Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 20, 1891, Page 15

~—present; mj THE OMAHA DAILY BEE EMBER 20, 1-SIXTEE PAGE A Sroup of the South <k ATTHECOURT OF A SOUTH SEA RING. ljlmrauvc of Life on the Gilbert Islands, an Out-of-the-Way Pacific. THE KING OF CANNIBAL ISLANDS ON A SPREE—CURIOUS SCENES / T COURT. By Robert Louis Stevenson. [Copyright 1891.] PART II1,, On the morrow of our arrival, Sunday, July 14, the photographers were early under way. Oncemore we traversed a silent t many were yet abed and asleep: some sat @rowsily in their open houses; thers was no sound of intercourse or business. In that hour before the shadows, the quarter of the pa.ace and canal seomed like a landing place in the “Arabian Nights' or from the classi poets: Lere were the fit destination of some “faery frigot:" here some adventurous prine might atep ashore among new characters and incidents; and the island prison, where it floated on the luminous face of the lagoon t have passed for the repository of the Grail. In such s scene and at such an hour, the impression reccived was not so much of foreign travel, rather of past ages; it seemed not 8o much degreos of latitude that we had crossed us centuries of time that we had reascended; leaving, by the same stens, hom aud v. A few children followed mostly nude, all silent; in the clear, weedy waters of the caoal, sowe silent damsels waded, baring their brown thighs;aad one of the moniaps before the palace gate w were attracted by-a low but g bum of speech The oval shed was full of men sitting cross- legged. The king was there in striped py- jamas, his rear protected by four guards with Winchesters, bis air and bearing marked by unwonted spirit and decision; tumblers and black bottles went the round: and the talk though not loud, was general and animated. 1 was inclined at first to view this scene with suspicion. But the hour appeared unsuitablc for a carouse; drink was besides forbidden equal! he law of the land and the canons of the church; and while I was yet hesitating the king’s rigorous attitude disposed of any last doubt. Wo had come thinking to photo- graph him surroundad by his guards, and at the first word of the design his piety revolted. We were reminded of the day—the Sabbath, S which thou shait take no photograph: and returned with a flea in our ear, bearing he rejected camora, At church, a little later, I was struck to find tho throne unoccupied. So nice a Sab- batarian iwight have found the means to be doubts revived, ana before I got home they were transformed to certainties. Tom, the barkeepar of the Sans Souci, was in conversation witn two emissaries from the court. Tho *keen,” they said, wanted *'din,” failing which, “perandi.” Nodin, was Tom'’s reply, and no perandi; but “‘peera,” if they pleased. It seems they had no use for peera and departed sorrowing. Everybody Drunk. ““Why, what is the meaning of all tais#’ I asked. ~ “Is the islaid on a spree?” Such was toe fact. Ou the 4th of July a feast had been made, and the king, at the suggestion of the whites, had raised tapu against liquor. There isa proverb about horses; it scarcely applies to the suverior animal, of whom it wav be rather said, tha any one can start him drinking: not an twonty can prevail on him to siop. The tapu, raised ten days before, was not yet re- imposed; for ten days the town had been passing the bottle or lying (as we had seen it in the afternoon before) in hoggish slecp; and the king, moved by the old men and his own appetites, continued to maintain tho liberty, to squander bis savings on liquor, and to join in_and lead the debauch, ‘Tho whites were the authors of this crisis; it was upon their own proposal that ' the freedom had been granted at the first, and for a while, in the interests of trade, 'thoy were doubtless pleased it should continue. That pleasure had now some time ceased; the bout had been prolouged (it was con- fessed) unduly, and it now began to be & uestion how 1t might conclude. - Hence 'om's refusal. Yet that refusal was avow- edly only for the moment and it was avow- edly unavailing; the king's foragers, denied by Tom at the Sans Souci.would be supplied at “The Land We Live In" by the gabbling Mr. Wiliiams, A Popular Razzle-Dazzle. The degree of tho peril was uot easy to measure at the time, and I am inclined to think now it was easy to exaggerate. Yet the conauct of drunkards evez at home is always a watter for anxiety; and at homo our populations aro not armed from tho highest to the lowest with revolvers and repeating rifles; neither do we go on o de- bauch by the whole townful--and I might rather say, by the whole polity—king, mag- 7" istrates, police and army joining in oné com- mon sceno of drunkenneéss. We were bore, besides, tn barbarous islands, rarely visited, lately and partly civilized. First and last, a really cousiderable number of whites have perished m the Gilberts, chiefly through their own misconduct, and tho natives have dis- played in at least one instauce a disposition 10 conceal un accident under a butchory, and loave notbiug but dumb bones. This last was the chiof consideration ngainst & sudden closing of the bars; the barkeepers stood in the immediate breach and deait direct with ~xumadien; too surly a refusal might at any moment precipitate a biow, and the blow might prove the signai for a inassacro. Mouday, 15th.