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The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
A HANDLES EDITOR.
Artificial Hands Serve Him as Well
Real Ones.

Artificial Hands Serve Him as Well as
Real Ones.
Alabama can boast of an editor of
daily newspaper who is minus both
hands, yet writes practically all the
copy that is printed in his paper.
The march of science and invention
and the energy of William J. BIan,
editor of the Troy Ala. Daily Messen-
ger, have combined to produce this APP
parent phenomenon.
Mr.. Blan served in the Confederate
army and came through without
wound But II years ago Confederate
veterans reunion was held at Troy,
and among other things the old ex-sol-
diers INDUCED in a sham hattie. Mr..
Blan was detailed to load and fire one
of the cannons. During the mock battle
the cannon exploded prematurely, and
the heavy charge Of powder and wad-
ding blew both Of his hands off-the
left just above the wrist, the other sew
eral inches farther up the arm.
At this time Mr.. Blan was owner of
The Weekly Messenger, which he had
bought in 1878 and had succeeded in
putting on its feet by hard work He
had large family of young children,
and, like all other newspaper people i'll
this part of the land, he had lived
pretty well up to his income. He knew
no line of business excepting newspaper
work, and a man without either hand
is ordinarily not very available about a
newspaper office He determined not
30 al P,,1, b.
the loss of his hands, however, and as
soon as he had recovered sufficiently
from his injuries to give the matter his
attention he had made an artificial
right hand and half forearm.
1t is simple but ingenious contriv-
ance. The artificial part of the arm is
arranged so as to be securely fastened
to the stump Of the right arm left by
the explosion. The hand, which is COW
cred by glove, appears perfectly nat.
ural i'll shape and holds a pen or pencil
as gracefully as any EDITORS natural
hand. A stranger seeing Mr. Blan at
work at his desk would never imagine
that the hand was not real one, with
blood circulating through it, so thor
oughly has the editor got its operations
under his control.
By means of cord, which passes
from his artificial arm up his right coat
sleeve, then across his back, then down
his left coat sleeve to the end of the re.
mainder of his left arm, Mr.. Blan ia
enabled to close the fingers Of his arti-
fetal hand and grasp his pen. By keep
ing his left elbow bent the tension on
the string is continued and the artificial
fingers hold the pen tightly, while the
editor controls it's course over the white
paper by movement of the upper arm
and shoulder. By this means Mr.. Blan
has learned to write with the greatest
ease, and more rapidly and legibly than
the average man of his age who has
two good hands. For ten years he has
written with this mechanical hand
practically all of the editorials and a
very large amount of the local and adj |
yertising matter that has gone into his
paper About six years ago Mr.. 'Blan
developed his weekly into daily and
has been successful beyond his expectat /
tions. The daily entailed more work, /
but the editor and the artificial hand
proved equal to the emergency Chi
cago Times Herald
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
STARTING A SYNDICATE.
Few Inside Lights on How Some Concerns
Get to Work.

Few Inside Lights on How Some Concerns
Get to Work.
Scene-An Office in the city. Time
After lunch. Present--Members of a
proposed syndicate.
First Member-And now, gentlemen,
to business. suppose we may put down
the capital at 100000?
Second Member - Better make it
$780, 900. Half a million is SO much
easier to get.
Third Member - Of course. Who
would look at paltry $50, 900?
First Member-Perhaps you are right.
Five pound shares, eh?
Fourth Member-Better make them
sovereigns; simpler to manipulate.
First Member-I dare say. Then the
same solicitors as our last?
Fifth Member-Yes, ON the condition
that they get firm to undertake the
underwriting.
First Member-Necessa The firm
propose, gentlemen, are men of bust
ness and quite recognize that nothing
purchases nothing.
Second Member-And they could get
the secretary with thousand to invest.
First Member-Certainly. Our bro
kers, bankers and auditors as before,
eh, gentlemen?
Fifth Member-On the same condi-
tons
First Member-That is understood.
And now the prospectus is getting into
shape. Is there anything else any one
can suggest?
Fourth Member - Oughtn't we to
have some object in view?
First Member-Assuredly, making
money.
Fourth Member-Don't be frivolous.
But what I mean is, should we not
know for what purpose we are going to
expend the $500, 600?
First Member-Ohl You mean the
name Well, that comparatively unim-
portant detail we might safely leave IN
til our next pleasant gathering.
Meeting adjourned. Curtain. Lon
don Punch.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15

