Franklin Sentinel newspaper, 1900, Part 253

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The Cormul's Cats.

Gen. Sir Herbert Chermside, who 15 now in South Africa, was formerly a consul in Asia Minor, where he was very popular. Once, in a weak mo- ment, he sent a conple of beantlful Angora cats as a present to a lady In Constantinople. The lady was so pleased that she asked him to seud some more. Sir Herbert gave his na- tive servaat some money and told him to go and buy two or three. Then came a demand for more cats from the consul's friends, and he gave b's servant more money with which to buy cats. This went on for two or three months, and the native servaat waxed exceeding fat. Oae morning however, the general, on coming out of the consalate, was surrounded hy n host of veiled women, who hesought Mahomet to curse him because he had stolen all their cats. It appears that the native servant had pocketed the money for himself, and gone rouad with a sack and confiscated every cat In the place .- Collier's Weekly.

Not Off His Trolley.

A Scottish paper tella an anecdote In connection with the new electric system just opened in Aberdeen. Two farm servants came to .Aberdeen to spend New Year's day. Arriving hv train, they immediately made their way to the terminus of the electric tramway circuit, where. after looking at the new crea ion with much won- der. they decided upon having a rid> Getting on the top of the car. and after getting wel along: "Wull." said mon Jock, this is a graun' in- vention. In Edinhurg I saw them drive the cars wi' an iron rape aneth street. in Dundee they pu' them wit an engine, but. mihty man wha' wal a' thocht they would ca' them wi' 3 fishing rod!"-Argonaut.

Rexleld-s' Cove.

On the Inataltment Piso. The world may owe a man a living. ont he bns to collect it on the install- ment plan .- Chicago Daily News.

Simpileity. The supreme excellence in all things Is simplicity .- Chicago Daily News.

SAGE AND PHILOSOPHER

Cruel people are ever cowarda in emergency. - 3wift.

Conversation is the vent of charac- Wer, as well as of thought .-- Emerson. You will find poetry unwhere unless you bring some with you .- Joubert. Forty is the age of youth-30 is the youth of nld age .- Victor Hugo. "The secret of making one's self tire- some is not to know when to stop,- Voltaire,

In great straits, und when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest .- Livy.

We are al sure of two things, nt least -We shall suffer and we shall die .- Goldsmith.

The nearer we approuch great men, the clearer we see that they are men -Bruyere.

Anger ventilated often hurries to ward forgiveness: unger concenled often hurdens into revenge .- Bulwer- Lytton.

It is with books us with men; a very small number play a great part: the rest are confounded with the multi- tude,-Voltaire.

Men are much more wuwilling to have their wenkaesses and their Im- perfections kaown than their erimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly. ignorant or even ill- bred or awkward. he will hate you Į more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue .- Chesterfieldl.

GLAMOUR OF THE FOOTLIGHTS

Mrs. Fiske was a feature in her company in her early teens. Julia Marlowe at 14 belonged to un opera company, and Annie Russell was nine when she appeared first on the stage. Ellen Terry says she intends her grandchild to begin training for a stage life when the age of sever is reached. so the small girl will never acquire self-consciousness or tricked with the glamour of the foot- lights. be

Successful actresses vary in their iden of the right age for a woman to in go upoa the stage. Duse says knowledge is the secret-the aspiraat should realize emotion before seeks to portray it: yet she spoke her she first stage lines when she was only four years old.

Sarah Berahardt entered a dramat ic school when she was 14, and made her debut four years later. Ada Re- han was but 14 when she entered Daly's company and she took his stern drill as a matter of course. Daly of- fered lo make Bijou Fernandez fam- ous if, at the age of 10, she were given He the over entirely to his charge. mother refused to part with youngster.

In a Mexican theater women always go bareheaded, and the men wear their bats all the time the curtain is closed. During the performance they remove them. Frequently men rise in their seats and sweep the tiers o boxes with large glasses. It is con- sidlered something of an honor to have the glasses of a swell below leveled at your box. Smoking is permitted in all theaters.

THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN.

A hattery of artillery consists of six guns

Every German regiment has a chirop- odist in its ranks. No fewer than 22 members of parlia ment have gone to the front. Two years ago the Boers had in their pay 13 German officers, 40 French and +) Russians,

Fort Tuli, the headquarters of Col. Plumer's force, commaads the roads to Victoria, Buluwayo, Mangwe, Ma- feking and Pretoria.

It is generally supposed that more men are killed by artillery than in fantry fire. This is a totally erroneons notion, as from medical reports it would appear that the rifle is respon sible for nearly 90 per cent. of our killed. In the Franco-German war it was estimated that 6,969 Germans were killed by rifle bullets, and only 695 hy artillery fire.

