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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-05-03

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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-05-03
could tell wha,-yet all loved and-pitIed
Couldn't Learn at School.

her.
Couldn't Learn at School.
They sent her TO school. Miss EEla
Foute. who has charge of the ju-
venIIe grade at Williams street school.
took the little tot in and was quick
Is drawn TO her. She struggled for weeks
20 teach her and then-she made an awful
discovery. The child could not be taught.
She could not learn figures. She could not
add one and one together. She read. but
merely by rote. she did not understand. 1t
was a hopeless task. The baby mind of the
girl could not be taught. Miss Foute told
her mother.
The mother had with growing distress
noticed day BY day this strange mental
phenomenon I'm her child From early
childhood she had observed something I'm
It'll. Emily that was different from other
children. Now the Significance of this aw-
ful difference struck her with all the force
OF a tragedy.
In the past several years many physi-
clans have been appealed 20 TO heip tho
little girl. All have given up the case
without even locating the trouble. Little
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Confederate Stamps

,ub+ n, hse, cash prices. Prompt r.
p oasn. San5 two-cent stamp ioT pf1es
nl.'ahce' pRFSoUF ISLE STAMP CO.
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Take Her 70 the Country.

por-u n ~ nome iheV W H''i"I4aF
trar ..a .itts rsr: Is air- sv imur"' I'd
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,.,J mon. aat Yesterday hc- mctn-r COX
ar ,u. Is the country for week tnlt SHE
n,,, l. ulist until she IS 'h0-1usaly we'll
:5.tl. Emily IS enjoying tne country she
loves ID. once she spent a summer - Ntw-
~ vybe~.. an her fathers folks 1--we and
.ne seemed TO delight in fhe tr'a i"m that
- ts.. ,s,.ra afforded often sIc spe ks
=, b.r frip down there. 80 hey thought
sha would like the country again They d.
clare .h. i improving every way and they
have great hopes ~ her mimi growing
into normal proportions.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-05-03

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The worlds Little Fellows.

Put there are so many little men in the
world Tncse little fellows who can look
through "A kcyhole with both eyes at once
and who are always waiting for something
to turn up and IN the meantime they are
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-05-03
Pretty ExDensive Playfulness.

washington. ca. March 1.-(Speeial)-
A. Mclean. miller. has skipped OUT
| leaving about H.@o in deo1s ana many
washington and Wilkes county us7S
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Business Women Cooperate.

Last winter a business woman's ex-
change was started in Chicago under
the management of Miss Virginia Dix
ON. Ii is simply eo-operation among
business and working women to build
up fraternity for mutual aid in secur-
Tag work and increasing ability OF
workers as well as opportunity. The
business woman's exchange also real
ICES the necessity of finding other lines
Of work for many now struggling in the
business world who are not fitted for
it. Many avenues for employment, as
seamstresses, visiting milliners, visiting
gOvernesses, care of bric-a-brac, etc,
can be opened up where many now
struggling in the ordinary trades could
make better livelihood. All applicants
at the exchange are tested before being
sent out, and if nos competent urged to
take up something else
The clubs backing this Office are the
Ogontz, the Wildwood, the Ursula, the
National Association of Women Stenog-
raphers, the VasSar Alumni association,
the Progressive, the Mutual Benefit, the
Fellowship. the Jane, the Occident, the
Mazzini and the Altura. When all the
social clubs of the city open for winter,
they viii send in much work, and mean
while the vacation work of supplying
substitutes is expected TO support the
exchange. When one department is well
established, another viii be opened. un-
til as many fields of work have been
covered as possible The capital to start
the enterprise was raised among the
clubs
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Tn. anrelus Bird.

When travelling in the forests OF Gui-
ana and Paraguay. it is not uncommon
TO meet with a bird whose music great
Iy resembles that of an Angelus bell
when heard from a distance. The span
iards call this singular bird bell ring
er,.though it may be still more appro-
priately designated Is the Angelus
bird, for, like the Angeius bell, It Is
heard three times a day, morning, noon
and night It's song, which deties all
description, consists Of sounds like the
strokes Of a bell. succeeding one an
other every two or three minutes. SO
clearly and in such a resonant manner
that the listener. if a stranger, imag-
Tres himself TO be near a chapel or a
convent, bat it turns out that the for
est is the chapel and the bell bird.
The beauty of the Angelns bird IS
equal to his talent. He is as large as
Jay and as white as snow, besides being
graceful in form and swift in motion
Bnt the most curious ornament OF the
Angelus bird is the tuft Of black, arched
feathers on its beautiful head. cit is
conicaI in shape and about inches IN
length. Angel
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-11-24
THE FAMOUS GIN LAW.
How IL Was Received and Evaded by the
English Public.

