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The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
The Number of Our Ancostous

DIR. David Starr-J Jordan computes
that the child of today must have had
at the time of Alfred the Great $40.
672, 900, 600 ancestors and at that of
William the Conqueror s, 598, 094. 1872
This IS simple matter of arithmetical
calculation. Every child has two par
ents, four grandparents, and so on. the
number doubling with each generation
in the ascending line. But, to take the
later period of William the Conuueror.
we know very we'll that there was mo
such number of people on earth at that
or any other time as s, 100000, 600 At
this point, therefore, our arithmetic
appears to break down. 1t is only nv
the repetition of these ancestors many
times that we can escape the force of
the calculation. From these data DR.
Jordan lnfers that "the blood of each
single person in Alfred's time who left
capable descendants enduring to our
day is represented in each family of
strict English descent. In other words
every Englishman is descended from
Alfred the Great, as very likely also
from the peasant woman whose cakes
Alfred is reputed to have burned u,
This gives US a somewhat modest idea
OF the value of descent from Alfred tbo
Great or William the Conoueror =
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22

The dowager empress of Germany is
holder of New York city bonds and
draws her interest regularly. The sum
OF S4SS.75 was RENTED to her a few
days ago by City Chamberlain Arson
MoCook, being the regular half yearly
interest on S34,700 of 5 per cent Cen.
trail Park bonds. The money was sent
through the banking house of J p
Morgan & Co., the agents of the dow.
ager empress.
On the books of the city she appears
as 'her imperial majesty Victoria Al
elaide Marie Louise, dowager empress
Frederick of Germany and queen Of
Prussia, princess royal of Great Britain
and Ireland. Just how she obtained
possession of the bonds is not exactly
known i'll the chamberlain's Office. bnt
she has been drawing interest ON them
for 10 years, according to the memory
of some of the old men.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22

The newest thing reported in pests is
little creature called by scientists
Proconia undata. The ordinary unscien-
titic citizen of ST. Louis is calling it
names ever harder than that.
The multitude of proconi@ is be-
yond belief. In the suburbs of st. Louis
they have become such a pest that it
has been found necessary to extinguish
lights in houses; otherwise the rooms
would be indescribably crowded with
them. Travelling ON suburban car lines
is a positive misery, as the electric
lights attract the pests, and they light
upon the passengers in hundreds. A
person can't open his mouth without
the risk of swallowing from one TO a
dozen of them
They have been known in that region
for many years, but this is their first
serious attack upon humanity. They
have been called "Teehoppers" because
they look like grasshoppers and live
upon the tender leaves of young trees
Ihey are bright green with white
trimmings New York Journal
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
ASHAMED OF HER CHILD.
A Heartless Mother Drowned Her SOr
Because He Was Ugly.


Because He Was Ugly.
Idella Powell Banks widow of a
we'll to do cotton planter, was commit
ted to Brooks county (Ga. Jail recently,
charged with the murder of Albert P
Banks, her 4year-Old son. She has con-
fessed the crime and said to minister
who called upon her that she wanted
to be hanged as soon as possible Ac-
cording to her statement, the boy was
so ugly in appearance and so lacking
in intelligence that she was ashamed
to have him grow to manhood. She had
been visiting relatives in Lowndes
county, and on the train returning she
made up her mind to murder the little
fellow, who sat in the seat facing her
playing with the conductors punch.
On her way to her residence she passed
a pond and threw the boy into it. She
says he seemed to know what her in
tentions were and keld ON to her dress
so strongly that she was afraid the
struggle would attract somebody. After
he was in the water she went to her
home and went about her business as
usual until the body was found and
she was called before the coroner's iurv
She is possessed Of considerable prom
erty and has no other children. She
originally came from the north. The
murdered boy was not bodily deformed
Ill any way, but his face was distigured
from birth.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
The B1ackguards of Malaga.