—At the same hour we re- turaed to the same monian. Kuemmel (of all drinks) was served in tumblers; in the midst sat the crown prince, & fatted youth, sur- rounded by fresh’ bottles ana busily plying the corkscrew; and king, chiof and commons showed the loose mouth, the uncertain joints, nud the blurred and animated ove of the early drioker. Itwas plain we were imp tiently expected; the king retired with alac rity to_dress, the guards were dispatched after their uniforms and we were left to await the 153ue of these proparations with a sbedful of tipsy natives. The orgy had pro- ceeded further than on Sunday. The da; promised to bo of great heat; it was alr. sultry; the courtiers were already fuddled, nd still the kuemmol continued to go round aud the crown prince to play butler. Flem- ish_freedom followed upou Flemish excess; and & founy dog, a handsome fellow, gayly dressed and with a full turban of frizzed Dair, delighted the company with a humorous courtship of a lady in a manner not to be de- seribed. It was our diversion, in this time of waiting, 10 cbservo the gathering of tho guaras. Thoy have European arms, Euro- pean uniforms, and (to their sorrow) Furo- pean shoes. We saw one warrior (like Mars) in the article of veing armed; two wen and & stalwart woman were scarce strong enough t0 boot him; and, after a single appearauce ou parade, the army is crippled for a week. The Pageantry ot Makin. At last the gates under the opened: the army issued, one bebind anothor, with guns and epaulettes; the colors stooped under the gatewsy; majesty foilowea 1n bis uniform bedizened With gold iace; majesty’s wifo cawe next in & hat and feathers and au amplo traiued silk gown; the royal imps suc coeded ; Lhere stood the pageantry of Makin marshalled on its chosen theater. Dickens might have told how serious they were, how tipsy, how the king melted and streamed under his cocked hat, bow he took station by the greater of his cannon, austere, majestic, but not truly vertical; how tho troops hua: dled and Wwere struightened out and clubbed again, Bow they and their frelocks raked at various inclinations like the masts of ships, and how a Amateur photograpber reviewed, arrayed and djusted them to see bis dispositions change before he reached the camers. Tho business was funuy tosee: I do not kuow that it is graceful to laugh at; and our report of these transactions was received on Our returu with tho shaking of grave heads. 1t Looked Panicky. The day had begun ill; eleven bhours di dod us from sunset; and at any mowent, ou the most triling chance, the trouble might The Wightman compound was in a e untenable, commanded on sides by houses and thick bush; the town was computed to contaln over a thous- and stand of excellent new arms, and retreat to the ships, in the case of an aiarm, Was a re course not t0 be thought of. Our talk that morning must_ bave closely reproduced the talk in Enelish garrisons before the Sepoy mutiny; the sturdy doubt that any mischief was in prospe e sure belief that (should any come) thers was nothing left but to go under fighting, the half amused, haif anxious attitudo of mina in which we awaited de- Jopments The kemmol s returned before 0 ran out: we were scarce 10 king had followed us in quest of more, Mr. Corpse was now divested of his more awful attitude, the lawless bulk of i again enceased in _striped pyjamas: a guardsman bronght up the rear with his rifle at trail, and s majesty was further ac compan stongan whalerman and vith the turban of was __never @ more The whalerman tearfully tipsy r; tho king himself was cven sportive. Seated in a chair in tho s sittiug room, he bore the brunt of our aces unmoved; he was rated, plied with historic instances, threateued with men-of-war, ordered 10 restore the tapu on the spot—and nothing in the least affected him. It should be done tomorrow, he said; today it was beyond his power, today he durst not. “Is that royal!” cried 'indignant Mr. Rick. No. it was notroyal: had the king been of a royal character we shouid ourselvcs heid a different language; and royal or not, he had the best of the dispute. The terms, indeed, were hardly equal, for the king was tne only man who could restore the tapu, but the Ricks were not the only people who sola drink. Hehad but to hold his ground on thefirst questios, aud they were sure to weaken on the socond. A littie struggle they still made for the fashion’s sake, aud then our exceed- ingly tipsy deputation * departed, greatly re- ug, 8 case of brandy wheeling beside them 10 a barrow. The Rarotougan (whom I'bad never seen before) wrung me by the hand like a man bound on a far voyage. “My dear frien’ ! he cried; ‘‘good bye, my dear frien’ " tears of kuemmel standing in his s, The king lurched as he went,the cour- tier ambled—a_strange party of intoxicated cnildren to be entrusted with that barrow ful of maduess. lively wus Rick He Lost an Ear You could never say the town was quiet; all the morning there was a ferment in the air, an aimless iovement and congregation of natives in the street. But it was not be- fore haif-past | that a sudden bubbub of voices called us from tho house to find the whole white colony already gathered on_the spot as by concerted signal. The Sans Souci was overrun with rabble, the stair and veran- dah thronged. From all theso turoats an in- articulate babbling cry went up incessantly; it sounded like the bleating of young lambs, but angrier. In the road his royal highness (whom I had seen so lately in the part of butler) stood crying upon Tom: on the top step, tossed in the hurly burly, Tom was shouting to the prince. Yet awhile the pack swayed about tbe bar, vociferous. Then came a brutal impulse: the mob reeled; aua returned and was rejected: the stair vomited a stream of heads, and there shot into view, through the disbanding ranks, three men violently dragging in their mdst a fourth. By his hair aud his hands, his head forced as low as his knees, his face concealed, be was wrenched from the verandah and whisked along the road into the village, howling as he disappeared. Had his face been raised we should have seen it bloodied, and tne blood was not his own. The courtier with the tur- ban of frizzed hair haa paid the costs of this disturbance with the lower part