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The Citizen.
The campaign against, the saloons is
ill(T pushed with vigor in our neigh
bonng State Tennessee.
g Hiper Haggard’s weird story.
,glje” has been dramatized. It will
ertaialy take some pretty tall art in
a creation of that kind.
AjiEBICA is given to hospitality. The
delegates from foreign shores who were
• attendance upon the recent Medi
cal* Congress at Washington, expressed
themselves as delighted with the kind
reception and generous, courteous en-
tertainmont while on American soil.
Am0N 'g the many bills which have
ge d the present Legislature, and
become law, one of the most important
is that prohibiting druggists, or any
else, from selling opium or any of
one
its preparations to persons habitually
addicted to the use and abuse of this
poisonous drug.
0 VE 0 { the industries, of Gainesville,
this State, is a match factory which
makes, per day, 5,000,000 matches as
good as any manufactured in the world.
These are the sort of industries that
build np a town, and if Dalton would
bestir herself in this direction we would
soon have the most prosperous inland
town in the State.
Dckixg the past season 30,000,000
encumbers have been pickled in one
factory at Fredericksburg, Va. One
acre will produce on an average 1,000,-
000 cucumbers, and they sell rapidly
in the city at SO cents per 1,000. They
are usually picked when not more than
an inch or an inch and a half long.
One person can gather in 3,000 in
dav.
The last ray of hope of the Chicago
anarchists is gone. The Supreme
court of Illinois on the 14th sustained
the decision of the lower court, and
seven of the bomb-throwers will hang
on November 11th. The verdict crea
ted a great sensation throughout Chi
cago. Petitions for executive clem
ency are already being circulated and
signed.
What is the matter with the peo-
ple—the farmers—of Whitfield coi
ty? Have they no enterprise—no pub
lic spirit? Two Fairs—industrial and
agricultural—are to be held during the
next month (the Piedmont Exposition
and the State Fair), and if our county
has arranged to be represented at eith
er we are in ignorance of the fact.
This is mortifying.
The Savannah News does not think
the bottom facts in the convict lease
system of Georgia have been made
public, but ventures the opinion that
the lessees are making big money, and
declares that as long as the lease sys
tem. which is a very bad one, is in
force, no effort should be spared to pre
vent the abuses for which it affords so
many opportunities.
Iiie comical trials of pleasure-hunt
ing are capitally told by Kate Field in
Harper’s Magazine for October, in an
autobiographical story, called “Our
Summer s Outing.” The exasperating
adventures of this vacation party in an
ob-enre New York village form a di
verting history for the after summer
Period, and Frost’s characteristic il-
Rstrations render its humorous scenes
all the more vivid.
Talma
'tvoE, the Brooklyn tabernacle
preacher, says a great deal of insani-
J is due to "early rising.” We take
is ue with the great tabernacle divine
-a ’ h opinion. More insanity is caus-
! rom doping late hours at night—
aticing and "wine-bibbing”—and stay-
fr°J a * J6< ^ the beautiful, re-
,[' S In S Hours of the early morning,
tilaa anythin
early i
else. We never saw an
&t •. nser ’ who did not keep late hours
®'ght in dissipation, who was not a
7, vigorous individual.
EE Ht. Louis Globe-Democrat thinks
that
a standard silver
T Con taining!only 412| grains, is
j]| 0Ee Hundred cents, while a trade
0 ) ar ’ con t a > n ing 420 grains, is worth
p J a ~8 cents. Yes, it does look
etanrt i ns ta nce the
l att7 ar ^°Nar has been made to a
a W ] X ^ Gn ^ ^7 government enactment,
jjr jf. l'- C( lcr. while for the trade dol-
ad at' S aaS no ^ keen done—so it is rat
er- 00 ^ bullion value. The gov-
ija_ nu gHt to be more honest with
Objects.
W
E are
4e Borr y t° see that some of
Prohi, 6Ws L >a P ers of the State—anti
ng S ^ ee ^ 8 doubtless—are sid-
BjjJ'. ‘Anxious Enquirer,” alias
WtlW 3 Charg6 ° f P la D iariSm
Lf n 11 Hawthorne in his Augusta
tUr ?- The
4tack • anim us of this peurile
Eume 'f ° r so ^ e P ur Pose, we pre-
. Wea kening this great man’s
but jt^ ai . ns ^ ^He evils of intemperance;
“■ n °t do it—these attacks
W, *° ^He good of the cause he
^ e at ? U ' S " battling for with such
4f ani 7 and ability. In the language
m j s a ®. l|g e nt gentleman, “Prohibi-
ESTABLISHED 1850.
