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TOWN COUNCIL.
M. G. Bates, J. W. llipp, G. H. Baa
dell. Jl. J. Years, T. Cong. -M. G.
Bates, President; J. W. Bipp, ‘ eolet |*'
ry; M. J. >1 curs, Treasurer: G. 11. Ban
detl, Marsliul.
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L. M. Greer, Clerk superior Court.
11. M. Braniiett, Sberilf.
31. L. Cox. Deputy Slienll.
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ELLIJAY, GA.
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ot the Biuc. Bulge Circuit. Prompt at-
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THOMAS F- GREER.
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ELLIJAY, GA.
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in the Supreme Corn tof Georgia. Also,
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“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.’*
ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.
KIND WORDS ARE BEST.
BY EBEN E. KKXFOKD.
Oil, speak kind words, my I>oy and girl,
As through the world you go,
Let kindly deeds beside your path
Like flo>v crs of beauty grow.
The fragrance of a loving word
Will linger in the heart,
As sweetness haunts the flowers \vc prize
When summer days depart.
Yes, speak kind words, my boy and girl,
Perhaps we may not know
The good our loving words may do
To those who need them so.
But God will know, ami I urely He,
Iu His good time and way,
The giver of a hopeful word
Will royally repay.
So, speak kind words, my boy and girl,
Too brief is human life
To was'u the hours as they go by
In discord and in strife,
Give one and ail q Joying word,
dust put them to the test,
And you will fiod, in every place,
Kind words are surely btsi.
The Afysterious jßox.
BY DAVID KEK.
We noticed him, I remember,
from the very first ; and we had
three good reasons lor doing so
In the first placejie was the very
lasi passenger to come on board,
arriving, indeed, just when the
bell was ringing as a signal to
clear the ship.
In the second place, he was
rather a remarkable-looking fel
low altogether—tall, gaunt, sal
low and stern, with a long, lean
face and a cold, gray eye, and, as
we all declared, a manifest air of
mystery about him, even from
the beginning.
Last but by no means leas!,
of our grounds of suspicion, was
Ihe fact that oui mysterious fel
low-passenger brought on board
with him an oblong wooden box,
very much like an overgrown
pistol case, of which lie seemed
lar more careful than of the well
worn leather portmanteau, which
was the only other article of bag
gage that he seemed to possess.
It was evidently not very
heavy,.for one sailor shouldered
it with ease. It could not be
called inconveniently large, for
when its master begged to be
allowed to keep it in his state
room instead of st rowing it in the
hold, neither cautain nor uurser
made the slightest objection.
It was not tabled “Glass, with
Care,’’ or anything of that sort,
as we could all see for ourselves;
and yet its master’s nervous
anixely lest it should be damag
ed, or even bumped against any
thing hard, was so marked that
every one began to have dismal
suspicions as to its possible con
tents.
But just at first we had some
thing else to think about, for the
first tfiree days of our voyage
were a perfect chapter of acci
dents.
To begin with, we were thrown
late at starting, by having to
wait more than an hour for the
mail. Then, when we were just
outside the Narrows, on came a
fog as thick as buckwheat por
ridge, which forced us to lie-to
till late in tlie afternoon, keeping
up all the while a chorus of bells
and fog horns worthy of a Chi
nese wedding.
And as soon as the fog cleared
it wis succeeded by a pour ot
rain which inspired a facetious
saloon-passenger to ask the cap
tain, at dinner time, whether fish
ing was allowed on the aller
deck.
At lengili the tain went off in
its turn, and now we begau to
hope that this was the end of our
troubles ; but we soon found it
to be only the beginning of
them.
The red and angry ?unsel on
the second night, the ghostiy
haze around the full moon when
it rose, the short, uneasy panting j
of the wind, all forebodded tnr
ther mischief; and the older
‘•salts'’ looked meaningly to I lie
wind ward and prophesied “dirty
wt ather.”
Hie prophesv was not long in fill
fi 11 in g itself. About midnight ij
was awakened by a crash as it
twenty cart-loads of bricks had
tumbled through the roofs of as
many glass-houses, and found
myseli standing bolt-upright in
my berth, like a soldier in a sen
try-box The mxt moment I
had a fine perspective view of
tny toes high overhead, while a
kind of waterfall of cushions,
blankets, pillow, soap, towels,
boots, and what not, went poui
ing through every part of the
room. Then burst forth a deaf
ening chorus of shouts, groans
screaming women, crying chil
dren, the rallle of dishes, the
crash and jingle of broken glass,
and we were fairly “in for it” at
last.
