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11. M. Bramiett, Sheriff.
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J. P. Oobh, Treasurer.
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J. C. ALLEN,
Attorney at Laiv,
ELLIJAY, GA.
WILL practice in the Superior ouits
of the Blue Ridge Circuit. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to
his care.
THOMAS F- GREER.
Attorney at Law,
ELLIJAY, GA.
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the Blue Ridge and Cherokee Circuits, and
in the Supreme Couit of Georgia. Also,
in the United States Couits in Atlanta.
Will give special attention to the purchase
and Bale of all kinds of real estate and
and litigation.
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den fiSpP^ r risrjr.
CALHOUN, GEORGIA.
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WITH
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WIIOLESALB AND MANUFACTUIiINU
druggists,
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July 21-3 m.
EXCHANGE HOTEL
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(J. W. RADCLIFF, Proprietor.
Kates of Board $2.00 per day: single
meal 50 cents. Table always supplied
with the best the market affords.
THE FAMOUS
rjDISON
Musical
Telephone.
Y'ou can Laugh, Talk. Sing an l Play
Tunes through it at a long distance. Chil
dren that can read figures can play tunes
at once. Tlie tone is equal to any Flute
or Clarionet. No knowledge of music re
quired to play it. To enable any one,
without the slightest knowledge of In
strumental Music, to perforin at once on
the Instrument, we have prepared a se
ries of tunes embracing all the popular
Airs, printed in simple figures on cards
to suit the Instrument, at a convenient
distance from the mcuth-pieee, so that it
can he easily read.and by means of which
any one,'without the least musical knowl
edge, can perform on this Instrument and
play tunes at sight. Persons a little fa
miliar -with airs* can" play hundreds of
nines without any cards whatever. Toe
Musical Telephone -is more wonderful
than the Speaking Telephone as it does
all that it will do besides instructing per
sons who do not. undervtaml notes to
to nla.v times. “N.Y.Sun.” The Mu
sical Telephone is recognized as one of
tlie most novel inventions of the aje.
“N •Y, Herald.” Price s2.">o Price by
mail postage paid and registered $3.00.
No instrument sent liv mail without be
ing registered. Send money by i’. O.
order or registered letter.
“PECi AL NOTICE,—The Musi sal Tel
ephone can only be purchased of the
manufacturers. "The EDISON MUSIC
Co;,v2ir> and 217 Walnut Street, Philadel
phi4,,Pn., or through their several branch
houses throughout the United Slates.
II IIS HOUR
YOU CAN PLAY ON THE
Piano , Organ or Melodian, with
EDISON’S
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Tdaiiy child who can read numbers
(Torn 110 100 it is plain as daylight. No
teacher required. All the popular tunes.
Millions of our pieces now In use. Never
fails to give satisfaction and amusement.
Complete in instructions, with seven
pieces of mfisie sent jby* mail for ONE
DOLLAR. S#nd .stamp foV catalogue of
tunes. To tliose who live in the country
away from teachers they are a neTer-faii'.
ing source of comfort., Agents w . nted.
■For SJ.#O we will inail you “Ea-ison's
Ukvjkw” ‘for one year ana seven
of Edison’-s Instintianeous Music- with
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tnent in. T
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“A Map of Busy Life-~lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1882.
GOOD ADVIOE.
BY PARMEXAB MIX.
‘‘You wisli to be a lawyer, John—well,
I’d not say a word
Unless I felt quite certain that your long
ings are absurd;
! don’t wish to discourage you, but then I
can’t consent,
To board you as I'd hev to do, and pay
your office rent.
“You’ve got a lusty set o’ limbs, and or
dinary bead,
And you were meant by common toil to
earn your daily Urea* ;
But a thriving farm and pleasaut home
where man and wife agree
Beat any onohorse lawyer’s luck as far as
you can see.
“If you’d been bom with taleut, John,
you'd long ago hev shown
That you liad gifts by stealing off to study
books alone;
Now, if you’ve ever read a book, I r’ally
don’t know when,
Though, come to think, I b’lieve you sling
a somewhat legal pen.
