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VOL. XLV. )- NO. 36.
SOME CATERPILLARS.
The Pests Reported to Have Stopped
a Train in Chatham County.
Atlanta Journal Special.
Savannah, April 24th.—For several
days reports have been coming into
Savannah of the ravages of the cater
pillars within 12 or 14 miles of the
city. Yesterday a representative of
the Journal visited the stricken sec
tion and was astonished at the situa
tion. The caterpillars have become
a plague as destructive as any that
ever visited the West or committed
depredations in Biblical times.
The pests have overran Antioch
church and made it unfit for use. The
streams are so badly covered with
them that when it was decided to
have a baptizing last Sunday brush
brooms had to be employed to clean
off the surface of the water. Two
negro families have been run out of
their homes by the great horde of
hungry, hairy things, and Richard
Dotson, who jlives at Pooler, had to put
his entire family of twelve at work
to keep them from overrunning his
home.
The residents about Pooler are sur
rounding their homes with ditches
to keep the conquering army back.
On the turpentine farms of Judge F.
S. Lathrop, chairman of the board of
county commissioners of Chatham
county, work has almost been at a
standstill in one way or more work
made in another. All the turpentine
boxes that the least gum in them
will have to be dipped and thrown
away, as the caterpillars have crawl
ed into them, stuck there and died.
At Williams Station, on the Sea
board railway, a freight train was
stalled last week by the caterpillars.
The dead insects caused such a stench
that the people passing that way were
made sick.
A Chic Retort.
Mr. Choate’s quickness at repartee,
says Lippincott’s, is well illustrated
by the following story. During a
“week end” at an English country
house his neighbor at breakfast one
morning chanced to be a pretty Amer
ican who had come to misfortune in
trying to manipulate her egg in the
English fashion. With face full of dis
may she turned to him :
“Oh, Mr. Choate, what shall I do?
I’ve dropped an egg!”
“Cackle, madam, cackle,” answered
the ambassador.
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BLAKELY, GA. THURSDAY EVENING. APRIL 27, 1905.
SAM JONES IN A CLOSE PLACE.
Crazy Methodist Preacher Lured
Evangelist Into Room, Locked the
Door and Threatened His Life.
Montgomery, Ala., April 21. —Rev.
Sam P. Jones, of Cartersville, Ga., the
well known evangelist and lecturer,
had an experience here yesterday
which he is not likely t.o soon forget.
Mr. Jones was in Montgomery en
route to Tuskeegee, Ala., where he
last night delivered a lecture to Book
er Washington’s school. Sam H.
Windham, a Methodist preacher,
whose home is at Dothan, Ala., ac
costed him on the streets and per
suaded him to accompany Windham
to the latter’s room in the hotel.
No sooner were the two in Wind
ham’s room than the preacher turned
to Mr. Jones, after first locking the
door and placing the key thereto in
his pocket, and said :
“God has directed me to go to De
mopolis, Ala.,- and get married and to
take you with me to perform the cere
’mony. Then we are to conduct a meet
ing in Demopolis, after which we will
return to Montgomery and conduct a
meeting here.
“If you don’t assent to this, either
you or I must die.”
At this moment a bell boy knocked
at the door and informed Mr. Jones
that he was wanted at the telephone.
Excusing himself, he managed to
leave the room, and needless to say
did not return. He was followed to
the depot, however, by Windham, who
was arrested there by Detective
Payne.
Windham, who is a former inmate
of an inslane asylum, and who has been
three times divorced from the woman
he wishes to wed again, is held at po
lice barracks as a suspicious charac
ter. It is not known at this time just
what disposition of his case will be
made.
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T. F. JONES.
THE KITTEN ON THE ROOF.
Story of How an American Woman
Witnessed a Little Comedy in Which
the Lover Voluntarily Assumes One
Role and Is Forced Into Appearing
in a Second When the Suspicious
Parent Appears.
For ways that are dark and tricks
that are beyond the comprehension of
sane people I commend you a pair of
lovers when parental authority says
that they shall have no converse with
each other.
