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.V miles an hour on a tri
thirty m cycle.
\ H,tche» W» Tricy® 1 * *° a F * 8t
III***** with Disastrous Be-
^ tWS DeBoe!T lilieman empl ° yed
j8Bie rreat Northern Railway Compa-
V**'Wished a feat last night.
•rTwhfle it was to a great extent
jch ’ is no less remarkable.
^'““Simished by'the company
WJ a those tricycles so construct-
^ L run on the regular railway
P? The machine works with a
^veranda speed of ten miles or
P 4 „ honr is quite commonly attain.
Dre peBoe last night accomplished
'Ordinary feat of keeping up
Klort line train runrnng thirty
.‘in train to Minneapolis to pass him.
rfp train passed ah right, and stopped
' with the tail coach
CIVIL WAR.
There is one pensioner of the war of ——_
BaSett. Wakte8 Patrick | THE GR^l^T FATALITY
Thomas Heed, of Catoosa county, is
selling fine ripe strawberries grown in
his own garden.
Brunswick is said tb be flooded with
tramps, thieves, burglars and all kinds
of low classes of men.
OF THE
How Carlton’s Battery Mowed Down Hun
dreds of Brave Men at the Battle of
Deep Bottom Bun.
From the Atlanta' Constitution.
General Fitzhugh Tee, of Virginia,
A MoRie • I Wheu ^^Wngton a short While ago,
A Madison county negro woman is told quite bn interesting story about the
108 years old, and has;a great grandson greatest'fatality of thTwar in proper-
I Uon to the number of trobps eSS.
rib woo ■ /n i _**■
The American Marble Company, at
Marietta, is in the hands of a receiver.
Liabilities $300,000, assets 8150,000.
W. P. Swearingen, of Dodge county,
He was talking about Congressman
Carlton as an artillerist in the war.
“When General Sedgwick’s corps,”
he said, “surprised our troops bycross
last year raised, fifty-s^en ^PPahanock at Fredericks
es 1,11 on one acre,1fnd-twb bales of cot- and capturing a regiment and a
ton on another. | ha H of General Barksdale’s Mississippi
brigade and a portion of the Washing
ton artillery station onMaxle’s Heights,
that cut off from our main line that
small portion of our troops stationed
John L. Arnold, of Atlanta, has a
s to where DeBoe stood with his
ne. That gentleman conceived ~
nt idea. He would take a turn
i section of Ho. 6 wire on one of
jach buffers, make the other end
t to his wheel and save labor. The
section was made in such a way
lt he calculated he could release him-
{by cutting the wire when the speed
t too high. He chuckled when the
i started up to think what a snap
e was going to have in getting to Co
ho The train was a fraction of a min-
e, though, and the speed ran up
3 twenty miles in no time. DeBoe
f with alarm that the little wheel on
lie other track was jumping a foot clear
f the rail every few seconds. He de-
minedto cut the wire, and reached
ad behind for his pliers.
I They were gone. The unusual motion
I jerked them out of the tool box
I was up to twenty-five miles
w, andthe tricycie was spinning along
b two wheels, with the beam carrying
e third, fanning,the air like a kite tail.
| DeBoe was working hard to unwind
e connection with his fingers, when
e was a gigantic plunge. A tele
iph lineman shot through the air like
I meteor and landed in a pile of sand be-
pe the track. A railroad tricycle kept
mg and lit thirty feet further on,
[wrecked vehicle. The concern
d run off the track.
t DeBoe was .nftt.kUWI iff fCrupa).
k He-was at home last evening,
rever, and only a few scratched told
experience.
Colt of Educating a Nation.