Teplitz, a small watering place ia Bohemia. claims to have been the birthplace of Gen. Cronje, the Boer commander who surrendered at Paar- deberg. It is stated that the general's father was a Frenchman and a cook to Charles X. On his arrival at Teplitz the ex-cook opened a hotel. He is said to have married a Czech maiden. The family name originally was Cronier. but was corrupted after the Croniers emigraled to the Transvaal.

Night Marches Slow. On night marches troops do usually advance at more than a mile not an hour In attack neither officer nor man is to stop to help the wounded, and no halt per. ttod until the eh. emy Is driven o:7

Nursing Mothers

dread hot weather. They know how it weakens and how this affects the baby. All such mothers need Scott's Emulsion. It gives them strength and makes the baby's food richer and more abundant.

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FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

One million pounds is spent every year in England upon the gunle of font- ball .

At Zurich the theological faculty of the university finds thut it has only right students for ten professors this winter.

Tobacco is now raised in County Meath, Ireland. It grows luxuriantly and is said to be "twice as strong as the strangest tobuaco suld."

Beer turns to art in Munich. The well-known brewer Pschorr is going to erect at his own expense u colossal equestrian statue of Emperor Ludwig. the Bavarian, on the Kaiser Ludwig. platz.

Over the muia gutewuy to the Paris exposition at the entrance to the Champs Elysees a startling innovation in sculpture will be seen. The figure of the "City of Paris" will be represented us a woman dressed uccording to the latest fashion of 1900,

Paris hus just received the largest legacy in the history of the city, 3,000,- 000 frunes. It comes from u Mlle. Taaies, who directs thut an orphanage and a school of architectural design be built with part of the money, the re- mainder to be used for such public or private works as the municipal council may drem advisable.

Russin is ferreting out corruption in the military and naval administration. Recently a half dozen Cossack officers, including a major general, were sent to Siberia for peculation, and now 43 officers and officials of the navy have been brought to trial at Sebastopol for frauds in the coal, oil and beef con- tracts for the Black sea fleet.

ELECTRICAL ENERGY.

It is proposed by a Michigan com- paay to curry an electric current of 40,000 volts 90 miles.

The St. Louis hospital at Paris has a new laboratory for electro-thera- peutics and radiography.

Electric cars are immensely popu- lar in England, and the equipment companies can hardly keep up with their orders.

Balloon wireless telegraphic com. munication is to be attempted at Portsmouth, Eagland, with a view to establishing communication between the sea and a laad force.

The electric exhibit at the Paris ex- position bids fair to be one of the most attractive parts of the show. There will be a complete retrospective exhibit of electrical and mechanica' apparatus of historical character. and the special exhibit will be housed ir the "Court of Honor" built of staff. It is proposed to construct an elec trically worked bridge crossing the Usk, says the English Electrical Re- view. The width of the river at this poiat is 240 yards and the time occu- pied by the carrier going from one bank to the other is estimated at about a minute. The bridge will cost $325.000.

A new instance of electric street railways being used for freight pur- poses is found in Cleveland, where stone is being hauled from a quarry eight miles distant. Fifteen thousand- pound capacity freight cars are used and the work done after the close of the passenger traffic.

ON EXHIBIT.

The Russian appropriation for na. cional representation at the Paris ex- position has been fixed at 2,228,82: rubles (*1.115,000).

At the Paris exposition an American company will have an ingenious and impressive exhibit indicative of the magnitude of the life insurance busi. ness.

It has been decided to hold a world's fair in Brussels in 1905, in coaimemo- ration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Belgian independence.

The exposition authorities are anx- jous on account of the condition of the Seine, which in rising has done consid- erable damage to the buildinga along the river bank. The infiltration of wa- ter has sunk one of the wings of the palace of electricity ten feet.

The Russians are preparing a map of France for the Paris exposition. Each "Department" is shown in colored jas- per, while the sea is represented hv la pis la zuli, the rivers by platinum and the towns, to the number of 106, are marked by precious stones, The map rests on a marble slab about three feet square.

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All liver ills are cured by Hood's Pills.

You assume no risk when you buy Chamberlaia's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoen Remedy. Albert C. Mason, drug gint. will refund your money if you are not satisfied after using it It is every where admitted to be the most success- ful remedy in use for bowel complaints and the only one that never fails. It is pleasant safe and irliable.

A laine shoulder is usually caused by | Theumatiam of the muscles, and may he cured by a few applications of Chamber- lai's Pain Balm. For sale hy Albert C. Mason, druggist.