now II " a1 AAGGelhtA anu tHc
English Public.
This famous "gin law passed in
1886, is interesting as the earliest Sc
we're blow at liquor dealing among civ
ilized nations. 1t levied tax of COS a
gallon on spirits, and a license of ESQ
for any one selling or dealing III them.
And, being in advance of public cpin-
ion, it failed, Luch as other more
stringent prohibition laws have failed
in our own day. For the cry was at
once raised that it taxed the poor mans
Gin and let the rich mans wine go
free Every wit, every caricaturist, had
his fling at it. Ballads We're hawked
around telling of the approaching
death Of Mother Gin. The liquor shops
We're hung with black and celebrated
uproariously Nine GeneVa's lying in
state, her funeral, her wake and so on.
The night before the law went into
effect, so the contemporary journals
say, there was a universal reyel all
over the country. Every one drank his
fill and carried home as much gin be-
sides as he could pay for.
10 eNaQe tne law apOtnecarleS sOld
it in vials an1 small packages, some
times oolored aud disguised, generally
under false labels, such as "Colic
Water, - Make Shift, Ladies' De
light. There were printed directions
on some Of these packages-e. g., Take
two or three spooIfuls three or four
times a day, or as often as the fit takes
you" Informers were very prominent
and exceedingly offensive. inventing
snares TO catch lawbreakers fer the sake
of the heavy rewards, and spying and
sneaking around in a way particularly
distasteful to the English mind In con-
sequence they suffered in their turn
The mere cry, Liquor spyr' was
enough to raise mob in the London
streets, and the informer was lucky il
be escaped with a sound thrashing and
a dueking in the Thames or the nearest
horse pond. Indeed, such an outcry was
made about the matter that the minis
try became very unpopular, and the
law was not enforced after two or three
years, and was largely modified in l74S.
after seven years trial Popular Sci
ence Monthly
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]. IT. Thana, who lives in sHise 80. p II
the lSosiy block. corner of Payne and Wilson
Avenues, Cleveland, Oiio. had suffered for
Ia0aths frOn nervous prostraiicn and cN-
tremc nervousnes,. Ills nervous system
had become undermined by irregular habits,
and he was reduced 20 the verge Of total
proslratioa. Mr. Whann Is NJ longer q
travelling salesman, that occupation was
fraught with TOO much danger 90 his health,
and he abandoned u. At present he = con-
nectel with ihe Makonins Coal Company,
and has eharge OF mine three miles distant
from Alliance. Ohio, and there he spends
most of his time.
Travelling saleSmcn have 20 pat up with
a great many Inconvenience whca they are
on the rosDl /" said Mr.. WhaEn, Meals,
sleep and rest, are often irregular, and these
causes unsetIle ones nerves, ] was rapidly
approaching q poiat whore | would become
a nervous wreck unless J employed extreme
measures. | found it almost iInpossibls 10
read or write for q period longer than few
minutes. | would pick up newspaper with
the intention Of glancing over the news OF
the day. In five or ten minutes l would
have TO lay the paper aside and get up and
walk around 10 quiet my nerves. IL was the
same when | did any writing. / could write
for a few minutes and thea have 10 give u
up, SIS my hands would become shaky and
my whole body and mind in culver.
This nervousness brought ON severe head
aches; il als0 brought loss Of sleep, al Of
which combined 20 gradually break down my
health. became run down and l1st M np-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-11-24
aARNATo iN lie COMMUNE.
How the Diamond King Saved the Bsnk
Of France


