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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

Prof. Turner declares that the cree
ton of the observatory on Mt. Hamil-
ton sent up the value of land in that
region considerably. Accordingly
some enterprising gentleman in an
other neighborhood. desiring to test
the generality OF the law that if a
large telescope We're built the value
of land in the neighborhood would
so up. announced a still larger tel
escope, and ordered two 40inch discs
of glass for the lens
The experiment succeeded admir-.
ably and they were so well satisfied
with the rise in price which followed
on the mere announcement $50 the
story goesl, that they considered it
unnecessary TO proceed further with
the instrument.
The two lenses were produced, and.
rot being claimed, were left on the
makers hands, the result being that
the favorable opportunity for the pur-
chase was brought to Mr.. Yerkes' at.
tention, and he bought them for the
great telescope that bears his name
This, at least. is Prof. Turner'S YER
sion OF the story-San Francisco Ar
gonaut.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

There is probably no ether city in
the world that can show a hospital,
with several oil wells in the grounds,
within few yards of the building.
This strange sight may be seen in
Los Angeles. Cal, couple of miles
from the business ceLter. The wells
may be profitable. but whether they
are entirely unobiectionable, from a
hygjenic standpoint. some people
would be inclined to doubt. Incident.
ally it may be mentioned that in the
same institution dozen nurses are
recovering from typhoid fever.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
THE LAND OF DEATH

dwellers, and with canoe and men
padded away to reach the PiIcomayo
river. And when he padded thus
away he passed out of human sight
forever. For the River of Death has
never given him up.
Fragments OF his story have driftea
to the outer world, and from the
stories told by boastful Indians and
the scattered rumors brought to 30.
liyian and Paraguayan and Argen-
tinian frontier posts, it is known that
he forced his way far up the river.
contending against nature and wild
beasts and wild men alike, until, thor
oughly worn out and sadly diminished
in numbers. the expedition found it
self cut of from either retreat or ad-
vance by the allied forces of human
foes and hunger. For the Indians,
rarely showing themselves, but con
stantIy lurking around the party, not
only picked off any members Of the
expedition who strayed even slightly
from the main body, but prevented
all hunting. AT last the party was so
reduced by privations that panic
seized some and despair others. And
then came anninilation, so that none
returned. Lista himself. so men have
learned since then, was one of the
last to dide. He was Drained while
ne lay starving. And scattered over
many miles of forest trails lie his com
panions. pursued and killed in fight.
While Boggiano's fate was still up-
known, Capt. Slrvent, a German in
structor in the Chilean army, started
with his son to enter the Chaeo eoan-
try from the west He expected to
return In q month. But three passed
and no sign came from the unknown
land.
Now. according to news just re
ceiyed in America Capt Rojas, OF
the Paraguayan army, who started
from the east to search for him. has
returned to Villa Hayes-named after
President Hayes to commemorate his
settlement Of the Paraguay Argentina
boundary dispute with the almost pos
tive information that this expedition
also has been destroyed Capt, Ro
jas found that it had approached the
vicinity OF the scene of Ibarreta'
death. a2d there, on the banks oi
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
A Coco Halter.

Two elderly ladies' are conversing
in the room of an invalid, who is not
nearly as i'll or as fast asleep rs sAc
pretenGs to be-
First elderly lady--Yes, my dear,
it's awful the extent to which some
people viii carry their spite was
talking TO Mrs. Bloggs yesterday
about poe Annie on the bed there
and she sez-you knC they cant
abear one anothcr-she SEE. Well, if
anythink should happen, she sez,
you'd never ketch me going to her
funeral. she SEE, and"
The invalid 0oudlyl-And you may
tell Mrs. Bloggs that if she don't come
10 my funeral | certainly won't so to
hers.-London King.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
The oeacon's Protest.

