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R. T. CORBETT 5
elusive Carpet :: House,
Carpets, Mattings, Draperies,
--—^ Shades, Curtains. ; I
KINDS OF Keely Co’s Store, UPHOLSTERING
i.-ETS, IN
pTINGS, IE CURTAINS, ALL ITS BRANCHES
[tiers, Whitehall and Hunter Streets. A Ffi N DED TO
WI PH NSATNESS
IDOW js SHADES Atlaiit-i, At D DISPATCH.
MATS. Hu.
[OLSTKRY ALL KTNDS OF
GOODS AWNI IGS MADE
IQUITO NETS. AMD PUT UP.
Yes. J Sir
Do you want some nice candy ?
‘ S. I). Lee, the live
so, go to
*ocer. lie also has the linest
a in the nra 1 ker. call and get
sample package, It is simply
dicious. \lso the best flavor
ig extracts, ground ginger, which cin
lamon, spice, and cloves
ie is selling VERY UHBAf, and
verything else in proportion. gallon.
Good syrup only 25c. a
S. D. LEE.
THE WILLIAMS HOUSE,
1 looms to 05 per "Week, Loclgjimr, 50c.
ES'V JEZjFLY' riSXISrGr 1NJHSW.
entral ?nd best view Public Thoroughfare, Step on street
cars to any part of the city, parks and resorts.
lext 13loek to Kimball House
and TTnion Fassen^er TV pot,
No. 8 1-2 Marietta Street, ATLANTA, G&
25 Cents
Will pay for the ....
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COVINGTON STAR
POUR MONTHS.
Covington, Oeoi ■gia, Ju
[Written for the f'ovii 'yton Star.]
Little Xenia’s Dream
l ittle Xenia had been invited by h
Of her school friends t ree
"ay ; as they passed that
For tt ’ w er. ^omg to the river, and
tea, take
And play in the branches and meadows
day. all
Some accident might occur, htr’mother be
And litved,
would not permit little Xenia t o
Site was disappointed, and go ;
the fields, wandered into
W hich are now in beauty all
ag ow.
Very disconsolate she was, .when of her
friends she thought,
Now "non the river and’at the foot of the
hill;
Golden uuttercups, and fragrant clover,
they brought
Home with them as they passed the mill.
Engaged in deep thought, with tears r. her
eyes,
She Seated herself at the root of a large tree;
Uie fields were pleasant, and bright
the skies. were
And the beautiful birds she could see.
Nothing broke the stillness save the hum ot
the h es,
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flowers'- -U-rf.f
And the singing of the birds in the shady
trees,
Brought happiness to Little Xenia for hours.
She had not been seated long before she
heard,
A blackbird singing, then descended on a
limb cl se by,
Bah ! said Xenia, “I’ll make him fly at my
word,”
“Alright,” said the bird, “I’m not afrad,
just try.”
I’m su priM-'A, v -* n ‘ tail can talk.
At this the blackbird opened wide his black
eyes;
“\\ e.i,” quoted he, “W hy shouldn’t 1 try
to talk.
Just the same as you did when you learned
to walk. a
‘‘Oh ! ih.re’s no reason you shouldn’t, I
know,
But I never heaid of a biid talking before
Except in a story I read this time last year,"
The blackbird iiiffled his feathers and came
near.
“How Ci uld \ou read stories, I would like,
to know,”
Said the blackbird, interrupting Xenia,
once more ;
‘ Fo peo, le ,ell .-tor es you are wasting my
time”
Saying you read them and don’t know a
line.
‘*1 have some cake—take some, she said :
<. I’ve got some with lots of plums in it, too,”
“Cake,” said the biid, “are the-puiius red?
I wiJJ lake some if it js fresh and new.”
“Oh ! yes, it is fresh. Mother made it to
day
•‘Is it anything like pie?” stretching his
neck to see ;
“No,” said Xenia, “take some—I’m going
away why
I I And don’t you like pie, do please tell
me.”