These ways and tricks are not con
fined to any particular nation, for love,
like laughter, tears and sorrow, knows
no nationality. Human nature is the
same the world over, and when two
people love, or think they do( which
comes to the same thing in the long
run), they will find away to circum
vent the non-consenting papa—as I
shall prove:
In the City of Mexico there lives a
family, rich, of high social standing,
and altogether nice.
The head of the family, the father,
is a widower of many years’ standing.
He has a beautiful daughter, whom he
Regards as the light of his life, which
is nqt unnatural, as she is a good girl,
accomplished, and a splendid house
keeper.
The girl has a novio, which is also
not unnatural, as she is exceedingly
pretty, charming and rich.
Like a great many other papas in
Mexico (and elsewhere) he thorough
ly disapproves of his daughter having
a lover. He makes himself extremely
disagreeable to the young man when
ever he chances to encounter him in
the street near his house, which is not
infrequent, as the young man may be
said to literally live in that street, as
he is there morning, noon and night.
The irate papa has gone so far as
to tell the enamored young Romeo that
he is going to tell the gendarme to
march him off to the comisaria as a
suspicious character, and other pleas
ant little threats of a similar nature.
As is the romantic custom here this
young man has been making love, ha
ciendo el oso, from the street; in this
way the father has been able to keep,
not only one, but two eyes (very keen
and disapproving ones) upon the
young people.
In the adjoining house there lives
an American lady, who is quite friend
ly with the family. Os course she, as
well as the other neighbors, know of
the street-courting, and of the father’s
opposition. , ,
Often has she remonstrated with
the senorita about her defiance fcf her
fathers’ wishes. The girl only laugffejl
at her and said that she had forgotten
tht saheE. ..rooswM. .s-ss. h (
that she had ever been young, and
other things that are not pleasant for
elderly people to hear.
One afternoon as the dusty shadows
of the fast approaching night were
falling upon the city, the American
lady received a message from the sen
orita to the effect that her pet kitten
had fallen through an iron-barred and
locked window overlooking the roof
pf the American’s house, as the
nights were cold she was afraid that
it would die during the night. Could
she not send a mozo with a ladder, as
there was no stairway to the ’ady’s
azotea, and rescue her darling little
gatito from death? Besides, she craft
ily added, if the kitten did not die of
cold, it would cry all night and dis
turb the lady—all of which was in
contestibly true. The American
knows no greater trouble than not to
be able to sleep when she is once in
bed.
Therefore she gave a willing con
sent, for is she not a bright and shin
ing light in the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty of Animals? Shall
she leave the poor helpless kittie to
die a miserable death; or worse still,
shall she remain awake all night lis
tening to its piteous cries and no* be
able to relieve it? Not much !
In 3ue time the mozo appeared with
an immensely long and ill-built ladder.
Being a busy woman she did not stay
to watch the mozo ascend an
down the cat, which was yHangely
silent for a cat 4n a strange place, but
returned to her room, after directing
him where to place it.
In a half an hour she went out upon
the corridor and great was her sur
prise to see the ladder still standing
where it had been placed. She asked
the servant if the man had rescued
the poor cat, if it had been much in
jured by its fall, and why the ladder
had not been removed ?
“Wait you a short while, nina, and
the gratito you will see,” answered
the grinning servant. “I will call you
when the times arrives to see the lit
tle cat.”
A little mystified at the
her servant the lady returned to her
room and work. In a half an horn
the servant came and said :
“The little cat is going up the lad
der, if you desire to see him make the
ascent.”
More puzzled than ever by the an
nouncement that the cat was going up
the ladder alone instead of being
brought down by the mozo, she went
out on the corridor in time to see a
pair of heels disappearing over, the
edge of the roof.
“What does this mean?” she asked
the servant, who stood grinning in
great appreciation of; her mistress’
non-comprehension of the situation.
“That is the kitten on the roof—the
one that has just gone up,” she ex
plained.
The Americana stood in perplexed
silence for some minutes; then it
dawned upon her that she had been
skillfully used by the senorita for the
purpose of hoodwinking her father.
As all the world is said to love a
lover she was no exception to the
rule; still she felt a healthy twinge of
conscience at. the thought that she
was helping the girl to deceive her
parent. But what was she to do ?
