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VOL. XVIII.
CUTIIBERT, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1884.
NO. 6
THE APPEAL
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Absolutely Pure.
By Little Brows Pipe.
ULUS E. DASH.
I have a little comforter
I carry In my pocket;
It Is not nny woman’s faco
Sot in a golden locket;
It is not any kind of purse,
It is not book or U tter,
Bat yet: «t times, I really think’
That it is something better.
Oh! my pipe! My little brown pipe!
How oft nt morning early,
When vexed with thoughts of coming toil
And jnst a little surly,
1 sit with thee till things get clear,
And all my plans grow steady,
And I cun face the strife ot life
With all my senses ready.
No matter if my temper stands
At stormy, fair, or clearing,
My pipe has not for any mood
A word of angry sneering.
I always fl id it just the same
In care, or joy, or sorrow,
And what it is to*il»y, I know
It's sure to be to-morrow.
It help* me through the siren of life,
It bulunc.s tu my losses;
It udds a charm to household joys,
And lightens household crosses.
For through its wreathing, misty veil
Joy bus n soft-r splendor,
And life grows sweetly possible
And love more truly tender.
Oh ! 1 have many richer joys!
I do not underrate them.
And every man knows what 1 mean,
jed to s
2 tbei
or phosphate
Koval Bukl.i|
N i.
competition will, the
•t. short weight, alum
». Bold only in cans,
g Powder Co.. loG Wall street,
NO MODE EYE-GLASSES,
Traducing Lone-Sigh
fug the f ’
r Drop.
,nutation. Stye Tu
urors, Red Ey«s. Matted Kvr Lash
es, and pmdwtlng quick
Relief and Perma
nent Cure.
Also, equally eflica.'loiis when n.
>tlirr nislaui, ,. such ns Ulcers. Kev
I'umors, Salt Rheum, Hums, I'il
wherever inthimaiion exists. Mi.It
salve may he nstd to advantage
Bold t»y all Druggists ut 25 c
But this I say: I'd rather miss
A deal of w hat*:, called pleasure,
Than lose uiy little comforter,
My little smoky treasure!
Sleep.
Sleep is to the brain what rest is
to (he muscle-*. Sleep is a craving
more impoiUnt titan hunger.—
Anion# some of the ancients, de«
privation of sleep was used ns n
pun shment. This cruelty was in.
Mitchell's Kyc Salve, ll,c,L " 1 b ? ll " ! K ’ ro!1 ““ u i' on
A Certain. B.r. .id EfTcciiv. lt.me,i y f„r «ou-, and the Catli»Blni»n»depri«(l
Sore, Weak f Inflamed Byes, i of h ordorto
make him so far sleepless.
There ate three kinds of sleep.
First, natural; seconJ, pathological;
thirdi artificial.
The length of time that should
be dcvoted to natural sleep*, it
not easy to determine. A maxim
of tbe school of .Salerno runs thus:
••Rise ut six. and eot at ten;
Rat ut six, utid bed at ten;
Ten times lea years
You tn.y live then.”
A child s petals in ora than half
its life tu sleep. An adult should
rptnd one-third of his. The aged
sleep hut little, though in oxtremo
old nge the habit of infancy 'often
returns,
Girls and women require more,
hut generally get loss titan
An hour's shop before midnight is
worili uinro tluu an hour after
midnight. Saint Francis, of .Sales,
used to H..y that " Early rising pro
rerrn health and h •liiieas,’*
Insomnia, or sleeplessness, is
commoii, (specially among moth
ers with young children, and
among the victims of over-work
and anxiety. Studeuts in coliege
often complain of sleeplessness.
It is a perilous thing to resort to
drugs. The only real cure is found
physical labor. Fatigue from
wxeroise in tb« open air is almost
invariubly followed by sound sleep
—Dio Itioia's Monthly,
ANDREW
Female College,
cvtmumt, GA.
Opens its next annual se.s'.uii
September 19, ISS.'i
in the Sluts. Faculty , -
ougl.ly trained gentleman an<l Indie*.—
ItaTldiiigs and surrounding* beautiful. Cli
mate and home comfort* ull il.ut run b<
d«*irt-d. Our work l* ilioronuli iu uli th
dspartiueuts.
the regular College r->ur*e w
have well organixml dcpurtmei.U in t'fi
man, Kretw-b. Vocal mid IfirtrunirnUI Murii
•nd Art. No extra rhuiges for Inst.uctioi
In Caiutbeuiiii, Clusi Hinging amt l'cntuuii
ship.
farms among th*
advautuget a Horded.