An Electric Woman.
An exchange says: There is an elec
tric woman in Greenville county, S. Q
Her name is Mrs. Lockaby, the wife
of a poor farmer, and she has recently
developed extraordinary power. She
has been visited by curious people from
all sections of the State. About two
months ago she began to hear what she
believed to be supernatural noises about
the house, such as slamming of the
door, tapping on the walls, the moving
of furniture and the like. The mani
festations became so frequent as
alarm herself and husband, and. they
abandoned their home and went to live
with a neighbor, believing that their
house was haunted. But the noises
were even more pronounced than be
fore, and. the frightened couple were
compelled to return to their otfnhome,
as their neighbors believed them to be
“possessed of evil spirits” and refused
them shelter any longer. . After return
ing to their home the manifestations
continued a few days and then sudden
ly stopped.
About this time Mrs. Lockaby began
to have strange sensations, similar to
the shocks of an electric battery, at
times so strong as to be painful. Then
it was that she discovered her extraor
dinary power to lift and move large
and heavy bodies. She has exhibited
her power in various ways, although it
is only by great persuasion that she
can be induced to do so. She is very
superstitions and believes that she is
possessed by spirits. She regards the
matter very seriously and expresses
great alarm lest it should lead to some
thing dreadful.
The Democratic party in any State
loses strength whenever it fails
the least degree to bo'Democratic. In
1867 Pennsylvania was a Democratic
State. But the difference between
Republican and a Proteclion Democrat
is so slight that when a Democrat be
comes a protectionist you soon hear
of him voting the Republican ticket.
Pennsylvania is now Republican by
80,000 majority. Now take the Stale
of Iowa where the Democrats have al
ways lived up to the faith. In 1867
there was a Republican plurality of
nearly 33,000, which rose to 59,000 in
1876 and 78,000 in 1880. This was the
high water mark, and was the largest
plurality Garfield received in any State.
In 1884 Blaine had less than 20,000 plu
rality to go on, and this dwindled last
year to less than 15,000 for the State
officers voted for.
When the Constitution was framed
there were thirteen States in the Union.
Now there are thirty-eight. The popu
lation of the United States in 1790:
when the first census was taken, was
3,929,214. It is now over 60,000,000.
There were then about 1500 Federal
office holders in the country. There
are now more than 100,000. The total
net ordinary receipts of the United
States in 1792 were $3,661,000. In 1886
they were $336,439,000. The total net
ordinary expenditures in 1792 were
$8,269,000. In 1886 they were $242,
483,000.
of
Many years ago James McCurry.
Laurens county, S. C., went to Califor-
Some time afterward he wrote
home fov money, and his brother-in-
law, George W. Dillard, borrowed
$100, which be sent to him. Mr. Mc
Curry died recently and Mr. Dillard’s
two children are named in his will for
legacies amounting to $1,600,000. Mo
ral: If your brother-in-law goes to
California or some other‘far away coun
try and'writes home for money, don’t
fail to send it to him.
I have been a periodical sufferer
from Hay Fever (a most annoying and
loathsome affliction), since the summer
of 1779, and until I used Ely’s Cream
Balm was never able to find *ny relief
until cold weather. I can truthfully say
that Cream Balm cured me. I regard
it as of great value and would not be
without it during the Hay Fever season.
L. M. Georgia, Binghamton, N. X.
I was afflicted with Hay Fever for
seven years—Ely’s Cream Balm cured
me entirely.—H. D. Callihan, L & bt,
L. R. R., Terre Haute, Ind.
About $70,000,000 worth of property
have been annihilated in the United
States thus far in this peaceful year of
our Lord 1887—not by anarchists nor
Jotous strikers, but by fires alone.
This country is so much the poorer,
and it is a very pretty sum. The pros
pects are that the remaining four
months will swell the total draft upon
the accumulations of the good people
of this country to the extent of at least
$100‘000,000.
Jim Ponce, of St. Augustine, Fla.,
going through the woods heard tremen
dous squalls, yells, and roars, and cau
tiously investigating, came upon a sev
en-foot panther fighting with an alliga
tor, which had the panther fast in its
ponderous jaws.
Ponce sided with the
under dog and shot the alligator, where
upon the panther, freeing himself, made
for the hunter, who had a hard fight
before he killed the ungrateful beast.
a living, God-instituted princi-
He defeated for a time;
1 triumph in the end the world
The “Easy Chair” of Harper’s Mag
azine chats wisely, in the October num
ber, of Thackery, the portrait-painter
of snobs; also of the new administra
tion at Niagara as a specimen of the
proper functions of government; of
car-window courtesy; and Buffalo Bill,
as the latest adjunct of English so
ciety.