of one eai So the brawl passed with no other casualty than might seem comic tothe inhumane, Yot we looked round on serious faces and—a fact that spoke volumes—Tom was putting up the shutters on the bar. Custom might go else- whither. Mr. Witliams might profit as he pleased, but Tom had enough of barkeeping for one day. Indeed the event had hungou w hair. A man had sought to draw a revolver —on what quarrel I could uever learn, and perhaps he himself could not have toid; one shot, when the room was so crowded, could scarce have failed to wake effect; where many were armed and all tipsy, it could scarce bave failed to draw others, aud the woman who spied the weapon and the man who seized it may very well have savea the white com- munity. A Female Scrap. The mob insens ibly melted from the scene, and for the rest of the day our neighborhooa was left in peace and a good aeal in solitude. But the tranquility was only local; din and perandi still flowed in other quarters, and we had one more sight of Gilbertisland violence. In the churen, where we had wandered pho- tographing. we were startled by a sudden piercing outcry. The scene looking forth from the doors of that great hall of shadows was unforgetable. The palms, the quaint and scattered houses, the flag of theisland scream- ing from its tall staff, glowed with intolerable sunshine. In the midst two women rolled flighting on the grass. The combatants wero the 1a0re easily casy to bo distinguished, be- cause the ono was strippea to tho ridiand the other wore a holoku of some lively color. The first was uppermost, hor teoth locked in her adversary’s face, shaking her like a dog, silently and savagely inflicting pain: the other impotently fought and scratched. So for & moment we saw them wailow and grup- plo thero like vermin; then the mob closed aud shut them in. A Moment's Reflection. It wus a serious question that night if we should sleep ashore. But we wers travelers, folk that had come far in quest of the ad- venturous; on the first sign of an adventuro it would have been a singular inconsistency to witharaw; and we sent on board instead for our revolvers. Mindful of Taanauku, Mr. Rick, Mr. Strong, Mr. Osborue and Mrs. evenson held an assaultof arms on the public bighwar, and fired at bottles, to the admiration of the natives. Captain Reid of the Equator staved on shore with us, to be at hand in case of trouble, and we retired to bed at the uccnstomed hour, agreeably ex- cited by the day's events. ‘The night was exquisite, the silence enchanting; yet as 1 lay 1o my hammock looking on tho strong moonshine and the quiescent palms, one ugly picture haunted mo of the two women, the naked and the clad, locked in that hostilo embrace. The harm done was probably not much, yet Icould have looked upou death and massacre with less rovoit. The return to these primmval weapous, tho vision of man’s beastliness, of man's ferality, shocked in me a deeper sense than that with which we count the cost of battles. There are ele- ments in our state ana history which it is a pleas'ire to forget, which it is perbaps the better wisdom uot to dwell on. Crime, pestilence and death are in the day's work: the iraagination readily accopts them. It in- stinetively rejects, on the contrary, whatever shall call up the imaze of our race upon its lowest terms,as tho partuer of beasts, beastly itself, dwelling pell mell and hugger mugger, hairy man with hairy woman in the caves of old. Ana yet, to be just to barbarous island- ors, we must not forget the slums and dens of our cities; 1 must not forgetthat I have passed dinoerward through Soho and seen that which cured me of my dinner. |70 BE CONTINVED. | - Velocity of Thunderstorms. The vate of travel of thunderstorms has been studied by Herr Schronorck from the record of 197 such storms in Russia in 1888, The velocity is found to have varied from thirteen to fifty milas an hour, with o mean of 286 miles an hour in the hot season and increasing to thirty-two miles an hour in the cold season. It was least in the early morn- ing, increasing to a maximum between 9 and 10 p. m. The storms traveled most quickly from southwest, west and north- west. THE COMING WOMAN, The Woman's Journal, What will the coming woman do To plague, perplex and interfere with ust Will she forvia the festivo chew And cuspidore for ages dear with ust Will she invade with uplifted nose, Ratreats whero fomale foot ne'er went till ate, Barroom cosey and courtroom close, And force reluctant men te ventilate!" Brother, and so I hear. “Will the dear haunts where manhood played At euchro bold and frisky seven-up— Haunts whero 50 oft our reason strayed— To conversation teas to give up! Must we, then, all go home to dinel Aud must a friend in soda pledge his mate? How shall the coming man get wine Atall, 1f she's allowed to [egislatat" Brother, the case looks queer. “Speak, O friend ! has the woman’s sphere, The coft soap rainbow sphers we kept her in, Burst aud vanisbed, and left her here With the world at large to wield her sceptre in? Ts she up to our little gamel And can she bind us, in reality, Down to the precepts, much too tame, We've preached to her for pure morality Brother, the worst I fear. “Friend of my youth, I can no more, ), iy with me this land iniquitous. v, for I see, from shore to shore "The enfeauchised fomaie rise ubiquitous. Partner in purse she'll claim to be, T.ogic of business she’ll outwit us in; Lost from life is the dead latca key, And lost from earth ths white male citi- zen." Brother, the end is near THEOSO, 7 The word ‘‘theosophy” has been seen of late so often in the press that not a few readers are asking what it means, and as to what it holds out any special doctrines, and wherein it differs from tho religious systems familiar to them. Is it supposed ty bea “‘revelation ! has