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GENERAL DlßECTOßY
"townCouncii,.
M.'G. BtfiSrs, 3. W. Hipp. G. H. Ran
dell. M. .1. Mears, T. J. Long. M. G.
Bates, President: J. W. Ilipp, Secreta
ry; M. J. Mears, Treasurer: G. H. ltan
dell, Marshal.
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' COUNTY OFFICERS
JtC. Allen, Ordinary.
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court.
H. M. liramiett. Sheriff.
J. li. Sharp, Tax Receiver.
G, tV. Oates, Tax Collector.
James A. Carnes, Surveyor.
G. \V. Bice, Coroner,
W. F. Hill, School Commissioner.
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Baptist Ciroiicn—Every second Satur
day and Sunday, by Rev. N. L. Osborn.
Methodist Exiscopal Ciiuucn —Eveiy
first Sunday and Saturday before, by Rev.
L. D. Ellington.
Mktiiodist Episcopal Church, South —
Every tourth Sunday and Saturday before,
l*y Jttcv.. W. T. Hamby.
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■ t FRATERNAL record.
nmw. 'iwrtC&F if f Wfl
Oak- Bowery Lodge, ita. (H, F. \A. ’.M,
—Meets firet Friday in each month.
J. 0. ALLEN, W M.
.1. F. Chastain, S. W.
S. 0. Osi orn, J. W.
•A'w'.... j, p, Cobb, Treasurer.
" '■■■ W. W. Roberts, Tylor.
T. W. CRAIGO. Secretary.
i. B. jonssos, M.D. I S. LEABDKKOWN, M.D.'
Johnson & Keown
L Tender their professional service* to
'file people of Gilmer and adjacent coun
rfiNes in the practice of
4 . Itdiciiie M Surgery. *=
aijgEll calls promptly filled —day or night.
Bcc east side oi Public Square. 5 3-ly
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ELLIJAY GA. *' ■
* a.- Will practice in the Superior ouxts of
Ridge and the Northeastern
''"Circuits/ .Immediate attention given to
-l nov, 23—ly.
j. C. ALLEN,
at Law,
ELLIJAY, GA.
WILL practice in the Superior Courts
of the Blue Ridge Oircuit. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to
his care.
THOMAS F. GREER.
Attorney at) Law,
, t , ELLIJAY, GA.
W ILL practice in the Superior Courts ot
the Blue Ridge and Cherokee Circuits, and
in the Supreme Couit of Georgia. Also,
in the United States Ooutts in Atlanta.
Will give special attention to the purchase
and sale of ail kinds of real estate aud
and litigation.
RUFE WALDO THORM D. D< S.
DEN TIS r l?
CALHOUN, GEORGIA.
rtwILL visit Ellijay and Morgantoa at
Loth the Spring and Fall term of the Sw
perior Court and oflener by special <se*“
tract when ruKcient work is guaranteed
to juatirv me in making the viait. A'd
dres as Above. mar 22-Ir.
THE HEW PATENT
DUST-PROOF
Stem Winding Ocen Face Case*
MANUFACTURED BY THE
American Watcb Cos,
WALTHAM MASS.
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This case is formed in cue solid piece
without joint or scam, opening in front
only, thus avoiding the usual Cap. and
securing greater strength and durability.
These watches are all open face The
bezel, into which the extra strong crys
tal is fitted with an especially prepared
wafer-proof cement, is attached to the
ease ly screwing it thereon, and thus
forms an air-tight junction with the body
efthe case, which is proof against dust
and moisture.
To railroad men, travelers: miners,,
lumbermen and others who are almost
constantly exposed and who have to
make frequent reference to the watch,
these qualities are of the utmost Impor
tance.
The following letters tell their
own story.
"Valdosta, Georgia, July 20, 1882.
