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The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19

old before it, very old. then wither up.
and finally-do you understand me?-and
finally disappear"
what nonsense. Murdoch" I ex-
claimed. Some conjurer's trick"
There was only the dog. and land
that" He pointed. to the glass jar. Il
am telling you what actually occurred"
said Murdoch. you do not believe me.
But 1 assure you that the same thing can
be done here in this room.
looked at him amazed. Whatever the
meaning of his words, they were strange
enough, yet was not thinking of them
so much as of the speaker. The old, in
different Murdoch l had known would
have shown none of this Vehemence.
What had changed the man?
See" he was saying, while he pointed
to the machines behind me, "a piece or
the yellow one, placed in the focus OF
each of these reflections. heated to ex-
actly the right point, and excited by the
current from this electrical generator,
would give off the rays-or whatever they
are. Direct them upon living object be-
tween the re1ectors, and''-he waved his
hand with an celebrating motiou-'ano
the thing will happen"
you mean" 1 began, incredulous.
What 1 told you-the dog" said Muir
doch.
But are you sure?" I cried.
Sure? 1 have done it," said my friend.
"And I will do it again; yes, once
again"
"You must tell me more of this thing,
Murdoch l said.
only to-day learned you were at the
embassy" he said. 1T was providential.
my finding you. For 1 needed your help.
l believe also I wanted to see you once
again before Invent away"
There was a tenderness in his voice
that quite touched me. You can count
on me, Murdoch" 1 said, "if it were but
for gratitude" He stopped me with "a
gesture. None of that he said Il
had full value. You did more for me
than you knew. But for the sake of old
times 1 will ask of you a service"
He leaned toward me- john he be-
gan, they used to call you religious
man. Tell me, is it Gods will that a
murderer should suffer for his crime?"
"Assuredly." 1 answered, but"
Wait" said Murdoch, laying his hand
on my knee.
And if the law will not. cannot punish
him, John;s and if he should come into
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19

foggy, hazy, dizzy, dazed, stunned.
moory. dopy, ossitied. petrined. para
Typed.
He has a GLORIOUS or elegantly Sag on,
a load on, a skate on. a bun on, branni-
gan on, shine on a still ON, an edge on.
skin full; he has got cup too much.
he has looked on the wine when It was
red, he has bee in his bonnet, he has an
applejack gait, he has been taking a little
OF Paddy's eye water or OF red eye, he
has been crooking his elbow, he has more
sail than ballast, he has his main-braca
well spliced, he has the sun in his eye,
he can't see a hole in the ladder. and he
can't lie down without holding on.
lie is half-seas over, three sheets in the
wind, on his beam ends, under the M
fiuence OF the weather. over the bay, In
the clouds, in his cups. In his pots, off
his trolley of his nut, ON a drunk, on
spree, on bender, on a racket, on
tear, on the ran-tan, or the ree-raw, no
is feeling his oats, ne is fun of mountaif
dew, full of dope, full OF forty-rod booze,
full OF Jersey lightning. full Of tangle-
foot, full OF bug-juice, he Is as fun as a
tick, full as a goat full as a bedbug he
is as drunk as a lord drunk as a boiled
owl, drunk as a fddler's bitch. drunk as
| Davids COW, he Is weak (wabbly) on his
| pins, all mops and brooms, and about to
cast up his accounts a. q.
Holboken, May ~.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19
BY Edward Mumford.

