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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1884.
\Terms: $2 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
SAVED HIS LIFE.
confined to his bod with what appeared t
a half-brother), his death t
nd as eerta.n and soon. After extunsUnr'all
the remedies, I finally, as a last resort, sent for
* oott.V? of Brewer’s Lun*r Restorer - *•
acted like magic, lie
Restorer, and _
— “cd the use of It
an ? La ’. b Jf n fully restored to
fa J 00,1 a discover, he had con
sumption, and Brewer’s Luncr Restorer saved
his life. .J. O. HOLLOWAY, M.D.
Barnes viile, Ga.
ich a reserve fum
t added.
overwhelming popular vote its
By
franchise was made a part of the present
ji.ate Corttltutlon adopted December 2d,
a.i)., im
't'he only Lottery ever voted or. and endorse*
, the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
ItN Grand Single Number Drawlnyi
take place monthly.
\ M’LliXDID OPPORTIINITY TO
win * fortune.ELEVENTH GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS I., IN THE ACAD-
KMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS,
TUESDAY, November 11, 1881— 174d
Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
100.000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.
LIST OF PHIZES.
PITAL PRIZE $75,000
do
...... 25,000
l uo ao 10,000
PRIZES OF $6000 12,000
2000 10,000
1000 10,000
do
do
500...
200....
o 25
APPROXIMATION PRIZES,
animation .-‘rizes of 9750....
E. J. ELDRIDGE
i’lizes, amounting to $285,500
Application for rates to clubs should be
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For further Information write clearly, giv
ing full address, postal NOTKh Ex
press Money Oorders, or New York Ex
change in ordinary letters. Currency by
Express (all sums of 95 and upwards at
our expense) addressed
WI. A. DAUPHIN,
Has moved into his Old Stand
. in the
Orlcam
M- A. DAUPHIN,
(HI? seventh st„ WUfcbington, D.C
Make P. O. Money Orders payable and
BARLOW BLOCK
add res
ship
Law Wotice.
i*m and after this date B. B. Hinton
Edgar F. Hinton will be associated to
ur in tin- practice of law. The partner-
will be confined to the practice i> Sum-
r county. The practice in adjoining coun
ts wih bo separate and distinct. The
xnior member will visit parties in the
ninty when desired by client without ex-
a charge. Special attention given to the
cct28tf
B. P. HOLL.IS,
Attorney at Late,
AMERlOtrs, GA.
E. G SIMMONS'.
It tor nett Law,
AMEIilCUS GA..
< il'.iee in Hawkins’ building, south side of
Dr. J. A. FORT,
Physician and Surgeon,
Offers his j.rjfessional services to the
people of An.en.jus and vicinity. Office at
Dr. Eld ridge’s Drug Store. At night can
be found at residence at the Taylor house,
on Lamar street.
’’alls will receive prompt attention.
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INSURE WITH THE
SOCIETY. OF ENGLAND.
Assets $1,125,072.
A: L, REES, Agent.
Or.
D. P HOLLOWAY.
DentisT,
Americuc. ... Georgia
Treats successfully all diseases of the Den
piethod, and inserts artificial teeth on the
beY material known to the profession.
fiTOFFICK over Davenport and Son’i
Drug Store. t marllt
K. E. Brown. Fillmore Brown.
Edgerton House,
Opposite Passenger Depot,
MACON, GEORGIA.
3. Brown & Son, Prcpri.tors,
t $2.00 Per Day.
J.T. STALLINGS,
DEALER IN
COX FK< TIONERIEB,
FRUITS,
Ootton Avenue, Next Door to Grange
Warehouse.
" ‘11 be pleased to serve their friends and
Jhe public generally with anythlmr in their
.vT-floods warranted FRESH and of
QUALITY. Give us a trial,
M K. ED. STALLINGS will have charge of
,* s j or e, and will be happy to till your
Orders. aug 20-m3
m twent jr'pcr'ccntVwid make Uxtmtterflna
DmSS£ , . , *W» win *wr* wermat sSnort ztxxt
Ho"**nd are rebjoct.
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SATIS S. TOUTS. Proprietor.
8AX.TIXOU.XO.
Send six cents for postage,
and receive free, a costly box
B of goods which will help all,
"either sex, to more money
cvfwtoly*? 1 ®* At once address Tmrnc &
lo. Angnata. Maine. ; „ marS-ly.
t A Ml assortment: of all sorls anil
kinds of Patent Medicines at
Dr. Eldddgo’s Drag Store.
it Store
And will be glad to see
IK OLD CUSTOMERS,
Protection.