“1 sold one of your Patent Dust Proof
Cases about ten months ago. and the
other day it came back to me with the
request to make it wind easier. On ex
amination I found that the stem was
rusty, and I inquired into the cause of it
The gentleman stated to me that be was
starting some saw-logs that bad lodged
in the bend of the river, when his chain
caught in a bush and threw his watcb
into about twelve feet ol water, and he
was about two hours finding it. When
he got it out it was running and be
thought ail right. In about three months
be found that the stem was bard to turn
and sent it to me.
I can say that the watch is ail that the
company claims for it and recommend it
to all railroad and mill men.
B. W. BENTLY.”
“Clinton, lowa, April 29, 1881.
“I wish you would send me a spring for
the Win. Ellery Watch * * * By the
way this Ellery ic a watch 1 sold in your
Screw Bezel Case to a farmer last fall
The first of January be lost the watch in
the woods, and found il this week in
about one loot of water. It had lain three
months and over in snow and water,with
but slight injury to the watch—only a
hair-spring. C. S. RAYMON 6,”
The above were very severe tests, and
demonstrate beyond a doubt, that for
'any reasonable length ot time during
which a watch might be under water* it
wqpjd receive no injury whatever’.
' Tve make these cases, jn both gold and
silver, and as. a Pegfqpjly. Dust I,‘roaif
stem Wiudiug Wgtci pese,. Chailpngfe
the World to Produce its,Equal,
Fur Sale by all Fist-ciass Jewelers.
OhimenT
Proprietor/ ,L OOmt* , 04k
ITAJk TToix* 33xvLniat for lt.tß
For all injuries In mam or heart nothing equals
Uakbukq Linimxxt.
For Salehy Keown & Johnson, Ellijay,
Oi. w ***
USE THE BEST.
Dr. Jack’s Magic Liniment is a relia
ble family medicine for internal and ex
ternal use. 'Cures rheumatism, neural
gia, headache, toothache, lame back,
pains in the side, inflamed breast, colic
and cramps, burns, sprains, besides
eqally good for all diseases incideut to
stock.
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USE THE BEST.
Dr. Jack’s Vegetable Liver Pills for
the cure of liver complaint, dyspepia,-
Siekbeadaehe, foul stomach, etc. They
are the best substitute tpr mercury now
in existence.
Dr. Jack’s Remedies can be had at
Drs. Keown & Johnson’s Drug Store,
Ellijay, Ga.
may 17—3 m.
IIIBW"'"" 1 ' 1 are always en the
Til IIIX>l!ookout for,chances to in
f Iff I \ kpereasetbeir earn in gs, and
IfUvtiiAiWikDme become wealthy;
If ■ If■RUideerwho do not improve
opportunities remain
**I&SYSfc * wi'Ji.t
OffiS'X'R &£
mSttSMtokst m s±s
Who engages piihj to Make monejr rapid
i l*. You oau devote your whole time to
the weak, or.only yi*r spare modneaSs.
Full iivfomnatienand all that, is needed
rtntftee: Addthw, -8r t tr s a.MaJr Cos.
Pdcnwd, SfaSrfc •*• *
“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
ELLI.UY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1888.
Have Faith in the Boy.
Have faith In the boy, not believing
That he is the worst of his kind,
In league with the army of Satan,
And only to evil inclined ;
But daily to guide and control him,
Your wisdom and patience employ,
And daily, despite disappointment
I And sorrow, have faith lu the boy.
flaye foith to believe that some moment
||ln life’s strangely checkered career, * j
Convicted, subdued and repeutcDt,
The prodigal sou will appear;
The gold in bis nature rejecting
The dark and debasing alloy, ‘
Illuming your spirit with gladness
Because you hive faith in the b6y:
Though how be is wayward and stubborn,
And keeps himself sadly aloof
From those wbo are anxious and fearful,
And ready with words of reproof—
Have faith that the prayers of a mother
His wandering feet will arrest,
And turn him away from his follies
To weep out his tears on her breast.