PROHIBITION.
. To the Voters of Whitfield County.
The liquor men have again forced
upon ns an election for or against whis
ky. It is rumored thalr they, have been
promised money from Chattanooga,
Rome, Cleveland, Louisville and Cin
cinnati, sufficient to buy up enough
colored and white votes to bring back
upon us the grog-shops and tippling-
houses, which thedearned and lament
ed Chief Justice Daggett appropriately
called the “outer chambers of hell.”—
VV e don’t believe there is money enough
in Chattanooga, Rome, Louisville, Cin
cinnati and Cleveland to buy up a ma
jority of the voters of Whitfield county.
But it is not enough to defeat them in
this election. • We should do so by such
an overwhelming vote that they will
not think of attempting again to dis
turb our peace in the future. Those
“outer chambers of hell” have been
driven out of Rome. The good people
of Tennessee are’ preparing to drive
them from Chattanooga and Cleveland
by the vote to be taken on the 29th of
this month. Their hope is in falling
back into Dalton and Whitfield county,
by bribing a majority of their votes
with money and whisky.
It behooves us to take counsel to
gether and be active. Listen, first, to
the words of Chief Justice Daggett:
“The argument appears to me irre
sistible. To make or sell ardent spirits
for*common use, is as wicked as to make
or sell poison for the same purpose.
It being admitted that the use of the
article is destructive to health, reputa
tion and property (and the proof of this
fact is overwhelming), it follows, con
clusively, that those who make and sell
it sin with a high hand against God
and the highest interest of their fellow-
men. ... In my view, the great
source of intemperance is to be found
in grog-shops and tippling bouses—
those ‘outer gates of hell.’ When pub
lic opinion shall place those who furn
ish the means of this destructive vice
on a level with thieves and counter
feiters, then, and not till then, may we
expect to see our land purged from
this abomination.”
Now hear the Rev. Francis Wayland
President of Brown University, one of
the ablest ministers of the Baptist
church:
‘It may be said that the grocer’s
property is his own, and he has a right
to use it in any manner he pleases.
1. Now, this is manifestly false. A gro
cer has precisely the same right in his
property as any other man, and he has
no more. He has no right to employ
his property in the slave trade, nor in
the purchase and sale of counterfeit
money, nor in the manufacture of false
keys. All this every one sees. It
not, then, true of him, or any one else,
that ho has a right to use his property
as he pleases. 2. His right in his prop
erty is the same as that of any other
man; it is the right of using it for the
promotion of his own happiness in any
manner he chooses: provided, be does
not so use it as to diminish the inno
cent happiness of his neighbor and of
the community. Now, as the traffic in
ardent spirits does diminish that hap
piness, he has no right to use it in this
manner.
It is said that this traffic is necessa
ry for the purpose of revenue. This
objection carries its refutation alon
with it, since it has been abundantly
and repeatedly proved that the public
expenditure in the cost of pauperism
and crime arising from drunkenness is
tenfold greater than the income which,
under any circumstances, can accrue
from the traffic in ardent spirits.
“I therefore think the prohibition of
the traffic in ardent spirits a fit subject
for legislative enactment: and I believe
that the most happy results would flow
from such prohibition.”
Now let us see what Prohibition has
done for Whitfield county. It went
into operation ia July, 1884. The crim
inal docket of p lr Superior Court shows
that, with an increasing population,
crime has been diminished two-thirds,
as follows:
At April Term, 1SS4, there were32indictments.
“ Oct. “ “ “ “ 28
18S5 “ “ 33 “
Oct.
April
Oct.
April “• 1SS6
Oct. “ “
April “ 18S7
To confirm this, the records of the
Ordinary’s office shows a decrease of
more than two-thirds in jail fees.
You all know that, in whisky times,
our Superior Court sat 4 to 5 weeks at
each term (April and October), and
many cases had to be carried over to
the next term for want of time to dis
pose of them. Since Prohibition the
sessions of the Court have been grow
ing shorter and shorter until now there
are only 26 cases, old and new, on the
docket, of which only 11 stand for hear
ing at the next term, and they are of
such a character that the whole busi
ness of the Court can be despatched in
less than a week.