> such protective against chills and
fever and other diseases of a malarial type
exists as Hostetter’s Sromach Bitters. It
relieves constipation, liver disorders, rheu-
in tlie appearance, , f „ r ,„, v „
of the wan and haggard invalid-who uses
this standard promoter of health and
AND AS-
NANY NEW ONES
as are disposed to call.
Competent Persons
TO FILL PRESCRIPTIONS
E. J ELDRIDGE,
Barlow Block, Public Squaro.
WILL F. HIRE,
—DEALER IN—
Staple a Fancy Groceries
Find Wines and liquors,
Cotton Avenue, Americus, Ga.
Has on band allkinds of
CANNED GOODS.
CRACKERS,
. COFFEE,
-SUGAR,
LARD,
TOBACCO,
CIGARS. ETC.
Will also have a nice BAR Cxed up in
>od order for the benefit of those who love
articleof-I
My friends,
lly are
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spectfully invited to give mo a trial.
aug27m3.
Another Rescue from Death.
In 1^1. while scwfcis on a machine, my wife
3“ ?" \i h a pain in her skle, which
was soon followed by bemorrhaces from her
innga, severe cough, fever, and she could net
»«•«*** and in a few weeks ehewa-
llviijcc skeleton. Her stomach r.
T^ain any food, and tlie physlcia
thonght ono of her lungs was entirely gone.
At a final consultation of two physicians, her
Jounced hopeless. I tried Brewer's
?r, by advice of one of the physl-
o began to lmprovo after the third
^'‘ nt! , n ?ed the medicine, and is now
®nd_fs letter than she has
r, by advice of one of the 'physl-
s began to lmprovo after the f * ‘ ’
continued the medicine, and is
, -~acut health, and is letter than she __
SSSgggl So 1 Mlcv ° Brcwcr ' !l *“«
BENJ. F. TT1SAHNDON,
Yatesville, Ga.
From Nlacon.
^It^was^dLcovcrod that my
juphing in<^c^antl^°^PS
Y<«..»ariro quantities of pns from
hnl not sleep or retain anything on
her stomach, and vre thought it only r *
of tune when life would be compelh
way to tlie fell destroyer
remedies had failed, wo got
storcr, s nd began it in very
was very weak. Sho soon began t _
continued the remedy, and was restored To'life
and health; and is to-day better than she 1
noartya mirackf" f * re pf£ *‘. or restoration
Brewer’s Lung Restorer.
Alter all i
mil doses,
Lung Kc-
improve;
1 to life
she has
Indebted t
It. W. BONNER,
i, Ga.
lire
icrphine,
Vi Restorer li
preparation, and contains i
bromide, or any poisonous subst..... ..
circular of locglist of wonderful cflrcj.
LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAHAR,
MACON, GA.
gflSlTTlUi
THE FIELDS 6RE WHITE
WITH COTTON.
HARD TIMES NEARLY OVER-
A glorious harvest is at hand, and pros
perity will soon prevail. Thousands of
families who have been wanting Pianos and
MAKERS, which wo shall offer
usual easy Installment Terms. To accom
modate those who wish to buy now, and
hold their cotton until later, \
SPECIAL OFFE*' —
GAN BUYERS.
SPECIAL OFFER TO PIANO AND OR-
During the months of Septem
ber and October, 1884, tee will
sell Pianos and Organs at our
Lowest Rock Bottom Cash
Prices, requiring only
$25 CASH SOWN ON A PIANO.
$10 CASH DOWN 05T A ORGAN.
And allowing three months time
on the balance, Without Interest
or advance of price.
y
themselves unaol . . ....
after the three months, will be giveu further
time, by agreeing to pay our regular Install
ment prices, and complying with our In
stallment Terms of payment. Should they
price for the instrument will arranged. All
will be treated fairly, and charged prices in
accordance with the time required for pur-
chace. All purchasers under this Special of-
” required to sign our usual form as to
3sponsibilitp. Instruments will be
the usual fifteen days trial, when
references are given. Sept5.
their i
LUDDEN & BATES
SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,
Savannah, <»»..
L 0 0 K 0 U T
J, l Sheffield & Co
MONEY
We Must Have!
ALL OLD NOTES AND ACCOUNTS
must be paia or satsifactoriaily arrangde.
else they will bo pi&ced in the hands of
officers for collection. We mean wbat we
gay. J. tv. SHEFFIELD & CO.
Oct. 1st, 1884
PATENTS
Caveats. Re-Issues find Trade-Marks so-
Patent Office and before the Courts prompt
ly and careful’ _
- Upon receipt
and I make NO
rnMIGK UNLESS PATENT lb M30UB-
ED. Information, advice and special ref
erence -entonnppUcatlon.
YOY.'YS.Y.
1
l SHORT SERHOX.
BT ALICE CARY.