it auy sanction other than the confidence of its adherents! has it been unknown to man Uil now! what greater in- ducements does it offer to reason and to hope than do the sects around! does 1t provose a new church—these and like questions como from the reading public in this most reading of lands Let us start with a few broad assertions as to what and whence theosophy is, and then state the reasons which to many minds sus- tain and vindicate them. Theosophy is neither a philosophy nora religion alone; rather is it the ultimate sci- ence of all being, underlying and explaining lifo in every one of its departments, thus giving the rationale of the physical universe and of man in bis relations to the Supreme. It becomes a philosophy when it treats of cosmogony and of terrestrial affars; it be- comes a “religion when it treats of duty, aspiration and endeavor. And its essential principle, that of which recent scieace bas perceived certain aspects, is and always has been evolution. Theosophy 1s not a novelty or an invention. The term, indeed, is Greek, ana heuce can- not ante'date the Greek language; but the system now connoted by that term is the old- est known to man, beld millions of years ago when the present misconceptions were un- born, the one, uniform truth which guided and cheered humanity as it passed through the evolutionary stages prior to that wherein wo see it. In that remote past, & past so re- wote that secular science flnds no trace of it and modern religions have neither tradition nor record, this original and universal science was the possession of men. Theosophy is not a ‘“revelation” as the word 15 understood; L e., it is nota disclosure of truth miraculously vouchsafed by Goa to man, and which man is therefore to accept as authoritative or be condemued for rebellion.”| 1t is, indeed. an unfolding of the interior facts of nature and destiny, put one which, however verifiable by oursclves and verified by others far greater, is still an appeal to reason and the moral sense, enforced by no menace and to be accepted only on conviction. Theosophy does not exhort to the abolition of religions and churches, still less to the abolition of religious instinct. On the con- trary, it exhorts to the abolition of every passion which holds the instinct in check; and it insists that the fundamental basis of all religions is the same, ouly surface errors misguiding their enerzy and paralyzing their usefulness. Hence it urges, not @ mero benevolent hope, such inquiry to eventuate in the recovery of primal truth, the repudia- tion of later mistake, the reunion of man on one common ground of universal fraternity aund good will. Theosopby is no opponent of sound learn- g, Far from it. It holds that ignorance is tne parent of every ill, and that propagation can oaly be checked by the parent’s destruc- tion through knowledge. So it favors tne widest, most unrestricted investigation, stim- ulating every effort after light and truth, as- suring that all the Higher Powers aro on the side of fearless, patient investigation. It will not be content with truth enly in physics and attained through physical senses: it insists that the whole realm of nature, seen and un- seen, is the true sphere for search, and that no partial or limited area can give other than partial and limited results. Henco it breaks down the bars of flesh and sense, impels to movement on every plane, tells of facilities by which each plane can be’ explored, shows how all plans are related and mutually ex- planatory. It has a place for every investi- kator, provided ouly that he willnot deny validity to other aroas than his own: just as ithasa place for every believer, proviaed only that he will not hold his beliefs as ex- clus! For It is a universal scionce as well as a universal religion. Of course these positions do antagonize it to much of the conventional belief of the day, whether in secular studies or in religious teaching. With its large survey of various distinct planes of existonce, & survey ac- quired and verified through countless ages of study and record, theosophy cannot possibly say to a science of yesterday that it has de- tected the secret 'of being, nor to a religion dating back a few centuries that it truly portrays the mind and will of an lnfinite Boing. "As well might the sago of 70 con: cede accuracy to the child of 10. If thecaild of 10 insisted that its attainments were al- ready greater, or that its perceptive power gave it superior assurance, or that it enjoyed an infallible disclosure from on high, the sage might refrain from contest, but he would hardly vacate his ground.' And 50 theosophy, ready and willing to impart its accumulation of fact to everyons desirous to receive, does not pretend to agreement with claims whicl: all considerations impugn and all examinations refute. Its totally different attitude from that of schools and churches must excite some marked hostility. In fact, oven the broadest thinkers may confess to a s tart when they encounter 8 theory of hife so coutrasted with that they have beeu accus- toried to since childhood. And yet on the cther hand, the certainty that conventional theories are now feit to be so_unsatisfactory, and that their explanations of and remedies for the evils of existence fall 5o utterly short of the requirements of the case, does excite suspicion that some radically dif ferent scheme may be the trus one. Slight moditication holds out no hope of true solu- tion. The more divergent from lines that have proved a failure, the more likely It is to lead 10 succoss. And so the very dissimi- lurity of theosophiy from the aoctrine custo- murily beld may, after all, prove its great comniengation to the thinker dissatisfied with existing systems. 