DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1886.
Ideas Suggested by a Stroll Through
the City.
The Clever Fellow Who IHtl n Good Dn><l Once in
IIIn Lift—Fifty Pounds of Hoses to One Ounce
of Attur—Figures flint Give the mniensions of
Heaven—The Mmh Who Knows All About Mm-
hie.
'•This isn’t a world of angels, I know, hut it
isn’t the worst kind of people that its entirety,
either. I did a tolerably good thing once myself.
“You did!” said the astonished reporter.
“Fact. I was a young man and was clawing
around the outside edg s of politics, and knew
some people who had a knowledge of the inside
of the smaller politics. Among them was a man
who knew everything and owned nothing. I
happened to own $2500. The man know that a
■corporation would give $5000 for a certain lot, and
he knew that the man who owned it would sell it
for fhr less I was to furnish the money, buy the
lot, sell to the company and divide profits with
the man who knew things. I went to the owner
of the lot and asked him what he would take for
it. He had a red worsted mufflerrouifd his neck,
though it was early in the fall, and there was a
Are in the stove; also lie hacked and coughed
at every fifth word. He said he would take $2500
if he could get cash inside of a week. I said I
would give him just $2200 for it; though the hack
and the cough made me ashamed of
myself for jewing him down. He said that it was
worth more than $2500, but that he was obliged
to sell to pay a judgment against him. And he
hacked and coughed and said that $2500 would
just leave him $150 to go on till spring, and the
doctors had told him that he wopld not be able
to work before then. While he was hacking and
coughing a little blue-eyed three-year-old had
toddled into the room, and moreover, had caught
hold of my finger, and I felt like a pickpocket.
So I just blurted out, “Old fellow, that lot is
worth $5000 and I’ll be d—rowned in Gibson’s
brick yard if you shan't get it.”
“And you paid him that price, did you?” said
the newspaper man, brnsliing away a tear.
“I sold it for him and he gave me all sorts of
blessings, but the other fellow went on consid
erably about it.”
“His blessing did you good though?”
“Well, if it did, the charm worked very slowly.
The fact is my luck ran down at the heel for
quite a while. However, I guess it was all right.
1 am not suffering for want of anything.”
“Smell of that. It takes fifty thousand roses to
one ounce of attar and sells for $100 an once.”
That was what Bob Carsen, of the live drug
firm of Brannon & Carson, said to the reporter,
pushing a small bottle under his nose.
“Do you have much call for it ?” we asked.
“Oh, yes; but there is not a great deal of the
genuine article sold here; it is too expensive.
The genuine attar of roses, which is made in
India and Australia, costs $100 an ounce at the
places of distillation. It takes 50,000 roses to
make an ounce of attar. The roses which are
used are the common roses, of which variety
there are large fields in California, where the
distillation of attar could be made very profit
able. I have never been through that part of the
•country, but have been told hedgerows near
Sonoma, in that state, are so dense with these
roses that the odor from them caused a feeling
offhintress and oppression on the passer-by.
In India the roses are, however, regularly culti
vated. They are planted in rows in the fields
and are particularly hardy.”
“Do you know anything of the process used in
■distilling the attar 1 ?”
“The work is done by women and children,
•who regard it more as a pleasure. As soon as the
roses begin to bloom they are picked. The leaves
are then separated and distilled in twice their
■weight of water, which is afterwards drawn off
into open vessels. These stand over night, be
ing covered, to keep out dirt and insects, which
»re attracted by the odor of the roses. In the
morning the water is coated with a thin oily film.
This is the rare attar of rose. It is skimmed off
with a fine feather and put into vials, which are
hermetically sealed. So it may well be imagined
that any essence or oil that required the distill
ing of 50,000 roses to fill an ounce vial is worth
«very bit of the price asked for it.”
•“Did you ever read the 16th verse of the 21st
chapter of Revelations. No? well, read it and
you will get some interesting figures about the
world above the skies. It gives the dimensions
of heaven, and reads this way: ‘And he meas
ured the city with a reed, 12,000 furlongs. The
length and the breadth add the height of it are
equal.’ ”
“Have you ever made the calculation ?”