•r iufurmuiio... white to th« I're»i«l«nt,
Rev. HOWARD Vi. KEY, A. X.
TUTTS
ng tb
P8LLS
. TORPID BOWELS,
DlSORDERED LIVER,
Jm.0- 1 fourths of
... a race. Tbeso
is Indicate tliclr cxiatence: I*>ss of
u DswtU eoiUn, Sltk n««4-
|j—« sltir eating, aversion to
sn of body or aiias, KrncUtlon
d, Irrtta&lityiftespir, tow
^SSSSSJqSOA
_ sofa remedy that actsilIrceMr
s Liver, AsaUrormodicino TDTT*»
'lUromeiuil* Theiractionontho
ym^^telnjssay^romgt^wtnorlpg
■ of tlw aystans," producing fppa-
S, wood dlxaauon, rpfularttools rtear
aaodarigorousbodr. TCTTSWIjX
_na no aanssa or griping nor Intcrfsro
■nuns
7 Block by aslngto ap-
rn. Bold by Drttggisu,
m receipt of It.
HnSmtSSnfta
Just Opened.
N EW BtStionery,
• Pktara Frames,
Album*.
tic rap Book*.
Feather Duster*,
Lunch Baskets,
Backgammon Boards.
Checker Boards
Buck Purses and Pocket Books.,
Spectacle*, By# Olaatrs and Oogglss.
Panic Machs Spectacle Cases.
Accord Co u*. Harmonicas and Banjos.
Foncd Uoods in great variety offend at
low Price* »t T. 8. POWELL.
Druggist sad Bookseller.
The Great Lamp Emporium.
SftSPttalTlSlr'TUS
•- thte market. We
<• oUul wm bo wt—w.
r cheap we sell them.
P. TOOMBS It BUO.
When * m«u dies suddenly,
ithout the aid of a physician, the
coroner must bo cal ltd in. If
man dies regularly, after being
treated by a doctor, everybody
know* why ho died, and the coton
cr's inquest is not necessary.
Wo.havo never been able to ft el
altogether good toward Nosh for
taking tbe bed bug, male and fe»
male, into the ark.
fbe poet who wrote ‘‘Man wants
but little here below,” should try
again. Man wants all be can get.
Every human t»eiog has a work
to eartv on within, duties to per
form abtotd, influences to exert,
which are peculiar! r his, and which
uocouscience but Lis own can teach.
A Varied Performance.
Many wonder how Parker’s Gin
ger Tonic can perform such varied
cures, thinking it essence of ginger,
when in fact it is mads from many
valuable medicines which act ben
eficially on every diseased organ.
Satisfaction for Ten.
In our family of ten for over
two years Parker’s Ginger Tonic
has cured headache, malaria and
other complaints so satisfactorily
that we are in excellent health and
no expense for doctors or other
medicines.—Chroniett•
Field, Fort and Fleet.
The Shot and Shell (hat are
Fired From Greet Guns.
Some Instances of Their Destructive
Power and Some of the Little
Damage They Do.
A battle is full of inconsistencies.
A stray bullet seems to deviate
from its course to striko down
geuoral of brigade, whilo a battery
plays upon a regiment for an hour
without killing a dozen men. A
volley of musketry may striko
down scores of men at oue point,
whilo a like volley delivered at
even closer rango at another point
docs not make a single victim.
The shell which killed Rosecrona’
chief of staff at Stone River flew
on and exploded in the midst of a
marching column and did no fur
ther injury. In that same battle
Gen. Huzen had half a dozen
killed beride him, aud he escaped
without a scratch. One gun may
Ore for an hour and accomplish
nothing; the very first missile from
another may work tremendous i
jury.
In the great fight in Albomarle
Sound, when the Federal gun-boat
Sassacus attacked the Confederate
Albemarle, the latter fired
seven or eight shots which inflict 1
cd no damage. She then fired one
a rilled shell, which crushed
through the side of the gun boat,
entered her starboard boiler, and
killed two, wounded ono and scald
ed seventeen or eighteen raon,
whilo the darnago to tho boat was
several hundred dollars.