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Everyone wondered why Prot. Dan- her wore sncb a long pointed beard, hut could not imagine how he ob- tained such satisfactory reaults .- N. Y. Ledger.

Van I'nin Be Truet A bachelor says" that secrets were Introduced without a doubt Just to give the loquacious sex Something to talk about. Chicago Daily News.

AT THE FIRST REHEARSAL,

Manager-How can you smile in the death scene?

Actor-With the salaries you pay one cannot help looking upon death as a welcome release! - Fliegende Blaetter.

Of Course Not.

A woman may have a will of her own. But, be she daughter or mother, She never objects if her name appears In the last will of another. -Chicago Daily News.

Accounted For.

Aunt Jane (on .a visit)-Them new neighbors o' yourn look poorer than church mice.

Mrs. Jones-Yes. That is our minia- ter's family. Judge.

A Higher Gtft.

"A financier is o man who makes lots of money, isn't he. pa ?"" "No. Freddy a financier is a man who gets hold of lots of money other people make."-Puck.

Was n Bargain.

Tess-Isn't she n peculiar girl? She wouldn't look at him when he wae rich, but now, after he's lost his money, she accepta hini.

Jess-Oh, well, you know how crazy every woman is to get anything that's reduced .- Atlunta Constitution.

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THE SENTINEL, TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. 14, 1900.

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AN AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRE.

Hot!

A blistering heat that drove the fowls, with their beaks gaping, off the burning ground into the shelter of the slab hut. A scorching, withering heat that had made wapless bay of the grass in the paddocks and reddened the foliage of the gums and the stringy barks like the blaze of a bush fire. A heat that bad sucked up all mois- ture and marbled the land with cracks of shrinkage and turned the water holes into mere mud baths, while the distant creek had nothing but its brown flag grass and dry swamp bed to show where the water had run

About the homestend the few cattle still alive hung with their heads stolidly over the slip rails, refusing, in spite of all driv- ing. to seek again for the sustenance it was impossible to find. The framework of n horse, his head between his legs, und as much in the shade as he could get on the lee side of an old ironbark, stood im- passive and motionless. All round the horizon n dirty haze of smoke melted inte a yellow veil of fog covering the sky. Abe Saunders was down at what used to be the creek trying to draw out his Inst milking cow from the place where she had bogged in n voin effort to find water grass.

Abe houled and stroined nt the rope. his shirt and trousers clinging to him with sweat. The beast kicked und plunged feebly, its little strength quite gone, and after two hours' work it was more firmly bogged than ever.

"It's no good," said Abe. "I must get help. I'll go up the gully for old Mason and his tackle. If we lose thnt cow. what will the children do for milk ?" Weprily he turned to go, when the sound of a "Coo-ee!" turned him sharply about.

"Coo-ee!" he shouted. A little panse, and again the cry ech- oed:

"Coo-ee!"

"It's Mary," he sold, "What the devil's up?" It was a good three miles to the ridge; but, like D wollaby with the dogs in full cry. he sped over rock and gully back to the hymnestead. Long before he got there he heard a strange roaring in the air, saw block, belching clouds over the tree tops and felt n fierce rushing furnace breath.

The bush was on fire.

With the energy of fear he dashed along. There was the clearing, with Mary nt the house door still shouting at intervals. Even as he came up the red storm was npon them. In mod frenzy he seized the two children, ore under ench arm, and, shrieking to his wife nbove the din of the fire to bring the baby, he rushed to the center of the plowed pad- dock. There they crouched panting. The children were howling, the baby was cry- ing and Mary was sobbing. The mno said nothing. He watched the fire.

Would the house escope? There was 50 feet of bare ground all about it. But the air, so calm a minute ngo. was now D roaring hurricane traveling nt racing speed over the ridge. The ten tree scrub melted before It, and the hush trees re- mained in its rear only as black and burning trunks. The fence had caught: the flames licked it up daintily. The shed, with his cort and harness, were and were not while he looked. A piece of burning, stringy bark, whirled by the wind, settled on the shingles of the house. The woman monned and pressed the chill closer to her bosom. The man's

fner was drawn in agony.

The house was burning, the work of hls own hands. Flow many months of wenry sawing and splitting .had Its shingles and slabs cost him! Hle thought of it all as he stood there. helpless and half suffo- cated. In less than a minute the flames were shooting out of the doorways and windows, and n loud report was followed It by the fall of o side of the house. was the explosion of his powder Ansk. hung on the wall.

Through the open framework they could see the bed, the tables, the chalrs All'blazing one after noother. The spirit of the mau revolted.

"Look. Mary!" he cried. "There goes the cradle I made for the kids." And as he spoke the aspect of his face changed. The limit of his suffering had come, nnd. like an old time victim of the rack, he heen to laugh. A hollow langh. weird

"That's a-gond joke, Mary! The farce is endled-all over in one act! Ha, ha. ha!"