The durability of this timber is foroi-
bly, illustrated by fallen trunks that are
perfectly sound after lying in the damp
woods for centuries Soon after these
trees fall they are overgrown with moss,
in which seeds lodge and terminate and
grow up into vigorous saplings, which
stand in row ON the backs Of their
dead ancestors. OF this company OF
young trees perhaps three or four will
grow to full stature, sending down
straddling roots on each side and estab-
fishing themselves in the soil, and after
they have reached an age of 200 or 300
years the downtrodden trunk on which
they are standing, when cut into, is
found as fresh in the heart as when it
fell. John Muir in Century.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
THE BEST KNOWN FACE.

One Hundred Likenesses of Queen victo-
ria For Every Living Person.
No man or woman who ever lived has
had his or her features reproduced Of
tener than her majesty the queen, says
the Boston Herald. The number of ac-
tual photographs of her majesty in ex-
tstence cannot be recorded, and there are
besides millions of reproductions. Take
the number of stamps sold in the United
Kingdom during the queens reign. The
number of articles passing through Eng
fish, Scotch, Welsh and Irish postoffices
in recent year was nearly 5000, 600,
and, though, of course, that figure need
not be taken as an average, it is not 60
ing beyond the mark to say that since
the accession of the queen over 60, OO0,.
600, 900 postal dispatches have passed
through the postoffices of Great Britain.
Every one of these would bear at least
one stamp and many of them two or
three, and every stamp bears the image
Of the queen. Eighty thousand million
images of her majesty must have gone
through the post during her record reign.
Then the record of the mint is by no
means a small one since the coronation.
1t is estimated that about 5000, 900, 900
coins in gold, silver and bronze have
passed through the hands of her males
tvs subjects, each coin bearing the fea-
lures of the sovereign. Her image has
been reproduced often enough to present
100 likenesses to every man, woman and
child on the globe. Without doubt the
queens is the best known face in the
world
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
A LUCKY FIND.
Tale of a Valuable Watch That Was Lost
on an Elevated Railroad.

1aIe OF a Valuable watch That was LOST
on an Elevated Railroad.
"This watch in itself is valuable
one, " said New York business man as
he took the timepiece from the peculiar
looking fob in which he carries it, "but
it had an adventure last week that gives
it still greater value to me. The fob
b an heirloom, and, as you may see,
would be apt to attract attention any
where.
Zone afternoon last week I was 60
ing up town on a crowded train on the
Sixth avenue elevated. The train was
so crowded that I was compelled to
stand on car platform close to the
brake wheel. AS the train was round
ing the curve out of West Third street
took my watch from my pocket, re-
moved it from the fob, and, after not
ing the time, showed it back into the
fob and returned it, as l thought, to
the pocket. Instead of getting it into
the pocket, however, it was on the out
side, and as 1 let it go it fell. The
guard saw it as it fell and reached out
his foot to save it from going between
the platforms, but failed, and down it
went.
81 got off the train at Eighth street
and ran back as fast as l could to the
spot where the watch had dropped, hav-
ing, l may of course say, not the
slightest hope that the watch would be
anywhere to be seen. When I reached
the place, my heart almost jumped out
of my throat, for there in the street,
conspicuous among its surroundings,
lay the fob. picked it up. 1t was emp
ty. No watch could find anywhere
Some one has found it, was natu-
rally my conclusion, and that was the
last ever expected to hear or see of it.
"But as l walked back toward the
Eighth street station l got to thinking
about the matter differently. If any one
had found the watch, why should he
have left the fob? The more I thought
of it the more made up my mind that
the watch hadn't been found. / board
ed train at Eighth street and went up
town to the Ailroad headquarters.
There 1 told OF We singular thing that
dbpPChou w NY NduOlig anu UllO VI
ficer in charge told me that after the
commission hours were over for the day
the track walkers would start from
Fifty-ninth street down the line, max
ing their regular inspection of the rails
and roadway, and he would instruct
them to keep an eye out for the lost
watch.
But, said he, smiling, I guess
you will have to come to the conclu-
sion, after all, that some one else will
tell the time by it hereafter if it hasn't
been smashed to pieces by the fall.
Next day l went to the office. Ny
watch was there. A track walker had
discovered it by the light of his torch
at midnight lying snugly on one of the
Orders or braces of the iron roadway
beneath the track. The ring was sprung
out of its fastening in the stem, and
the watch was open. There was dent
on the case at the hinge In falling the
watch had struck in some mysterious
way so that it had been forced from the
fob, which went on down to the street,
Beyond the trifling damage mentioned
the watch was not injured i'll the slight
est. If there ever was luckier find
than that, l never heard Of it. New
York Sun.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15