She did not care to risk ascending
the still swaying ladder. It was en
tirely too long for its extreme slen
derness, and to her looked a perfect
death trap.
She did not like to interrupt the
lovers —that would be worse than cru
elty to animals. She could not imag
ine what she would say to the irate
father, if he ever heard of it, and ask
ed about it. She was in a quandary.
Like a homeless ghost she wander
ed aroung the dark corridor, wishing
that all the cats in creation were ii:
the bottom of the gulf of Mexico—
poor cats ! that had never done her
any harm —all because the sorrows ol
a suppositious cat had been used to
delude her.
After an hour’s time there smote
upon her ears the sound of a mighty
running across the roof, a hasty
scrambling on that slender, danger
ously swaying ladder, accompanied by
loud shouts from the azotea.
The young man hurried down as
fast as the precarious footing and the
wild jerking from side to side of the
ladder would permit.
“He is coming! he is coming!” he
almost shouted, as he reached what
might be termed terra firma; and he
ran for dear life around the corridor,
down the stairway, and out into the
friendly darkness of the street.
There was a general hurrying and
skurrying to and fro in the house,
that he had so unceremoniously de
parted from, to get the ladder down.
There was not a man around, but it
was hastily removed by the combined
efforts of the lady, the servant girls
and the decrepit portero.
Not a moment too soon either, for
as it was laid on the floor a face look
ed over the edge of the azotea, and
the voice of the father said :
“There was a ratero on your roof,
madam; and I have chased him off.
Had I not happened to see him he
would have remained up here and la
ter in the night would have descend
ed to your corridor and robbed your
house. I really cannot understand
where he has gone to, as you have no
stairway leading to your roof; and the
doors of all the other houses that lead
to the other azoteas are locked. Queer!
queer!”
It certainly was!
As soon as the American lady could
command her voice, she asked;
“Are you not mistaken ? I cannot
think how any one could get on my
$1 A YEAR
roof except from yours or some of the
other neighbors), and you say that
their doors are locked.”
“They are, madam,” he shouted
back. “It was fortunate for you that I
came to my roof when I did. A servant
told me that there was a kitten on
your roof that had fallen out of my
barred window, and that my daughter
had gone to its rescue. I met my
daughter at the head of the stair and
she told me that there was no kitten
there, and insisted that I return. Over
her shoulder I saw a man and I came
on. When I unlocked the bars of the
window I found that he had disap
peared as if the roof had opened and
swallowed him. Where he has gone
to I can not imagine, so we must all
be careful and on the lookout. If he
returns we will catch him. I warn
you to be careful, for there are many
rateros about at this season.”
The American thanked him effusive
ly, if in a somewhat choked voice, and
promised that she would see to it that
no more rateros found access to her
roof.
“Nor kittens, either,” she mentally
vowed.
Which vow she will in the future
keep involate. —From the Mexican
Herald, Mexico City, Sunday, January
Bth, 1905.
SOCIAL NEWS.
Damascus and Kestler.
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Editors Early County News :
Mrs. Joe Sherman returned to her
home in Hilton last Friday.
( Dr. Z. V. Parker* of Blakely, is
spending a few days in Kestler.
Messrs. John Haddock and Lee
Webb spent a few days in Albany last V
week. V.
Mrs. E. C. Green has been very crit
ically ill at her home in Kestler for
some days.
Quite a crowd of young people from
here spent Easter Sunday in Edison.
All report a very pleasant time.
Miss Faye Jones and Mr. Ralph
Hobbs, of Blakely, spent Easter Sun
day very pleasantly in Kestler.
Mrs. W. J. Webb has been called to
Blakely on account pf the illness of
her daughter, Mrs. S. H. Webb.
Mrs. Nick Hightow'er, Jr., Mrs. Joe
Sherman and Miss Lottie Webb spent
last Tuesday afternoon in Colquitt, as
the guests of Mrs. Stapleton.
Mr. W. J. Webb and daughter, Miss
Lottie, went up to Cuthbert recently
to spend a few days, as the guest of
Mr. G. D. Webb, on College street.
LITTLE GIRL.
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A car load if fresh lime just re
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good, fresh lime.
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