"You're mad. Abe," said his wife, shrinking from him with a great dread in her eyes. "Don't langh like that. It's horrible!"

"Mad, my dear! That's good. Ha, ba. ha! Say I've bern mad. the most con- founded lunatic in this blasted, blistering country! To slog and helt for ten long years to make a home of our own, to clear land, to fence it. drain it, plant it- and all to make five minutes' bonfire! Yes, I've been mad-stark, staring mad- but now-ha, ha, ha! [ was Dever 80 sensible in my life!

"See how the cradle burns, Mary. It

was a bit of she onk. and worked like a watch. Don't it look pretty now? They might be silk curtains, all those flounces round it! Why don't you laugh, girl? It's a great joke. Look! The roof is falling in! It's as good as fireworks. Hold up the kids; let them laugh. It's all the same price. Ha. ba. hn!"

But the womnn replied notbing, fright- ened. staring nt him. The children screamed.

The driving sheet of flame bad long gone by. Skirting the plowed ground where they stood, it had left the bare surfnce an nntouched blank in its ghost- ly funeral trail. Only tree stumps, posts and tollen branches smoked and smolder- ed here and there. The mon stood mo- tionless till morning. But the four cbar- red corner posts remnlned of hia bome. "Let's see the play out," he said. "Ha. ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!"

The group passed on to the road. where the red dust blew in thick, choking clouds that shronded them from view. But long after they bad disappeared there sound- ed the wail of the children, the moaning of the women and loud above all the mirthless laughter of a broken hearted toon .- Exchange.

The Diamonds

Uncle Meriwether never liked Eustnce. He never did hin justice from the begin- ning-und when he heard that I wos ac- tually engaged to him he spoke in such a way that I declared I wouldn't endure it

"I am old enough, I hope, to choose for myself," said I.

"I don't know about that, Patty," said my uncle, shrugging his shouldera. But I remained to henr no more. Bounced back into the house, slamming the door in Uncle Meriwether's honest, spectacled face, und bursting into tears ns soon ns I renched the sitting room. "It's a shame," said my sister Elspeth. "Don't cry, Patty; I'm sure the whole matter is transparent enough. Uncle

Meriwether wouldn't be so domineering about it if he did not want you to marry Paul."

"Į wouldn't marry Paul Meriwether if there wasn't auother man in the world!" said 1 viciously. "And I'll marry Eus. tuce Dalzell anyhow now. Uncle Meri- wether says we don't know anything about him, but I'm sure we know (hongh."

That was a false assertion on iny part. I only knew of my bundsome funce what' be himself had chuseu to tell me-namely, that he was u New York engineer, stay- ing down at Wraysheld a le4; weeks for his health. And his friend. Mr. Belfield, was a stockbroker-uh, how I wished Mr. Belfield might take a fancy to Els- beth! It would be so nice to be married! at the same time-to go together and live In New York!

We lived together in the lonely ohl brick house ou the edge of thr invar. su that I was very glad when Olive Outley came down from Rochester to visit ns und brought her wedding get of diamonds to show. .

Elspeth aud 1 looked with nwe nnd nd- miration at the sparkling gems-neck Ince, earrings and brooch. "Air they very valuable?" f asked

"ihrer "thousand dollars. | Indiefr." Buid Olive complacently. eil to llerbert's mother, and they att fr. be reset before I wear them."

But just then Elspeth gave u start and turned scarlet, und, following the ali :~ tion of her eye, 1 turbed and Inbebl Eus tace Dalzell standing smiling in the al war way, with his hnt in his handl

Somehow the diamonds made Ir perv ous, and ] could not belp in the praise of the evening contiding my vague terras te Eustace.

But Eustace laughed at tar ntul mad Ilght of my toni's.

Eustace Dalzell weut bomor rather t !.: " psual this night. In my |w:farbati :; ] bad almost resolved to ask Lim tu re main all night, a self constituted gnari Jan of our treasures, but I did not ven ture to do so. and so at 10 nºcbuk we three girls, with Dinah in the Litrhey were left to ourselves.

I had intemiled to lie awake all niet 1 but 1 must have fallen into a light doz- without being aware of it. for the who was striking 12 when 1 stortrd npt at t ... loud penl of the doorhell below. Oliv+ was at my side in an instant. Elspieth bad her arm around me, and pyru old Dinah hobbled in with a During lump io ber band.

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Franklin Sentinel newspaper, 1900, Part 253

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Number of Pages: 436

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Publication date: 1900
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Number of Pages: 436