The Louisville Courier Journal tells
story of a good old mother who re-
ceiyed dreadful shock the other day
through telegram from her boy, who is
in New York enjoying himself. AS en-
joying ones self sometimes costs mon.
ey, it is not strange that the young man
sent the following somewhat slangy dis
patch for more funds to his father:
"Had my leg pulled. Broke. Send
me $50 by wire. +"
When the mother read this appeal,
she was plunged in grief.
"My poor boyP' she moaned. "He
must have been in one of those cable
car things. Send him 500, father, and
tell him to get the best doctor in the
city"
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
STANDARD TIME.
The Four Sections Into Which the Coun.
try Is Divided.

The Four Sections Into Which the Coun-
try Is Divided.
Primarily, for the convenience of the
| railroads, standard of time was estab-
lished by mutual agreement in 1888, by
which trains are run and local time reg
ulated. According to this system, the
United States, extending from So to 1875
degrees west longitude, is divided into
four time sections, each Of 10 degrees of
longitude, exactly equivalent to one
hour. The first (eastern) section in
eludes all territory between the Atlantic
coast and an irregular line drawn from
Detroit to Charleston, the latter be-
ing its most southern point The Sec
ond (centraD section includes all the
territory between the last named line
and an irregular line from Bismarck to
the mouth of the Rio Grande.
/ The third (mountain) section includes
all territory between the last named
line and nearly the western borders of
Idaho, Utah and Arizona. The fourth
| (Pacific) section covers the rest of the
country to the Pacific coast. Standard
time is uniform inside each of these sec
| tions, and the time of each section diff
fers from that next to it by exactly one
hour Thus at 10 noon in New York
city eastern time) the time at Chicago
Central time) is II a. NJ. at Denver
(mountain time), 10 a. M, and at San
Francisco Pacific time), o'clock a. m.
Standard time is 16 minutes slower
at Boston than true local time, 4 min
utes slower at New York, 8 minutes
faster at Washington, 10 minutes faster
at Charleston, 20 minutes slower at De-
troit, Is minutes faster at Kansas City,
10 minutes slower at Chicago, minute
faster at st. Louis, 28 minutes faster at
Salt Lake City and 10 minutes faster at
San Francisco. Atlanta Constitution
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15