once think of refusing to go, and that
because the one man in the world TO
whom l could refuse nothing was Angus
Murdock
! suppose none knew Murdoch better
than l. yet what ! knew was but little,
Tor 1t was only what he chose to sno"
me. In the university there were among
ms fellows many who admired him, some
who feared him, none who loved him. MY
affection, indeed. he might have had, put
he would not. Colby, almost contemptu-
ously, he went his way, among us all
easily the strongest body and the keenest
mind, yet utterly without influence, for
he was utterly Indifferent. Well-niSh halr
of his twenty-four hours he spent in the
laboratories, and the fame of his WORK
there spread abroad; but the honors IL
brought him he put aside, saying that ne
would be beholden to no man. Those VINO
offered him kindness found his eyes Tor
bidding; those who opposed him touno
MIN terribly compelling.
Once he happened to save my life, with
the tranquil manner of one who HITS
fly from his wine glass. lie was quite
orusque when / made much OF it, but al
terwards ne began to spend with me MS
inirequent periods of leizure. AT times
pfoke through his reserve, and he was al
most genial but at the slightest touch
OF affection he froze and held me or.
lie Is all mind" ! said to myself, piqueo,
AL mind and a stone for heart Ana
mat shows how little l knew the man'
after all.
He quilted the university with
strange suddenness. leaving for me
message that was little more than colo
Ialewe!l. Within a few months / receiv-
el oy foreign express a box with caro-
ON which was written "You wished 70 be
hlnd to me. and l would not let YOU
Tor which l am sorry. Sell these ana use
me money" Inside were diamonds OF
some value. I was badly in need OF funds
TO furnish my university course, and ne
"hew H. There was no address; and so
bSain / could offer no words of thanks.
once after that l saw him. II was on
lle street in Buenos Ayres, but ] could
"ardly believe Il was Murdoch, for he was
smiling into the face of a beautiful No-
man, and / had not thought Murdoch
Nould smile like that. He caught sight OF
ine' waved his hand gayly and afterward
leIt his card at my hotel during my alb
s'nce. The next day returned his call,
pug found he had left the city within the
"our' II was very like Murdoch. Ana
now. after another ten years, his note
gay 10 my hand and I was not surprised.
spent the evening wondering what
might lie at the end of H. Shortly be-
lore 10 o'clock ! set out purDosely choos-
Ms circuitous route. IL was wild
Nsht. The snowy, bitter blasts nearly
tWept me Off my feet as I turned the
eOfAer OF the narrow street that had
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19
BURIED FIRE.

Bejng An Extract From the Papers
of the Late John Burmester En-
gagged in the Diplomatic Service
of Great Britain.
BY Edward Mumford
Copyright. 1901, by Edward Mumford)
Even in a lifetime one learns but lit
tie of life. 1 myself may say that
came to 40 years still not knowing that
mans will can no more be resisted than
q mountain torrent; yet that there lives
no man who may not yield to love; and
mat the hate that is born of love is the
strongest force of all. And these three
things 1 learned in a single night.
The day preceding that night was the
s!oomiest 1 ever spent. 1t was, if re-
member the second day after the dis
appearance of the Crown Prince Michael.
You will recall how the news thrilled Eu-
rope. but you can form little idea of the
terror that shook the capital in those
DAYS. Men went about their work with
anxious faces, and mutely passed each
other, fearful of they knew not what,
but silent from that fear. Squadrons Cf
the household guard swept grimly through
the streets. The Ambassador and the
other Secretaries were away on official
business and 1 was alone in the embassy.
Toward night the snow began to fall, and
somewhere near a bell tolled, tolled until
thought l should go mad. l gave up
my correspondence, and was just closing
nv desk when a note was brought to
me.
Looking 3ack on it now, / wonder 1
was not surprised. Yet it all seemed in
keeping with the character of the man
and with that desolate day that L should
be reading a note from Murdoch, whom
! had last seen ten years before, and on
the other side of the world. There were
but two lines and no signature, but l
knew the hand:
Il will need you tonight at 10. The
bearer will direct you. Be discreet"
l smiled at the tone of it, imperious and
mysterious as Murdoch ever was 1 could
learn nothing from the messenger, a sim
ple lad, who evidently knew no more
than the way to the house where he had
received the note. Yet L believe l did not
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19