“Ah, I’m glad to hear that,” the blackbird
said,
“I am glad its nothing at all like old pie ;
Break me a piece, if it won’t kill tne dead,
And let me a part ol the plummy piece
try. ■ V
“Tell me about the pie,” Little Xenia said
again ; in the
“Well, I and some friends were
King’s lane,
When he look us in a large net one day, away.”
And I flew through the open door far
“You have heard four and twenty black¬
birds’ song
_.
‘‘YtsJ’^sajrL&ftpiatt&ii'fe were only twenty
three ;
I escaped through the Kiitgb door, ycu
see.”
At Xenia’s astonishment the blackbird flew
away ; but the birds and
Nothing could be seen
flowers ; the
She found it a dream, and it was in
day. talked the blackbird for
And she had to
hours.
“At an y rate. I like the dret am 1 .in' nn-fl too;
Aim I \vtti gh home and lei! mamma, blackbird
I don’t believe _ a word , that . old
said pie would kill
Just to think tie thought the
him aead.”
—Mist- Maud b. Petty
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America’s Richest Man.
John D. Rockefeller HoldsT1 iat
Rank With an Income
°f $35’°°o,ooo.
Attention i is once more directed
to the enormous profits of the
Standard Oil trust by its operations
m Boston and New York g.> stocks
and the announcement of th e li¬
quidation trusts that they have de
vided a sum equal to $3 ptr share
aud a further sum equal to $7
share payable June pe r
1 5.
The capital stock of the trust is
$100,000,000, divided i into shares,
of ? 100 each. There are 27,000
still in the treasury, and of
outstanding shares John D.
the president, owns
with a par value of $40,
000, but with a market value
ol the
quarterly dividends this year
be $11,600,000, or $31,868 for
day in the year, including
which means $1,228 for
hour of the day.
These figures represent Mr.
income from one
It does not include the re¬
from probably hundreds cf
----- upon Man
■— . • .
earnings of former years.
Seven years ago his regular i m
was estimated at $20,000,000
year, making him the richest
in the United States, or per
in the whole world. This
lfbarly three times the income
by the Bank of England in
to all its stockholders, but
the greatest financial institu¬
on earth, has been in opera¬
for two centuries.
The Standard Oil combination
been in existance only twenty
years, starting with a capital of
with the Rockefeller’s
at Clevtlancias Lie basis.
Rockefeller’s annual income is
placed at about $35,000,000 or
He is credited with
desire to become the world’s
billionaire. The Standard is
to have just secured
of the Bay State Gas Com¬
which this week has acquir¬
control of the Brookline Gas
paying $5,000,000 to
H. Rogers, also a Standard
man. He is said to have clear¬
$1,000,000 by the transaction.
It is impossible for outsiders to
correctly the wealth of
trust and its members.
Not all of the men pefrof eum in ve
,
have grown rich. Coi.
who drilled the first oil a
would have been penniless in
declining years if the legisla¬
had not voted him a pension
unusual, but very de
Van Sychel, who first
that tlie pipe line
practicable, became .^paralytic
died xTiUirts are aut> ot ir ^ the Kanawha,
Virginia country, known to
oil men as the inventor of a
tool, which he did not
the trouble to patent died a I
man, and Joshua Merrill, who
the pioneer refiner, and was in
oil business for thirty-three
finally had to dismantle his
,*
The matt who tells you he won t
any 50-eent silver dollars,
you to pay him what you
him in 200-cent gold dollars.
t’ures Kidney and Bladder Troubles.
Thousands of such cases have been cured
by the use of Botanic Blood Balm fB. B BJ
doubt it, call or send to the company
whose advertisement appears in this paper.
diseases, but of all manner of ailments
mbo ve ‘ >nt
arising f rom impure blood. H t» * e s - L
reme(iy of the , gc for th e cure of all blood an
skin diseases. $1.00 per large bottle.
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JOB PRINTING.
If you need any printing in
the way of Handbills, Circu
lars, Bill Heads, Note Heads,
Statements, call at the Star
or We
office and get our prices.
monty -
How the Issue Stands
Eighteen states and the District
°f Columbia have selected delegates
to the Chicago convention.