The Rev DR.. S. makes rather long
prayers, covering in his petitions an
extensive territory One of his dea-
cons--a man of piety, but Of ner.
yous temperament finds these pro
tracted devotions trying. and one
Sunday at dinner amused his family
by saying. with the utmost serious.
ness:
DIR. S. made a beautiful prayer this
morning, a powerful prayer. but I
could have suggested ways in when
he could have shortened it up. He
needn't have gone from Alaska to
Africa and then to China, when he
could just as well have cut across,
and anyhow. | do not see why he
could not lump the indians and the
Freedmen. They are so much alike"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

sent its best explorers and to none
did their men return alive.
Creveaux, Of France; Ibarretta. OF
Spain; Lista, of Paraguay; Sirvent-
Of Germany, and Boggiano of Italy,
all started from the borders, divea
into the primeyal forests of Ell Gran
Chaco. reached the Pilcomayo river
and disappeared forever.
No man has gone in and emerged
alive What turks in its twilight for
ests that Stays so surely?
Look on the map of South America.
Between the tropic of Capricorn
and latiture 80 south, and between
longitude So and SIS west. is a patch
that Is left almost entirely blank.
That patch contains more than $4,000
square miles, about which man knows
nothing.
It is the terra ineognita Of the
American continent.
Five months ago Guido Boggiano
started from Asuncion with an ex-
petition Of six Indians and peon 10
follow the path that so many others
had taken before him and that had
led them to death. Men heard from
him only once after he had left civ
ilization. as ne passed through Puerto
Casado. Then came q week OF silence.
broken by the arrival of two of the
expedition. Even in that one week
hardships and terrors had become too
much for them and they had fed to-
ward settled country. They reported
that the line OF march had been
through constant dangers and through
constant mystery. Unseen enemies
had attacked them BY day and By
night. Unseen animals had provided
on their trail. Unseen things had
terrified the Indian helpers. so that
even then Boggiano was finding it al
most impossible to force them on.
That is the last that has been heard
by man Of Guido Boggiano and his
party No doubt the entire expedi-
ton was destroyed, presumably by
the fierce. practically unknown TOBIAS
Indians
This makes the second expedition to
vanish within a year
First to meet fate in Gran Chaco
was DR.. Creveaux. He started into
the interior in 1886 with large and
wel-armed party, and forced his way
for several months through the wilder
ness along the Pilcomayo until he
penetrated into the TOBIAS country
near the Bolivian boundary, whers
the expedition, worn and thinned on.
by constant fighting and hardships
fell into the hands OF the Indians
who suddenly appeared from all quar-
ters and massacred ALL
The fate Of the Creveaux expedition
only served to increase the eagernes.
Of explorers to tear the veil that hiL
/ the unknown land.
And that eagerness next was to
cost the life of one OF the most sue
cessful and earnest and daring ex
plorers that ever was in South Amer
lea. He was Ramon Lista, to whom
/ the world to-day owes much of its
knowledge Of Paraguay, Argentina
and Patagonia. For many years hi
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
What the World Speaks.

Some interesting information re-
garding the chief languages of the
earth are given by a German statist.
Leaving Chinese out of the question.
which in its various dialects is the
language of four hundred millions,
English is easily first Roughly speak
ing, English is spoken by one hundred
millions. German comes next with
sixty-nine millions, and, if the Low
German dialects be included, there are
eighty-five millions. Russian follows
with sixty-seven millions. Two Ian
guages which once covered the world.
French ard Spanish, are now spoken
by only forty-one and forty millions
respectively, and Italian. which has
lately shown signs of spreading, thirty
millions
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
Tried for Not coinq to Church.


A book of forms. supposed to be q
hundred years old. written probably
by some former clerk Of the court.
has been discovered in the clerks Of
fee of the Corporation Court, Lynch
burg, Va. says the Richmond Des-
patch Of June 2S Among the orders
appeared the following.
Judgment on a presentment Of the
grand jury for not going to church
wv. B., who stands presented to
the grand jury for absenting himself
from his parish church. having been
this day fully heard tor having been
duly summoned and not appearing,
tho solemnly called, it is considered
by the court that for the said offense
he forfeit and pay to the church war
dens OF b. parish, where the offense
was committed, five shillings or fifty
pounds of tobacco to the use of the
poor of the said parish. And that he
pay the costs of this prosecution and
may be taken, etc"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

Just once, I'd lean back in my little
chair
And bet the limit sure. whate'er be.
tide.
Unnumbered stacks of reds and
blues" I've bought
And lost. You've won all night
haven't caught
A thing to help along a sickly pair"
Give me that "nush. and joy with
thee abide.
Oh let me hold that hand!
Charles b. Graves in New York
Times.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