“Yes, here it is now;” and he handed the re
porter the following :
“Twelve thousand ftirlongs equal 7,920,000 feet,
which, being cubed, is 496,793,088,000,000,000,000
•cubic feet. Reserving one-half of this space for
the throne and court of heaven, and half the bal
ance for streets, we have the remainder 124,198,-
272.000. 000.000.000 cubic feet. Divide this by 4006,
the cubic feet in a room 16 feet square, and there
will be 30,321,843,750,000,000 rooms. Now. sup
pose the world always did and always will hold
290.000. 000 inhabitants and that a generation
lasts thirty-three and one-third years, making in
-all 2,070,000,000,000 inhabitants every century, and
that the world will stand 100,000,000 years, or 1000
• centuries, making in all 2,070,000,000,000 inhab
itants. Then suppose there were 100 worlds
equal to this in the number of the inhabitants
and duration of years, making a t otal of 2,979,-
000,000,000,000 persons, and there would be more
than a hundred rooms sixteen feet square for
each person.
What Elledge doesn’t know about marble is
not worth knowing. This the reporter found out
when he dropped in to see Mr. Elledge to get the
estimated cost of a marble house.
“ It is likely that you will have to get a slight
increase in salary before you build one, 1 said he,
“ though a house built of marble would be beau-
tiftil and just as desirable as stone.”
“Why are not houses bifilt of marble then ?”
“The reason colored marbles are not used for
building is simply because they cost too much.
Look at the wonderful beauty and polish of dif
ferent colored marbles in soda water fountains,
they are marvels of exquisite taste. These mar
bles, though, do not come lrom one quarry, but
from many throughout Europe, Africa and Amer
ica. It would require a very wealthy man to
erect a magnificent building of fine marbles se
lected throughout the world. The Deu\y
expense of shipping and paying duty
is one drawback. But the greatest reason, per
haps, is owing to the fact that a house built ol
fine white stone costs enough to get the stone on
the ground and put it up, without paying an
enormous additional price for fancy marble. To
use the fancy material is too much like a waste,
or a vain attempt to imitate the late mad king
of Bavaria.”
How many kinds of marble are there ?
“Now you count them. There is the Algerian
and Mexican onyx, translucent white, veined
with opaque white, yellow or pink; Bardiglio,
delicately veined gray; Sarragossa, shadec
cream white, veined with dark graj ,
Etrurian, pure porcelain white; Rouge antique,
deep red; Warwick, brilliant red, veined with
white; Gryottee of France, deep red, shaded
with red and brown; Violet brocatel,
purple, mottled and veined with golden
yellow; Grayotte fleure, purplish red, mot
tled with pearl white; Tennessee chocolate
tested with white; Sarrancolin, shaded pear
•tray, dashed with carnelian red; Belgian, vel- |
vety block; Lisbon, reddish; Genoa, green; Ital- j
• an, white, veined and clouded with bluish-gray: 1
•Sienna, golded yellow, clouded with white and i
veined with olive and brown; Aftica, yellow, yel- :
low, with purple veins; and brocatel, richly mot- '
tied, yellow, purple, brown, white and red. *
These are some of the most beautiftil marbles j
in the world What a palace of wonder nil these j
various colored marbles would make. It would i
rival Solomon’s temple, and bo a monument for j
untold ages yet to come. The Pantheon and the
Coliseum would sink into insignificance besides j
the lasting glory of such a structure.”
ALL Kill FIFTY (ENTS.
Liming for the Principal of the Thing Runs 11
l'|* to Two Hundred Hollars.
In former days in this country when planters
had much leisure time and when credit was easy
and money plentiful,it occasionally occurred that
long, tedious and expensive law suits would
spring out of slight diffeicnces in matters of
small value. Some of the hottest court house
contests hove been about matters which in them
selves were comparatively insignificant. The blood
of the litigants would be up and the spirit which
possessed them was like that which stired the
furious Macbeth when in rage he cried out, “Lay
on. McDuff.” The reports show that such cases
would sometimes be carried before the highest
judicial tribunals, and there be considered and
passed upon with as much gravity as though
thousands of dollars Were involved and the is
sues were of the gravest nature.
Of course, in the midst of these contests, mem
bers of tlie bar and bystanders who were cool and
calm, would look on the tremendous “tempest in
a tea-pot” with mingled feelings of wonder and
merriment.
The contestants themselves would fully realize
the folly of their legal luxury only when t he fray
was ended and bills of expense were to be footed
up. Then they would feel like one who had sud
denly been awakened out of n horrid nightmare.
The same man rarely ever has this kind of expe
rience twice in a life time, for one time will fill
the full measure of his legal combativeness.
One of these big little cases is now pending in
one of the circuit courts of Alabama. The princi
pal amount involved in the suit L one dollar and
seventy-five cents and the parties split on a
difference of fifty cents in settlement and that
split served as the casus belli. The case runs
about this way: A man brought suit in a justice
court in Alabama against a citizen of that state.