The Court expenses are, per day, as
follows:
For 23 G rand Jurors and 36 Petit Ju-
rors, at *2 per dav, * 5 oo
For Sheriff,—
For Deputy Sheriff,
For Clerk
For 4 Bailiffs,
2 00
3 00
S 00
Whieh make expenses, per day,.... ?136 00
Without including any estimates for
extra tales jurors, extra bailiffs and
horse hire for summoning tales jurors,
fuel, stationary, &c., which m whisky
times, when the criminal business of
the Court was two-thirds greater than
now, frequently ran Court expenses up
to more than $200 per day. Nor does
this include any estimate for shorthand
reportSithout taking any account of
other smaller expenses on motion days,
&c., we assume that the jury trials, m
whisky times, occupied 32 days only (a
small estimate), and that they now oc
cupy ten days (a large estimate), we
have a saving in the ordinary and nec-
£££ expenses of $136 and 22 days-
CEO qqo Estimating the average cost of
reporter in criminal cares to have been
$200 per annum, two-thirds of that is
$133 33£- Xu whisky times jail fees
frequently cost the county $150 per
month, or $300 per annum, making a
difference or saving by Prohibition of
$1,500 per annum. But we will assume
that the saving in jail fees is only $600.
The above given amounts, it wilT be
seen, make the saving in court expenses
and jail fees, caused by Prohibition, $3,-
725 33J, which is more than a set off to
any revenue which might be derived
from whisky licenses.
April and October are the seasons
for putting in and harvesting the crops
and preparing for another year. One
day then is worth two at other seasons,
and in estimating the benefits of- Pro
hibition the 22 (or more) days of jurors,
witnesses and other court attendants
saved and given to the crops should be
taken into account. But, far above any
consideration of money saved or lost, is
the improvement in the morals of our
community. Now we have happy, pros
perous and cheerful homes, where be
fore there was sorrow, care and thrift
lessness. Better still, our boys and
young men, who before Prohibition
thought it manly to drink and spend
their time in the grog-shops, are being
educated up to feel and know that it is
vicious and disreputable to do so.
In 1884 the board of Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues reduced the
tax levy for county purposes to 25 cts.
on $100. In doing so they doubtless
relied on an anticipated reduction of
court and jail expenses, but overlooked
the fact that Prohibition, which had
just been voted, but had not yet gone
into effect, cannot act instantaneously,
like lightning, but requires time to pro
duce its results. They were warned at
the time by Judge Freeman that their
action was premature, and that it would
bring the county in debt; and it did put
it in debt $1,800. Had they waited un
til Prohibition had time to do its per
fect work, they could have safely re
duced the tax even below 25 cts. on $100;
provided, always, that there was no
debt of previous years to be paid off; no
storm to wash away bridges and make
it necessary to build new ones; no court
house and jail to be repaired; no poor
house to be built; and no changes in
the road laws, reducing that burden
from 15 to 4 days and substituting a
less onerous money tax to keep up the
public roads. But all these have hap
pened and made it necessary to put the
county tax levy for 1887 at 45 cts. on
one hundred dollars.
The whisky men have seized upon
the fact that the county tax levy for
1884 was 25 cents and that for 1887 45
cents on $100, to deceive some of you
and make you believe that Prohibition
has caused this increase of taxes The
fact is that a much higher taxation
would have been necessary if Prohibi
tion had not so greatly reduced the
county expenses and jail fees. Prohi
bition did not cause the debt of $1,800,
created by the premature reduction of
the tax levy of 1884. Prohibition did
not cause the storms which swept away
so many bridges. Prohibition did not
create the necessity for repairs' on the
court house and jail. Prohibition did
not change the road laws, reducing the
number of days of road duty from 15
to 4 and substituting the 6 cts. ou $100,
which constitutes a part of the 45 cents
levied for 1887. But Prohibition, by
the great reduction in court and jail
fees, made it much easier for you to
meet all these extraordinary expenses;
to pay off the county debt and have
money always on hand, so that those
who hold jury tickets or other claims
against the county and wish to cash
them, will not have to sell them to some
curbstone broker at a discount, as for
merly. Prohibition has made it much
easier for you to keep step in the New
South’s march of progress, and to build
good, safe and permanent bridges in
the place of the, rickety and unsafe
ones, which every big flood carried
away, and which were a disgrace to our
manhood and enterprise. Eighteen of
the 45 cents levied for 1887, or nearly
one-half, is for repairs of court house
and jail, bridges and roads. When
these extraordinary expenses shall have
been met the great saving in court and
jail fees, which Prohibition has caused,
may be applied either to reducing tax
es or to public improvements. But if
the grog-shops are brought back and
court and jail expenses run up again
to what they were before Prohibition,
the county tax levy will have to be in
creased.