1f it propounds a wholly different reason as to why we are Bere ana how, au utterly unlike explanation of evolution and progress and destiny and law, a thoroughly cbanged version of the evils of society, the suffering of individuals, aud the way o' reform, apother ideal and stimulas and hope and aspiration, he may on that very ground feel prepared to give it ex- amination. And this is exactly what theso- phby aoos. It says at the very outset that each man is reincarnated over and over again into earb-life, that he is repeatedly here as necessary steps in his evolviog nature, that the character of these incarnations is determined by his own conduct in then, that he and he alone fixes his own destiny under the divine law, that law is inflexible and uuevadeable, and that absolute justice rules aud sdministers his wholo carcer. Here, then, theosophy pro- pounds with his first utferance two doc- trines as its very essence—karma atd refucar- nation. That they are susceptible of proof it affirms; that no others explain the wys- teries of life it confidently asserts; that thuy may startle into iuvestigation 1t bopes; that investigation will conviace, its own experi- ences assures. Arsxaxosx FuLiEwtoy, Fellow Theosophical Societ Aryaa Braach, New Yore. BE ADVANCED OCT. 1 T0 PAR . $10 Second Semi-Annual Dividend of 20 Cents Per Share, Payable in October. STOCK DIRECTORS. GAN I ROOTS ASELUINE, Ci Tallapo: ' & Miners INTERNATIOA for the payment of the ¢ividend. Only 30,000 shares offered and when sold the stock will be entirely withdrawn fromsale, listed on the exchanges, The directors of the Georgia- Alabama Investment and Development Company hve decided to offerto th Hoo, JAS. W, HIY AT a SCoFIELD, ¥ £ C, N Y kivn ank of Now Castlo, of Ky TRUST COMPANY, TRANSF nn. —30,000 shares—until Oct. 1, at $4.00 per share. On that date the transfer books of the company will be closad for the payment of t to par. This stock ts fall p One million duliars Under the plan of the organiza o the eXtent of the amgunt rec Fhio entire propart ments n ¢ assots Tved. me from ot enrn gr: g Infiuence emigration to Tallap FIRST. £000 City Lots on organization of company ¢ w0, 81 SECOND. 2.4 acres of vaiuabla THIRD. The lssued capltal stock of the G company nearly §2,000,0) of the cavital stock FOURTI. The Tallapoosa Furnac chareosl car-wheel iron. Presnt value, §20,0. FIFTH. 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R. R. (estimated Earnings of stock of Georgla, Tennessee & Iilinols R. R. (estimated $155,403 yearly). THURSDAY, OCT. 1, IF NOT PREVIOUSLY TAKEN, 2 SHARES SHARES SHARES SHARE3 SHARES SHARES SHARES SHARES SHARES As but 30,000 shures remain unsold, and, when taken, the PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR PAR VALUE VALUE VALUE VALUE VALUE VALUE VALUE VALUE VALUE OR OR OR OR o2 or 820 50 100 200 300 600 OR 1000 OR 1500 OR 3000 pany for the davelo| sasary Stock of the ty fots 0 at onoe t v, but will increase rapidly (n market val residue remaining un At tm Fadius of six m npany, charterad for t Fallroad, tnthe elty of Tallapoosa, Ga. rallroad, in the city of Tallapooss, Ga., sald plant s, waterworks. e ., OF “ THE GEORGIA-ALABAMA INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. Capital Stock $4,500,000. Gen. BENJ. F, BUTLER of Massachusetts = Shares $10 Each, par value, full paid and Subject to No Assessments. President | Hon. JAMES W, HYATT, Late Treas of the U. 8. Treasurer ADVISORY BOARD. Hon Jxo. 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Bank Kearnoy, Nev, Hon, D, C. 8COVILLE of New York City, N. ¥ ER ANENTS, 45 MILK ST,, BOSTON, MASS. 30,000 Shares Only Now Offered to the Public, Until October 1, if Not Previously Taken at All stock purchased during the month of September will reccive the October dividend of $4 00 Per Share Transfer books close at midnight THURSDAY, Oct 1, and price advanced to par. > public the bilance of the stock of the company remaining unsold October dividend and the stock listed on the several exchanges and price advanced ant of Its propertios. and ths oahancom smpany are expanded at ones for lmpr. the dividend fand of the cympany. with the deve CONSI the sald furnace belng of 5) tons capac 8 12-pot furnaco capa £ Tallapoosa. Ga., manafs the com aring hamn ¥ 1 securing tao X, ro. Atio; rs of whom ars Northor hotel now bullding to open *the present population ¢ ctelc Tights o usos and n £ an1 nrotestior of the Intor 1 8ddition to the earnings of Its manufac pment of the company’s pr ty, manuf ty & sople, who Clty fr 4 0f the stoekh 1o b3 pr Jcrossing tiy 1og establishe hare upward. as it 1s desired to have as many small holders in allsections of the country as possible, who will, by thelr interest tn the o a8 originally bullt spments ndded Estimatod valuo 11 dov Stivenson, 12 miles Ala, that willnat the uring thehighost krada of eold and hot blast 4 manufacturiog Alntglass Aasks and proscrip- s property of ow mtinula tustrios and havo sottiod there withi hor. street rallway and 1 5,50 10 5,000, ot tuslng 4 ADVANTAGES OF THE STOCK AS AN INVESTMENT. PRINCIPAL a DIVIDENDS, to October. Slutel nclude ear PROBABILITY of a large increase In each seml-annual divl¢ CERTAINTY of a rapid Increase mon Total estimated yearly inc Total estimated yearly in; OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF STOCK STOCK STOCK STOCK STOCK STOCK STOCK STOCK STOCK nailed stock secure under any clreumstanc 23 and all recelpts fro Iy In the Intrinstc pany after construction of r. we of Company prior t construction of rallrond, &3 of 20 cents per in October to all holders of record Oct. 1; purchased will received the October dividend. eatire issue will havo been disposed of, applications for stock in September will be he property belng pald for In full sale of city lots, pald regularly April ay nd by increased carning salos. & prics of the stock itse 565500, 5.0 Check for the October dividend be stock- and all September share will in fllled in the order recsived u~t 1 Oct. 1, and all subscriptions in excess of this amount w il be returned to the subscribars. No orders will be received at the present price of 4.00 per share after 12 o'clock midnight Oct. 1, and all orders for steck should be mailed a3 soon as possible, and in no event later than several days prior to that dats to insure delivery at prasent price of 84.00 per share. Address orders for stock and prospectuses, and mak> checks, drafts or monsy orders payable to GEO. W. PECK, AGENT, SOUTE OFFICES. Building. PROVIDE house Butldings, Londor E OF| Eng Tallapgosa. Haralson County, Ga. 1C¥, room 1, Butler Exchange. 