On the financial i issue the dele
gates so far selected stand as fol
lows :
For free silv er
For the gold standard I90
170
Majority for silver 20
The Michigan delegation i
is
counted for the gold standard, but
they ought really to be counted
for silver. From an artu-le publish
eJ by us last week, paper it will
e seen that a large majority of the
Michigan delegates were instructed
} the county conventions to
the free vote
coi coinage of silver in the
convention ; but, when the
met, 1 4 2 disregarded
instruct S j.
men.
The people are still for the free
of silver, however and the
securing’’ process cannot always
them.
But the silver cause is still
Masquerade
-
jun McCue, rancher, politician, t
and horse doctor, walk
on the ferryboat with a crutch,
other day, says the San Fran
Call. He also had one arm
a sling and his head bandaged
t i What’s the matter, Jim ?” in¬
two or three of his acquaint¬
i 1 I’ll bet any man in the crowd
he can butt harder and longer
any ram or billygoat in the a
responded Jim, somewhat a
“But I guess I’ve
him of it now. J »
“You look as if yon had been
some yourself,” suggested
to
< ( Well, to tell the truth, I did I
jammed around a little. I've
breaking a ram of the butting
This ram was raised a pet,
that’s what makes him so
He knows who to tackle, a
He won’t touch a man, be¬
he knows he’d get a fence
frazzled over his head ; but a
he will butt clear over into
next pasture.
t < The other morning this ram
lady friend of mine clear in
a
a field and through a pickett
and I thought it was about
tn cure him of the habit, 1 ed
on an olet Cttueo-crrcun xVe-A a
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. hammer Bonnet, and, concealing &
unoet I--
»
down through the field.
minute the ram saw me he
all the other business he a
on hand and came over to have
fun with me. He squared
shook his head and made a
for me. When I stepped to 4
'
with the sledge hammer and the I j
old dress tripped me
down, I started to get up,
that ram was behind me, and
turned two somersaults before I
the ground again, He just
lifting me till he got me over
the fence and then he lit
me. He jammed me down
the fence, and then anoth
and another till I thought he’d
every rib in my body, Fi¬
he jammed me clear through
the bottom rail and I man
to crawl to the house.
But 1 got even this morning.
had the hired men take a green
log, dress it up it a woman’s
and set it swinging from a
That buck lost a horn the
time he hit it, and it wasn t
long till the second one went the
same way. When I left him he
was meeting it half way every
time it swung back at him, and I
wouldn't be surprised if he is worn
down pretty close to the tail by
this time.”
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The Longest Shot.
The longest distance that a shot
has .
been fired is a few yards over
fifteen miles, which was the range
ot Lrupp’s well-known “monster"
130-ton steel Run, firing a shot
weighing 2,600 pounds. The IOC
Armstrong gun has an ex-1
range of fourteen miles, fir
a requiring shot weighing 1,890 pounds, j
960 pounds of povv
.TA’ftg a Hundred times, atid V
manufacture has practically i
abandon-d. The 90-ton Arm- ;
gun hurls a solid shot for a
of twelve miles, and the
of the gun cannot
at the place where the ball
From twelve to thirteen
is the computed range of the
powerful guns now made.
m uuiain that range an eleva- a
of nearly 45 degrees is found [
be necessary
A Deserved Compliment.
The following is a letter written
one of Covington’s young la¬
to the Juvenile Journal, under
de plume of “Rue,” (
nom in
she pays a deserved compli¬
to our thrifty little city ; also
of “Nathan Nimrod,’ ,
former correspondent of the Cov¬
Star, who, by the way,
to be one of her most in
friends:
“Rue,” Covington, C«a.—Dear Uncle Ned :
is the first time I have attempted to write
you and if it is published I will write again,
to the girls’ public school in this cily.
are now having a new brick building erect
which we hope wiil be ready for occupancy .
next fall term ; then the two schools will be j
I do not like the idea at a,'i, j
I do like the boys, but like them at :
school. I suppose, as I have only
more year to go, I rent should be silent 1 . on I
subject, therefore I will. Prof. W. C. d
is my teacher, and I have never had a
who was thought of as much as he is.
is a very intellectual gentleman indeed.
is one of the most attractive little I
in Georgia The young people are a 1 ways
a good humor, and rarely ever have the '
I would like to say to the ”Duch -
that “Nathan Nimrod” is one of my
intimate friends,and is a very kind heart- j
boy indeed. He has blue eyes, brown hair, !
face and is of medium height.