Mr. John P. Love, a competent ex
pert, has with great care made esti
mates of the amounts of money invest
ed in improvements in Dalton in 3 years
before and 3 years since Prohibition
went into effect, with the following
gratifying result; In 3 years after Pro
hibition, $188,610; in 3 years before
Prohibition, $24,700; difference in fa
vor of Prohibition, $163,910.
By your votes will you stop this great
improvement, moral and material, and
bring back upon us the wet-rot of the
grog-shops ?
AY. K. Moore, Cbm’n,
J. P. Fbeeman,
T. R. Jones,
S. B. Scott,
J. P. Love,
A. Graves,
Squire Wadley,
Sam Love,
Clark Hudson,
AUNT VERSUS UNCLE.
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By order Cen. Prohibition Committee.
No one can form an adequate idea of
the railroad interests and operations in
the United States without having the
assistance of the official figures. Thi9
country has grown immensely in ev
ery material respect, but in no direc
tion has its growth been greater than
in its railroad extensions. Ia 1886 the
length of road constructed was 9,0C0
miles, making the total mileage com
pleted to the end of .that year 137,486.
This represents a length that would go
five and a half times around the globe.
No other nation can show its equal in
this respect.
Typhoid, Scarlet and Yellow Fever,
Measles, Diphtheria, Small-Pox, Chol
era, etc.—Darby’s Prophylatic Fluid
will destroy the infection of all fevers
and all contagious and infectious di
sease. Will keep the atmosphere of
any sick-room pure and wholesome,
absorbing and destroying unhealthy
effluvia and contagion. Will neutra
lize any bad smell whatever, not by
disguising it, but by destroying it.
Use Darby’s Prophylatic Fluid m ev
ery sick-room. * m -
“Twelve o’clock, eh?” said Uncle Joe,
listening meditatively to the. strokes of
the big clock in the corner. “Mid
night—yes, actually midnight, and
William not home yet. Well, it’s amaz
ing how young folks will keep it up
when they’re a-courtin’! I never was in
the business myself, but I’ve always
heard talk that it was a pretty absor
bin’ sort o’ thing.”
And he rose in a stiff, rheumatic sort
of way to throw a new log on the fire,
which had burned down to a mass of
glowing embers.
“It’s a snowin’,” said Uncle Joe,glanc
ing through the tiny panes of the north
window, already banked up on the out
side with ermine-white drifts. “Like
wise a-blowin.’ More than that, it’s
colder than the North Pole, for the
water-pail friz’ in the back kitchen be
fore nine o’clock, and the big cedar-
tree keeps creakin’ as it never does 'ex
cept when the thermometer runs down
pretty uigh to zero. I don’t know what
would lure mo to go out on a night like
this—but Will makes nothing of tramp
in’ for miles to Pratt’s Corners to see
the girl that he’s goin’ to marry next
week. Well, well, young folks will be
young folks, I s’pose, and there’s no
makin’ nothin’ else onten ’em! I’m
glad I kept the coffee pot hot. He
won’t be none the worse for a drink o’
good, warm coffee—and the potatoes
are roasted to a T.”
So speaking, Uncle Joe uncovered
the ashy nest wherein reposed three or
four monstrous “early rose” potatoes in
well-wrinkled jackets, and nodded his
head toward a cold ham-bone on the
table, where a plate and knife and fork
were laid, as if ready for some expect
ed guest.
And presently the guest arrived—
Will Harrow himself, his head and
shoulders powdered with snow, his nose
blue with cold, his eyes sparkling like
a first-class pair of well-matched dia
monds.
I’m sorry to keep you up so late,
Uncie Joe,” he said, cheerily. “Why
on earth didn’t you go to bed?”
‘Well, I couldn’t somehow reconcile
myself to the idee of leavin’ things,”
said Uncle Joe. “Here’s some coffee,
Will. And some roast potatoes that
can’t be beat! Sit down and eat a bit.”
“You are always so thoughtful of me,
Uncle Joe,” said Will Harrow, flinging
off his snow-sprinkled coat.
“You’re all I’ve got to be thoughtful
of,” said the old man, stroking his chin.
“I’ve sort o’ had you on my mind, Will,
everisince you was a baby. And I tell
you, it comes powerful hard on mo to
give you up to a wife now!”
You are jealous, oh ?” said Will with
a laugh.