In tbe second bombardment of
Fort Fisher a shell from tho Fed
oral gunboat exploded in the midst
of a group. One soldier had two
buttons cut from bis coat, another
had his hut dashed oil’and a third
had his can'een shot away, and yet
tho only damage inflicted from ouo
shell was moro than had occurred
from tho previous 200 missiles.
During one of the monitor bom
bardments of Fort Bumpier (Au
gust 17), Cowraaudcr lingers took
the Catakill into the light. She
was hit about twenty times with
out having a man wounded or suf.
feting any serious injury, when, ai
she was about to steam away, c
shot struck the top of tho pilot
house, and tho flying nuts and i
splinters killed tho commander
and his paymaster and wouuded
the two pilots. At a later dato
tho iron-clad Woohaw ken fired i
shell into Fort Moultrio which dis
mounted ono gun, broko oft the
muzz'o of another, knocked down
several feet of wall, and killed
sixteen and wouuded twelve men,
At a later hour in this fight a
Confederate lieutenant was hurled
a distance of fifty feet by tho ex
plosion of a shell, and yet his only
injury was tho direct result of tho
fall. While men to the rij»ht and
loft and behind him wero killed
and wounded, he flew through the
air in tho company of tho irou
splinters and was untouched.
During the bombardment of
Fort Henry a shot from a guu
sighted by Gen. Tilgbman himself
at tbe Federal gun boat Essex
broke through her plates with an
awful crash, killed ono matt and
woundod two, aud entered the mid
dle boiler. The results wero most
disastrous. Of tbe entire crew not
more than ton escaped a scalding,
and many wero literally steamed
to death. Tbe ono thought was to
escape from the terrible steam, ard
every one who could get out of tbe
trap jumped overboard and left
the vessel to float out of action.
Had the Essex been two feet near
er to or further from the fort tho
accident could not have happened.
A delay of three or four seconds
in loading and firing tho guu
would have prevented it. Bbe
could have been struck fifty times
without iuflicting a tenth of the
damage done by the one shot.
In tbe gun-boat fight before
Memphis five shots were thrown
away for every one that hit. The
fight was brought on rather sooner
than expected by either side, and
tbe boats bad to maneuver with a
strong current. Tbe Federal craft
Denton fired, five or six shots which
missed, and followed them with
another whieh crashed into tbe
Beauregard, entered her boiler
aud placed her helpless. Hardly
any of her crew escaped scalding,
and the same shot killed and
wounded several men before strik
ing the boiler. Just another such
luoky shot struck the steam chest
of the Little Rebel aud took, -her
out of tbe fight. Whilo 150 or 200
shots were fired during tho fight,
the two missiles mentioned had
much to do with winuiug tho vie*
tory.
At least one of tho great shells
thrown from tbe Federal gun boats
in Turkey Bend at tho battle of
Malvern Hill was yet lyiug within
half a mile of tho Malvern farm
houso in tho spring of 1882.
few failed to explode, and this was
one of them. Perhaps there was
no other instauco in war where tho
navy helped the army out so sue
ccssfully. From the signal station
at tho Malvern houso tho little
flags diroetod tho gun-boats two
miles away just where to throw
their ponderous projectiles to do
the most good. The lower road to
Richmond was under the firo of
these guns,and troops coming down
that way were thrown into great
confusion by tho bursting shell,
but it was over in the woods on the
Crews farm that they played tho
greatest havoc. Here Magrudcr
was massing bis troops as tlioy
came up. They wero perfectly
safe from the shells flung at them
by tho field artilcry on tho plateau,
but thcro was no cscapo from tho
screaming monsters which came
whirling through tho air from
Jamos ltivor aud dropped into tho
forest with tcrriiio crash.
Whilo the number of men killed
and wounded wero small, the tf
fccts of the firo wero felt through
ought a whole corps, Tho fall of
a single shell would destroy the
alignment of a whole brigade, and
it has been asserted on both sides
that the work of tho gun-boats do
layed tho Confederate attack for
more than a.i hour, and th it hour
was priceless to McClellan. Ouo
of tho uuexplodcd shells, after ly
the battle-ground for ove
three years, waft finally loaded into
a cart hv three or four colored
men to be taken to Richmond anti
sold to the junk dealer. Whilo cn
routo the mule ran away, and as
tho shell tumbled about it ex plod
cd. Tho difference between tho
wreck of tho mulo and tho wreck
of tho cart could easily bo distin
guished, but both were left where
the explosion hurled them
In December, 180:*, tho English
schooner Ringdove attempted to
run into Iudian River, Florida.