Over on the eastern shore of Mary.
land in the district represented by
Congressman Jackson there was a
man who was suffering from a severe
case of Shakes" as they call fever
and ague in that country. One morn
ing the local physician called on the
patient and asked him how he felt
"N-n-not a bit b-b-better." was the
shaking mans reply.
Your case is a very peculiar one.
and hard to take hold of. remarked
the doctor, sympathetically
Yes. th-that's So remarked the
patient, trying to smile. The cease
sh-sh-shakes so don't wonder you
c-c-an't get hold Of Washington
Post.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
MoaMoNs work IN ENGLAND.
Their Missionaries There Are Gain.
ing Many Converts.

Their Missionaries There Are Gain.
ing Many Converts.
There is commotion at Sarum and
the sleepy old city is being reused
out of its somnolency by the aggres.
siveness of the Mormonistic propa.
ganda, says the London News. The
agents of the Latter Day Saints :"
cult have stormed the citadel Of
Episcopacy and captured some of the
pillars Of the Church and lights of
the Dissenting churches. These dar-
ing raiders have laved their captiyes
in the classic waters of the Avon at
midnight in the chilly months Of De-
cember and January Strange scenes
have been enacted under the stars
and in semi-secrecy. There is wall
ing in many homes, and Nominations
from pulpits Episcopal and Noncon-
formist. On Wednesday evening last
the rector of Fisherton sacrificed the
Mormon doctrines and pilloried the
emissaries. Two OF the Mormon cid
ers and one of their converts were
present. but sat unmoved. On the
authority of the editor Of the Sails
bury Times the evil is spreading, and
there are at least two thousand elders
from Salt Lake City in this country
actively engaged in proselytizing
work
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
Presidents inRented Houses

DDS Of their owners set forth, and the
troubles of correspondents discussed,
all with an unconscious gray
ity and dignity of style
which approach the humorous in
American eyes. The illness and con
sequent absence from a show of
famous cat is thus grayely chronicled
in a recent publication: "She was
prevented from appearing at Edin-
burgh by an unfortunate accident.
having got fishbone firmly fixed in
her nose while eating her supper.
She has got well over the effects,
barring slight weakness of the eyes,
which will. no doubt, pass off in
day or two"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

Wanted 10 Know.

Congressman Bingham is telling
about the handsome and popular wife
OF a senator who has been well to the
fore in Washington affairs since last
December. Mrs. Senator was recently
accosted at fashionable reception by
an overdressed. affected woman. the
wife Of q western lobbyist. and asked:
Have We met before? Your face
seems familiar to me-
4 do not think we've met. replied
Mrs. Senator graciously. Perhaps
you've seen my pictures. There have
been many of them in the magazines
recently"
That's it," exclaimed the stranger.
I've seen you in the magazines. And
| want you to tell me. if you viii, is
that soap you indorse really as gcot
as you say it is?'
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
A supnIIoatIon.

Let me but hold thy hand,
And, through the valleys. dark with
toll and care
And disappointment I would pass with
stride
That faltered not. and / would count
as naught
The doubts and fears that now assail
me, fraught
With whispers of False Hope-twin
brother of Despair.
I'll scale ambitions peaks unterrified,
Could but hold thy hand
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
millions Of corks for Milwaukee,.

Fifty-seven bales of cork reached
Milwaukee Monday from abroad. It
is said that there is no city in the
world where a greater number of
bottle corks are used than in Milwau-
kee The consumption amounts to
over 1000 bales, 10000 gross. or So
100000 corks a year. of a value of
$350,0o0 Supplies of these corks are
assured by contracts which provide
for future deliveries. as there is no
cork warehouse in Milwaukee from
which large quantities may be sup
piled at short notice. though there has
recently been organized a number OF
agencies which are making arrange
ments TO meet orders for quick deliy-
eries.-Dlilwaukee Journal.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

year at what is known as the "Presi-
Dental Cottage" at the Soldiers
Home in Washington. In the spring
when the city became warm, they
would move out of this pretty house,
which is situated in an ideal spot, the
Home being simply a most beauti-
fully kept park
Another President who moved out
of the White House so that it might
be renovated was Mr.. Buchanan. He
occupied a suite Of rooms at the Ma
tional Hotel, on the second floor, and
facing Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth
street, as his temporary quarters. 1t
was while he was staying at this hos
telry that some of the guests we're &C
eidentaiiy poisoned.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
The Cat Columns.