Uut j>.___ 1 c—
“I have patience,” observed I
no
known insurance man the I
day to a New York Herald
“with people who keep
that there’s no such thing
Lirk R VV '&R>
ever no tiee bal
risks are the first to
the companies, whereas the
rookeries that ought to have
to cinder twice in every
■r-four hours stand out against
shocks of ill-fortune ? Well,
my business adjusters who go
the country looking ov er
assumed by the various agents
insurance company are pre- !
an
to have a soft thing, and so
f c t . traveling
high, but their employers hold 1
,o a stnetac—
whenever a loss occurs uie> g
all the blame, Now, there’s where
the majesty of luck comes in. A
certain New York company sent a
fellow I know down to Jackson- ;
vine, Fla., a couple of months ago
to look over the risks there. He
got drunk on the train and had been :
steadily ineberiated for twelve days
when I met him in a Jacksonville
hotel. He explained his mission
and I asked him what he
to nte , hadn’t i
had done. Of course he
been near the agent.
“ ‘Look here,’ said I, ‘you’d
better and see your man, drun
go office, any
as you are. Go to the -
and cancel something, just to
„-ay. know are
let the home office you
alive.’
I didn’t see my friend lor StV
eral days after that, and when Idid
en wintered him in the par
of the rocm
hotel he was drunker than
ever. I took him outside and ask
e 1 him if he had followed my ad
vice.
(( Why, yes,’ he
‘I responded,
went down there and
every blankety blank risk
the hooks.’
»i straighten I tried *■ things out, - * • : but , he
k leered at me and returned to
liquor. Well, sir, that very
*£ht Jacksonville had one of the
fires in her history, and
drunken friend’s company was
by my drunken friend’s id
from a loss of $180,000. They
do a thing to him but give
a fat j ob and present him with
magnificent gold repeater, in
was inscribed the glorious
of his shrewdness. And
I supposesomepeople wouldn’t
that dumb luck.”
A lazy person can’t ride a bicy¬
long, for after a few rides he is
longer a lazy person, but devel
an energy surprising to him¬
and his friends; and he can’t
stupid, for somehow the turn of
wheel, the flood of sunlight,
panorama of scenery, sharpen
the dullest wits, says the
And he can’t altogether
a bad person, for the man or
with a sound person and act¬
mind and these are assured
tile cyclist—Can not find time
inclination to do much wicked
The future of Cuba is desolate
best Gen We yl e r says the
will .,, , last longer. , As .
two years q
bl defiant denial of this, the
leaders have ordered the
applied to all property that
^ burned—the Cubans had
see their island free and de
as tated, than to ha\e the proper
remain in the hands of the
Spanish. It is a cruel
and s hould be ended,
It Weyler, the Spanish butcher
had shot the American
the filibustering slnjf“ Cof?f!
the leash which bound the
dogs of war would have
cut by his own hand ; and the
struggle would have been
by the forceful intervention
TT„t- c~..,
Confederate Reunion.
The annual reunion of the con
veterans —rill w be held in
on June 30, and J >
and 2d.
The railroads have fixed the fare
one cent a mile, each way, mak
the round trip from Atlanta
Tickets will be placed on sale
and will g
J “g, mrades , get ready *>.
Mrs. Anna Gage, wife of Ex
Deputy U. S. Marshal,
Columbus, Kan., says s
t * I was delivered
of TWINS
less titan 20 mm
utes and with
scarcely any pain
after using only
two bottles of
h MOTHERS’
FRIEND M
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