Besides my man Mohammed there
were several other Arab passengers
aboard, and the appearance of these, as
they leaned over the bulwarks of the
steamer, was the signal for a shout of
derisive laughter, curses and stone
throwing on the part of the crowd of i'll
fed and i'll conditioned boys who throng
ed the quay. For downright black
guardism nothing can beat the type of
the youth of Malaga, whose expression,
like their morals, is of as debased a type
as could we'll be imagined. Howls of
filthy language greeted the appearance
of the Moors, who, had they disem-
barked, would have run great risk of
being torn to pieces, so great is the an
tipathy of the Spaniards to their former
conquerors. The captain of the steamer
appealed to the police, but the two rep
resentatives of this noble body were
busily employed i'll stealing figs from
the cargo and paid little or no attention
to the fact that an Infatuated crowd of
the worst characters of Malaga-that is
to say, the worst in the world-Were
pelting the steamer with stones and
mud Affairs, however, reached eli
max when one of the Moors, who spoke
Spanish, asked after the health of Gen
eral Margallo, the general who had been
killed before Melilla, and then the cap
tain was obliged to order them below,
though the i'll conditioned crowd hooted
and jeered until at sunset the steamer
left Harris From Batum to Bag
dad. :"
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
Makes Money by Being Fined.

The Italian hand organ grinders in
London manage to make money out of
being fined. The process is as follows:
The organist deties the law against
playing at certain hours, is run in,
feigns ignorance of English and insists
on having an interpreter. The latter is
invariably a compatriot in league with
the Saffron Hill gang. His fee is IS Cd,
and if the organ man is fined 2s cd
the usual sum- shillings remains to be
divided between the two confederates.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
A CLEVER DETECTIVE.
A Library Card Gave the Clew to a Do
faulter's Whereabouts.

1AuIters Whereabouts
A manager of a branch Office of one
of the big packing houses i'll Chicago
was found to be short i'll his accounts,
and the day this fact was discovered he
disappeared, says the Detroit Journal.
His bond was furnished by the Baltimore
company, and Mr. Macbeth was sent
to Chicago to take charge of his books
and, if possible, secure his arrest. Pink
erton's entire force was put to work on
the case, and the city was searched for
two days without revealing any trace OF
the whereabouts of the missing man.
Mr.. Macbeth and Billy Pinkerton went
to the absent managers office to look
over his books and personal effects i'll
hopes of finding a clew. They ransacked
private desk without finding anything
to which they attached any Importance,
and Pinkerton had turned to leave the
room, when Macbeth spied i'll one cor
ner of the desk public library card Is
sued in the name of the man for whom
they were looking. He observed by the
entries on the card that several books
had been taken from the library within
a period of a month and that the date
of the return of one book correspondent
with the date of the issuing of another
He put this card in his pocket and left
the office i'll company with the detect
i've. After they were in the street the
detective said;
"Why did you take that library card?'
II have an idea, Macbeth answered,
"and I want to go at once to the public
library"
An examination of the card showed
that the missing man had procured IA
different books, and comparison of the
numbers Oh the cards with the titles of
the books at the library revealed the
subjects he had been studying. The first
book taken was entitled "a Trip to
Nicaragua, the second "a History of
Nicaragua" and nearly all the Others
related to Central America.
He has gone to Central America,
said Pinkerton.
"That's right" Macbeth answered,
"and it's not yet too late to catch him
at New Orleans"
kilograms were sent to the Crescent
City giving full descriptions of the
man, and the next day he was arrested
in the office of a steamship company
while waiting for his turn at the ticket
window. He would have sailed a few
hours later for Central America.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
OUR SMALLER COLLEGES.


In Many Respects They Are Doing Better
Work Than the Larger Institutions.
"There are few striking facts about
the small American college," writes
Edward W. Box in The Ladies' Home
Journal. Zone striking fact is that so
per cent of the brainiest Americans who
have risen to prominence and success
are graduates of colleges whose names
are scarcely known outside of their own
states. 1t is fact also that during the
past ten years the majority of the new
and best methods of learning have en-
anated from the smaller colleges and
have been adopted later by the larger
Ones Because college happens to be
unknown 200 miles from the place of
its location does not always mean that
the college is not worthy of wider re-
pute. The fact cannot be disputed that
the most direct teaching and neces-
sarily the teaching most productive Of
good results is being done in the small
er American colleges.
The names of these colleges may not
be familiar to the majority Of people.
but that makes them none the less wor-
thy places OF learning. The larger col
leges are unquestionably good, but
there are smaller colleges just as good
and in some respects better. Some of
the finest educators we have are attached
to the faculties of the smaller institu-
lions of learning. Young girls or young
men who are being educated at one of
the smaller colleges need never feel
that the fact of the college being a
small one places them at disadvantage
in comparison with the friend or com
panion who has been sent to larger
and better known college 1t is not the
college; it is the student"
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
A TOOTHBRUSH FOR KOKO.
Cbstly Toilet Articles Purchased by Rich
Girls For Their Pet Dogs.