“A little bit, William,” nodded Un
cle Joe, scattering salt in the mealy
heart of his potato. “I ain’t a-denyin’
of it. It’s human nature to get mar
ried, I know—but for all that I feel as
if I was givin’ away my boy to some
one else!”
“You and she will get along splen
didly,” said Will, “I’m very sure of
that!”
“Like enough,” observed Uucle Joe,
“like enough. I hain’t never heard
nothing but good of Fanny Wallis!
And she’s got a face like a posy!”
“But that isn’t the worst of it, Uncle
Joe,” said Will Harrow, with rather a
conscience-stricken look at the rugged
old face that confronted him on the
other side of the table. “Fanny’s aunt
is to live with ns?”
“Eh!” said Uncle Joe, dropping his
knife and fork. “Fanny’s aiint! Here?”
“I don’t know whore else she is to
live,” said Will. “A home has got to
bo made for her somewhere.”
“Is she—a widder?” demanded Uncle
Joe, in a sepulchral whisper.
“No, a single lady.”
“Phew!” whistled Uncle Joe. “An—
old maid! As full of cantankerousness,
no doubt, as au egg is of meat. Where
on earth d’ye s’pose there is room for
her in this house?”
“Well,” suggested Will, “there’s the
little end room in the wing, looking out
on Casadeo River. There’s a fire-place
in it, and a good-sized closet for gowns
and things, and—”
“William!” said Uncle Joe, rising to
give additional emphasis to his re
marks, “don’t!”
“Don’t what, Uncle Joe?”
“Don’t let that creetqr inj She’ll be
worse than any mother-in-law!” solemn
ly pronounced Uncle Joe. “Jest make
a stand at the very beginning, and tell
FanDy you ain’t going to marry the
whole family! Take my advice now,
my boy, or you’ll regret it all your
life!”
Poor Will moved uneasily in his
chair.
“I can’t do that, Uncle Joe,” said he.
“I’ve promised Fan. She makes such
a point of it, don’t you see? And Miss
Kedgitt is really a very nice person!
You’ll say that, I am sure, when—”
But Uncle Joe remained to hear no
more. Ho took up a candle and stalk
ed off to bed without even staying to
cover up the fire—a thing which had
not happened for all the three-and-
twenty-years iu which he had lived in
the farm house.
Poor Will? How was Uncle Joe to
know how manfully he, Will,had fought
the battles of his ancient retainer that
very night? For Fanny Wallis, dearly
as she loved the young man to whom
she was so soon to be married, had
stoutly combated the idea of Uncle Joe.
“Why don’t he go away and get a
home of his own?” pouted Fanny.
“What business has he interfering and
bothering with oqr concerns ?”
“But, my own darling,” protested
Will, “he has been a father to me.”
“But you don’t want a father now
that you’re going to have a wife,” urg
ed Fanny. “We shall be so snug and
comfortable then, with Aunt Kedgitt to
help us.”
“He has always managed the farm,
while I attend to my trade,” pleaded
Will, feeling as if the solid earth were
giving way under his feet.
“But Aunt Kedgitt is the best econo
mist in the world,” persisted Fanny.
“And I can’t get along without Aunt
Kedgitt And she can’t bear men about
the place.”
Will groaned a deep and hollow
groan. What was he to do? And when
he reached his home here was Uncle
Joe to be battled with, good, kind Un
cle Joe, who had always been so near
and dear to him.
The next day Uncle Joe’s face at the
breakfast-table was more deeply lined
than ever.
“Well,” said he, “is this a settled
thing? Ain’t there no escapin’ that
cantankerous old maid?”
“I don’t see any way ont of it, Uncle
Joe,” sighed the bridegroom-expectant.
“That settles it,” said Uncle Joe,
pouriaghis coffee down his throat in
scalding draughts. “I’ll pack np my
traps and go ont to Michigan where
Sister Ann Eliza lives.”
“And leave me, Uncle Joe?”
The old man shook his head.
“You’ll have a wife,” said he; “and an
annt-in-iaw. I calculate that’s enough
for you.”
And to this decision ho steadfastly
clung.
Mernwhile, at Fanny Wallis’ board
ing house place, Aunt Kedgitt was al
so laying down the law.
“I can’t stand no shiftless old folks
loafing about the place,” said she.
“I’ve seen enough of ’em at your Grand
father Wallis’, where they had three of
’em—all the same as an Old Peoples’
Refuge.”
“Bat, dear Aunt Kedgitt,” almost
wept Fanny, “how can I ever get along
without you?”
“Oh, I’ll stay, then, until you get
back from your wedding-trip,” said
Miss Kedgitt, resignedly. “I guess I
can get along with him as long as that!”