lture OF money for tie benefit of his
town and county, would turn his atten-
ton to the question of the adyisability of
filling the state asylums with men who
by every moral law ought to be hanged
then he will have rid himself of one Of
the greatest sources of public debt.
~
1t would seem as though Georgia was 60
ing to have her share of labor agitation too
A firm in Atlanta recently hired colored
women help for one branch of it's works,
and Immediately the white women
marched out in a body and were soon
followed by 400 of the men Employed
which Lecessitated the closing down of the
mill. There was no cutting down of the
wages Of the white employees nor were
any whites discharged to make room for
the colored help, as it does look absurd to
an outsider, to see people deliberately de-
sert Their work, loss maybe a steady DO
sition because their employers had suited
themselves in the hiring of labor. The
colors were in seperate departments, and
one wonders where the possible objection
comes in. The Atlanta employees are evl-
IDENTITY beginning to feel the unsettled. dis
satisfied condition which seems to be
spreading gradually all over the country.
Late news from the mining region tells of
an immense meeting which was held re-
Gently in Virginia, near the scene of the
disturbance now gong on there. One of
the items which interested me was this
"The delegates from the labor union, and
the labor agitators drove to the camp in
carriages. The miners marched there,
headed by brass bands;' and then further
on. when the head wagon arrived it was
Immediately surrounded by struggling
mass OF men, many of whom had not had
food since o'clock the day previous.
Who pays for the carriages of the dele
gates, and their hotel bills, and the brass
bands? The men who mobbed the head
wagon, and who tasted for nearly twenty
four hours. The delegates and the agita-
tors must be fed, else their source of more
or less anarchistic talk whuld be weak
ened. And the miners, poor FOOLS and
their wives and children, must still learn
by better experience that the labor agita-
tor, (who is very inaptly so called and
the walking delegate consider strikers and
ignorant Trusting men as very good sort
of inve 3tment.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
She Won Her Bet,

The efficiency of the employees of the
Jacksonville postoffice was put to a Sc
we're test recently, when the distribut-
ing clerk came across photograph with
postage stamp attached and the only
direction on it as follows, says the Flor
ida Times Union:
Deliver to -, Jacksonville,
Fla.
Several of the employees were shown
the picture, which was taken with a
small camera, and which did not show
the face of the person photographed
very distinctly. One of the carriers
named Walter g. Coleman, the general
travelling agent of the F. 9. and p rail
way, was the person. Several of the
clerks and carriers did not think that it
was intended for Mr.. Coleman, while
others sided with the Bay street carrier.
Finally wager of ST. was made, and
the carrier started out to deliver it.
When he reached Mr.. Coleman 8
office, that gentleman at once claimed
the photograph as one of himself. A
week ago or more, while walking along
Bay street, he met young lady with a
kodak, who took a snap shot at him in
front of the Gardner building. She said
that if the picture was a good one she
would send it to him. 1t also appears
that the young lady won wager made
with her father On the delivery of the
photograph to Mr.. Coleman with only
the directions above.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
SAILED THE COW TO A FAIR.
And This Cape Colder Captain Got First
Prize In a Special Glass.

anu IIlS CaEo COuuer captain GOL LIfBG
Prize In a Special Glass.
When l was down on Cape Cod, I
heard an amusing story about an old
sea captain and his COW. Captain Pat
terson. after sailing the sea for more
than 40 years, finally retired to a little
farm near Barnstaple, where he settled
down, with horse, COW and two or
three dozen hens. His COW, though a
lank and rather stubborn creature, was
said to come from very good stock, and
when the BalnstHpIe people took it into
their heads to have IA fair Captain Pat
terson determined to exhibit his COW.
But when the day came for driving
her to the grounds the COW showed that
she had a mind of her own and would
not bulge a step beyond the farmyard
gate. IN vain the old captain tugged at
the rope, pummeled her sides and push
ed her TANKS The COW wanted to go
to pasture and was bound she wouldn' t
go to the fair.
Captain Patterson's patience was
very nearly gone, when suddenly an
not strong enough himself to force the
COW to go to the fair his training sug-
gested something that was Tying the
COW to the gatepost, he went up into
the loft of his barn and threw down an
old sail stepped to a dory mast. Then
he put a horse blanket belt through an
iron ring, strapped the belt around the
COW, inserted the end of the mast in the
ring and bound the mast to the side Of
the COW with some 80 feet Of rope.
The wind blew ''quartering," and
when the captain united the COW and
raised the sail the canvas swelled out
over the cows back, and away she went
"sidling" down the road, mooing and
plunging and trying to stop herself IN
vain Captain Patterson seized her tail,
and using it as a rudder guided her
skillfuIly in the right direction. With
every fresh puff of wind the obstinate
COW would be hurried along faster,
while the dust blew up in clouds and
the sail tapped and tugged as Captain
Patterson held to the mainsheet with
one hand and the cows tail with the
other
1t was a hard voyage for both Of
them, but not long one, and when
they came i'll sight of the fair ground
everybody ran out to see the remarkable
sight of COW being sailed through the
streets like ship. Cheers and laughter
filed the air, and when the captain
finally whirled his COW around at the
gate of the fair ground and brought her
neatly "up into the wind" the shout
that arose might have been heard two
miles away
Unfortunately Captain Patterson's
COW did not take one Of the prizes for
blooded stock, but the captain himself
was given special prize by the fair
commissioners for 1.-THE best advice for
getting balky cattle to market Out
Look
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
JONES' STRATEGY.
He Got His New Suit at Half Price by q
Great Scheme.