Be wise, my boy, the legal ranks are more
than crowded now,
And half of them who starve therein was
cut out for the plow,
But they mistook pure iazinc6S for taleut,
understand,
And helped to till a big supply where there
was no demand.
“Are they not educated ? Yes, but here
let me explain,
That seed that’s grown in shady soil brings
forth but little grain ;
And this higher education to nn ordinary
mind
Is like a pair of big gold spec’s upon a
man that’s blind.
“There is do prouder place than ’twixt the
handles of the plow
(Though stumpy laud has humbled me at
times, I must ailov.)
And as for huinau greatness, 1 should
think I had my share
If I could take the prize for hog3 at our
next county fair.
“•Hist emulate your sire, my son, and just
as sure as fate,
You’ll live to he respected, though per
i haps you won’t be great;
Hut enter law and five short years will
clean you out so bad
Y’ou'll hev no recollection of the last
square meal you had.”
Margery’s Secret.
Ilertry Fleet, the blacksmith,
had a cozy lit Lie house in Is’ew
berg, which he called his bird’s
nest. It, with ten good acres at
tached, had been in the Fleet
family lor three generations. The
one so.n had always followed the
occupation of the sire, as though
they were born to the business.
Harry had a pride in his work,
and to those friends who had a
laegee ambition for him he was
wont to sajq “I was born a
blacksmith; I like it, and will
remain one.”
In his, bird’s ne3t nestled his
wile Margery and his little son.
They were the joy and light of
his work day life.
For a number of years Harry
had been a very happy man, but
a cloud had gathered in the sky,
and at last it moved along just
over his cottage, and there it ob
stinately stood. He had stood as
bail for an old friend who was
in danger of losing his liberty in
consideration of certain liabili-j
ties. The friend had lurched’
him.
Margery knew something had
gone wrong. He tried to keep
the whole trouble to himself, but
the shrewd little woman manag
ed to ascertain his secret trouble.
“You see, Margery, I don’t
mind. I can work for you and
the boy well euough, but the
homestead, there is no help for
it; that must go; and it has been
in the Fleet family ever since it
was a wilderness.”
Harry told her the responsibil
ity. Said he, “Did Squire Mitch
ell has paid it, and I have mort
gaged the place. He has given
me several months in which to
redeem it, but he might as well
take it now, Margery ; I shall be
no better prepared to pay it
then.’’
Hurry went lo work, anil Mar
gery to ruminating. 6he had al
ways been able to adapt means
to ends, and supply the means,
too. il"necessary ; for a wise little
thinking cap she was in posses
s:on 01. Hut this time she was
sorely puzzled. Site spent the
afternoon in endeavoring to plan
a method of relief, but it crept
away, and sbe fell tired and de
feated.
Ii was supper-time. She heard
her husband’s foot strike the
graveled walk, at the same time
she was struck with an idea She
put his supper on the table with
out a word, and instead of sit
ting down with him as usual,
said : ‘Do you mind looking at"
ter the baby awhile ? i want lo
run out.”
A neighbor came in soon alter
and inquired tor Mrs. Fleet.
“Sue lias gone out,” he replied.
“It must been her I saw going
into Lawyer Knowles’ oliice a
moment ago,” said the neighbor.
Harry did not reply, but lie
did not like it. Young Knowles
had once been a suitor of Mar
gery’s.. A lit!le wavering at first
in his attentions, for he was a
shrewd young feliow, acute in
i his profession, and in personal
matters looking always to tin
main chance, and Margery had
no fortune but her face ; though
there was a rumor about the
•
time of her marriage that an un
cle in a distant part of the
country hail lott her property,
more or less, and her relatives
there had made it appear that
she died in childhood, and had
laken possession of it themselves.
Hut Knowles had lost his heart
to her so effectually, before this
report, that he had proposed, and
hait been unhesitatingly rejected
greatly to the astonishment ol
himself and Jlarry Fleet.