After suit was brought the matter was settled,
but the costs had not been provided for, where
upon the presiding justice issued nil execution
against the plaintiff for the costs, and caused the
same to be levied on a certain mule, the property
of the firm of which the plaintiff was a member.
Then the firm put in a claim for the mule
and a judgment rendered on the claim case,
muking the property subject to the cost of execu
tion; whereupon the claimant appealed to the
circuit court, and when the case was called in
that court it was stoutly argued pro and con and
the presiding judge, who is one of the best law
yers in East Alabama, took time to examine the
nice issues of law which had been raised in the
debate, and the affair now looks as though the
supreme court of Alabama will be called upon to
decide this dollar and seventy-five cents case,and
if so, the costs all around and attorneys’ fees will
spoil the face of two one-hundred dollar bills
mighty badly.
MOBILE ANI) GUI A Kl>.
The Committee Will Leave for Savannah Monday
to Lease It to the Central for Ninety-nine Years
—A Few Reflections Concerning the Lease.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Mobile and Girard railroad a resolution was
unanimously passed authorizing the directors to
lease the road for ninety-nine years to the Cen
tral Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia,
or to such persons as that company might con
sent to. The Enquirer-Sun gave all the facts at
the time and since has been wniting for action
by the board. At this stockholders’ meeting
there was appointed a committee of three, viz:
G. Gunby Jordan, chairman; A. Illges and Dr. J.
T. Warnock, who were to act with
the directory, and the lease, if it should be satis
factory to the committee, would then bind the
Mobile and Girard stockholders. The directors,
we learn, have not held their meeting early
owing to the absence of some of their body, and
they were anxious also to thoroughly acquaint
themselves with the whole financial ainl physical
history of their railroad. That meeting has been
now held, and at it resolutions were adopted
naming John Peabody, chairman; Dr. N. P.
Banks and C. H. Franklin as a committee to visit
Savannah representing the Mobile and Girard
directory to perfect the lease, if possible. They
also invite the shareholders’ committee named
above, of which Mr. Jordan is chairman, to ac
company them.
We learn this action being officially telegraphed
to the Central railroad directory, President
Raoul has named Tuesday next as the day for
the conference. The committees will leave Mon-
day, and we trust will be successful in making
terms alike satisfactory to the Central !and the
many needy shareholders of the Mobile and
Girard. The confi ling peopl j who years ago put
their money in this property had waited in vain
for any return upon it. It was
run down financially when the
Central railroad took charge of its operations
under a contract. It is now one of the best feeders
that system has; is in good condition and is
easily earning a surplus beyond its interest
charge. It was, therefore, thought a fitting time
by the stockholders to show their appreciation
of the Central’s management by offering unani
mously to lease to them. It would be a graceftil
and a wise thing, we believe, for the Central to
get it under some permanent arrangement. It
will prove more and more remunerative to them
and the lease will tie the people stronger to those
who befriend them. We have confidence in the
experience and sagacity of the six gentlemen
who go forward iu this matter and have no doubt
they will act safely and wisely in the matter. We
can but believe the Central will meet them in
that spirit which the Mobile and Girard share
holders have shown.
Heavy Competition, But the Shortest
One Takes the Cake.
The IV<’4 tlicr DisciisMOfI by .ficti W ho Had Been
Thi>ri‘—Two Horse Brovers from Texas amt a
Stemiilioiit Captain Gel Left by a Peddler,
Scenes in a (oluiiihin. Restaurant.
SEALE SALAIL
Hie (■nn Club Still Happy—Fe
mil Note
Special to Enquirer-Sun.
Seale, Ala., August 28.—Everything has been
quiet and dull here since the barbecue and shoot
ing match on Thursday. Our club is happy over
the result, as they have beaten every club they
have shot against yet.
Mrs. G. H. Waddell, of Columbus, is spending
some time here.
Mrs. J. P. Fuller, of Girard, who has been vis
iting her parents at Villula, returned home this
morning.
Mr. Will Smith, of Atlanta, is visiting his
brother here.
The Ciceronians had their regular weekly de
bate last night. Question: “Is the slanderer a
more pernicious person than the flatterer?” De
cided in favor of the affirmative,
A party of hunters are out this morning chas
ing fox. They always catch ’em.
Masters Eugene and John Lewis, of Atlanta,
are visiting here.