Right things in great and small;
'Then, though the sky should fail,
Sun. moon and stars and alt,
You shall have light
This further I would say;
Be tempted as you may,
Each day and every day,
Speak what Is true.
True things in great and small,
Then, though the dry should fall,
Sun, moon and stars and all,
Heaven would shine through.
Grapes never, never yet
On the limbs of thorns were set;
So ifyou a good would get,
Good you must be.
Life’s
Speai
Dolm
rarney through' and through,
ig what is lust and true,
rhat is right to do
When you work and when you play.
Each day and every day,
Then peace shall gild your way
Though the sky should fall.
S C.Y.T.'L^O'O Y.S.
A LUCKY DISCOVERY.
“And so Miss Dorinda Beam is dead
and buried!”
“Yes an’ hain’t left no will—that 1
tho wust of it.”
Mrs. Grimes stopped churning to lis-
brought by Neighbor
ten to the
Hockins.
“You don’t say?”
It’s so,” declared Neighbor Hockins,
emphatically.
“Benly Bittersweet won’t get nothin’
after all, then,” observed Mrs. Grimes,
lifting the churn-lid to see if the hotter
was coming.
“Not a stiver. An’ her alius bronght
up to think she’d git it all.”
* {, Tis too bad. I recken Peter Fogg
an’ his woman’ll come in fur the prop
ity, then?”
“’Course they will, bein’ they’re the
nighest of kin. All the kin-folks she
lied, I recken, fur her *nd Benly vasn’t
no way8 related.”
“I shouldn’t think Miss Dorindy’d
sleep quiet in her grave, with them
Foggs a-handling of her things. .She
Tiated ’em like pizon while sho was
alive,” remarked Mrs. Griraes.-
“She hadn’t ort to put off makin
her will, then. But that’s alius the
way—folks keeps a-putting off an’ a-
puttiug off, a-thiukin’ they’re goiu’ to
live forever, an’ then' all at once they’]
gone 'fore they know it. An’ then it 1
too late. Miss Dorinda died awful sud-
dint, they say—appellexy or the like.
I dnnno what Benly is a-goin’ to do,
Pm sure.”
And indeed poor Beulah herself
scarcely knew what sho was going to
“Everything here will be yours, Beu
lah, when I’m dead and gone,” Miss
Dorinda had often declared. “That
miserly Peter Fogg an’ his stingy wife
won’t get a stick nor a stone of what
belongs to we! I kin tell him if he is
my nephew.”
And now Miss Dorinda was dead and
gone, sure enough, and Peter Fogg and
his “stingy wife” were tho heirs at
law.
The place had been thorouhgly search
ed for a will, but none could bo found,
and lawyer Green, who attended to
Miss Dorinda’s affaire, declared that he
had not been called upon to make any
will; and so poor Beulah was left pen
niless and alone in the great world.
One year ago, Beulah was the prom-
;ed wife of Richard Barrymore, a stal
wart young farmer, who lived with his
mother in the old homestead, with its
green orchard trees, its meadows of
sweet grass, and its waiving fields of
wheat and corn.
But Beulah was young and giddy,
id whon the new physician, Dr. Clar-
ce Virden, began to pay lover-like at
tentions to her, Richard grew jealous, a
quarrel ensued and a broken engage
ment was the npshot of the matter.
Since that time Dr. Virden had con
tinued his attentions, until Miss Dorin-
death occurred, and Beulah’s un
fortunate position was made public.
Then his visits suddenly ceased, and
he found it convenient to “pass by on
the other side.”
A week later, Mr. Fogg and wife
camo to take possession.
He was a hard-featured, miserly man
and she a sharp-nosed avaricious wo-
“The ole woman hed aheap o’ plun
der” remarked Peter, as he went lum
bering through the parlors with his
heavy cowhide boots. “That there
pie-anner wonlt bo here long, though,
nor them picters on the wall” he de
clared, eyeing the articles named with
a calculating gaze. “I reckin they’ll
fetch a right smart sum of money at
the auction-rooms, an’ I’ll cart ’em off
sell ’em.”
There’s a hull trunk -’full o’ the ole
woman’s good clo’se,” put in Mrs. Pe
ter, who had been exploring the upper
rooms. “Y’on tnout as well cart them
off an’ sell ’em, too, Peter. I kaint
wear ’em.”
“Course you kaint,” said Peter
grnfily. What do you want of any
3 clo’se, anyhow? Them you’ve
got on your hack is good enough fur
,nyi ody.”
Shocked and pained at their coarse
remarks, Benlah went to her own room
to think over her plans for the fu
ture.
You can stop here, if you work fur
your board,” Mrs. Peter had informed
her, but Beulah had declined the offer.
I had rather beg my bread from
door to door,” she declared to herself,
than to stay with them. Bat where
can I go?”