The Federal bark Koobuck was on
blockade duty and headed the
schooner off and gave ebano
ter a long run the Roebuck came
near enough to iibo her guns, and
one singlo shot settled tho question
of capture. This shot was fired
from a bow gun. It just grazed
the stcru rail of the schooner,
killed the man at tho wheel, de
stroyed tho sbering apparatus,
and then struck the main mast and
brought it down with all sail. Tho
schooner wus rendered a hopeless
wreck in less than a single minute
and by oue single shot. Hor crew
of five or six meu rushed below
and left the vessel to take cure of
herself, and bofore the Roebuck
could come up tbe prise had run
hersolf aground. The shot which
created all tho mischief was found
the water cask.
In December, 18G:i, while tbe
Federal gun-boat Marblehead, car
rying six guns to a broadside, was
lying In Stone River she was open
ed on one morning at daylight by
six or seven pieces of heavy artiU
lery from the lank. For fifteen
or twenty minutes there was a
sharp fight, and whilo it seemed
certain that tbe vessel would have
to haul down her flag or go to tho
bottom a lucky shot changed the
whole outlook in a moment. An
eleven inch shell from tbe Marble
head fall between two of the Con
federate guns, dismounted one,
killed nearly all the crew of the
other and killed or wounded eight
infantrymen lying in support.
During tbe confusion caused by
the sudden disaster the gun boat
increased her steam until able to
slip her anchor and maneuver, aud
after that she was more than a
match for the attacking force.
Her fire waa so rapid and accurate
that tho Confederates left part
of tbe battery in position when
they drew off.
In March, 1804, six Federal ves
scls ascended the Ouachita River,
which empties into tbo Red, to a
•mail town called Trinity, Tbe
Confederates bad quite a force of
infantry Tiero, together with *ever
al 32-pounders and somo lighter
artillery. The whole fleet were
abreast of tbe town, aud prepara
tions wero making to land, when
a heavy artillery fire was opened
on two of the craft. This wax at
once replied to by over forty guns,
all firing right into tbe town at
rifle rango. Tho firo was contin
ued for a quarter of an hour be
fore there was auy cessation, and
the results were appalling.
The Confederate artillery in the
town had como up only a few
minutes beforo the arrival of the
fleet, and thereforo no time had
been given tho citizens to seek
shelter outside. Of the sixty
more houses in the place only ono
or two escaped that furious can
nonade. With tho first • crash of
the guns women and children start
ed for shelter. The only place of
safety was tho river bank,
roach the town tlio guns wero
voted, thus making tho wnter'i
edge the safest shelter for miles
around.
The effect of seme of the pro
jectors was amazing. Oue solid
shot struck the corner of a frame
bouse near tho upper floor joists
aud tore away ko much of it that
oue standing on tho street could
look into the upper bedroom. This
shot glanced acrost tho street into
a yard aud rolled to the door steps
of a houso ou which two or threo
women were standing. A shell
ontorod a dwelling near a window,
toro its way through threo par
titions, demolished a bedstead and
in its explosion toro out half the
second floor and a groat part of
tho roof, and yet a woman aud
three children who wero crouched
in u bedroom wero unhurt.
Seven or eight infantrymen
sought shelter behind a cooper
8bop. A shotl entered the build
ing just under the caves exploding
as it struck, and two-thirds of
tho roof was carried away. Every
man behind it wus uioro or Ilsb
severely wounded by tho flying
splinters. In a houso in which an
old man was ill, a shell penetrat
ed the roof, alightnd on a bed up.
stairs, and in its explosion it tore
awuy ouo cud of tho building and
most of the roof and threw the
house off tho blocks on which it
retted. Tho sick rauu was covered
with dust aud splinters, but did
not receive u scratch. Another
building in which a mother and
five or six children wero imprison-
d had a solid shot pass into and
out of it, without injury to any
one, while a barn noar by in which
was a span of mules and a wagon
was literally blown away.