For the next twenty-four hours
in the graphic words of our old
boatswain, “everything blessed
on board was inside-out and up
side-down.” Plates and cups,
knives, torks and spoons, eddied
ceaselessly from side to side o
the table.
nasty feeders .-t tek their forks
i:iio themselves in place of their
meat ; tlie Soup meant for the
months of the guests emtied itself
into their laps instead ; and just
as one dignified old gentleman
was raising his coffee-cup to his
lips as solemnly as if he were
taking poison, the ship gave a
sudden lurch, and ihe boiling
coffee flew like a fountain-jet in
to his spotless shirt-lront, mak
ing him wiggle like a speared
eel.
But by the morning of the
lourtli day- the gale seemed to
have spent its force, and we were
at liberty to turn our attention
once more to the mysterious pas
senger and his equally mysteri
ous box.
i’be former seemed quite as anx
ions to preserve lumself from
contact with anything on board
as lie bad been to preserve his
package, for iie never spoke to
any one, and always answered as
shortly as possitile (when he an
swered at all) whenever any one
spoke to him.
As lor the box itself, it was a
greater puzzle than ever. The
slewarts reported that he had
warned them so earnestly against
touching it, or even going near
it, as to impiv that the contents,
whatever they might be, were
something very dangerous in
deed. But, as if he had his doubts
whether even the fear of some
unknown peril would be strong
enough to keep them from med
dling with the precious package,
if they got the chance, he spent
most ol his lime below, and as he
had taken a whole state room for
himself (or, rather, for himsell
and his box), there was no risk
ol any one disturbing him there.
“I think he’s a Fenian carrying
over one of those dynamite tor
pedoes to Liverpool.” said a
young British officer, homeward
bound from Canada.
“More likely a bank-clerk ab
sconding with specie,” grunted a
big, red-faced cotton spinner
from Lancashire.
“Box ain't heavy enough for
that,” objected a lanky New
s’ orker.
“Perhaps, after all, it’s nothing
more wonderful than a rare slat
ue or picture for some museum.”
Every one looked disappointed,
for this last idea,which had some
how never occurred to us, now
Becmed natural and likely
enough, and it was a sad come
down after all our romantic im
aginings.
Bui just then anew turn was
given to the discussion by a long,
wiry, keen eyed Cape Codder,
who had hillierio beeii perfectly
silent. Taking his short pipe out
of his mouth, he said, slowly and
emphatically :
“’rain’t that, boys ; but I reck
on I could tel! you what it is!’’
“What ? What ?” cried every '
one, eagerly’.
“A baby,” answered the Yan
kee, with lhe solemnity of per
fect conviction.
At tliis fheie was a shout of
laughter so uproarious that a
passing steward peered amnzedly
into the smoking room to see
what all the fun could be about
Bit ihe gentleman from Cape
Cod was not a whit abashed.
“Laugh as much as you like,
boys ; but what 1 say 1 stick to.
Every day, reg’lar, at breakfast
and at tea, I've seen that air crit
ter, after he’d had liis share, start
for his stateroom with a cup ol
milk and a hunk o’ bread, and if
that didn’t mean a baby some
whar roun’. I’m a Mexikin 1”
There was a general start, for
we now remembered to have
seen the stranger do this, and
wondered that we had not no
ticed it before.
For a few moments every one
was in high glee at.the apparent]
solution of the riddle; but the!
temorseless New-Yorkr speedily
blighted our new-born happiness.
“Guess you’re cousil’able ou!
there, stranger,” objected he.
“For the baby that could be four
days aboard ship, or anywhere
else, either, without raising one
>quall, has got to be discovered
yet. I’ve got three of ’em myself,
and I guess I ought to know.”
This uuansweiable argument
threw us ail back to where we
were before, and a sullen silence
followed, broken at lengik by a
dashing young sophomore from
Harvard—one of the briskest and
boldest spirits of our company.
“Baby or no baby,” said he,
firmly, “I’m bound to get at the
ms and outs of this job, somehow.
Eittier I'il know what’s inside
that box before it goes ashore, or
I’ll never wear tlie crimson of
old Harvard again !''
But this valient pledge seemed
likely to go unredeemed, after
all; for, as if the man ol mystery
nad known of the plot hatching
against him, he seemed to be.
it possible, more vigilant than
ever.