“Beuly!” called Mrs. Peter’s sharp
voice. “Come down—here’s a feller
wants to see yon.”
Benlah sprang op with flushed cheek's
and sparkling eyes.
“Could it—could it be Dr. Virden? 1
Sho canght her breath, her heart
beat so violently with a sudden hope.
She hnrried down with a pink flash,
like the tinted heart of an ocean shell,
staining her cheeks, to meet—Richard
Barrymore.
He took her hands in a firm, gentle
clasp. |VP| _
“Get your things, Beulah. I have
come to take you home with me. Moth
er has a room ready for you, and you
are to live us.” -
“0, Richard, I—I don’t deserve it!”
sobbed Benlah, remorsefully.
A '' -1.1 flnf irnni- (IlifKTO 11
4 ^ M Get your things.” ordered
NO. 38.
Richard, authoritatively, “and let me
carry out your trunk; my wagon is at
the door.”
And half-reluctantly, though with _
feeling of relief in her heart, Benlah al
lowed him to lift her Into the wagon,
where he had already placed her trunk,
and they drove away.
Peter Fogg was as good as his word,
and before many days he drove into
town with his lnmbering farm-wagon
filled with the big piana, the handsome
pictures, and Aunt Dorinda’s trunk,
containing her “best clothes.”
The honeysnckle and madeira vines
clustering about the old Barrymore
farm-house were full of bloom, and
the scented petals of a tall cinnamon
rose-bush were dropping lightly on
Benlah’s nut-brown curls, as 6he sat
on the south porch with a basket of
yellow September peaches beside her.
“Dick is so fond of peaches and
cream,” commented Benlah to herself,
aa she peeled and sliced the Tipe, gold-
en-hued fruit. “He shall have them
every day while they last.”
Just the sound of wagon-wheels wa
heard in the lane.
What on airth is that Richard 1
got in the wagon?” asked Mrs. Barry
more, coming out on the porch just as
the wagon came into view. “Kin you
make out what ’tis, Beuly? Your eyes
are betler’n mine air.”
Beulah shaded her eyes with her
hands and looked again.
“It—it looks like a big box,” she
aaid doubtfully.
And so it was a big box, with a t
ano inside of it. There was another
box, also, filled with pictures, and a
trank.
Richard drove up to the door.
“I’ve brought you a present, Beu
lah!” he cried gaily. “The piano and
pictures we’ll put in the parlor, and
this trank I’ll just carry up to your
room.”
And calling Sim, the hired man,
they carried it ap at once.
Benlah coaid only look her thanks,
and then ran upstairs to hide her tears.
Half an hour later she came dauciDg
down stairs, laughing and crying to
gether.
“Oh, Dick! Oh, Aunt Laura! 1
cried, hysterically. “There was a will
after all; and here it is! It was in the
bosom of Miss Dorinda’s dress,between
the lining and the ontside. I thought
I would hang up the clothes, to air
them, after being shat up in trank, and
jost happened to feel this in the bosom
of her silk dress. It was one she had
>t worn lor a good while.'
It proved to be a genuine will, made
three years ago, in St. Louis, where
Benlah and Miss Dorinda had spent
few weeks one summer.
This accounted for Lawyer Green
having no knowledge of it.
Beulah was soon reinstated in hei
old home, and Peter Fogg and his wife,
after refunding the money paid for the
piano and other articles, went back to
their farm, greatly chagrined at the
unexpected turn of affairs.
“I wish the pesky trank had of burn
ip ’fore ever we went an’ sold it, gram-
►Io Peter.
Iu which unavailing wish Mrs. Pe
ter coincided with him.
Among the visitors who soon flocked
to congratulate Beulah on her good for
tune, was Doctor Clarence Virden; but
mnch to his discomfiture he was in
formed that “Miss Bittersweet was en
gaged.”
And so she was, in more senses than
one.
For when the first October frosts had
crimsoned the training ivy-leaves and
turned the sumac and sassafras-leaves
to scarlet and gold, Beulah Bitter
sweet was transformed into Mrs. Rich-
Barrymore.—Helen Whitneg
Clark.
The Canada Side.
Mark Twain says: I managed to find
started on this foolish
enterprise, and then hurried over to
Canada to avoid having to pay for the
guidt. At the principal hotel I fell in
with the Major of the Forty-second
Fasileers and a dozen other hearty hos
pitable ^Englishmen, and they invited
me to join them in celebrating the
Qneen’s birthday. I said I would be
delighted to do it. I said I liked all the
Englishmen I had ever happened to be
acquainted with, and that I, like all me
countrymen, admired and honored thy
Qneen. Bat I said there was one insu
perable drawback—I never drank any
thing strong upon any occasion what
ever, and I did not see how I was going
to do proper and ample justice to any
body's birthday with the thin and un
generous beverages 1 was accustomed
to. The Major scratched his head and
thought over the matter at considerable
length; but there seemed to be no way
of mastering the difficulty, and he was
too much of a gentleman to suggest
even a temporary abandonment of my
principles. But by-and-by he said:
“I have it. Drink Roda water. As
long as you never do drink anything
more nutritious there isn’t any impro
priety in it.”