He Got His New Suit at Half Price by @
Great Scheme.
Jones' new suit fits beautifully, but
he was $40 shy on the price. He needed
the suit badly, but his tailor was de-
cidedly disinclined to part with it till
it was paid for. After lying awake all
night revolving in his mind various
schemes old and new to get possession
of the coveted attire Jones evolved q
brilliant idea. He put on a high collar
two sizes too large for him, went to his
tailor and tried on the coat again. Of
course it did not fit around the collar
and would have to be let out. The next
day he put on a collar a half size too
small and tried it on again. The collar
of the coat bulged out in the back as if
it had been constructed for the neck of
a pugilist.
II can't wear that thing" declared
Jones. at does not fit at all. "
mo, it does not seem to-, admitted
the tailor
you've tinkered with it now till
you have nearly ruined it. I guess
dom t want it. -
"Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, 4"
proposed the tailor. who did not want
a misfit left Oh his hands. "I'll knock
off So on the price. "
Don't want suit that don't fit, +"
declared Jones.
"Well, I'll make it $1O"
MAKE it $12 so and I'll take it. "
"All right, but lose money on it at
that. +"
Jones paid another tailor 81 TO have
the collar altered, paid for his suit and
had 81. so with which to "wet it, San
Francisco Post.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
Held His Audience.

eek Representative George D. Wise
Of Richmond" said Colonel Sinnott,
one Of the capitol detectives, sis one of
the best campaigners in the south. He
can hold almost any kind of an audi
ence with his oratory, but saw him
badly stumped a few years ago. Mr.
Wise had been addressing for about ten
minutes a monster crowd in front of
Hanover courthouse on the issues of the
day when he noticed craning of
Dccks on the part of his rustic audience
and finally the departure of a dozen or
more men in the direction of fakir
who was making speech in front of a
dirty looking circus tent. AS the fakir
told about the marvellous freaks to be
seen inside-the rubber neck man, the
bearded woman, the living skeleton,
etc.-his voice swelled and swelled I'M
til Mr.. Wise could hardly be heard
Seeing that he was about to lose his
audience, Mr.. Wise fairly yelled: Look
over yonder, boys. There's a circus
Come with me. It's my treat. He led
the way, and every one in the crowd
followed him. After the performance
Mr.. Wise resumed his speech under the
tent. Washington Post.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15

Rice is the most important of all
japanese crops The cultivation takes
up more than half of the country's total
surface of arabic land
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15

The Wife-What sweet smile there
is on the baby's face, John!
The Husband-Yes, he's probably
dreaming that he's keeping me awake
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15

There is 90 much sympathy in this
country that very often the under dog
becomes a dangerous, impudent cur. 49,
Atchison Globe.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15

The story of 'Enoch Arden as it
stands in the poem, is in every detail
true one. 1t was related to Lord Ten
nyson by the late Mr.. Woolner, the
well known sculptor, whose widow has
the manuscript of the story.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
The Other Wav.

Moss-It drives me frantic to see wo-
men standing in street car
Fern-I've noticed that it turns your
head.-Philadelphia North American.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15

The first drug store was opened for
business by Al Mansur, the Arabian,
745 A. d.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
He Was n Bird,

Aid charging furiously up)-Gen-
eral, the enemy has captured our left
wing. What shall we do?
The Commander-Fl with the other.
philadelphia Inquirer.