Miss Gough Bastin, of Birmingham, who has
been visiting here, will return home to-morrow.
Y. M. C. A.
The special meetings being held by the Young
Men’s Christian Association will be continued
through next week. Everybody, and especially
the membership, are requested to attend.
The regular meeting will be held at the hall
this afternoon at 4 o’clock; everybody invited.
Last night four men sut around a table in a
Broad street restaurant. Two of them were
Texas horse traders en route back homo from
Florida, one was a steamboat captain and the
fourth man was a reformed peddler, olio of that
class who get rich and then reform. The entire
quartette were past the meridian of life, and two
of them—the steamboat captain and the re
pentant peddler had passed many annual mile
posts on the downward declivity. They were all
stout men, and they possessed the stoutness that
is brawny instead of obese. But aged ns they
were, it was easy to see that under their four
white boards there were more hot
blood and vitality than in thrice
the sumo number of dissipated
and devitalized dndclings, who might have every
advantage of these men in the mere matter of
years. It was evident from garbled .-ections of
their conversation that these men had seen the
elephant in several senses of the word. They
had climbed mountains, crossed continents, and,
taking their ship prows for spoons, had skimmed
the oceans like so many bowls ol‘milk. Take the
best man who bus been further from home than
his neighbors, and the old Adam, or the old Eve,
in him will prompt him to impose on their ere.
dulity. You could see that those four ven
erable microscopic magnifiers of the
truth, had been stuffing their yarns
down their respective communities for years. But
now they had met in solemn conclave, and just
as the absence of heat implies cold, so their pres
ence implied a lying match. “Truth is mighty
and will prevail,” but these four tongue-tuned
grand fathers got the underhold on her last
night. It was interesting- It was exciting to sit
in the gallery, as it were, and wVch the dust fly
on the stage. The steamboat captain kept one
big eye shut all the time, and the other eye was a
perfect picture of a red, morocco-lined purse with
a glass marble in it. At last he half closed eye
number two and raised his voice. Here’s what
we heard :
“You all don’t know nothin* ’bout a big freshet.
1 never *tell a man what I’ve heard, because
some man might tell me a lie and I’d be helpin’
fo spread it. I tell about what J’ve seen, am! 1
calc’late if a man ’sputes it, he wants to insult
me. I have lived in Brazil, in South ’Mericy,
and it’s the worst place for drouths I ever saw.
I have known it to go eight months without
rainin’, and red liquor and water was selling at
the same price in every barroom.”
“Where is that ?” “How far from here is it?”
“What county is that in?” broke in a half dozen
men in a chorus, who had not been paying atten
tion to the story and whose ears had caught the
last clause.
“That was in Brazil, but ’taint so no more
now,” replied the captain. “You wait a minute
and you’ll find out if water is scarce as red liquor
there. At the end of that long drouth tliar come
a cloud in the sky no bigger than a woman’s
hand—the smallest cloud on record. In forty
minutes after the ffoud rose I was summoned on
a jury to sit on ten corpses, men who had been
beat to death with rain drops—not hail-raifii
drops. And after bringing in a verdict of ‘deatli
from taking a droptoomuch,’ the jury adjourned.
I went to the hotel, where I roomed in the sev
enth story. All the evening I sat in my rooifij
104 feet from the ground, aipl caught fish.”
“Did you throw your line and hook into the
street?” said a by-stander.
“Hook any live sheol!” said the captain; “I
caught them fish with my hands, without rolling
up a sleeve or wettin’ a cuff.”
Here the barkeeper whistled, and several men
smiled. The captain glared around and put his
hand on his hip-pocket. The barkeeper hastily
explained that he was calling his dog from the
street. The captain had to accept the explana
tion, but the circumstance threw a damper on
his yarn-spinning. He seemed hacked. But he
closed with these remarks: “That weren’t the
h ardest rain I ever saw. I’ve seen it rain in
Missouri till water run up hill in every
direction to get out of the way
of the water coming down; and I kin prove
by four witnesses that durin’ of the war betwixt
the states, one night in a little town in Virginia
it rained down the chimney of a three-story
house faster than it could run out of every door
and window in it. The water from the inside
that had come down the chimney actually
bursted off the weather-boardin’, and the next
morning there was nothing standing but the
chimney and the frame of the house. That
same night, in the same yard, I heard that it
rained in the bunghole of a barrel faster than
it could run out at both ends, with the head
knocked out, too. But I didn’t see it and I
wouldn’t tell it ’less I knew it was so.”