The brook that goes dashing and dancing,
We may not divert from its course
Until the wild turbulent spirit
Has somewhat expended its force ;
The brook is the life of the river ,
And if we the future might scan,
We’d find that a boisterous boyhood
Gave vigor and life to the man.
Ah, many a boy has been driven
Away from his lime by tbe thought
That no one believed jn bis. goodness
Nor dreamed of the battles he fsught
No if you would help him to conquer
The foes that are prone to annoy,
Encourage him often with kindness,
And show you have faith in the boy.
Have faith in his good resolutions ;
Believe that at last lie’ll prevsil,
Though now he’s, forgetful and heedless,
Though day after day be may fail.
Your doubts aud suspicious misgivings
His hope and his courage destroy,
No if you’d secure a brave manhood
’Tie well ts have faith in the boy.
THE BLUE DBAGON. -
A BURMESE LEGEND
Eleven centuries ago, where
the city of Kamakura now stands,
was a great lake, aud down at the
bottom of this lake .lived a blue
with emerald green ayes
and fiery moutli, who frightened
the people to heart-sickness, be
cause he lived on the flesh of lit
tle babies. He stole them when
ever he could find them, cracked
their bones, picked them clean,
drank their blood, and threw the
dismembered skeletons on the
shore of the lake, where weeping
mothers in vain begged him to
'drowu them also that they might
forget their lost, darlings’ un
timely tale.
Now, down by the lake lived
Yoroti, a very rich man, whq had
sixteen children. Be thought
that even a dragon must respect
so wealthy a person: and his
wife could hot persuade him to
remove from the lake side,
“He gobbles op the peasants’
babies; this ugly dragon,” he
used to say; “but he will not
touch the offspring of a man of
high position.”
The event proved that be was
wrong. One day he returned
home to hear bis wife wailing,
and his servants beating their
hands together. The blue drag
on had killed and eaten all his
little ones, and their bonesxtrew
•ed the shoie of the lake. t)om
pletely crushed by this calamity,
all his pride was gone. He gath
ered up the remains of his little
ones and carried them away to a
miserable desert place, covered
with sand and unsheltered by a
single tree. Here he buried
them; and the peasants called
the spot the Rich Man’s Buryiug
Place. There he 6pent his time
bewailing his loss; and be be
gan to ieel sorry for the peasants,
whom heretofore be had despised,
believing them to be clods, to
whom such things happened be
cause they did not feel them as
mere delicately bred persous
would.
Oue day, whife be was weep
ing and watering with bis tears
the sixteen caeins plants in the
mounds beneath which be bad
law! the ashes of liia children's
bones, he heard a strange cry,
and looking apward, saw a cor
morant hovering over linn,-l hat
said : “Rich man—rich tnaj>, are
you sorry for tbe peasants nowP
And Yoroti bowed hia head,
and answered :
“Ye*, I am sorry now.”
Then the cormorant spoke
again, and said;
“Rich man, would you save
save these peasant children if
you could?”
And Yoroii answered;
“Yes—yes, I would save them
if I could.”
Then suddenly the cormorant
changed into a beautiful winged
woman and stood before biin,
and-a strange light shone around
her, and he fell on his face, afraid
in her presence.
But she spoke to him kinkly.
‘‘Rich man,’’ she said, “arise. If
you would save the peasants’
children, you can. Your wealth
is great, and the blue dragon
loves gold and jewels.’ Return
to the lake side. Dwell there
with your wife, and that day ol
the week on which the blue
dragon < owes fomss for a child,
go to him aud offer, in its stead,
a handful of gold or a jewel. Du
this each week until alt is gone,
and so prove your devotion to
your fellow-sufferers. Mean
while, for every tear of grief you
save another, I will shed one of
gratitude to water the plants that
grow oyer vour chidren’s graves.”
Yoroti listened and obeyed.
He kissd tbe pale green plants,
and departed for bis home.