one Of the features in which Eng
fish periodicals for women differ
from American magazines of the same
class is in the ''cat column" There
is q section devoted TO cat gossip in
many Of them. in which Well known
batteries are described, the good
points of their inmates ard the meth
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

1t was in a photographers studio.
and lady called and stated that she
wished to have her child's portrait
taken
Certainly. madam, said the photo
grapher. This is the little man, is
it? Coo-roo. Bless i'm. little tootsie-
wootsie Dear 'icllle fellow"
Mother" said the up-to-date child
in a voice of scorn. will you kindly
inform me whether the deplorable
condition of this person is due to lack
of education or hereditary insanity :?
Kindly proceed, sir. and make as
creditable a likeness as lies within
your apparently limited capacities.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

had lived almost constantly in the
widest parts of the continent. He
was the first man to send out from
the depths Of Patagonia the report
Of the possible existence there of a
monstrous animal. the mylodon. a
giant sloth as great as an OK, that
still survived from prehistoric DAYS
he reported subsequently that one
evening he had even shot at some
huge creature that might have been
It. But its hide turned his bullet
and the gloom of the forest made pur-
suit impossible.
Ramon Lista, thus on the threshold.
possibly, of an epocha1 discovery in
modern world history, set his face to-
ward FL Gran Chaco. He passed be-
yond tbs uttermost frontier of human
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

q Thomas cat with a powerful alto
voice. There came an answering high
soprano wall. and the nightly duet
was on.
Loveson Anita. the poet, put down
his pen, pushed his hands through his
abundant hair, drew a little harder at
his pipe, and went to the window TO
gaze out into the moonlight that
bathed in its effulgence the pretty vii
lage of Dingie in the Myrtles.
Il hate cats" he said. "Confound
'em. Confound all cats-always-
of all colors, black, white, gray; by
night nuisance, and by day-con-
found the cats! Here, come to this
howery Eden bubbying over with joy
at the thought OF escaping from the
ceasless roar and rattle of the city,
to be disturbed by cats Why, their
noise Is more destructive to insplra
ton, more trying TO the nerves than
the changing of hundred trolley cars
No, the comparison won't do. There
is q certain fascination, a strange,
wild, stirring harmony in the diapason
of the citys hum, and in the singing
Of the rushing trolleys. Whereas
cats
He ceased with a gesture indicating
that words failed him in which to ex-
press his opinion of the offending
felines.
Mrs. Loyeson Anita, who while
making a pretense Of working at some
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

WEIRD noise broke
upon the Silly
night. 1t sounded
like the faint vail
of a babe in pain,
then rose crescen-
do into the well-de-
fined caterwaul of
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

80 HIS is not the first time that
/ President OF the United
- States has been obliged to oc-
slI cupy temporary quarters on
account of repairs at the White
House. Such a thing occurred at the
beginning of Mr.. Arthur's administra-
ton when, Garfield having died, the
Executive Mansion was put through
an elaborate course of renovation, the
new Chief Magistrate meanwhile TAX
ing up his residence in the big house
on Capitol Hill which had been built
by Gen. B. f. Butler. This building.
now tenanted by the Marine Hospital
Service, came in those days to be
known as the Gray House.
Perhaps the most famous of all
dwellings serving as temporary homes
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

embroidery, had
been rocking her
self in contented
in d ole n c e and
W a { h n 8 the
changing express
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

Pnccmayo river has proved Itself de-
serving of the title given to it by the
natives of Paraguay Argentin and Bo-
liyia-River of Death.
The last victims of the unknown
place are the famous Italian explorer,
Guido Boggiano, and his party. From
Asuncion in Paraguay the news has
reached American geographers that
the party has been officially pro-
nounced dead.
With the Staying of Boggiano, Gran
Chaco, triumphantly keeping its
secret, has successfully defied five
nations-France. Spain, Germany, It
ally and Paraguay. Each OF them
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02
Growth Of Worlds Commerce.