Here the biggest of the two horse drovers who
had been chewing a section of “nayy-plug”
nervously during the whole recital of the steam-
boatman’s experience, broke out with this:
“Cap’n, you wouldn’t to have believed that if
you hadn’t seen it, would you ?”
“ No,” replied the captain.
“ Well,” said the drover, “how do you expect
us to believe it when we weren’t there.”
The captain said he didn’t care whether they
believed him or not, and the drover continued,
“ I’ve never seen no rain—none worth speakin’
of, but I’ve seen and felt cold weather in my day.
Yes, I hev. I’ve been in northers and blizzards
in Texas. But I don’t count them. They will
freeze a man to his horse with the perspirati n
that has just collected between ’em a few hours
! before, and then they’ll freeze the horse to the
i ground, and finally both horse and man to death.
; But I don’t count that cold. I’ve been further
I and seen more.”
“Tell us about it,” said the crowd, as one man.
j The old captain hud up to the time he closed,
j created the awe-inspiring impression on the
! crowd that he was the blue-ribbon, belt-wearing
i liar of Columbus, and the state of Georgia. But
j the drover appeared to be gaining on him, and
the crowd was getting interested in the race.
I “Tell us about, it." they repeated,
i ‘Well,” said the drover, removing
i his quid, which looked like a
! wet bundle of fodder taken through
j the teeth of a horse rack after a rain, “well, I
! will. It was in Colorado in 1879. Gentlemen, the
I man that doubts this incident only displays his
j ignorance of science. You know it is a scientific
truth that heat expands and cold contracts. Well,
j in the winter of’79 T was living on the B. and W.
railroad in Colorado just halfway between the
two termini, the road being 147 miles long. One
j night there came a freeze. Before sunset i saw a
I big lake freeze up and float away in a cloud of
dust. But kdidp’t know it was going to be as cold
as it was. The next morning
when I woke up I saw a sight I know no mortal
ever saw before. The cold had drawn up the two
ends of that railroad until they met in front of
my house, forming a perfect hoop, exactly 117
miles in circumference. The two rails had
brought the ties up with them, and if the whole
thing had had a few gold touches on it, I would
have thought it was ‘Jacob’s ladder’ I’ve heard
my wife read about in the ‘Unyversalist ’Cyclo
pedia’ or in ‘Grier’s Almanac,’ I forgit which.’
“Well, that was what I call cold concentrated,
intensified and contracted,” said the other Texas
horse drover, “but I hev seen it colder.”
There was a risible stir among the twenty-
three men in the restaurant at this announce
ment. They clustered around the mendacious
quartette like filings around a magnet. And two
sets of billiard players laid down their cues and
chalk in the middle of u game, and joined the
group with bated breath. Most of the breaths
were baited with Llmberger cheese and whiskey,
and were not calculated to catch anything much
but a hiccough.
“Yes,” said the second drovor, “I hev seen
colder weather ’an what that was, even.
1 was secretary of a seal ilshin’ com
pany in the territory of Alaska in
the year’72. One night thercum a friz up. 1 could
hear water freezin’ more’ll a mile away. A yoke
of oxen friz in my lot about sundown and yon
could have hearn the report five miles square
when it froze the horns offen ’em. Them was
squally times as I sot there shiverin’and thankin’
Providence that 1 was born a butt-head. But the
next inornin’ I sot out to see
a neighbor of mine that I owed four
hundred and eighty dollars to. I was
gwine over to pay him. Gentlemen, when I got
thur the cold had contracted that debt down till
1 paid it to the satisfaction of both parties with a
punched nickel and a postage stamp. 1 hope 1
may die ef I didn’t.”
Three of the four had now been heard from.
The reformed peddler alone had not addressed
the meeting; every eye centered on him. “Poys,”
said ho nfter a long silence, “vat kin I haf ter say?
I voot like to berticipate eon dor pliestivlties of
der kashun, recardless of gonsequences. But 1
gannot. I nefer dold a lie cen my life, zo hcllup
me.
“Give him the cake! Give him the cake!”
cried every man at once. He took it in spite of
his terrible competition. You can bet on a ped
dler every day in the week—but that depends on
what you bet on him for.
CENTRAL NOT SCOOPED.
Till* Columbus iiml Western to Be Extended to
Biriiiingliiiiii Any Wily—The Market Not Aft
■ lecled h\ (lie Humored Big Beal.