a writer Of stories about Barney
Barnqto SAYS, in the Philadelphia Bull
letin. shat there is a circumstantially
definite account of his presence in Paris
during the commune of 1871 In the
inter break up Of all social fabric be
found his capacities Of > paying order
For there Is little doubt that his was
.he craft that enabled the sarewder
tommunards to realize the money need
ed to supply the sinews Of war.
One day, during the gloom and stress
of the government siege, the president
of the Bank Of France was confronted
bv an unkempt mob. The demand was
explicit. They wanted ali the gold IN
the banks vaults. The spokesman
1ourished a bloody saber and the mob
accenfuated the demand by all sorts OF
ferocious threats. Ii was in the height
of this melee that a man who had been
counseling the financial deputy Of the
commune rode mp, adorned by red sash
and other insignia of the terrOrists. be
made his way through the vociferous
tn ing and handed the governor Of the
hank a large envelope. While the official
was reading is the besasbed emisssry
turned TO the clamoring nomads and, IN
a tongue unknown to the officials and
probably TO many CT the mob, addressed
them few sentences. a singular event
followed. a dozen of the ringleaders at
once began haranguing the rioters In
a few minutes every one Of them with
drew. The besashed parsonage remained
in consultation with the governor and
when il was ended Withdrew. An hour
later six covered wagons came to the
bank and were laden with bags such as
the bank always makes use Of in trans
porting specie.
When Barnato appeared as the dia-
mond king in South Africa a score Of
the communards. who had fied from
France, were in exile in the region
where Barnato had cornered the mines.
One day in the plenitude of his eGdu-
ence he was waylaid, riding in the
Rand, by a company Of miners. One OF
them, by a few words, succeeded in
gaining his private ear This man was
known as the most ferocious Of the blood
thirsty gang who had taken part in the
killing of the hostages in La Roquette.
He recognized Barnato as the emissary
sent by the commune to the Bank Of
France, and the knowledge enabled him
to get in on the ground floor Of the dia-
mond deal The tale goes on to tell that
Barnato. who figured as Felix Barnette.
had fallen desperately in love with a
! figuTaute in the Folies Bergeres just as
the war Of 1870 broke out; that be had
| fingered in Paris, became a member Of
one Of the Red" societies. exploited
the ardent patriotism Of his ooworkers
and succeeded in getting several mil
lions of the cash he had forced from the
Bank Of France. The tale. whether
true or not. Is by no means so improb-
able as the actual facts known in the
mans mastery of the African diamond
yields, for TO do that he was forced %
put himself against such schemers as
Cecil Rhodes and TO contend with
the "dour'' shiftiness of the Beers. and
particularly with that astute old fox
Uncle Kruger
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THE CARIBBEAN.
Captain EIahan on The Strategic Impor
tauce IF tfe land Ssi-t 80


Captain SIahan on the Strategic Impor-
tance CT TIE Land Girt Sea
Causes supcrficially very diverse. bat
essentially the sane in that they arose
from and still depend upou a lack Of To-
cal political capacity, have brought the
Mediterranean and the Caribbean, in
cur own time. to similar conditions, re-
gardol as quantities Of interest in .e
/ sphere CT international relations. What
ever the intrinsic value Of the two bod
! ies Of water, in themselves or in their
Surroundings, whatever their present
/ contributions to the prosperity or to the
| culture Of mankind. their conspicuous
/ characteristics now are their political
/ and military importance in the broad
est sense, as concerning not only the
| countries that border them, but the
world at large. Both are land girt seas;
both are links in a chain of communica-
ton between an east and west In
/ both the chain is broken by an isthmus
| Both are IF contracted extent when
| compared with great oceans, and in
consequence Of these common features
| both present IN an intensified form the
advantages and the limitations, politi-
cal and military. which condition the
influence Of SEE power
This conclusion is notably true of the
Mediterranean, as is shown by its his
tory. Ii is even more forcibly true Of
the Caribbean partly because the con-
tour Of its shores does not, as in the
Mediterranean peninsulas, thrust the
power Of the land so far and so sustain
odly into the sea; partly because, from
historical antecedents already alluded
TO. in the character Of the first colo
nists and from the shOrtness of the
time the ground has been in civilized
occupation. there does not exist in the
Caribbean or in the gulf Of Mexico
apart from the United States-any Land
power at all comparable 70 those great
continental states OF Europe whose
strength lies in their armies far more
than IN their navies.
So far as national inclinations, as dis
tinct from the cautious actions Of states
man, can be disceTned. in the Mediter-
ranoan at present the sea powers. Great
Britain. France and Italy, are opposed
to the land powers. Germany. Austria
and Russia. and the latter dominate ac-
tion- 1t cannot be 50 in any near future
IN the Caribbean. The Caribbean is pre-
eIninently the domain CT sa power
Captain a. T. Mahan, U. S. N, in
Harper's Magazine.
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HER ACCOUNT oocToRED.
This Girl Kept an Fvpense Book and Lost
a Husband.