Margery was an orphan, and
had been reared by Harry’s kind
parent, and Irurn continued asso
ciation with him had learned to
read his-big heart so well that
she knew who reigned quetyt in
it long before he had courage to
tell her. He really never could
see why she had preferred a
plain man like himself to one
whom lie considered so finished
in worldly graces as yo u n g
Knowles. So Harry did not like
what transpired, and though too
sensible a man to get jealous at
a trifle, he was not a little per-!
plexed when his wife made no
mention of her business out on
returning. As the weeks weal
by he came lo know o! her call
ing there at other times, and
once, on coming home earlier
than usual, he met Knowles ai
his gale coming out. At heart
l.e had perfect ftith in his wile,
but fortune had begun to rack
him on her wheel, and a matter
that he would have thought little
of a few weeks before, now had
the power to torture him.
lie was grieved to see that Ins
wile’s manner toward him was
changed. It was not (ruble ; she
never spoke of their approaching
loss, and he often lound her sing
ing, merry as a lark, but there
was no longer perfect confidence
between them. There was some
thing she was keeping hid, he
thought. And Margery did have
a secret, and kept it —the old ad
age to the contrary notwirhstand
iug.
Fiualiy the day arrived on
which the date of the mortgage
expired. Harry’s face had a set
iook. Always in t h e way, he
thought, when around the house,
watching Margerv while deftly
clearing uu things. Everything
she touched yielded like magic.
This morning she was unusually
skillful, and not a trace of regret
WHS there in that sparkling face
of hers.
Harrv was wofullv cast down.
f ll.s clouded (ace seemed a re-
I proach to her. lie had not raised
the money, aid could not,- he
said, lhe squ re offered him an
extension of time; lie would not
have it.
“It is of no use,” said ho, “and
we may as well be over with it
at once. Ine linlo niaco is not
worth more than the nionev you
loaned me. 1 will make you
deed of it, and you may write
dial the mortgage is satisfied.”
He produced pen and in k.
looking all the time like a man
about to sign his own death
warrant. Then baby was buss led
unceremoniously back inio his
cradle, and Margery unlocked a
little drawer in her husband's
desk, producing a package, and
placing il before the squire, ask
ed him to count its contents. !i
was Sound lo cover lhe whole
amount, tor which her husband
had given the mortgage.
“it was left me by my Uncle
Helh,” explained Margaret
“Lawyer Knowles was in need oi
all his shrewdness to straighten
the matter out, but I paid him a
round sum for bis services.”
Harry called himself a sywrw
man. and it did take him some
time to get the belter of ins
amazement, iie bad barely suc
ceeded in comprehending t li e
whole, as his wile turned .rom
the door from whence the squire
had made his exit. Then, for the
first time, the little woman broke
down. 6he threw herself inio
the strong arms that were ready
to receive her.
“Oil, Harry ! how could you—
how couid you be jealous of un
He answered not at all, but
held her as in one oi lus own iron
vises. Presently lie fell to kiss
ing -her hair, forehead, cheeks,
bps, and looking tip, she saw
what she had never seen before—
or. the cheeks of her Vulcan were
two round, big tears.
Harry did not go to the shop
that day, ami baby got sadly
neglected.
It was several years ago that
this event occurred, and Harry’s
bird's nest is now called “Thu
Dove-cot” by the observing
neighbors.
Brain Development-
It is not surprising to find the
unlearned in things medical ti is—
i able to understand the brain de
' velopmeiif, which of course i>
generally a alter of heredity,
determines character. Snc h.
however, is, and must needs be,
the fact. Whether the mind is
something outside matter which
acts through or by the brain, as a
musician may use a musical in
strument, or whether, as some
think, what we call mint! is sim
ply brain function, it should Le
manifested that upon the quality
and conformation of a man's brain
must depend ins mental capacity;
and, consequently, also ins char
acteristics both intellectual and
moral. We are not disposed to
urge specialties of development
as excuses for conduct because,
given an average degree of intel
ligence and fairly strong will
power, the individual is clearly
responsible for his actions; but
it must not be forgotten that his
instincts of right or wrong, and
the facility of judgment with
which lie distinguished between
good and evil, will be acute or
dull hi proportion as his brain is
developed.