It appears that the railroad “scooping” busi
ness lias had its day. The papers that were
making such a parade about the Louisville and
Nashville scoop of the Central have not found
out there is no truth in it, but they have heard
enough to keep very quiet on the subject. That
Birmingham special man has gone so far as to ad
init that the Columbus and Western mad will bj
built to Birmingham any how. In a special to
the Montgomery Advertiser, he says :
“According to information received here to
day the Louisville and Nashville management
has quit denying the Georgia Central scoop but
gives it out that the Goodwater road is to be
built into Birmingham all the same. It is cer
tain, though, that the scoop is serving as a basis
for new schemes for a line from bore to .Savan
nah. A Birmingham capitalist was told by a
high authority on one side of the project a few
days ago that the Savannah, Dublin and Bir
mingham people hope to combine with the Ciy
company. That they mean to build their road
one way or another is additional information
from the same quarter.”
The Savannah News says there was no change
in Central stock yesterday. The market was the
same as it was the day before. The talk about
the Louisville and Nashville having purchased a
controlling interest in the road did not affect th j
market in any way.
The rumor that the Central has been or is
about to he “scooped” by any rival syndicate
is not credited by any one in Savannah.
The Louisville and Nashville is certainly
not in a position to want it. The principal busi
ness of that road is north and south. It is
claimed that in view of the western connection
which the Central is about to obtain at Birming
ham, and which it is claimed would very serious
ly affect the Louisville and Nashville by giving
the Central a through line to Memphis and the
west from all points in the south where the
Louisville and Nashville now reaches, that the
Louisville and Nashville is anxious to get con
trol of the Central.
A gentleman who is well posted in railroad af
fairs said to the News that there is no ground for
any such claim. The competing line from Mem
phis and the points west to such a connection as
the Central will have at Birmingham is the Mem
phis and Charleston road, and that is controlled
by the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia; so
there can be nothing in the claim thut the Louis
ville and Nashville is after the Central to save its
western business.
It is not at all probable, the gentleman stated,
that the state will ever let the Wt stern and At
lantic get out of its hands, and the Louisville
and Nashville people certainly have no show of
getting hold of that road. It is claimed by those
who profess to believe that a deal is on foot that,
looking to the re-lease of the Western and At
lantic at the expiration of the present lease, the
Louisville and Nashville is unwilling to run the
risk of failing to make satisfactory traffic arrange
ments with the new lessees, and that it is neces
sary, therefore, to make some other arrange
ment. The most feasible plan was to obtain con
trol of the Central, so that by the lines leased by
that road, the Louisville and Nashville could
reach Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Fort Royal
and Charleston. The Central controls the Atlanta
and West Point and the Western railway of
Alabama. At Montgomery, therefore, the Louis-
ville and Nashville would have easy connection
with the entire Central system. There is no
credence attached to any of these tumors, and
the idea that the Louisville and Nashville is try
ing in any way to get hold of the road is scouted
on aJJ sides.
Baptizing this Afternoon.
There will be baptizing at four o’clock this after
noon, at the Columbus and Western railroad
bridge. Rev. J. W. Howard, pastor of the Second
Baptist church, will officiate.
True IhtppinoM*.
The good wife hustled about the house,
Her face still bright with a pleasant smile,
As broken snatches of happy song
Strengthened her hand and heart the while.
The good man sat in the chimney nook,
His little clay pipe within bis lips,
And all he’d made und all he’d lost,
Ready and clear on his finger tips.
“Good wife, I’ve just been thinking a bit,
Nothing has done very well this year;
Money is bound to be hard to get—
Everything’s bound to be very dear;
How the cattle are going to be fed,
How we’re to keep the boys at school,
is a kind of debit and credit sum
I can’t make balance by my rule.”
PROSPERITY’
Summary of the Week's News in Browne-
ville and Girard.
The Educational Outlook in Browneville— im
provements Non in Contemplation—lluppy Mar
riage ami Sail Dentil—New* Notes ami Per
sonal Gossip.
Wc suppose it is generally known that Browne-
ville has a public school board constituted by the
legislature of Alabama. The bill confers powers
similar to those of the Peabody school district of
Girard,except in the particular of raising {reven-
urs. The schools were organized last year and
run about six months. It is the desire of the
board to do even better next year, and to this
end, we are informed, an application lias or will
be made to the state superintendent for an ap
propriation from the Peabody fttnd. We have
always argued that if any places in the south
were entitled to become beneficiaries of that
fund it is such places as Browneville and Girard,
where are to he found hundreds of children of
the poor laboring classes who never can be edu
cated except through a public school system.