Bis wife and servants were
overjoyed to see him. When
they beard his purpose, she mar
veled, but no one attempted to
interfere. Tney told him that the
dragon bad grown so bold that
he entered noiues and took a
child from its mother's arm, aud
they saw him depart lor the
shore, oil the first morning, with
great terror, for-no one could tell
when this dragon might, begin to
eat men.
Yoroii stood at the lake side
while the villagers watched him
trom afar, and his wile beat her
hands together in terror; and the
blue head of tbe dragon was lift
ed above tbe water, and the em
erald eyes were fixed upon him.
Then he spoke:
“Bine dragon, I come to speak
to thee.”
And the blue dragon answered:
“Speak!”
“JL am a rich man whose six
teen children thou hasfc eaten,”
saul the rich man, “and I come
to offer thee a hand tut of gold
for every child thou will spare.
When the gold is gone I have
jewels, emeralds, rubies, dia
monds, pearls. Thou sbalt have
them all.”
The dragon listened and con
sented.
“B u t remember,” he said,
“when 1 come to land I shall
snort aloud three times, if the
third time passes, aud thou cont
est not, i shall take a child.”
Yoroti agreed to this, but He
knew the dragon’s art, and that
he hoped m this way to get gold
and child-flesh, Coo.
And now began a life of watch
ing and of fatigue. The dragon
now came to (he surlace at least
five times oftener than before.
Even when he slept Yoroti al
ways desired his vrtfe to watch,
and on the first snort of (he drag
on to awaken him ; and he wore
the fee the monster required for
each child over his heart that
there need be no delay.
That awful sound as though the
caves where evil beings dwelt
were burst open, aroused ail the
dwellers by the lake. They clasp
ed their ohildren to their hearts
and trembled, but at tbe second
cry they always saw Yoroti, the
rich man, running from his home
to the shore, and the bftie dragon
retired appeased to hfs lake
again. And so it continued!Until
all tbe money and jewels that Yo
roti had possessed were goae but
one great emerald. He could
1 save one moje child ; no mote..
The peasant; by this time ador
ed him. The priests prayed* Tor
him. His fame had spiead far
and wrde. But, alas f his power
would soon end. All were in de
spair. He stood on the short
with the jewel in his palm, auu
lie besought the dragon to take
it and to leave the peasant,
henceforth in peace. The dragon
only laughed.
“When I have snorted thrice, il
I have not my fee, I will have a
child,” he said, and retreated to
the take.
The emerald caught the last
glow of the silling sun as he
sank beneath Hie water, and all
was despair beside the Lake of
the Dragon. On- the other side ol
Hie lake was a mountain. -Upon
its hither side Yoroti went Vo be
wail himself. And he prayed
aloud, crying, “Let me be taught
how to save my poor peasants
from the grief 1 have known.”
And he heard a cry, and saw the
cormorant hovering over the lake.
“Push Ijie mountain into the
lake,” were (lie words it uttered.
“I cannot move the mountain,’''
said Yoroti, sadly.
“Belieye that you can see,” said
the cormorant.
And l'oroti had faith, and ex
tended his arms, and pressed his
hands against the mouiitaiu side
and cried :
“Drop mto tlre lake, oh.! moun
tain, aud crush the dragon.’’
And the mountain moved slow
ly, and all saw it; and instantly
it Vanished into the lake. The
water splashed all about, t!nich
ing every one, and thev ; but
when they recovered from then
amazement, behold the lake was
filled up, and the dragon buried
beneath the mountaiu forever
more; and a beautiful figure
in white, with wings, stood by
Yoroti’s side, and said :
“Go now and Jake tliy wife to
the place they call the Rich
Man’s Burying Place, aud 800 I
how.l have watered thy plants.”
Yoroti obeyed. Together the
two sought the desert spot, ami
found that a little garden had
sprung up there. Sixteen cactus
plants, each bearing a great red
flower, waved and nod (led -their
heads toward them, aud a£ they
advanced the flowers burst open
aud from each sprang the figure
of a child—their own little chil
dren, as well and beautiful as ev
er, each bearing in lha shawl ii
wore pearls and diamonds beyond
price, and gold enough Lq make
Yoroti a rich man again.