And so it was settled. We meet in a
large parlor handsomely decorated with
flags and evergreens, and seated our
selves at a board well laden with crea
ture comforts, both solid and liquid.
The toasts were happy and the speeches
were good, and we kept it up till long
after midnight. I never enjoyed myself
more in my life. I drank thirty-eight
bottleB of sada water. Bat do yon.
know that is not a reliable article for a
steady drink? It is too gassy. When
I got up in the morning I was as lull of
gas and tight as a balloon. I hadn’t
an article of clothing I could wear ex
cept my umbrella.
After breakfast I found the Major
making grand preparations again. I
asked what it waB for, rad he said that
this was the Prince of Wales’ birthday.
It had to be celebrated that evening.
We celebrated it. Mach against my
expectations, we had another splendid
time, we kept it iip till some time after
midnight again. I was lired of soda,
and so I changed off for lemonade. I
drank several quarts. You may con
sider lemonade better for a steady drink
than soda water, bat it isn’t so. In tho
morning it had soured on my stomach.
Biting anything was out of the question
—it was equivalent to lock-jaw. I was
beginning to feel worn and sad, too.
Shortly after luncheon I found the
Major in the midst of some prepara
tions. He said it was the Princess
asked
Daughter of her Majesty the Queen,
the Major 6aid.
I succombed. That night wo cele
brated the Princess Alice’s birthday.
We kept it up as late as usual, and re
ally I enjoyed a good deal. Bat I could
not stand lemonade. I drank a couple
of kegs of ice water.
In the morning I had toothache and
cramps and chilblain*, and my teeth
were on edgo from the lefnonade, and I
was still pretty gassy. I found the in
exorable Major at it again.
“Who is this for?” I asked.
“His Royal Highness, the Duke of
Eainbutg.”
' Son of tho Qaeen?”
“Yes.”
“And this is the birthday—you
haven’t made any mistake?”
“No; tho celebration comes off to
night.”
I bowed before the new calamity.
We celebrated the day. I drank part
of a barrel cider. Among the first ob
jects that met my weary and jaundi
ced eye the next day vras the Major at
bis interminable preparations. My
heart was broketi aud I wept.
“Whom do wo mourn this time?
said:
“The Princess Beatrice, daughter of
the Queen.”
“Here, now,” I said, “it is timo to
begin to inquire into this thing. How
long is the Qneen’s family likely to hold
out? Who comes next on the list?”
“Their Royal Highnesses Anne. Ma
ry, Elizabeth, Gertrude, Augusta,Wil
liam, Simon, Ferdinand, Irene, Sophia,
Susannah, Socrates, Samson—”
“Hold! There Ij a limit to human
endurance. I am only mortal. What
man dare do, I dare—but ho who can
celebrate this family in detail and live
to tell of it is less or more than man.
If you have to go through this every
year, it is a mercy that I was born in
America, for I haven’t constitution
enough to be an Englishman. I shall
withdraw from this enterprise. I am
out of drinks. Ont of drinks, and thir
teen more to celebrate. Out of drinks,
and only just on the outskirts of the
family yet, as you may say. I am sor
ry enough to withdraw, but it is plain
enough it has to be done. I am full of
gas and my teeth are loose, and I am
wretched with cramps, and afflicted
with scurvy, and toothache, measles,
mumps and lockjaw, and the cider last
night has given mo the cholera. Gen
tlemen I mean well, but really I am not
in a condition to celebrate the other
thirteen. Give us a rest.” I find, now,
that it was all a dream. One avoids
mnch dissipation by being asleep.
TOOMBS AT HOME.
Hes
! SIGNS OF ANOTIIEU I
W. II. Hairston, of Hart county
writes thus to the Hartwell Sun of a
visit to General Toombs:
Tho thost honored and entertaining
liberty we enjoyed wan a call on Geor-
s renowned and pre-eminent states-
, Hon. liobt. Toombs. This dis
tinguished and remarkable man occu
pies a superlative position in the histo
ry of our country, and will he pointed
to a3 a marble shaft with profound
pride by unborn generations. He
stands a full head and shoulders above
all tho men of his day in this or any
other state in the union.