1033 N STREET, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. NEW YORK OFFICES. 11 Wall st., rooms 30 ana 32, CHICAGO OFFICE, room 313, Stock Exchange Bullding. BOSTON OFFICES, 244 Washington st. rod ns 8,9 and 10. BALTIMORE OFFICE, room 4, Bank of Baltimore Bullding. - GEORGIA-ALABAMA INVESTMENT & DEVELOPMENT (0., PIHILADELPHIA OFFICES, r 0 1 014 Drexe FOK ¥ OFFICES, No. 2, Token & Eighty-page lllustrated Prospactus of Tallapoosa, Stock Prospectus of Compary and Plat of City, with Price List of Building Lots, Minerc] Maps of the Section, Engincers' Reports, &c., mailed free on application to any of the above-named offices of the company. WHAT PRESENT STOCKHOLDERS SAY. H properties of the hereby testify: First, That we find each and-cvery state developments under ways;and property and pro fully verifled by investigation 01 the ground. and many nta the situation at Tallapoosa in every respect much more promising and far better than we had reason to expect from t:e dublications William H Greene, Phelp: Frank W Page. Roch: ¥ P Soverhill, Newark. L R Sanford. Alblor Fred H Lancaster, Jno Bowles, Washington. D C. Prof Charles B Gordon. Philadelphla, Pa. Charles Wright. Philadelphls, Ps. George L Hoxio, Ithaca, N ¥ Charles P Mays. Washington, D C. George F. Carter, Orange, N J. €6 Kanch, Levanon, I'n. Edst Proyidence. olan, Bayonne, N Hiram Buckingham, Baltimore, Boston, Mass. walk, Ct ow York, N Y. Frank Leonard, George H Morriso Harrisburg. Pa. Y ‘arland, Harrlsburg, Pa. own, Pa. € © Morrison, Philadolphia. TALLAPOOSA, Ga,. Ang, 22, 1891, We, the undersignad, stockholders of the Georgia- Alabama Investment and Development Company, being in the City of Tallapoosa for the purps Company, and the accuracy of the siatements made rezarding ther value and carning c:pacity, and the location, advantag e of Investigating the and development o? the city, nt made by the Company in their printed matter regarding the City of Tallapoosa, the munufacturing indusivies, building pects of the Company much within the facts as now existing. Second, That we find the actual ituation at Tallapoosa is much understated, rather than overstated by the Company, in every particular. all representations made heing dvantages of great imporfance not being mentioned either In their prospectus or other printed matter; in fact, weflnd atements made by the Company in their various 3 J Badgley. Quincy, Mic . Stophen L Solden, Db George S Bowen, RL A C Pryor, Petersbur, V. G F 8 Burion, Plattsmouth, Neb, FRED’K E. TURNER, General Western Agent, 167 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. MODERN MODES OF TRAVEL. Wherein We Differ from ths 8low Gaited- ness of Our Fathers, MARKED IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAIN SERVICE. Luxuries Enjoyed by the Traveler on the Railroads of the Country— Fanciful Names for Trains. It is doubtful if any form of human effort has witnessed so many and such marked im- provements as have occurred in the train service of this country during the last five vears, Tho aggrezation of enlarged dog kennels, whicn was at one time thought good enough for the needs of the ordinary passen- ger, has been relegated to a condition of ‘nnocuous desuetude,” and has been super- seded by traius which are, in every respect, worthy of those who are to occupy them. So far has this improvement gone that 1t is a safo assertion that mostof us, when travel- ing, are better fed, have fiuer—if less secure— sleeping quarters, and are generally botter looked after than when at our own home. It is noticeable, in this connection, that the phrase, “Enjoy all the comforts of home, which was 50 wout to figure in the advertis- ing matter of the rallwuy companies, tWo, throe or four years ago, has almost disap- peared. This change has not been brought about from any philanthropic motives on the part of the railroads. Noandeed! It is sim- ply another mstance of the laws governing supply and demand. 5 “proceed, however, the fact remains that the requirements w-the - fastidious American traveling publig, have been 50 gen- erally met, nay, auticipated—by the transpor- tation companies, and sd*many roads have put iato commission the vestibuling arrange- ment, the reclining cnair.car, the electric or gas system of lighting, the smokeless locomotive, and ~ such ;& variety of othor devices for tho..eonvenienca and safety of the traveler/ that tho array of trains, really first class in every par- ticular, is'a most formidabie one. In fact, to sucn an extea¥ has this spirit of advancemont been carried, khat the boast re- cently made that any evary-day American has at his disposal when Journeying, accom- modatious which no Euroggan monarch can command, i3 no idle one. When obe_considers thu¥ there are some- thing like 20,000 passenger trains daily traversing the bundred and thirty odd thousand miles of track in this country, it 1s not difficult to realize that the task of se lecting representative trains is not an easy one. To simplify matters it will perhaps be best to make three divisions, viz., (1) long distance trains, (2) short distance trains and (3) suburban