Costly Toilet Articles Purchased by Rich
Girls For Their Pet Dogs.
A score Or more of dainty toilet arti-
cles, gold mounted and jeweled, We're
scattered over the glass counter, and
the obliging clerk in the fashionable
shop was vainly endeavoring to satisfy
the whims of a daughter of wealth,
who had every appearance Of having
been spoiled by overindulgence She had
a costly toothbrush in her hand and
was poking the other articles with it
in dissatisfied way. 'This is not
small enough" she said, 'and the hair
is not fine enough
cit is our very best grade of goods,
suggested the clerk half apologetically.
Then you ought to get something
better. Yes, really, you ought" ex-
claimed the willful customer. 81 can't
take such a clumsy toothbrush as that
home to my Koko.
"Ah!" murmured the clerk, with a
scarcely perceptible air of Impotence.
"Then you want toothbrush for your
dog
yes, of course do, and want
something very soft and very dainty"
replied the young woman. And, after a
pause, she added, with an affectionate
purr, "There isn't anything too nice
for my Koko.
Certainly not, responded the clerk,
with cordial smile. "Here are some
brushes of rare quality. I had over
looked them. Here is one with hair as
soft as silk and handleof solid gold. :"
The girl fondled the expensive trinket
for moment and, without asking the
price, said, "That will do Have it sent
with the other things, please. When
this spoiled maiden father gets a bill
from the fashionable jeweler, he will
doubtless be moved to emotion by the
entry, One toothbrush for dog, $22 so. I"
1t is no uncommon thing for shop
keepers in New York to be called upon
to supply toilet articles for dogs, mon
keys birds and other domestic pets.
Some stores maintain special lines Of
combs and brushes for pet dogs, and as
special concession to the enthusiasm
of the fair owners of these pets the
prices of dog combs and brushes are
kept aristocratically high.-New York
Times
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
Millions of Frogs Rain Down.

One of the most curious phenomena
of nature is the precipitation of frogs,
fish, crabs, angleworms, etc., with
rain from the clouds. The story is told
i'll the annals of the French academy
and may be found i'll the August num-
Der, 1904. The narrative is by one Pro-
fessor Pontus. In it he gives an account
of an instance of millions of frogs which
fell in shower near Toulouse. He
states that he himself saw numerous
young frogs on the coats of two gentle
men who were out in the shower. Pro-
fessor Pontus says that he forthwith
repaired to the spot where the storm
had burst and found the roads and
fields literally alive with young frogs
and tadpoles." In some places" says
the professor, "they were three or four
deep all over the ground, and the hoofs
of the horses and the carriage wheels
killed thousands of them.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
FOR DEFUNCT CHINESE.
New National Celestial Cemetery Near
Philadelphia.

All the Cinnamon buried in the GEM
eteries around New York will be ex-
humed and reinterred in the new Ma
tional Chinese cemetery, near Philadel-
phia, according to Chinese agents, who
are canvassing Pell. Doyers and Mott
streets for the sale of lots.
The purchase of the old St. Mary's
farm, at Wynnewood, for this purpose
was the idea Of Lii Hung Chang, who
became impressed with the soldiers
cemeteries and the plots of organized
veterans and fremen in this country.
Lee Toy, the mayor of Chinatown, in
Philadelphia, fostered the new burial
plan for Cinnamon, and 10 acres, at
the enormous price of 50, an acre,
has passed into the possession of the
Celpstials.
Lots were selling the other day in
Chinatown, New York, at from $50 to
5000. and a privileged resting place for
almost every Chinaman buried in Cy-
press Hill has been subscribed for by
surviving members of his family.
The National Chinese cemetery is the
only burying ground owned by China
men in this country.
Native rites of the Chinese, which
have heretofore been denied by the au-
thorities of the local cemeteries, will be
exercised in the new burying ground.
Part of the ceremony consists of a
banquet of roast pig, rice and chop suey,
left on the grave, and which is never
eaten except by some hardy and coca
sional tramp who visits the grave after
the mourners are gone.
An old custom of sending bone of
the dead back to China may be dispensed
with now that the colonies in this coun-
try will be side by side in one great
reservation. New York Journal.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
nonesr our cute Yankee.