There are in the places named at least one
thousand' children who sadly need the benefits
of all available funds, whether public or private.
We are satisfied that no brighter or healthier set
of youngsters are to be found in Alabama. They
must be educated to become useftil and honor
able, and to be educated most of them must
knock at the doors of the public schools. These
schools ought to be run nine nuv.ths, and no
doubt can be with a liberal appropriation from
the Peabody fund. We hope the state superin
tendent, through whom such funds are distribu
ted, will incline his ear to the application and
grant the request. Educate the children and
there will be better citizens und fewer convict!.
Improvement*.
Mr. James Summersgill has recently built an
extension to the Jackson street sewer, with a
view to improving the value of his property in
that vicinity and the erection of a new brick
store, for which a cellar is now being dug. Jeems
is a live and energetic citizen. 11 is friends are
glad he didn’t buyout New York, hut concluded
to invest his surplus revenues in Browneville and
Girard dirt. With a few more such enterprising
citizens, Browneville would soon Ik* able to get
up a boom.
Prohibition Still Allnul.
The public debate between the mugwump of
the valley und Webibot of Went End, came off
Wednesday night, according to announcement.
A large crowd assembled to hear the argu
ments. A decision was rendered by u board of
arbitration in favor of the arguments on the
prohibition side. “Get out of the way, ye whisky
s dler.”
Worse Than Snakes!
There is an individual in Lively or thereabouts
who went to the train the other day to witness
the departure of a lady friend to north Alabama.
He says when the train came in there was a
calf on the cowcatcher, which jumped off and
mn away as soon as the train stopped. Our
informant doesn’t know where the man got his
i whisky. ,
Death of ii Good Hoy.
Daniel, a 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Copeland, died Friday night last, after a decline
of about two years. Dan was a good boy, and a
favorite with all who knew him. He bore his
1 ong suffering with Christian fortitude, and now
sleeps the sweet sleep of the just. His parents
and friends have the sympathy of the community
in this their bitter bereavement. The ftineral
will take place from the family residence this
morning at 8:30 o’clock.
Browneville Briefs.
Miss Susie Beland is still very sick.
Mr. James Newsoms and Miss Mary McAllister
were married Thursday night. Rev. J. W. How
ard officiated.
Protracted religious services have been held
nightly during the week, at the Baptist church,
conducted by Rev. Messrs. Wilson und Wood. A
good work lias been done. Services to-day and
at night by the pastor.
Miss Nora Floyd will return this week, and re
sume her school next week.
Miss Sarah MdCollister bus returned from a
long and pleasant visit to Atlanta.
Messrs. C. H. und S. W. Buchanan have re
turned from a delightful sojourn in north Ala
bama.
Brother Cummings lias gone on a visit to his
parents at Louisville, Barbour coin ty, Ala.
Misses Genie Burma and Bennie Miller have
returned from a pleasant visit to Talbot county,
Ga.
Mr. Joe Youngblood and lady have gone on a
i visit to Meriwet her county, Ga.
j W. H. Crawford, operator at Reynolds, Ga., is
visiting his father in Browneville.
Miss Maggie Blood worth bus returned toiler
school at Alexander City.
For Sale.
My interest in the Alabama Free Press. Apply
to M. T. Lynn.
Lively, Ala.
Shoes ami Hits.
Mr. John Albright has added to the shoe busi
ness a good line of hats, which he can afford to
sell cheap. Jf you want bargains call on John in
McCollister’s brick building.
GIHAHD NEWS.
The Situation Brightening ami the People Hope
ful—Festival News—Soeial Gossip ami Minor
Topics.
Our reporter has but little to notice in the line
of startling or changeful. The old town remains
quiet and healthful, and order and law are iu
the ascendant. It is reported that some changes
will occur among business men in a short time,
but of these it will be time enough to speak
when they do occur. Just now there is not much
of a boom in anything except in the ranks of the
lazy club, which is adding to its numbers daily.
The members deeply regret not having a dollar
to “fill up” at the Scale barbecue.
The Church Festival
Came off on Thursday night as per announce
ment, at the residence of Mr. Pierce Coulter. A
large crowd was present and young and old had
a pleasant time. A ruin about 10 o’clock dis
persed the crowd. About $30 was realized by the
festival.
CANNOT BE ARGUED DOWN.
Low Prices
Are lilting our business mountainward.
White Goods
Summer Dress Goods
In All Fabrics.