At the attack on Fort Morgan,
Mobilo Bay, In 1864, • a riflo shell
struck the Federal sloop Oneida
squaro on her broad*sido near tho
water-lino. Thu shell broko uway
bur chain armor, crushed through
her heavy planks, penetrated tho
boiler and exploded inside. Tbe
boiler wax torn to pieces, half tbo
crew fatally scalded, and nearly
every man aboard waa knocked
down and stunned. Tbe men re
turned to their guns whilo yot tbe
steam was so hot that legs and
arms were blistered. They had
not yet recovered from tbe explo
sion when another shell broke
through aud exploded iu the cabin,
cutting tbe tiller ropes, knocking
down all tho bulkheads, and de
stroying every breakable thing in
tbst part of tbe ship. Within five
minutes a third shell crushed into
the Oueida and started a firo on
top the magazine. Tho flames
were put out by tho crew without
adding to tbe confusion, and
signal brought tho Galena along
side to take hor in tow. Some
thing of tbe admirable discipline
of a naval vessel, even when in
dire distress, may be found in the
fact that the Oneida fired away in
this action eighty-eight shot, shell
and rounds of canister.
M. Quad.
Tbe great demand for Shrinsr’*
Indian Vermifuge is solely due to
its intrinsic value. Thousands uso
it to day in preference to any other,
and say that it destroys and expels
worms effectually.
A young giant is Jack Shields,
of Hunt county, Tessa. He is
twenty-one years old seven feet
eight inches high, and weighs 291
Too Many Subjects in Oar Schools.
I am no educationalist, and may
bo accused of spooking about whal
I am ignorant of, if I suggest that
too many things are taught at the
same time, and too littlo tluio is
taken for the whole process. Ihink
of an undeveloped brain getting
up book knowledge on 10 difl'er.
ent subjects al! tho same day, and
this going on day after day for
years I It it altogether contrary
to the principles of a sound psychol
ogy to imagine that any sort of
mental process, worthy of tho name
of thinking, can tako place iu that
braiu whilo that is going on. The
natural tendency of a good brain
at that ago to bo inquisitive and
receptive is gluttod to moro than
satioty, Tho natural process of
building up a fabric of mental
completeness by having each now
fact and observation looked ut in
different ways, and having it sug.
gest other facts and ideas, aud then
settle down as a part of tbo regu
lar furniture ol the mind, can not
possibly go on where new facts
are shoveled iu by tho huudred
day by day. The effect of this
bad on boys, but worse on girls,
because it is more alien to lliuir
mental constitution. Tho effect
on them ol this unnatural process
m to exhaust the nervous power at
the time, and to 1< ave tho brain
afterward filled with useless things
that arc soon forgotten and pa.-s
away; as Goethe said about proles
sional men: they labor under t
great disadvanlugo in not being
allowed to ho ignorant of what
to them useless, Tho vital eni
gma aud uervous power that had
thus been .thrown nuay should
have gone toward a feminine equip
inent of a healthy, well developed
body, a mind built up and stored
with kuowldgo that had a relation
to its own nature and to tho wants
of its future life, affections not at-
uatod by scholastic routine, and
a cheerfulness that is only com
patible witb good health. The
erainmiug up of tho dry facts of
thoso many subjects is in most
cusos a weariness and pain, while
tbe intelligent study of ouo-third
of thorn, helected on account ot
their fitness to tbe mental consti
tution of tho loarncr, or her prob
able requirements in future life,
might be a pleasure and a lasting
profit.
An exchange states that Mrs.
Myra Clurko Gaines, instead of
being the possessor of millions, is
now living in Washington in
'straiglitenod circumstances. Sho
rents furnished rooms, and sup
ports herself, daughter-in-law aud
two grandchildren ou $50 a month,
which is the pension allowed her
as the widow of Gen. Edmund P.
Gaines, tbe hero of tbe battlo of
Fort Erie in tbo war of 1812-15.
Her suit for a largo port of tho
city of New Orleans is not yet
finally determined, but sho has
gained tho case against tho United
States Government and will receive
tbo money os soon as Congress
makes the necessary appropriation.
At one of tbe hotels in San Fran
eisco tbo other day, says tho Ex
aminer, a drummer ordered a roast
beef of the waiter. Pretty mod
that functionary brought on a piece
about the width of his finger. The
drummer continued conversing
with bis friend, apparently uncon
scious that thu order bad been
served. Scon be called tbe waiter
again and asked him why his order
bad not been attended to.
"Here’s your roust beef, tab,”
said tbe waiter. "I served it some
time ago.” *
"Oh l Indeed? Roast beef?