Hu-baDd-
There is a North Side girl who has
Iaudabse ambifion 70 know Just where
her money goes She has tried two or
three times to keep mental track OF her
expenditrl-us bst this always proved
unsatisfactory Al lass slse decided that
she must keep IN o1act ard miaUte ae-
count uf everything she speut She got
herself smal book 8 rulings and
margins a1ld d piialie eO'ser and set to
work in earnest She PIT do~n reli-
giously everything she spent. the exact
amount, the article and the date SIZE
never allowed the slightest matter to go
till there was CHARGE of her forget
ting it When she made any purchases
down town. she went oycF the list care
fully IN the cars on her way home and
put the amounts on the outside Of a
package In this way she succeeded in
keeping very satisfactory record Of
her expenditures
There was only one drawback She
was forever leaving the book around
OF course there are great many people
who are only too glad TO read such
things The servant would see it. The
man who came TO tune the piano might
easily have done 1t if he liked, and she
did not know whether he had OF not A
neighbor had once picked it mp on the
lawn in front Of the house and brought
it N, but what was worse than All the
rest was the fact that couple Of girl
friends pernsed it one day There were
some things which she had talked a
good deal about that she get for down
right bargains. In fact, after this catas-
trophe everything ON her record seemed
70 be shamefully cheap However, she
was unwilling to give up the bookkeep-
ing. and if she didn't carry notebook
around with her she would certainly
forget something, so she bethought her
self of another expedient She deternin-
ed for the purpose Of mystifcation to
multiply everything she put down by
teii-that is, to add a cipher to each en-
Try In this way she could always tell
that every item really cost one-tenth of
what appeared on the book. After this
she didn't care who saw it
There is a lot at the side Of her IA
Tiers house and rustic seat One day
she left the book ON this seat In the
evening the young man who had about
concluded to ask her hand IN marriage
came along He noticed the book, picked
it up and looked through it carelessly.
He was amazed. She had always claim
ed TO be such prudent girl, and he had
believed she was. Still there he saw;
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-11-24
Servants In Japan.

Servants are very cheap and very good
in Japan. The foreign housewife has
nothing to do, and she lives like queen.
The japanese cooks are far better than
most American cooks. and SEQ month
Will pay the board and salaries of the
help of an eight room house A certain
foreign resident in Tokyo who lives as
well as a millionaire would in the
United States pays ms cook So month.
His butler gets So 90. and his gardener
and second girl get about the same.
These servants all board themselves, and
the cook does the marketing. The house
rent costs less than $50 month, and a
coachmau could be had at So a month
more. There is no trouble in getting
good servants. and they watch after
their employers interests aud see that
he is cheated 10y none other than them
selves. .-Exchange
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-11-24
THE NEwsBops DREAM.
II Was His Idea OF what WouId BE Alb
soIateIy Ideal Conditions.

II " ~ dtt AQrI tA " MT " osAAa - ~
soIateIy Ideal Conditions
The American newsboy can almost
be said to have created a genus for him
self. II he has any, he has certainly
created it. for of all the inhabitants Of
this planet there is none who is so Also
iutely independent, so thoroughly con-
fidcbt Of his own exertions- He has
self importance, derived from his ability
&C support OF partially support himself,
which places him high above the rank
Of the ordinary gamin, and he generally
possesses what is far more important in
any community-ready money. He is
the capitalist of our junior civilization,
the Count Esterhazy Of newsboys' alley
He can play craps for money when Other
boys arc constrained to pursue this de-
Iectable amusement with only the mild
er if more intellectual pleasure Of study
ing the fluctuations Of fortune, or, at
most, hazarding cigarette pictures
He may swear a little more than is
necessary, but in general is not half
bad. His train of thought is usually
hes lthy and vigorous and has robust
spends SO much Of his time. Physically
he is agile and almost tireless While
apparently reckless in most things, he
is. on the whole, careful Of his health
be is scarcely ever known to smoke a
whole cigarette at time His intellect
is as keen as a razor. He keeps II con-
tinually honed on the strop Of expert
ence. Everything carries for him a les
son. From the sale of the largest Sun
day paper to that of the most unpreten-
tious weekly there is nothing he does
not profit by.
He is a born statist, a self educated
strategist He has the nice art of going
far enough and yet never oyerstepping
himself. On the eve of such an occasion
be will vociferate. "All about the cleo
tion." but don't ever expect of whom
until you buy the paper. Pleasure and
other things occupy a fair proportion Of
his time, but with him the distribution
of news is always uppermost 1t even
permeates his sleeping hours. One of
them was heard to remark between sales
to another a day or so ago. Say, Jim,
l had de finest dream l ever had las
night.
"Was it about aneels?' inquired Jim.
Nav" was the contemptuous re-
sponse. "I dreampt dat der was aw
ful smashup, six fires, four double muT
ders an tree suicides, all in one day. -
Chicago Times Herald.
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Writes Letters to Himself.

John Beckwith. the warehouseman,
received a letter the other day address
ed in a round business hand and bearing
the Oakland postmark. He glanced at
il, rubbed his forehead refectively s
moment and then, without opening the
envelope, tore it into bits.
why did you do that?" asked his
pTtner THAT might have contained
sOnlcthing Of importance. "
mo, it didn't wrote it myself
Are you in the habit of writing let
tiers to yourselfy''
Yes l have TO. Now, if hadn I
written that yesterday and mailed it
would have forgotten that bunch Of
braid. two dozen pearl buttons and five
yards Of haircloth that have got TO &c
down town and buy right now. Once,
though, wrote letter to myself abOn;
something / wanted TO remember and
forgot to mail it for two weeks.-San
Francisco Post.