WIRES a yellow revolving disk, set up
right, its lower half covered with SILK
bag Clearly the whole was some sort or
electric device but could make nothing
of its purpose l was still examining 1t
when the door opened to admit Murdock.
He grasped me by the hand and drew me
close to him with an eagerness that was
like a caress. Yet all he said was i am
right glad to see you, John" 1t was as
though we had met but yesterday; but he
called me by my Christian name, which
he had never used before. So he stood
clasping my hand in both of his, and gaz-
ing at me. and at him
You have not changed, john" he
said at length.
Nor YOU" I returned; yet even as
spoke 1 was trying to determine why he
was so different Afterward / realized
that the eyes were franker than they
had been, and the mouth more mobile.
The subtle lines, too, on brow and lips
seemed to cut through the mask his face
once was. All this, / say, I was aware
of later. At the time / could only say,
Though you are older, Murdoch"
colder? Yes" he said. 81 think have
lived forty years since / saw you" He
turned from me to trim the candle, and
] noticed it trembled in his hand. Grief
will age a man. he continued, yet
there is that will age him more quickly"
He spoke fercely I thought. Then he
said. suddenly coming back to me, do
you believe in miracles, John?'
'I have never seen one. smiled"
There was a time when / did not"
said Murdoch. You think my face is
older. What think you of this?'
His left hand was incased in black
glove. which he stripped off rapidly, and
rolled up his sleeve. From elbow to fin
ger-tips the arm was that of man of
9O-shrunken and almost powerless. 1t
was not a pleasant thing to see.
THAT Is part of a miracle, II you like"
said Murdoch land this is another
part" He took from box on the table
a small glas Jar filled with Jumps of a
bright reddish-yellow ore. my first hand
ful of that pretty stuff cost me my arm, -
he went on. II uncovered vein OF II in
a Peruvian mine. My peon sprang TO
warn me, but too late. had scarcely
touched it when / felt q sharp pain and
in a few moments my arm-was as you
see It,"
withdrew my hand a respectful dis
lance from the little Jar But what is II,
Murdoch" / asked
"The Indians down there call II the
Buried Fire. cannot tell you what II
Is. But l have shown you what It VIII
do. When acted upon by the hot springs
of that country and by electric currents
in the earth Il justihes its name. Some
thing goes out OF tia ray, a fame, per-
hans: but one sees nothing, only what
happens. I have watched dog turn
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been named to me. The house was easily
found. l waited cautiously in the shadow
of the gateway, peering up and down to
make sure l was not spied upon; but l
had no sooner given the signal than the
gate swung open, closing Immediately be-
hind me. A servant led me across the
court, and up a dark stair to a room
where he muttered something and left
me.
1 looked about me inquisitively. The
apartment had more the air of a labora-
tory than living room. Evidently Muir
doch was still devoted to his science. At
the far end of the room doomed shadowy
irregular masses that aroused my curios-
ity, and I found they were the dark cloth
covers of pieces of apparatus-two strange
wooden frames, bearing polished steel re-
Elections; and, connected with these by
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19

want to be shut up for three or four
years for ducking the ruler When IL
had come O'Clock, and had grown very
dark. got a good grip on one corner
of the Jail house. which was built of bam-
boo, and with a sudden heave 1 over
turned the building and was free to run
away. There were no other prisoners in
the Jail at the time, and the jailer had
gone to his supper. He must have been
greatly amazed when he returned and
found his Jail lying on its back and his
prisoner gone. but l was not there to see.
In my next l will tel lyou how fell In
with a Snowman and what happened
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19
He L. Drunk-iee Times.
From the New York Sun.

He is drunk, intoxicated. inebriated,
tipsy, full, loaded, Jagged. fuddled, tight,
topheavy, Slowed, half-shot, half-gone,
overcome, overtaken, PINNED, afflicted,
elevated. exhilarated, genial. happy. mel
low, corned. beery, why. groggy booty.
soaked, chock-a-block. lushy, muggy,
cockeyed, boreyeyed, muddled. jiggered,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
SHOT AT Ex-SHERlFF.
Attempt to Assinate Green Nelson in
Worth County.

ALBANY, Ga Feb. S.-News of the
attempted assassination of Elk Sheriff
G. S. Nelson, of Worth county, late
Tuesday afternoon, has just reached
Albany. Mr.. Nelson, in company with
his wife and daughter, was returning
home from shopping tour to Ty Ty
when hidden assassins fired upon him
with Winchester rifles. One of the
rife bullets hit bottle of medicine in
Mr.. Nelson's left inside coat pocket,
the bullet and bits of broken glass in
fictinga very painful wound.
Had the bullet not hit the bottle,
thereby causing the bullet to turn
it is more than probable that
the assassins would have succeeded in
their diabolical purposes.
Mr.. Nelson held the Office of sheri If
of Worth county for number of y ears
and has always manifested lively in
terestin local politics, audit is believed
by his closest friends that the attempt
to assassinate him was the work of po-
litical enemies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
DR.. ]. I. LAMAR is DEAD.
ONE OF TERRELL'S OLDEST AND BEST
KNOWN CITIZENS PASSES AWAY.
The Remains Brought Here From ParrOtt
and Inferred in the Presence OF a
Large Number of People.