The mind is in a large sense
the character of a man, and a ; di
rectly dependent on the physical
growth of his brain as the speed
of a race horse is dependent oni
its muscular development. Tins
is not sufficiently recognized,\nd
because in is not we every now
and then find silly remarks in
print such as the following : “The
convolutions of the brain may
VOL Vii. .V). J
! something to do with the
difference between mediocrity
. and geniii 4, hu at
are not rccogtfzed ,; ie j.,*
: cot.ru, ar.q ii is difficult to see
l.ow, they can be;” will, such
we3b •"' ,l vvi,i <’ nnl reflections
as that • U would be scarcely sai
isfactorv lo a pickpocket to l.avft
ills brains (*, c ) examined, in or
der to prove to those he left be
hind that he ready couid not
help being a thief And yet the
lac’s are sufficiently plain and
simple, so plain and simple that
any one should be able to urnler
! “laud them. Lancet.
Covering Strawberries,
| Often there i- much -rd-i. In d
j especially at Un? season of lhe
yenr.abou; covet;?--: - , iwb wries
and in any per--u.< ai ; j • •
i what they re a I to a3 I()
I heaithy reg r e t ii when the
J -Spring cones V We have
known i- eo ■ < • ,
| gesl.o.'i, aa i Cover . ;t - r.uv
| ben it-?.1r.-.1 < wit. ; „::i;. and
j find the wm.ie comjilei-iv rotten
jin the Spring. And • ; a little
covering will, 'the right kin ! -f
j material is no; i l, : , j *f
the plan's are entbviv un* •
|ed the leaves are brown- 1
: - ; ye: : . ..
have been noted I- eve; ~h-servant
servant gmden r j , :
- fruit comes !i -m - lhat have
1 managed • kee-. du-h- 1--> V es
SdffV-'f :
turners appear. And tins is wny
il of SiiO’.Y t lit* wliolo
Winter is so goo 1 f- r .he straw
ber; v crop. •'
ed, when the lea-.-. - a; V :,r ■ v>n {
die crop is sni.di: but when in *
sn-'w covers tlie ? !ai, s all thb
-winter long the;. me out in the
Spring in die jv >-jb!e con
; di!ior..— (den'iiau ".t Tl- , >, h.
• ibe Non-Advertiser,
Tiie Waco (tex.) Li:c . .ter
llKilvt*? flit* S.‘ 11 ► r 4
imuks about tha man wh sets
no virtue in adverlising and
. think- people can*! read tho p.i
: '
’ r,i si lot (lie e i.' rin a Iwo
: line uni ice say something about
him that grates on his feelings
lhe least bit or he thinks that it
does lip; show h:s business up in
the nifs; complimentary terms,
and what a muss you w:!i have
ion hand, lie wiii rush down to
ihe office au l insist that he has
been injin ed beyond recovery.
Lie is ruined financially and so
cially, and in a few seconds i-e
win show you where these two
or three lines caused him '..im
ages ranging all lhe way ;n
several hundred lo several thous
and dollars, and ri• .t! some man,
just the uay before, you tried
hard to make a Con tract with for
a column cr half-coin;:' i_ m •er
tisement at stai valjon . and
iie had the modesty to tell you
that it was worth nothing, people
never read the papers and it
would be just Lke throwing so
much money away. These con
sistent men are numerous. Yon
wiH always find too that the man
who never patronizes a paper is
the man who criticises the mo t.
severely and is always able to
give the proprietor advice as
how he should conduct his pap
It is indeed amusing wheft you
do not compliment certain par
ties on all occasions to see the
expression on their faces. ‘They
insist when not mentioned i a
flatteries way, that they have
been injured but they are never
ready to admit what is admitted
in ail cases except that of a
newspaper, that everything that
is capable of doing some good—•
even a rattlesnake.