Upon approaching the domicle of
this malapert defender of constitution-
al rights the charm of admiration at
once elevates the mind in beholding the
loving splendor with which all the ex
ternal attachments are adjusted. Wo
found tho great pacificator cheer
ful, and his compellation affable. We
say pacificator for the fact that he did
as much to avert the great catastrophe
that befell onr country as any man
known to ns. Wo inquired of Mr.
Toombs whom ho considered the most
successful general in the late war. His
reply was“Joo Johnston,if he had been
let alone.” Tho general continuing
said: “Mr. Davis was continually mov-
ing him- from one place to another.
That he hated General Johnston ex
tremely.” Mr. Toombs is a great ad
mirer of Johnston Of Mr. Davis Gen-
my way hack alone to the place from ®J' a l Toombs said: “Ho is contuma-
whenco I had started on this foolish cions and incompatible, and a man of
diminutive information. “We next
asked his opinion of the political out
look. Ho thonght the prospect for Mr.
Cleveland quite favorable. But said
there was so much political infidelity
the result was hard to estimate. We
next asked if tho sad dilemma in which
the late war placed our country and the
clouds of sectionalism would he remov
ed^ without a revolution. Ho said: “I
think not. I told the people before the
war that revolution would come in ton
years and so it did Tho political ele
ments are so corrupt that I prognosti
cate another revolution within ten
years.” The air in which the grand
old. veteran spoke demonstrated to
satisfaction that ho saw something in
the future that pictured something hor
rible to him,and we believe it was true
regret that he gazed upon it. We be
lieve that General Toombs would he
pleased to see the flag of peace and
common brotherhood cover this broad
land from Alaska’s icobonnd shores to
Mexico’s tropical clime. We have an
exalted opinion of many of the great
men of Georgia, bnt among them all
General Toombs is the Ajax in mind,
and a man of true nobility of charac
ter with all bis powers after a long and
eventfnl public service. Ho has'retir-
ed to private life without a spot or stain
upon his escutcheon.
tber worship.
Traditions and Superstitions or
Past—Trees That Give Life ......
Trees That Kill —- Sentiments
Connected with the Cypress.
It is not the purpose to speak in this
article of that part of the Pagan theol-
°K? which transforms every bosh and
tree into some god, goddess, nymph,
fann, satyr or hamadryad, nor to refer
to the symbolic or sacred character
which the Greeks and Romans attribut
ed to certain trees that their priest
hood had consecrated to the deities-
The Race of Life.
After reading the evidence of Dr.
Farr, one has a natural inclination to
study the law of chances as regards
human beings. .According to the emi
nent anthority quoted, if one could pe«
a million babies start on a journey and
could follow thorn through life, this is
about what ho would see: Nearly
150,000 of them drop out oi the ranks
by the end of the first year, while
twelve months later the number will
be farther thinned by the deduction of
53,000 more; 28,000 wonld follow at
the end of the third season, and less
than 4,000 at the end of the thirteenth
year. They wonld throw np the sponge
hy twos and threes until the end of the
forty-fifth year, when it would be found
that in the intervening period some-
♦ Tiinrr lilrn fiDD OAA li./l l.f» tl>.
thing like 500,000 had left the track.
Sixty years wonld see 370,000 gray
headed men still cheerfnlly pegging
At the end of eighty years the
competitors in this great “go-as-you-
please” -would number 97,000, but
they would he getting mote shaky and
“dotty” each lap. At the end of nine
ty-five seasons 223 only would be left
m for thn final ” wliila tlm n?n.
riea,” while the win
ner would be led into his retiring room
- » solitary wreck at the age of 108.
Alice’s birthday. I conceal etfmy grief. There is something grimly humorous
; “Who is the Princess Alice?”' I F '* '
in this qnaint array cggrefnlly compiled.
One cannot - help wondering what
would he the betting at the start about
any one of those million babies coming
in alone at tho 108th lap on the great
and mysterious track upon which tlie
of life ii
the myrtle, for instance, to Venus, the
Olive to Mercury, the laurel to Apollo.
It is the intent to simply mention the
worship offered to trees by certain
Nations and tubes on account of their
real or imaginary properties. “The
ancient people of India, * says Quintus
Cuitus, ‘‘had a profound veneration
for certain trees, before which they
were in the habit of kneeling in the atti
tude of devotion, and the most ttrrible
punishment awaited the sacrilegious
transgressor who dared injure one of
them.” There are two kind of trees
n Persia that are worshipped to this
day. The one is the dirakch-i-fustl. or
tree that surpasses the rest, the other
the dir dar, or the tree of tho genii.
The tree believers decorate these trees
with strips of precious stuffs. The an
cient Persians had a particular venera
tion for the barroom, a gigantic tree
over which the sun, as they believed,
kept watch in an especial manner.