trains “The reasou for the existence of superior train service is to be found in the «xistence of competition, Between Owltown aad Bungville, for instance, whose communica tion with the outer world is by means of the Grand Junction & Unrehable railroad, aad by it alone, there are no parlor cars, uo palaco sleepers. The lubabitants of those thriving municipalities are 1o great luck if the way-freight, which runs on alternate days, is anywhere within five hours of its “omeéial’ time. | But in the case of two great cities, whose interests are served (or subverted) by & dozes or more | trunk lines, it is as Bill Nye says, “a mule of another hue.” Tuie as an example. the trains engaged in the mantainance of communication between New York and Chicago and those between Chicago, Denver and the Pacitic coast. Of the former, _the ‘Pennsylvania limited, which leaves New York at [0 a. m., and _ar- rives in Chicago at 9:43 8. m. the following day, is without a peer outside of the United States, and it is almost 1mpossibla for one to imagine how the couveniences and comforts which present themselves at every tarn of the bead could be improved upon. In addi- tion to the vestibuling arrangement, the din- ing and sleeping cars, etc., which_are tho el- ements of every first class train there are tho smoking car with sofas and casy chairs the observation car, furnished with tables, books aud papers (and having in itsrear a_great broad piat- form, whence one may view in_comfort the everchanging scenes.) A barber shop, a bath room, card tables, libraries and writing desks are to be fouud. Each berth is furn- ished with a jot of incaudescent light, ad- justable to any desired position; stock quo- tatious are telegraphed thres times a day, and displaved with tho weather reports, on bulletin boards; there is u stenographer and and type writer to assist the hurriea man of affairs in is correspondence, and a _ladies’ maid to ronder help to all fomales in distress. The distance from New York to Chicago, 912 miles, is traversed in twenty-four and tbree-quarter hours—an average speed of about thirty-seven miles au hour. Nor is this the only train connecting these two cities which offer to the traveler the highest development of Tailway construction. There are at lcast six others which merit the title of being first-class. There is tho North Shore Limited, runuing over the tracks of the New York Central and Michigan Central railways, and tne famous New York and Chicago Limited vy the New York Central and the Lake Shore, both of which, on ac- count of the excellence of their appointments and their high rate of speed, made necessary by reason of their mileage being somewhat longer than their mor powerful claimants for i of the Norta Shore Limited is about thirty-nine miles an bonr, while the new York limited arags along at’ & fraction over forty miles an hour. The west compares not untavorably with the east in the complete- ness and speed of its through trains. The os the journey from , in thirty hours, an average rate of thir our miles an bour. The *'Overland Flyer” of the Union Paciflc is another excellent train, reaching San Fraocisco in less than seveaty-two hours aftor leaving Council Bluffs, 2,23 miles dis- tant. Both these trains aro finished in the samo complete manner which characterizes their castern connections, having libraries, buffats, vestibules, and every convenience to minister to one's comfort, The best short-distance trains are those between Now York and Hoston, and be- tweon New York, Philadelphia and Wash ivgton, The “Gilt Edgo Limitea" over the ow York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, uns 220 miles 1n six bours, and the ‘' gressional Special” of the' *Bound Brook” and “'Baltimore & Ohio attans a speed of over 45 miles au bour. Perbaps, bowever, the finest short-distance tri are thoso of 'the Old Colony railroad between Boston aod Fall River, a distaace of ho competition between the transportation companies for the Hoston New York business has resulted in the put tng on of & service between these poiuts which is nowhere surpassed. The arrangements for the comfort af passengers are wouoderfully complete, 1n. cluding even the conveyance through the cars of ice-water for the thirsty. The liues connecting Chicago and St. Louls also afford splendid service; o train between those two cities, conveys nightly two sleapers whose united value is not less than $30,000. In 50 far as suburban travel is concerned, the oast is far ahead of the west; the econ omio conditions of its cities are responsible different for such a state of affuirs, and the care and attention which have boen bestowed upon the beautifying of the towns coutigious to the larger centres of population thers, have worked wonders. New York, Boston and Philadelphia have hundreds of trains_en- gaged i suburban trafiic alone. In New York special cars are owned by the more wealthy residents of Orange, Morristown and other places, and in these moving palaces the \Wall street man, surrounded by his_circle of intimates, daily hieth him to his bullings and bearings. Bos- ton 1s not far behind; during the summer months. She bhas several trains composed entirely of parlor cars, the seats in which are engaged for the whole season. A poase of railway travel, which strikes the observant nowadays is that almost all the moro speedy and popular trains bear some fanciful cognomen. The day of “Atlantic Expresses.”” “Pacific Mails,” and *Trans- coutinental Through Trains'' is over. The titles are not sufficiently expressive: they do 1ot catch the eye nor rivet the attention. The gencral passenger ugent of a great railway system dubs his trains somewhat thuslv: “The Owl Train,” “The Cannonball,” “The Fiyer," “The Fast Flying Virgiian," “The Golden Gate Spocial,” *“The Monte- zuma Express,” “The White Train"' “The IKeystone Express,” “The Velvet Train,’ “The Clover Ls Ixpress,” “The Woite Mountain and Seaside Special,” aud a host of other names more or less applicablo, e HONEY FOR THE LADIES. The elongated basque bodice or coat is now modified to meet the requirements of skort women. Black lace over white lace is very beautiful in effect, especially in the evening, with dia moud ornaments. “Koulah serge is a new autumn dress fabric, and cedut green ana Roman blue are two popular dyes of the goods. The dear girls of Philadelphia are wearing the agate bracelets that huve herctofore been tho exclusive property of the Chinese laundrymen, Transparent stuffs for evening wear—lace net, chiffon, etc.