodists will
remodel their house of worship, while the
Presbyterians will also build.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-17
POLITICS IN BFFINGHAM.
The Campaign About to Open-t
BraCa of Accid anrS ON the Central.

The Campaign About to Open-A
Brace of Accidents on the Central.
The democratic executive committee of
Efingham county, under a call of Chair
man F. r. Tarver met at Springfield day
before yesterday to discuss the best plan to
pursue as to county politics. 1t was decided
to call mass meeting July 10 at Spring
field to select delegates to attend the guber
Material, congressional and senatorial con-
ventions and to elect new executive com
mittee.
1t was decided also to hold primary on
the first Wednesday in September to noml-
nate a candidate for representative to the
legislature. 1t Is understood this is done
in Difference to the wishes of the alliance,
which has several candidates already in the
field. The plan is to vote at the various
county precincts, and the next day the
executive committee will meet at Spring
field and consolidate the vote. the candidate
receiving majority Of the votes cast to be
the nominee.
AS there are several aspirants for legisla-
tive honors 1t is thought doubtful if a
nomination can be made in this way, and
it is predicted that scrub race will be the
result. IL is said each alliance lodge in the
county will have a candidate to offer.
Already one or two have been recon-
mended.
The Guyton lodge has put forward
William Speer and the Clyo lodge offers A..
NJ. Morgan, who was recently elected cap
tain Of the Hussars. Others are spoken Of
and will be announced in due time. Effng-
ham will not lack for candidates in the
coming race for the legislature
Col. j. l.. Warren Of Savannah spent
Sunday with Mr. w. M. Davant and family
where he met his cousin, Mrs L. P. D.
Warren, the mother of Mrs. Davant, who
is spending few days in Guyton.
j. E. Grady, Cotton Mather, r. A. Grady
and Miss Grady have been visiting Guyton
during the week.
W. C. Neidlinger has been called to At
lanta by the illness of Mrs. E. L. Neidlinger
The county dinner at Springfield took
place yesterday. Large crowds went out
from Guyton to enjoy day of pleasure.
| DR.. L. d. Strutten of Pembroke came
| over to take in the county dinner.
Edwin Lawton of South Carolina, who
has been visiting Guyton, has gone to New
York on a short visit.
There were two railroad accidents on the
| Central yesterday, and the Shoofly passen-
gers did not reach Savannah until 2 o'clock
D. m. One accident occurred at Halcyon-
dale caused by the derailment of freight
train. No one was hurt and the damage
was trif1ing The second delay was caused
by broken axle on another freight train
which delayed the train, but did no other
damage. But for the promptness with
which Assistant Trainmaster S. A. Borders
cleared the track and transferred the pas
| sengers there would have been a much
longer delay. and the Savannah merchants
who were on the Shoofy were very compli-
mentary in referring to Mr.. riders ex-
ertiOnS in hurrYing the train forward,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-17

EORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY. the honor
~ able the Superior Court of said county:
The petition of MOSES JONES, JETHRO
BROWN, REUBEN BOSTON, JOHN SPEAR
EN-, FRANK STEVENS, BOSTON JONES,
DAVID ALLEN, JOHN PORTER, CHARLES
WILLIAMS and JOHN CLARKE, on behalf OF
themselves and such others as they may here
after associate with them respectfully shews
that they desire to be Incorporated for the term
or twenty years, with the privilege OF renewal
at the expiration of said time, under the name
Of the LUMBER WORKINGMEN'S UNION
ASSOCIATIONS that the object of said associa-
ton is mutual aid and to assist in providing for
and supporting its members when they I'M
able to work from sickness or injury. That said
association is not organized for individual
pecuniary gain and has no capital stock; that it
will be carried on by the dues of and assess
ments on its members, gifts and
donations from such persons as desire
to contribute toward the same, and that its
principal place of business will be in the city Of
Savannah, in said county and state. Where
fore, your petitioners pray that they and their
associates may be Incorporated In terms OF the
law with the privilege of renewal under the
Association" with all the powers necessary to
carry out the object of their association, that
they may be empowered TO purchase and hold.
sell and convey, and deliver such real and per-
sonal property as may be necessary for their
purposes, that they may receive donations,
legacies and gifts, that they may make such by"
laws as they may deem proper, not in conflict
with law. and that they may have and enjoy
all the privileges, powers and franchises neces-
sary to carry out the object OF their associa-
ton, and that pertain TO corporations as pre-
scribed by law. And your petitioners will ever
pray. GEORGE w. OWENS,
Petitioners Attorney.
Petition for Incorporation filed in Office and
recorded this 10Th day Of July, 1890.
JAMES X. 2. CARR,
Clerk s. @. G. c., Ga.