Our Summer Goods must
lx* sold, as our Fall Goods are
daily arriving. When our
Fall Stork is complete we will
show the people of Columbus
the handsomest line of
Dress Goods
And Trimmings to mat( 4 h that
have ever been exhibited in
lids city. We are just re
ceiving a beautiful line of
Lace. Turkey and Madras Cur
tains, Upholstery Goods, Lam
brequins, Table Scarfs, Man
tel Boards; beautiful line of
Poles for Curtains, Window
Shades in all sizes and colors,
Fringes in the latest effects.
A full line of Zephyrs and all
articles belonging to a first-
class Art and Embroidery De
partment will be kept by us in
the future, and our prices, as
usual. Ihe lowest.
All orders from out-of-town customers
exceeding £5 00 will be sent, express pre-.
paid.
Sternbefg&Loewenherz
LEADERS OF
Low Prices.
Sweeping Reductions
IN THE PRICES OF
u
ii In.
j .She turned her round from the baking bread,
And she faced him with a chei rl'iil laugh:
j “Whv husband, dear, one would think
That the good rich wheat was only chaff .
: And what if the wheat was only chair,
j As long as we both are well and strong?
1 Pin not a woman to worry a bit,
| Somehow or other we get along.
i “In some lives some rain must fall,
Over all lands the storm must beat,
j But when the rain and storm are o’er
i The after sunshine is twice ;ih sweet.
Through every strait we have found a road,
In every grief we’ve found u song;
We’ve had to bear ami had to wait,
But somehow or other we get along.
“For thirty years we have loved each other,
Stood by each other whatever befel,
Six boys have called us father and mother,
And all of them living and doing well.
We owe no man a penny, my dear.
We’re both of us living, well and strong;
Good man, I wish you would smoke again,
And think how well we’ve got along.”
He filled his pipe with a pleasant lau^h;
He kissed his wife with a tender pnde.
He said: “I’ll do as you tell me, love;
I'll just count up on the other side.”
She left him then with his better thought,
And lifted her work with a low, sweet soug-
A song that followed me many a year,
Somehow or other we get along.
Hrlell
The Templars cleared $11 by their cake cutting.
The lazy club kicks against the club in Colum
bus infringing upon their rights.
Miss Laura Driggers, who inis been very low,
is recovering her health.
A nut lor the young folks Who pays for that
bedstead ?
An infant of Jack Guldens and wife died
Wednesday.
Miss Moflie Lewis, who has been the guest of
Mis: Mollfc Roberts for some weeks, has re
turned i > her home in Kufaula. They say the
Soutli-b.de clothing dummy is in deep grief at
her depai
ILL
GOODS
At BOUGHTON & CO'S.
WE WANT to entirely close out our stock of
Spring and Summer Goods, and we realize that
we have but about four weeks to do it in.
We had much rather sacrifice now tluin carrv
our goods over, consequently we offer our stock
ol Flowers, light colored Hals and Bonnets und
Summer Materials of all kinds for the remainder
>fthe season at prices way below their actual
vain
1 want to be obliged to
\s goods. Now is surely
miner Hat.
suit ft
s hone
•d the influence of
There can no damage
pastors of llie churches
of the school board. Wc
the good in all our undertakings.
Subscribers still complain of newspaper bor
rowers. It is as little as borrowers can do to
allow those who pay for pa tiers to read them
first.
intut
TO IlE, (
MID, AU
Our stock is new and all of the best quality.
Give us a cull. Prescriptions promptly filled. No
charge for examining and prescribing at the
drugstore.
Dk. Howard & Taft.
Dr. Howard has resumed the practice of medi
cine. Give him a trial.
well! well!! well!!!
The Early White Flat Dutch Turnip does well
in these diggings, grows well, sells well, pays
well, cooks well, tastes well. Well, it never
sours on your stomach. Ruta Bega and fresh
Turnip Seeds of all sorts at the “Lively Drug
Store,” Lively, Ala. Costs you only half the price
charged in Columbus; hut this is nothing un
usual with Dr. McCutheon, because he sells
everything else in the drug line just that way.
Entrance through Hill &
Law’s Store.
An Infallible Remedy
FOR FLOODING.
T?ASY to obtain and costs nothing, Succeeds
* ^ where the skill of the best physicians fails.
To any one remitting me one dollar 1 will send
recipe, and will refund the money if satisfaction
is not obtained.
I will state that before I used this remedy l
paid heavy doctor bills every year, but now I d<*,
not have to pay any.
HOLLIS BELK,
agu29 selm Buena Vista, Ga^