PARROT, February 11.-Dr. John I.
Lamar died Sunday morning aged 60
wears. Although he had been in bad
health for a number of years, the i'm
mediate cause of his death was para
lytic stroke.
The news of DR.. Lamar's death was
received with regret act only in this
county but throughout this section of
the state, where he was highly esteem
ed both as man and physician. He
WAS one of the oldest citizens of Ter
rell county, and during his long resi-
dence here enjoyed the respect and
confidence of everyone. He was man
of strong personality, urimpeachable
integrity and generous and noble ma
ture, and was true to his frie nds and
ever ready to give aid and encourage
ment to the unfortunate. In recent
wears he was closely identified with
the interests of Parrott, and at one
time served as mayor of the town, re-
firing from that position on account OF
his declining health.
The deceased was descendant of
French family who came to this coun-
try in the early settlement of the colo
MES, and who have borne such Gistin
guished honors not only in Georgia
but in other southern states. DR.. La
mar was born in Irwin county, Ca, in
1882 and received the rudiments of his
education in the old field schools
of Houston and Crawford counties.
Mott satisfied with that he utilized his
nights and leisure time, while he la
bored for a livelihood, in improving
and building upon what he had receiy-
ed in the schools. He began the study
of medicine in 1855, attended a course
of lectures in New York and gradual
ed from the Atlanta Medical College
in 1858. In 1862 he enlisted in the
confederate service under Captain
Tom Jordan and served his country
faithfully until the surrender. Upon
returning home he resumed the prac-
tice of medicine in Sumter county, and
continued the practice in Terrell and
surrounding counties until he reached
an advanced age. For long while he
had been a member of the Methodist
church and took great interest in it
He leaves a devoted wife and six chill
dren and host of friends to lament
his departures
Our whole community unite in ten
dering the bereaved family our most
sincere sympathy, and if we knew how
would be glad to extract the pangs
of grief which now so lacerate
their hearts. But words fail us and
become as passing breath in the
presence of such sorrow. We can only
commend them to the tender mercies
of the God whom their loved one loved
and served, and pray that He will
temper this sad affection by His grace
and love and lead them to strive to
meet their beloved husband and father
in a world far better than this.
FRIEND
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
A DAY CURRENT.
The City's Electric Light Plant
May Be Run Continuously
This Summer.

If enough subscribers for electric
fans can be secured the electric light
plant will be operated in the day as
we'll as at night. A sum of about two
hundred dollars per month will have
to be insured, however, before this
is done.
About one half of this amount, to be
derived from the proposed electric
fans, is already in sight, and, consid-
ering the additional revenue which
would accrue from the burning of
lights, it is necessary to secure only
about fifty dollars more, it is, there
FORE very probable that a continuous
current OF electricity will be furnished
both night and day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
Brave Men Fall

victims to stomach, liver and kidney
troubles as well as women, and all feel
results in loss of appetite, poisons in
the blood, backache, nervousness,
headache, and tired, listless, run down
feeling. But there's no need to feel
like that. Listen to j. w. Gardner,
Idayille, Ind. He says: Electric
Bitters are just the thing for a man
when he is all run down, and don't
care whether he lives or dies. 1t die
more to give me new strength and good
appetite than anything l could take.
can now eat anything and have new
lease on life" Only so cents, at Daw'
son Drug Cos. Every bottle guar
anteed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
SheIIman Personals.

Mrs. D. S. Newkirk and son, Fred,
left Sunday for Atlanta where they
will visit their husband and father,
Mr.. D. S. Newkirk.
Little Miss Alice Dantzler ClarF,
who has been visiting her sister in
Dawson. Mrs. w. c. Virgins, return
ed home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. y. L. Dozier of Hatch
erare now citizens of Shellman. Mr..
Dozier has position with Crittenden
Bros.
Miss. Lollie Balkom, one Sof George
towns most popular young ladies', i:
the guest of Mrs. c. \. Powell.
Mr.. Berwick Cleyeland OF Dawson
was in Shellman Sunday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
Society Will Celebrate Anniversary.

The Kappa Gamma Literary Society
of Andrew Female College, Cuthbert,
will celebrate its first anniversary on
the evening of February 22nd, in the
college chapel. The program will con-
sist OF classic music and bright litera.
ry selections. One of the principal
features of the evening will be a
drama. Much interest has been taken
in the preparation of the program
and the society is anxious for all of It's
friends, both at home and abroad, tc
be present.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13

Pain-Killcr, the old and well-known
remedy. has acquired worldwide re-
nown for the cure of sudden colds,
coughs, weak stomach, Indigestion,
cramp or pain in the stomach, bowel
complaint, diarrhoea and dysentery.
1t has lost none of its good name by
repeated trials, but continues to occu-
by prominent position in every fami.
ly medicine chest. Avoid substitutes,
there is but one Pain-Killer, Perry
Davis. Price 25c. and SOC.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
sEABOARD'S Shops BURNED.
Carshed, ROundhouSe and Two L0C0mo
tiVeS Lost.
FRIEND

SAVANNAH, Ga, February AT II
o'clock tonight the shops and round
houses Of the Seaboard Air Line, in the
suburbs, were discovered to be on fire.
The buildings are beyond the corDOr-
ate limits. An extensive carshed, the
rOundhouse aud two locomotives were
burned A third locomotive was dam
aged. It is believed the fire was from
spontaneous combustion in a lot of
greasy waste in the rounhouse. The
loss will approximate $4,000, though
detinate figures cannot be had tonight.
A restaurant and passenger shed were
also burned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
Notice to the Public.