Day followed day, until at
length we came in sightof Queen
stown, where the stranger was to
land, and the secret of the box
was a secret still.
But the time came at last.
Breakfast was hardly over that
morning, w hen aslewart (sent on
purpose by the ingenous soplio
more) lapped at the door of the
stranger—who had retired as usu
al with his milk and bread —an-
nouncing that the captaiu want
ed him. Scarcely had he disap
peared when the Harvard youth
uopped into his room.
The next moment, a terrible
cry startled us all, and, rushing
to the spot, and the sophomore
struggling iti the coils of a huge
black- and-w’hite snake 1
For a moment all was confus
ion, but the stranger, who had
just returned, sprang like light
ening to the breakfast table, fill
ed a cud with milk and set it in
front of the snake. Instantly tlie
latter unwound itself from its
captive, who reeled helplessly
against the wall.
“You’re more frightened than
hurt, young fellow,” said his res
cuer, coolly, “for this snake’s
quite a harmless sort,am' as lame
as a pet cat into the bargain. I
kept him dark while 1 could, for I
didn’t wan t him hurt, after
stumpin’ all Louisiana to get him
for the London Zoological, but
you’d best not touch him ag’in,
for ids breed’s mighty fond of a
fool, and 1 guess that’s why lie
was so spry jo hold of veu !”
VOL. VII. NO. 16.
HUMOROUS.
“No star ever rose and set
without influence somewhere, ' 1
says a Dhilosopher. The same
remark is applieabi to a hen.
The man who stood in front of
his glass for two hours getting
the right eolor on his mustache,
said be was just “dyeing to see
his girl.”
froth, like consistency* is a
jewel. This is why some people
are to penurous in the use of that
virtue; they think that jewels
are too precious to be used lav
islilv.
An aesthetic Philadelphia
young woman, who is iu deep
mourning, conplains of the bril
liant line of the postage stamps
which she is obliged to put upon
her heavily-bordered envelopes.
The story is told of an Amer
ican visitieg Montreal, who gave
a waiter a silver dollar as a fee
Said the waiter;
’ Sir, did you intend to giye
me a dollar
“I did,”
“Weil, sir, this coin is at a dis
count. I can only take it for
n nety cents. Ten cents more,
please.
“Ziphaniaii, asked a country
! school-master, as he was interro
gating a scholar concerning the
! names of the sovereigns of the
j various kingdoms throughout the
world, “can you tell me who is
ihe Emperor of Russia T’ “Wig
toria,” was the reply. “And who
is the Dev of Algiers ?” “Tiiun
. Jer and .Mars,” cred the aston
ished boy, “I’ve heard tel! of the
Day of Judgment, the Thaksgiv
' ing Day and the Day of Penticost.
i but I'm darne l if 1 ever heard of
Hie Day of Algiers before.
i A Jersy mother was much dis
tressed one afternoon last week
b\ the mysterious disappearance
of her two younger sous. When
j the father returned in the eve
mng. a caretu! search was insti
ll uted.and the absentees were dis
covered Wing concealed beneath
; the woodshed. They were liior
| oughly armed, each carrying two
! table forks, a carving knife and a
soup spoon. It took a hickory
rod well laid oti to extract from
them the hideous confession that
i they were en route out West to
i avenge the death of Jesse James.
When girls midway in their
teens throw oil their natural
j girlish habits and attire, don
long siiirts, shoot up their hair,
and affect the airs and dress ol
young women, they would often
be surprised to know wliat their
! eiders really think of the im
, provements. One such young
miss went to the depot recently
to meet an aged friend of the
family, and was surprised to find
herself not recognized upon
greeting the visitor as she step
ed from the car.
“Don’t you know me, antieP 5
“Why, this is Maria, isn’t fit ”
“Certainly ! Don’t you think I
look better than I did last sum
mer f’
“No,’’ replied Hie honest soul,
looking at the girl; “to tell the
truth, J don’t 1 Go home and let
down your bangs, and be young
while you can, for it will not be
many years before you will be
glad to have people take you for
a girl.”
One ot the best agents to assist
us in the endeavor to prevent our
soils from baking is lime. Lime
not only makes sandy soil heav
ier,but lightens hevy soil. It ex
erts an influence chemically that
does much to overcome this diffi
culty. It causes certain changes
to occur by forcing into existence
new com pounds,and itseffects are
lasting.