There is a funny case of international
honesty down in Arizona, just on the
line between that territory and Mexico.
A Yankee farmer lives there, one ANA
sa Barrow by name, and it is his bust
ness to raise chickens Chicken feed is
cheap in Mexico and chickens bring fine
prices in Arizona, but to raise fowls in
Mexico and bring them across the bound
airy OF to buy the feed and bring it
across, would involve the payment of a
considerable duty which would eat the
profits about as fast as the hens could
eat the corn. AS for smuggling, that
was not to be thought of.
Amasa is Yankee, and he is so hon
est that his neighbors say he wouldn't
take adv antage of a man i'll a horse
trade. But he is also full Of Yankee in
genuity, and after deep cogitation he
built long, slim hencoop, one-half of
it in Arizona and the other in Mexico.
On the line there is gate. Over the
line there are barns containing feed.
At feeding time the gate is opened, and
the chicken fancier Shoes his flock into
Mexico, where they eat their meal
Then he Shoes them back to the protec-
ton Of the American flag, where they
digest this Mexican grain, lay their
eggs and carry on their family affairs.
Mr.. Barrow saves about so per cent on
his grain and makes about that much
on his chickens, and if there is any
smuggling done it is done by the inno-
cent and irresponsible biddies. Wash
ington Times
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
City In the Laundry Business.

In Glasgow municipal paternalism
has been carried so far that the city
government undertakes to do general
laundry business for bachelors and fam
lilies who have no one to do their wash
ing. These establishments, however,
will not do ironing. They send the
clothes home trough dried" and charge
accordingly. This, however, is all that
a workingman requires, for he does not
wear 'boiled" shirts and starched col
lars and cuffs. If he can get his under
clothes and socks and flannel shirts
thoroughly washed and dried, he is we'll
taken care of, and the price he pays is
just sufficient to cover the expense. The
public laundries serve another good
purpose in furnishing employment for
"a number of women who need food and
shelter until they can find permanent
positions Therefore nearly all the wash
erwomen are refugees who are sent to
the laundry by the police, the inspect
ors of the poor or the sanitary inspect
ors who have found them in desti-
tute condition.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
SLAVERY IN CALIFORNIA.
President to BE Appealed to For Chinese
Girls Held as Slaves.

Girls Held as Slaves.
Leaders in Chinese mission work at
San Francisco are circulating a petition
to be sent to President Mckinley ask
ing him to request congress to appoint
a commission to investigate the horrors
of human slavery that are perpetrated
by those who hold Chinese girls in
bondage. This petition, after reciting
provisions of the fourteenth amend
ment, declares that there is now in San
Francisco and California condition of
slavery under which there are more
than 1000 women held in bondage,
bought and sold as chattels and kept
in involuntary servitude. These slaves;
are scourged, beaten, tortured and even
killed by their owners in insolent de-
fiance of law. The number of these
slaves is annually recruited by importa-
tions from China, in violation of the
exclusion act. Workers in Christian
missions receive constant appeals from
these women, calling for aid to escape,
but it is difficult to effect their escape,
and those instrumental in this good
work have recently been threatened
with death by trafickers in human be-
ings.
If the president acts on this petition,
congress will surely appoint commits
sion, which will ascertain what federal
officials are responsible for this illicit
traffic, that means such large profits to
Chinese slave dealers. A constant
stream of recruits is coming in from
China to supply vacancies created by
cruelty, disease and death. Recently
some aggravated cases of cruelty and
bold threats Of slave dealers against
mission workers have led to this appeal
to the president to stamp out the vilest
form of oriental slavery which has
gained firm foothold in California. =
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
SUPPOSE.