Mr.. F. p Allen is in charge of my
watch repairing department, which is
a guarantee that all who favor NE with
their work will get it executed in the
most skilled manner known to the
trade. j. T. ALLEN, JR.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
BRONWOOD BRIEFS.
A Lot of Newsy Items About Peo-
pie and Things.

DR.. H. A. Wall has ordered a hand
some soda fount, and during the long
dry days of a scorching southwest
Georgia summer will dispense sizzling
sodas, cold coco colas, and frosty phos-
pilates to the parched, painting, per-
spring public, provided they previous
ly produce the proper pennies for the
pleasant, palatable, percoluting potion
they have purchased. Old Ponce de-
Icons tabled Fountain of Youth"
failed fatty, while this modern ''fount-
ain for youth sparkles successfully
There are high walls and low walls,
Brick Walls and Stonewalls, Chimes e
walls and caterwauls, but none harder
toDget past than DR.. H. A. Wall. In the
mortar" of this Wall may be found
any drug kept in an up-to-date estab-
lishment. His favorite song is "Over
the Garden Wall" set to waltz"
music,
Roy ]. GLASS;. now of the Albany
Telephone Exchange, has been back
again. Roy can not only telephone,
but can tell lot of other things in a
manner thoroughly refreshing. Gull
tivate the acquaintance of a ticket
scalper and come every Sunday, Roy.
Mr.. Charles r. Aven, late of Early,
has returned as mysteriously as he dis
appeared. Many are inclined to give
credence to the kidnapping theory,
and there are others who believe he
was hypnotized.
The first meeting of the new council
took place Monday night. Mr.. Joel N.
Childs was elected marshal and Mr.
Charles W. Gunnels city treasurer
Good selections, both.
Miss Lucy Jennings and Mr.. Lin
wood jennings of Plains and Miss An
ME Zimmerman of Midway were the
guests of Miss Mamie Arnold last
week.
Captain T. A. Dawson, after a tour
through Berrien and adjacent coun-
ties, is at the home OF his sister, M rs.
w. H. Wilkinson, for few days rest.
Mr.. Ben Netherlands of Amsterdam,
accompanied by a full-grown, able
bodied moustache. strobe our streets
Saturday afternoon.
Mack Brown, Hill Thornton and Jim
Dozier of Dawson beamed upon us
Sunday afternoon, receiving in return
beam for beam.
The Misses Chappell entertained
their cousin, Miss Ollie We're Lawhon,
Sasser's efficient schoolma am, on Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Misses Lucille and Bessie Chappell
have recently visited in lovely Smith
Vile. "where the railroad is engaged
in forking."
Mrs. Willie B. Moore and Miss Ella
Houser of Fort Valley are the guests
of Mrs. w. G. Aven and Miss Cleo on
Hill street.
Mr.. Robert Strange of near Ameri-
Gus was making "goo-goo eyes" in
Brentwood town Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. H. A. Harris and Mrs. James
passed through Bronwood Saturday en-
route to Americas.
Lieutenant Robert H. Ellerbee of
Bethel Military Institute spent Sun
L., ,r,i+b HE ,a9.taptS
Miss Maude Bryan has returned
from visit to her cousin, Mrs. Bar
clay Of Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. J. Harrell of Graves
spent Sunday with the family of Mr.
J. g. Collins.
Mr.. Wright Kennedy has been
horse trading with the Preston popu-
lace lately,
Mrs. Joel y. Childs has returned
from Arlington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13
Police Court.

Mayor .LoWrey passed sentence on
several disturbers of the peace Mon
day morning. Drunkness and disorder
Iv conduct were the charges on which
nearly all the offenders were held.
The guardhouse has not been so fuIl.ot
late, however, with breakers OF the
city laws as at times in the past.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-13

Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment is
no panacea, but is recommended for
piles only. These it will cure. Price
soc in bottles, Tubes 75c., at the
Dawson Drug Cos.