The Orientals have always had an ex
ceptional respect for the cypress. When
Xerxes bedecked a plane-tree with orna
ments as he passed it on his march it
was not, as has been related, through
an insensate passion for the treo, bnt
through religious feeling.
The Ouigours, a people of northern
Guinea, worshipped the cypress aud the
birch. The ceremonies of this rite had
their origin in a legend relating to the
establishment of their kingdom. One
day, according to the legend, there sud
denly aroso out of the ground, at the
confluence of the two principal rivers,
two marvelous trees that gave forth
melodious sounds as they roso into the
air. Whon they had grown large and
were covered with leaves they opened
from top to bottom, and there stepped
forth from them five children, om
whom became the King of the Onigoi
When theso children had grown up they
approached the trees with great respect,
and the trees spoke to them, giving
them good advice and wished them a
long life and great renown. Thence
forth the Ouigours,seeing in the cypress
and the birch tho cradles of their first
king and lawgivers, rendered to those
trees tho homage wo offer to the real
God.
Beside theso trees, which superstition
has elevated to divinity, may be placed
certain other productions of the vegeta
bio realm, which ignorance and preju
dice have at different periods, made
the object of wonder, or the awe of
races of men. Of this number is tho
npss tree, that grows on the island of
Java. Travelers relate that this treo
exhales a poison so virulent that all
other vegetation near is destroyed. Not
a bush nor a blade of grass is to be
found in tho valley whore the upas
grows. The surrounding mountains
are sterile rocks, and the place has
neither birds, quadrupeds nor reptiles.
Dr. Ilorshfield states that the upas,
which is found in Marcassar, as well as
Java, flourishes in a dense forest, but
also states that arrows dipped iu the
sap of tho upas inflict deadly wounds.
A story was told at one time concern
ing the Sicilian manna tree, which was
that upon a certain occasion when the
King of Naples was about to wall in
the gardens of CEnotria—which pro
duce the best manna ot Calabria—and
subject the produce to taxation, tho
manna suddenly dried up and did not
appear again until the tax was aban
doned. The bread treo has also given
rise to singular stories. Rumphius.the
Dutch traveler, once affirmed that the
variety known as the Jaquier heleso-
philis yields frnit so large that a man
can not lift one of the products. The
fruit is really about twice the size of a
fist. It glows for eight months;
then it is in condition to pluck. It is
cut in slices and broiled on hot coals,or
baked in an oven. When it commences
to blacken with -the heat, tho burned
part is scraped off, and beneath it is
found a white mealy pnlp, as tender as
theernmb of fresh bread, and greatly
resembling in flavor a good wheaten
loaf.
The Gauls entertained a peculiar
veneration for the mistletoe. Iu the
Gallic language gui oi mistletoe signi
fied plant, and in the symbolic phraseo
logy with which tho Druids only w<
familiar the word chic meaning oak,
the tree of all others, stood for force,
power and anthority. The oak mistle
toe was gathered every year in the
month of December by the high priest
of the Draids, or by the Qneen of the
female Draids, with a golden sickle,
and was received in the skirts of a white
tunic. In Germany it was also be
lieved that no ono who had a sprig of
mistletoe about his person could bo
wounded, hut he was certain to 6trike
those at whom he aimed his own ar
rows. However, the Germans never
rendered worship to the oak as the
Craids did in their mysterions forests.
William de Mandeville, a traveler
of the thirteenth century, gives a dis
cretion of the Drv Tree. Some theo
logians say that this tree grows not far
from the grave of Lot£ and has been
there since the beginning of the world,
and until tho death of Christ was filled
with green leaves. The moment Jesns
breathed his last all its leaves fell and
its trank and branches withered with
out the tree itself dying.
De Mandeville states that somi
prophesies say a Prince of tho West
shall win the land of promise by the aid
of the Christians, and there will be a
Mass performed under the Dry Tree,
and then the tree will become greeu
■'gain and bear leaves. By this mira-
ile many Jews and many Saracens will
be converted to tho Christian faith.
For this reason the tree is held in great
veneration and carefully and affection
ately tended. The people of the mid
dle ages believed it only necessary to
have a piece of the Dry Tree about
their persona in order to be saved from
all the maladies that afflict the human
weeping willow and somhiT yew are in-
eadicately associated with tha scenery
of the churchyard, and quite as natu
rally, although through habit merely
do we connect the laureland tho vine
wreath with thoughts of triumph and
festivity. Religion, in all agea and
climea, has found powerful auxiliaries
and exquisite symbols in the garden
and the grove.—Boilor. Herald.
DISCONTENTED.
A SHORT 8TORY FOR FARMERS’ BOYS.
Joe Thomas lived on a farm in the
country, and although many boys
would have thought themselves fortu
nate in having such a home, he was
about as discontented a fellow as could
ho found.