Suppose, my dear, that you were I,
, And by your side your sweetheart safe.
f! Suppose you noticed by and by
The distance twiXt you was too great.
Now tell me, dear, what would you dor
!. know, and so do you'll
And then, so comfortably placed,
Suppose you only grew aware
That that dear, dainty little waist
OF hers looked very lonely there.
] Pray tell me, sooth, what would you do?
know, and so do you!
Then, having done what just did,
With not a frown to check or chill,
Suppose her red lips seemed to bid
Defiance to your lordly will?
Oh, tell me, sweet, what would you do?
: know, and so do you'll
-Pearson's Weekly.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22

Come long, Mr.. Fall Timel
See me lif' my hate
Blow de hon fer shuckin CON
En- make de possum fat.
Come long, Mr.. Fall Timei
Hope yo' way amt los.
Turn de punkin yaller
En- spice him wild de fros'.
Drap dem heavy hic'ry nuts.
Bring dat squirrel meat.
Fill up all de later banks
En- make dat cider sweet.
Latchstring's on de outside gate;
Don't you stop ter ring.
THROW some sand on top dat flo
En- make dat fiddle sing.
Come long, Mr.. Fall Timel
See me lif' my hatl
Hoss shoes hangin on de do
Whar IN Twin at.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22
Economy and Morals.

Wife-John, don't you think you bet
ter give up trying to shave yourself and
go back to the barber?
Husband-Why, of course not. See
how much l save every month.
Wife-Yes, know that, but then
Willie is always around when you
shave, and he is learning so many bad
words. Ohio State Journal
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22

The greatest of all luxuries i'll central
Africa is salt. To say that man eats
salt with his victuals is the same as
saying that he is rich man. Mungo
Park says "The long continued use of
vegetable food creates so painful long
ing for salt that no words can sufficient
" describe it,
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22

The best teacher of duties that still
lie dim to us is the practice of those we
see and have at hand. Thomas Carlyle.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-22

They that will not be counseled can
not be helped Benjamin Franklin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-02
JAPANESE WARSHIPS.
A Powerful Fleet to BE Built in Eng.
land, Germany and France.

land, Germany and France.
Word comes to the Navy Department
from England that the japanese govern
ment has arranged for the construction of
a powerful fleet Of vessels in England.
Germany and France. According to this
Information some of the new vessels are
to be battle ships of the first class, equal
In power to the best in other navies, while
others are to be torpedo boats of the lat
est design. 1t is reported that the Fugi
ard the Yashima. two fine warships or
dered just after the close of the war with
China, are nearly ready for commission.
and will soon be sent to Japan
"A hrst-class battle ship, the Shikisma
of 1900 tons displacement and II 900 horse
power Is now building in Great Britain
ana IS to be delivered in two years. In
her class, the report states, she will prob
ably have no superior afioat Another shin
or her type has lately been ordered and
Is to be undertaken at once
Clydebank and Stettin have also received
orders for two powerful battle shi,s of
equal displacement and fighting power.
AN immense cruiser, of 1850 tons dis
Placement and 1880 horse power is to be
completed this year at Clydebank, while
Two thlrty-knot torpedo destroyers are he
Ing built by the Thornycroft and four at
arrows A German firm has also re-
ceived an order to build five tweuty-four.
KNOT torpedo boats, and five are also to
be built at Havre. This fleet Of warsbiss
is Tar larger than that now building for
the United States. i"'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-02
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been Issued by
the clerk Of the court as follows:
George Thomas Hood and Mary Brothers;
John Jackson and Martha Turner; Josiah
N. Fackner of Brooklyn and Enid s. Ho-
gan Of this city; John b. Marsh and Lillian
H. kalb. both of Baltimore. Nd: Louis
A. Markell and Minnie wilkerson; Edgar l..
Omohundor and Beulah f. Benson. both
of Baltimore. Md; Charles de Balts and
Eliza McCowen: VIM T. Sevitzer of Mid
land, Va. and Isable Russell of Bealeton
Va; Alphonso b. Potter of Pittsburg. Va.
and Jene L. Curle of this city; George H.
bu.ier and Renia Hawking; Charles Alex
ander of Philadelphia, Pa. and Fannie NJ
Worthington of this city; Edwin s. Carter
ana l.. May Thomas: Louis Malawista and
Mildred Bromberg. both of Baltimore. Md /:
James X. Martin of AHacostia and Rosa
Z. BALDWIN or Prince Georges county, Nd