The grim air with which the two op
posite relatives regarded each other
across the table, whereon was spread
the wedding-breakfast, was something
fearful to behold. Fanny felt it in the
midst of her happiness—and Will Har
row groaned iu spirit.
“Why can’t that old man take him
self somewhere else?” thought Fanny.
“What possesses that old* woman to
come and take possession of my house?”
mused Will.
It poisoned all their first happiness,
that dreadful recollection of Mr. Parish
and Miss Kedgitt, waging single com
bat in the old house at home while
they were absent.
“Aunt Kedgitt will never consent to
be second in authority to an old fossil
like that,” thought Fanny.
“Uncle Joe won’t stand any of the
woman’s nonsense,” said Will, gloomily,
to himself. “I only hope there’ll be no
bloodshed in our absence.”
And each looked a little fearful at
the other on that bright February af
ternoon when the cutter sleigh brought
them back from the depot.
A cheerful fire burned in the sitting-
room—the table was spread with dainty
fare. Aunt Kedgitt came smiling for
ward in her best black silk gown, with
fresh lilac ribbons in her cap. Uncle
Joe, with newly blacked boots and a
stiffly starched “store shirt”- on, stood
in ihe background as radiant ns the
picture of the rising sun on the clock
face behind him.
We are back, all safe. Aunt Ked
gitt,” said Mrs. Harrow, a littie hys
terically,
Waal. Fanny, me and your aunt
ain’t sorry,” interposed. Mr. Parish, by
way of answer. “You’ve had your turn
weddin’-trippin’, and now we want
ours? Don’t we, Eliza?”
“What!” cried Fanny, while Will
dropped the biggest traveling-bag in
his amazement.
“We were married last Wednesday,
that’s all!” said Uncle Joe. “Wasn’t
we, Eliza?”
“Don’t be foolish, Joe,” said his
bride, with a girlish giggle.
“There never was such a woman as
Eliza,” said Mr. Parish, proudly.
“Nor such a man as Joseph,” said
Mrs. Parish, with an air of conviotion.
The middle-aged couple started on
their honey moon trip the next day—
and Will and Fanny had no more
trouble on the score of their relations.
“But wasn’t it strange,” said Fanny
to Will.
“Nothing is strange where Cupid is
concerned, my dear,” said Will to Fan
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ODDS -A-HSTD ZEZtsTIDS.
Pigeons in Russia,
A foreign correspondent says; “One
is struck by the multitude of pigeons in
and about Moscow. They are held iu
great reverence by the common people,
and no Russian harms them. Indeed,
they are as sacred here as monkeys in
Benares, or doves in Yenice, being con
sidered emblems of the Holy Ghost,
and under protection of the Church.
They wheel about in large bine flocks
through the air, so dense as to cast
shadows like swift-moving clouds be
tween the sun and the earth, alighting
fearlessly where they choose, to share
the beggar’s crumbs or the bounty of
the affluent. It is a notable fact that
this domestic bird was also considered
sacred by the old Scandinavians, who
believed that for a certain period after
death the soul of the deceased, under
such form, was accustomed to come to
eat and drink with as well as to watch
the behaviour of the mourners.
Forty years ago Macauley said:
“Those who compare the age on which
their lot has fallen with a golden age,
which exists only in the imagination,
may talk of degeneracy and decay; but
no man who is correctly informed as to
the past will be disposed to take a
morose or desponding view of the pres
ent.”
There is not a human being who can
not live without whisky and tobacco.
They are unnecessaries—luxuries. On
the contrary, men, women and children
must be fed, clothed, housed and warm
ed. These are necessities to living.
The tax dispute in a uut-shell is: Is it
best to have free whisky or free wool.
The $10,000 wine-room license law
sets a bad precedent in legislation. It
would have been far better to have
passed a law prohibiting wine-rooms
in Atlanta. Such a use of the legisla
tive power will give the prohibition
cause a back set.—Macon Telegraph.
The novelist,Robt. Lonis Stephenson,
is visiting this country. His story of
“Dr. Jeykell and Mr. Hyde” is said to
be one of the most powerful literary
sensations of the age. While in Amer
ica Mr. Stephenson will gather materi
al for another story.
Diamonds were first set and polished
at Burges in 1450.
Religions freedom often means free
dom from religion.
A fool may meet with good fortHne,
but the wise only profit by it.
Those that are greedy of praise
prove that they are poor in merit.
They make a wine of tomatoes in
Florida which is said to be superior to
orange wine.