Why, so you did. I thought all
the time it was a crack in tbe
plate.”
Instead of feeling tired and
worn out, instead of aches and
pains, wouldn’t you rathar feel
fresh and strong ? If you con
tinue feeling miserable and good
for nothing you have only your
self to blame, for Brown’s Iron
Britten will surely cure you. Iron
and cinchona are its principal in*
gradients. It is a certain enro for
dyspepsia, indigestion, malaria,
weakness, kidney, lung, and heart
affections. Try it if von desire to
bo healthy, robust and strong and
experience its remarkable curative
qualities.
Sour milk, wboy and buttermilk
rounds. Bo hu sis brothers, all *"> «“lleot liquid* fur mixing
over wtco foot in height. 1 t*" *»“ fwJ of P 00 '^-
Tho Eealitios of Woddod Lift.
There conies tho inevitable day
when tbo newly married pair awak
en from their love-dream ’and en
deavor to settlo down to the reali
ties of life. The habits, the manuers
and the tempers are things that
neither knows anything about in
tho other, and that which was loug
concealed in an engagement for
months is quickly revealed in the
close relationship of married life*
Some little habit that thu bachelor
or maiden bus formed rasps to raw
ness tho nerves of tho other, and
tho determinations ou either side
L-rake the other of tho fault only
chafes uml frets both without at
taining the object. Ho thinks
that homo lifo should fill their
every thought. Sho thinks a little
society and gayuty would bo pre
ferable. He is tired when he conies
homo at night, tired of seeing peo-
plo,tired of talking to thorn; ko has
been iu a whirl all riay. Sho has
moped by herself through the same
loug hours in the "love of n cot**
tngo” that seemed so poetical to
talk about, or has spent a dreary
time, solitary and alone, through a
cheerless winter day in her room
at their boarding house, and is only
kept from downright reb -llion by
the thought that wheu "Charlie”
comes home they will go to tho
treutre, or go to see "ma.” Then
there is disappointment on both
sides. She thinks iio is "roal
mean” becau'o bo does not indoiso
her plans, and ho thiuks sho is
downright silly to leavo such a
cosy lireside and such a comforta
ble little home place for any other
spot on earth. Ho is perfectly sat**
isfied, and wonders that sho ii not
so. Sho has always found tier "I
wills” and “I wont’s” tho law and
tho gospel, and ten chances to ono
Charlie yields to her imperial high*
ness, and is forever after a hen
pecked husband. But if that
same Charlie is wia -, and can con
vince his "little wifa” without
wounding tier, he lias forever won»
not only her hoart, hut hor judge
ment; nnd she looks up to and re
spects him for his firmucss. It is
▼cry seldom tbe casu that tho first
months of married lifo are tho hap
piest, and it takes a big stock of
lovo and good sonso to launch a
couple over tho breakers into u
smooth, open, matrimonial sea.
Tho faults that are discovered, tbo
weaknesses that aro shown,, the
foibles that aro botrayed, can only
bo met witb forbearance, if a pair
hopo for a blissful future; tbcu
every after year confirms their
oneness of heart, of sympathy and
of purposo, and any couple of this
kind long married will tell you
tboy are happior after all tboeo
years than they were tho day they
wero married,— Wuverly Maya-
sine.
An Extraordinary Man.
Mr. W. W. Guerry, of th*s city,
is iu many respects au extraordi
nary man. Ho is now about 40
years old. In childhood both bis
arms wero cut off about half way
between tho elbow and shoulder
by a sugar mill. But be was
Hvo boy, full of vim, energy and
aggressiveness, and it was not
great whilo beforo bo learned to
get along without arms. He grew
to be and is yet a man of proroi
ncnce, integrity and usefulness.
He has a wifo and several children,
is coroner of the county, acting
bailiff ot Americus district and
making a handsome support.
In the business of lifo Mr. Guer
ry hardly misses his arms. Ho
inserts tbo pen staff in his month
when writing, and writes as legibly
snd os fast at men generally write
wbo aro accustomed to tbe use of
the pen. He can swim, drive
horse, tie a knot, shoot a gun, and
do almost anything, and do it
about os well as if bis arms htd
never been cut off, Mr. Guerry
is intelligent, reliable and entitled
to great credit for the manner in
which ho bos met snd mustered the
difficulties which stood in his way.