—are often made bigh iu the neck, over & lace lining, and with unlined sleeves of the sheor stuff, Flower curtains are used for bridal pairs to 1 before whila receiving congratulations. oy aro of some dull neutral tint, upon whick tlowers are thickly strew He—"The artists say that five foet four inches is the divine belght of a woman.” His darlin crossly You know I am five fect eight uickly)—"*You are more than diviae, d . The long voll is an acospted fact. soft net, falling well below the chi ite viels aro ghastly, yet they a4 increase. The woman who dares u wears white figures on a biack ground. According 1o prosent appearances, shaggy wool fab e likely to be preferred before aced surface. I'he detached rns that wera pobular last year are generally repeated iu the vest and oth. decorati A new variety of autumn hat is called the Brighton; that with 8 cleft crown being so styled. In place of the fancy open-work straw of which the raodel was first made, the Brighton is now produced in a soft hairy felt like pressed camel’s hair. Blue English serge costumes, with coat and dark blue felt hat to mateh, will be fashion able during the entire autumn season Tweeds in brown and blue mixtures aro also popular. Golden browu crossed with red forms another pretty combination A charming eountry dress of white veiling {s made with s long loose coat, belted with & leather belt, to which baugs a small bag or aumoniere. The broad ers are faced back with maize-colored cloth and a bias band of maize around the skirt An excellont stuff for elderly women who In biack , it is not do not care to put much money in agown is 7in drab or gray, or coffes brown. and trimmed with a touch or two of black it makes a costume rich lookirg enough for tho dignity of aze, without tha expense that s0 often attends such garments. Whenever she suspects her husband has been inbibing too freely a woman up town makes him repeat the sentence: ‘‘She sells soa sholls.” He has nevor yat. been ablo o do it perfectly, but she gauges his sobriety or inebriety by the degree of succass which rewards his attempts, Unclo George—And so Miss Kulture, your intended, is highly educated! Henry—Yes; you should hear ner dilate upon the culinary customs of the ancients. Uucle Georgo—But does she know anything sbout cooking biscuit] Henry—It isn't likely! she hasa mind above modern vulgarities, I hopo. A dress “with suspenders” consists of a plain skirt of a light colored foul:r t beiga material, with sleeves to match. ‘The corsazo s of white silk, mado as a fuil biouse, with ornamental “bretelles” of dull gold pas e nenterie, with buckles and straps. 1hs skirt is fitted around the waist by a cucved belt of tho same cloth as the dress, Sho was taiking c ¥ to her bosom friend. “Do you know, Nell, now thatwe are married,’” she said, ‘‘John has stopped drinking enti I have not detected the odor of liquor avout him since before our wedding day.” *Was it difficalt for him to stop#"’ nguired_tha bosom fricad. “Ob, no, no; not atall. He just eats cloves. He says that is a certain ct Capes that need a iittle ronovat1ig m; smartened up by the addition of Medici collar continued 1n gradun ing stole b s to the edge of the fronts, A narrow plaiting of surah, folded douole, forms a pretty edge to the collar and fronts, 'his, of course, is only possible on plain cap with the fronts and backs falling direct from the collar; if thero is a voke the Medici collar with stole fronts will be inappropriate. Nearly all the new sailors arelow crowaed, not much over an inch in height. The lutest fad i3 to cover them with dotted foulard, usually or blue, with a bow on the side. The orim is lined with velvet of the same color. The fc d on the crown gives the idea of a silk handkerchief knotted e lessly around tho top. The prettiest perhaps is the one with gull or other wings in front, with a silver buckle and soveral stiff bows of velvet. 'he height of luxvry, though, is the morn ing gown of the softest silk in re ormly hues. It falls 1oso from the neck aud oper 8 all the way down. has a wide hem. no lining and is eith frilled or laco trimmed all across, Beauty slips into it after her bath for coffa her letters and probably a ci & You may buy oue for thirty odd dol you are nsimple soul in_vour taste. For anything handsome you will pay $100 to $400. erty way of arranging the halir is that of combing the front L (after wavin , OVera v T at e of tho head iples, are soft of hair thaty oal The rest > hair is combed up to the top of tho divided into four tions hich are plaited, then coiled or inte ~braid ca T n of the hea close to the soft roil of hair above the With the very close skirts that a vogue-—skirts that fit the form as closely as did the deserved cks of other day: pockets ars ethan ever and also undesiret that, being 30 strained around tho pocket-hola would certainly gaps wherever placed. To rowes his, the fashionable modis sends bome with each gown a substitute in the shapa f an “art” bag, daiotily made of the same y embroidered, nnd gathered up with fouble strings ng over the arw or tQ bo suspended from the waist.