The volume of the worlds com
merce is two and a half or thres
times as great as it was thirty years
ago.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

dainty to tickle the palates Of some
French epicures, l take it. can't i'm
agine any more ways than those you
have enumerated in which they can
render service to mankind"
They are useful as timepieoes.
What"
Il am perfectly serious. In China
they serve as very handy clocks. It's
this way: The eyeball Of a cat con
tracts constantly from dawn until
noon, at which hour it is merely
thin horizontal line. From noon the
eyeball gradually dilates until It
reaches full expansion at shutdown. So
that in places where there are no
clocks or dials or where there are
dials and the day is
M. an cloudy a Chinaman
a. just picks UP cat and
W learns the hour by
looking at It's eyes
Il had no idea that you had made a
special study Of cat lore, but there's
no use talking. you Vassar graduates
know everything under the sun
Cats have still another virtue.
Rheumatism can be cured by rubbing
the affected part with a ginger-colored
pussy"
You are a yeritable encyclopaedia,
dear"
THAT Is nothing have lots Of tai
ents you haven't yet discovered. How
ever that will do for the present, and
it now behooves you-the duet having
terminated-to sit right down and in
dite an ode to the Cat of Cats"
"Strophes to a cat-catastrophes.
can't do it; but / will dash off
rhapsodic stanzas ad libitum to the
most adorable little champion who
ever defended the cause of cats.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02


sion on her husbands handsome
face as he wrestled with the
muse, laughed the little ripping
laugh that was one Of her many
charms, and that from the very first
time he had heard it had always been
the sweetest music to mis- ears.
We'll. it can't be helped" she said.
Let Hercules do what he may. the cat
will new
There are such things as guns, and
airguns at that BY Joye a happy
thought! I'll get one. They say YOU
can kill cat with an airgun at !
don't know how many yards
File! you wouldn't hurt poor harm
less, necessary pussy! Besides. you
forget. dear, that cat has nine lives"
oh no, | won't do thing to poor
pussy. Did you ever hear anything
like it in your life?"
Loveson Anita put his fingers in his
ears and gazed desperately around
for missile.
And then" continued his wife, IL
you were to shoot a cat you would be
filled with remorse and haunted by a
ghostly tabby for the rest OF your
days. Didn't ! see you release a
struggling fly from that sticky paper
Nora keeps in the Kitchen -
They are no good, anyway" per
sisted the poet, with growing wrath.
They ought rs a public nuisance to
be eXterminated
They catch mice.
Not as wen as a mousetrap. And
they are cruel and treacherous. They
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

RAN CHACO, the most mys-
FERROUS spot on the American
continent. and possibly in the
world, has claimed another
II ..intfnnc. arain the
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

Typical Scene on Pi!comayo.
the Pilcomayo river. had persisted, TO
prove anew that the River of Death
still deties the worlds efforts to dis
pei its mystery.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-02

, right on
as other
and self-respecting animals do. buI
needs must make sport of it and sub
jcct it to the refinement of torture.
And they are that deceitful and en-.
PRECIOUS You never know how to take
them-just like women Somebody
says somewhere that if cat has nine
lives, woman has nine cats lives.
"Ohi"
THAT is. of course, other women.
You are not Ike other women"
What do you know about other
women. pray?' demanded Mrs. Love
son Anita with a suspicion of asperity
and flushing slightly.
Nothing, nothing. of course, from
personal experience, my dear. But
they have the reputation. It's a we'll
known fact
"Oh, is it? Indeed"
Yes, and as am saying. went or
the poet evasively. they are no good.
they are utterly worthless. they are
fit for nothing On earth--the cats, /
mean"
We'll, manufacturers make muffs
and boas and all kinds of things with
the skins"
do they? Then I'm glad to know
the brutes serve some useful purposs
when they are dead Now dog"
''Never mind about dogs We are
talking about cats,
and my purpose is ~
to prove that they s4MeyaSA ~
are good for moth -
ing" - II
Yes I've heard -
of it raining cats and dogs"
In some parts of France they eat
cats!"
"Peuh,"
''You needn't look incredulous-the
do. They call them 'gibier de la rue
street game-and in stew you
wouldn't know the difference between
a cat and a rabbit
You have tasted it?"
ooh. no. denied Mrs. Loveson Ahta,
hastily. AT least not to my knowl-
edge; but I've read about it,
-Then they are principally useful as