Then he returned to his people
and was forever belpved by them
aud always happy. The blue
dragon was never heard of again,
and Kamakura was built upon
the spot where the dragon’s lake
had been.
“The last link is broken,” the
fellow said when he kissed his
girl good-bye forever at her re
quest, because her parents wish
ed a dissolution. A few days
after he received a note saying,
“Dear George: There are plenty
more links; come and break
them.”
An Irishman recently stopped
at a hotel where pretty high bills
are charged. In the morning the
landlord made out the amount of
damangeaud presented it to Pat.
After he had glanced it over the
latter looked the landlord in the
face and exclaimed, “You put me
iu mind of a snipe.” “Why I”
asked the landlord. “Because
ye're pretty uigh all bill ”
VOL VIII. .NO. 22.
Arsenic in Wall Paper.
Formerly suspicion fell on green
wall paper only, but there *as a
certain reason for this, but there
is really not the slightest excuse
for using arsenic *in even the
brilliant colors of any other shade
than green. Paper slainers, how
evqr, have found that it is such
and unusually profitable practice
that nqw they are not contented
to use arsenic in green wail pa
per hut are introducing it
into even the. palest white tfraw-*
mg-room papers, and especially
■ uto those that haye an enamelled
ground. Borne recent analysis
have resulted in the startling dis
eiorurp that many of the pale
colored wall papers contain from
fifteen to twenty-five grains of
arsenic per square foot, or a
quantity in excess of that which
is contained in most of the
brilliant green papers. By at
tempting to make the color ol
the pattern as dead as possible,
the evil is increased, for the ar
senical coloring matter is pot on
in such a loose and powdery form
that the mere friction of a coat
of dress against the paper is sof
ticient to biing off quautities of
arsenic which can be detected
by a chemical test.
Pony.
Did you ever think why we
call the cat puss. A great many
years ago, the people of Egypt,
who have many idols worshipped
the cat. They thought she was
like the moon, because her eves
are changed, just as the moon
changes, which is sometimes full
and sometimes only a little
bright crescent or half moon, as
we say. Did you eyer notice
your pussy's eyes to see how they
change. No these people made
an idwith a cat’s heed, and
named ii Pash l, the same aatpe
they gave the moon ; for the
word means the twee of the moon,
t’jiat word has beeu changed to
pas or puts,-and has come at last
to be' puss, the name which al
most everyone gives to the cat.
Puss and possy cat are pet names
for kitty everywhere. Whoever
thought of it as given to her
thousands of years ago, and that
then people bowed down and
prayed to her. —Harpers Young
People.
A*very thin woman had ftelt
the power qf the Spirit and bad
been.con verted, and she appear
ed before the session to pass the
.gif find ii ary examination.
“Have you experienced a
change.of heart ?” asked the el
der gently.
’ Yes, air, I believe I have.**
“And do you want to live a
uew life ?”
“Yes, sir, I hope I do.”
“Are you willing to renounce
the world, the flesh and the dev
il r
“Do I have to do that? Can’t
l give up two of them and still
go into the church P’
“No, the renunciation mnst be
complete.”
“Well then yon must excuse
me. I want to be a Christian, I
want to give up the world and
the devil, but if a woman as thin
already as I am, has to give up
any more flesh, she might as well
give up wanting to be a Christian,
and gp and join a side show as
the great American only living
skeleton. Gentlemen, you will
have to excuse me. I want to
join the church, but I am not pre
pared to join a side-show this
summer.”
The lady principal of a school
in her advertisement mentioned
her female assistant, and the
reputation for teaching which
she bears,” but the printer-r-care
igss fellow—left out the “which”;
so the advertisement went forth
commending the lady’s reputa
tion for teaching she beers-”