The El-Dorado of the future, is what
Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
calls the South.
It is estimated that Americans iu
foreign countries spend not less than
$75,000,000 per year.
Of the 36,000,000 trade dollars that
were coined less $8/100,000 wore pre
sented for redemption.
Fleas, one who has tried it asserts,
may be driven away by scattering flour
of sulphur liberally about.
There are people who think so much
of themselves that others are shut out
and think nothing of them.
The city of Washington has been se
lected as the seat of the new Roman
Catholic University in America.
Brighton, Eng., is the largest snm-
mer resort in the world. Its real sea
son is in September and October.
We see an item in a medical paper
about “mineral wool.” We presume
that’s the sort they shear from hydraul
ic rams.
Fireflies and katydids are articles
of trade iu oriental countries. They
are sold in Japan in little bamboo cag
es for 2c.
The youg man who can go into a
pawnshop without a quickening of the
pulse and a heightening of the color
has been there before.
The first iron boat is thought to have
been built in 1777, on the river Foss,
in Yorkshire. It was fifteen feet long,
and made of sheet-iron.
Many of the citizens of Tulare, Cal.,
have been made seriously ill by the
bites of big black spiders, which have
appeared in great numbers.
San Francisco physicians have dis
covered 107 cases of leprosy among the
hoodlum class of boys who smoke cig
arettes made by Chinamen.
A snob is that man or woman who
is always pretending to be something
better—especially richer or more fash
ionable—than he or she really is.
The Prohibitionists have carried ev
ery county in Florida so far, but one,
in which an election has been held un
der the new local option law.
“If women are really angel?,” writes
an old bachelor, “why don’t they fly
ov?r the fence instead of making such
a fearfully awkward job of climbing?”
One feature of the parade at Atlanta
on the occasion of the President’s re
ception, will be about 1,500 students
from the various Georgia colleges and
academies.
Schrader states that there are sever
al mountains in the north of Spain,
some reaching an altitude of 10,000
.feet, which hav9 no place on the geo
graphical map.
Ideal Sonthern girls are at the front
just now, and they are specimens of
physical beauty and strength, as well
as gifted' in the graces of tho nine
teenth century.
Abraham Souther, a colored man of
Old Fort, N. C., has in possession doc
uments which show that ho is 107 years
old. He chows and smokes and is a
devout Methodist.
It has been calculated that if 32,000,-
000 people should cla9p hands they
could reach around the globe. Very
likely, but some of them would get
their feet awful wet.
. When a hundred men commit a mur
der as a mob, they aro mistaken if
they think the guilt is divided among
them pro rata. The crime of murder
rests on every one of them.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean very sen
sibly takes the position that this coun
try cannot afford to discourage foreign
immigration, but it can and must shut
out imbeciles and criminals.
About the only piece of information
that the interviewers are able to secure
from Mrs. Frank Leslie, is tho intima
tion that all the broken down noble
men in Europe are crazy to marry her.
The number of patents issued dur
ing the year was 29,392, bringing the
grand total of first patents issued in
the United States in the forty-two years
commencing with July, 1836, np to
355,291.
Close the saloon and abolish the hip-
pocket, and rowdyism, vendettas, and
homicide would dwindle quickly to a
minimum. They are as much out of
place iu Christian civilization as the
bull-fight.
The aggressive policy of England for
many centuries has been to take every
thing she could lay her bands on; but
now she is driven to the conservative
policy of trying to hold to what she
has in her grasp.
To a lady who was importuning him
to direct her son into a paying busi
ness, Lord Rothschild remarked: “Mad
am, any business is good; selling
matches even is a splendid business if
yon do enough of it.”
A poor woman in Gratiot county,
Mich., who had been scrimping along
on two acres of land for many years,
went up to Ithica the other day, drew
$3,000 back pension, and inside of an
hour blew in $300 for dry goods.
A family that recently removed from
Lee, N. H., took along a eat that soon
disappeared. It has since been fouud
at the old homestead in Lee, but how
it got back is a mystery, as it must
have traveled fifty- miles without a
guide.
A liver which has produced nbthing
but miasma for a hundred miles may
after awhile turn the wheels of facto
ries and help support industrious and
virtuous populations, and there aro
family lines which were poisoned that
are a benediction now.
An intelligent farmer, who thought
that the banks were not safe lives in
Elba, Minn. Ho sold a farm for §2,000
and hid the money in his house, and in
a few days, while his wife was at the
spring getting a pail of water, the
money was stolen and the house set oa
fire and burned.
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