. Some of the city boys who had vis
ited him daring the summer vacation
told him that he was “green,” that he
would be yory foolish to remain on a
rarm all his life, aud that if he had any
spirit about him that he would go to
the city, where he would have au op
portunity of seeing life as it should be
seen.
Joe’s father wauted him to remain at
home, learn to be a farmer and settle
down on the homestead as he himself
had done. But Joe would not heed the
advice. Ho was thoroughly discon
tented, as many another country boy
has been, and his purpose in life was to
get into some city where he could wipe
out the stain of “greenness,” which
he fancied every one could see.
He finally succeeded in doing as he
wanted to; a friend of his father’s pro
cured for him a situation in a store
where he could earn a trifle more than
sufficient to pay board, and he left the
broad acres whereon he had toiled with
a heavy heart because of his longing to
get to the city, without a single regret
at parting from the dear ones at home.
The farm house, nestling among the
trees at the foot of the hill, looked din
gy and shabby as he drove away to
“see life as it should be seen,” and in
ripening grain and fruit he 6aw noth- *
ing but reminders of ignoble toil. Ac
cording to Joe’s belief, life in the coun
try was harldly less thai^a form of sla
very, while it was only in the city that
happiness conld be fonnd.
Now, boys, and more especially you
country boy8, who are beginning to
think a8|Joe Thompson thonght,I want
to tell yon how he was disappointed in
his bright dreams, and if you are wise
you will profit by his experience.
He fonnd a boarding place, where the
small stuffy room, which was quite as
good as any his fellow clerks had, of
fered a poor contrast to his cozy little
chamber at home, fragrant with laven
der scented linen, and as tidy as the
Apartment in the city was disorderly.
Instead of looking out over fields of
wavering grain, tasscling corn or nod
ding buckwheat to the lofty hills be
yond, when he was in his room he could
only a brick wall hardly fifty feet
away. Instead of the fragrance of the
flowers he had the odor of garbage from
the unswept street, and instead of being
lulled to sleep by tho chirping of the
crickets and the plaintiff cry of the ka
tydids, ho was kept awake by the rat
tling of carts and ramble of street cars.
At the table, tho difference between the
food prepared by tho servants in the
boarding-honse and that cooked by his
mother was so disappointing that it
seemed to him that he never could en-
raoe.
' But even among Ghnstians and . ..
lightened people ot the modern day
there are some trees and plants that
awake emotions of reverenco. Who,
for instance, can gaze unmoved upon
the lonely cedars of Lebanon, the sole
remaining witnesses of Biblical days
and incidents? Of these, but .thirty
were left in the year 1550, twenty-four
; ""1600, tweuty-two in 1650, sixteen
1700 and only seven in 1S00. The
But all this was necessary training,
ho wonld rid himself of what the boys
called “greenness.”
Joe had been told that a boy on a
farm is obliged to work harder than one
in a store in the city. lie could see
little or no difference, save that in the
former case he labored in the open air,
where everything was bright and health
ful around, while in the city he was
shut out from the sunlight, aud depriv
ed of the health-giving breeze, laden
with the perfume of fruits and flowers.
At night, instead of joining with the
boys from the neighboring farms in
husking or paring bees, candy pulls
coasting or skating, he was obliged t
remain in his cheerless room or walk
about the streets, where the bustling
crowds, intent only on business of the *
own, pleasure, caused him to feel even
more lonely than when he was entirely
alone.
i was not many days in learning
that he had been “green” only from the
city boy’s standpoint, and that, so
far as country life was concerned, they
were the ones that were green.
After he had “seen life,” according
to the ideas of his city friends, he wroto
to his father, and following is an ex
tract from his letlci: “I am coming
home to work on tho farm. I did think
that such labor was almost degrading;
but I find that it is quite as honorable,
and certainly more manly, than doing
a woman’s work behind a counter.
You need never fear that I shall ever
want to f xchange the independent farm
life for that of the city, and I am snre
that to be called green will trouble mo
no more. It is better,' I think, to be of
those who produce something in this
world than of those who depend on the
productions of others, and I now think
that there can be no more manly calling
than that of a farmer.”
Joe went home, and he was wire in
doing so, as wise as yon will be, boys
if you remain on tho farm, where you
will have the proud consciousness that
you are doing far more good in the world
than if yon were “seeing life’’in tho
city. What would become of the peo
ple of this world if all the faimers should
suddenly conclndo that tilling the
ground was not a sufficiently noble
calling?
When you are discontented with yonr
lot, boys, remember that it is the farm
er upon whom all the people in the
world depend on the-actual necessaries
of life; then you will understand that
no calling can bemoro honorable than
that which is actually and in fact the
mainspring of the whole.
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