—Sumter Republican.
The deepest sea sounding ever
made says tbe Scientific American,
was made in the Pacifio Ocean,
near entrance to Behring’s Sea.
Bottom was struck at 4,665 faths
otns. The cast was made from the
United States srhoolsbip Tnscaro*
Tbe shallowest water in tbe
middle of tbe Atlantic, 731 fath
oms, shows the subsidence of moun
tains 10,566 feet
Hammocks for Girls in tho Can*
An advertisement before us in
an exebnugd looks ss though it was
a good thing, but we are a little
skepticul. The articlo is a " car-
scat hammock,” and there is tho
picture of tbe hummoek swung
from the back of one seat to the
back of the seat ahead, and in the
hammock is a ycung lad/ asleep,
and over tho picture are the words
" Sleep, darling, sleep.” The girl
teems to be aslcop, with hor foot in
tho otiriup ot the hammock, but
thcro is a weird, wicked wildness
about her faco thut convinces tbe
beholder that she is wide awake.—
Such a hammock might he made
to work in nn empty car on tho side
track, but in a cur running forty
miles an hour that girl would get
spilled on the floor. In tbe first
place, the person with a hammock
has got to have two whole seats,
which no railroad company would
allow unless tho girl was a friend
of tho hrnkeman. It would be a
nice sight, wouldn’t it, to see a girl
come into a crowded car, cause
passengers to move out of a couple
of seats, then swing her hammock
aud got in ar.d go to sleep. Imag-
ino such a scene, and listen to the
continents of tho passengers. Tbo
drummer for llio grocery house,
bitting on tho wood box, would
look at her and say, " She looks ss
though sho had only one lung, but
sho has two galls,” and would go
up to the hammock and say, “ la
this soat all occupied ?” Tbo girl
uid open her t-yes nnd give him
a look that would cause him to pass
on to tho smoking car in a hurry*
Tho hrnkeman would go to tho
hammock girl and touch her on
tho vaccination mark and say,
MUs, you will have to take down
your circus tent and lot somebody
help you occupy this seat,” and
>u!d paraUzo tbo brakeman
witb a look, and ho would go off
nnd sond tho conductor in. The
conductor wojM bring the big
groeny drummer witb him aud
say, "Can’t you make room for
this gentleman ?” and then she
would be road. At stations along
tne line of tho road grangers would
stand on tbo platform and look in
tho windows at the curious speota**
cle, and as tho train moved on with
tho sleeping beauty overybody
would be tired except the girl.—
Girls can think of enough ways to
make passengers on a railroad train
wish they woro doad without bar-
uessing themselves up in a ham
mock at tbo top of tho sats, and
an iuvestigator who placet addi«
tional facilities in their possession
by which tlioy aro enabled to an*
nor travelers is doing a great
wrong. It Is bad enough to drive
along tho road and see a girl swing**
ing in a hammock between two
trees on a lawn, where the dip’ance
is so great that you cannot tell
whether tho stocking is silk or lisle
thread, but to have a girl inn
hammock right across tbe aisle of
a car would be tantalizing, and the
fear that something would break,
and tho beautiful sleeper would
drop down between the two seats,
her body shut up like a jseksknife,
one foot caugbt in tbe shawl rack
and her head on a valise in tbo
corner, hor wig off, and the girl
yelling murder and calling for tho
brakeman to uncouple her foot,
would be enough to cause the hair *
of the averago mao to torn gray
on a single trip. Tho girl in a
hammock, on the oars, must go.—
Jlurlinffton Uawkeye.
One pound of rice gives 88 per
cent of nutriment, and one pound
of beef 25 per cent. Aud yet,
says the Journal of Health, count
less numbers of the poor strain at
a point daily to purchase beef at
15 cents a pound whea *they could
got a pound of rice at one-third of
that amount, tbe rice, too, having
three times as muoh nutriment aa
the beef and being three times ea
sier of digestion.
There is nothing lower than
hypocrisy. To profoss friendship
and act enmity la a sore proof of
total depravity.
One toad on a. farm destroys
more insects than bis price In lime,
worrying and parts green. One
toad is almost as good as a hoe. *
Mrs. 1. T. Smith, Wsdley, Go.,
•ays: "Brown’s Irou Bitters rector*
ed my daughter to'robust health.
She suffered from weakness and
debility.”
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