■ the Louisville Courier-Journal,
j Underlying all other public ques-
pressing, persistent, command
ed the subject of education. Im-
otin every civilized nation, it is in
Mrica of paramount interest. In
ptrica we‘have 12,000,000 children
J aled in the public schools alone,
low to increase the attendance, how to
werabsenteeism,how to waste n% mon-
1)00 energy, no time, but to make every
wtell; What methods are the best;
t studies are essential; what influ-
5 to be stimulated; how to reach
i the minds, the consciences
lildren; what ideas to put be-
em—these are matters of most
Mound concern.
i Public schools require 347,292
and cost annually 8122,455,-
r s , 'rtiR eSe ^” Ures sim P ] y show the
e of the system and are stag-
: tothe immagination. The
eloenn republic is committed lo
^.000,000 children, and to the
s an thousands in private and
® oIs > to these and not to
of the political parfifes,
torwn- * n0t t0 any c hurch not to
Nation whatever.
f», I ! BeForeSt8of G«ovgU.
e ^00,000,000 worth of pinte
“ S in the forests of Georgia
dbvtb + " 0rdl bas ^ready been
lW tfl T ntine farmer8 > mbst
%, on ,? e last ten years. In dm.
Eav« WaSte the ^tdantaGon-
^on still t Ut Uthere are now ^
L kof th\ en ° Ugh t0 sa P the re-
timber in seven years;
fiey will" fi be n °t t d ° ne t0 stop
Perfect a T h * eir wor k with
P®th Carol- eS ° atl ° n tban they did'
And 311 for
cents
an acre.
to §1
^f 00 f ° r 1116 destrtlc '
“^haiuln. 1C in fift een years of
^,°00w!°f, d have yieWed
Without as h ° flumber a ^ naval
^ s ^ minnitioa oftheiTown
j? Savi young fanner living.
side na j Gr ’ ° n tbe s °hth
' Passed through Savan-i
^ a 6Q ^icai * - Way to Charleston
ec0Q ghine peration performed.
Davi,
, *• The 7 a cou ple of
toHanofth?** 6 lodged ah the'
^ has b eetl gj Passa S ato thestoin-
.hMetr 111 fear of his^fe!-
’ for him "! ere unabl e to do
..Heston aurii, hhn tb
■ operation.
and folk ounces. It was found on one
of the bunches he had bought.
Atlanta has a new literary verdure |
it is a weekly paper called “Society,”
devoted to the social world, art, dra-
crossing, on the Richmond and Fred
ericksburg railroad. Among these
matie, literary news, fashion arid gbssip I S' S ° 3 ° ff W3S :* battery of arti1 '
TTftn r tr w j- > m . - leiy 111 position just opposite Deep Bot-
Hon. J. H. Martin, of Talbot county, tom Bun, on the Bappahannock river
SafeiTS U® far in advance SgL portiorT^f
term of Judge James M. Smith, of the our line
ClmttaliooaieeefrcMt.andHon.G.t}. “A brigade of Sedgwiek’s corpb,
Janes, of Polk, has been chosen to pre- which had crossed the river at Deep
side over the new circuit-the TaHa- Bottom Run, discoverilg the position
poosa. I of this battery and seeing that it was
Mr. Graves, of IJewton counly, has unsupported by and cut off from the
introduced a biH in the Legislature I m ain line of our troops, marched upon
which provides for a one dollar tax on it preparatory to charging and captur-
aU dogs in the State. Such a bill, if in g it-
passed, would inure more greatly to the “The Captain commanding this bat-
advantage of iheTarn*et»than Mr. Twit- I tety, who is now Congressman Carlton,
ty’s bill to abolish ten percent, for at- °f Georgia, discovering the movement
torneys’ fees in ail interest hearing of the enemy, at once realized the situ-
papers. I ation, and knowing full well that to at-
After handling the lawyers without j i em Pt tb retreat in the face of the ene-
gloves the Georgia Legislature is going my y ould result in the capture and loss
for the doctors. A bill has been intro- of his battery, promptly, ^though en-
duced making it a misdemeanor for a J unsupported, moved his guns
physician to get drunk, and a fine of not forward ’ meetin g the advancing brig
less than 8200 for the first offense and ade ’ and when in eas y caunister range :
to be debarred from practice for 'the j poured a volley into the enemy’s
second. The editor’s “eye.opener” and ra “ ka > which staggered and drove them
night-cap” are in danger from this ' back -
Over and over again,
Ho matter which way I torn,
I always find in the book of life
Some letter I have to learn.
I must take my turn at the mfn,
I must grind out the golden grain,
I must work at my task with a resolute will
Over and over again.
We cannot measure the need
Of even the tini*r±. flower,
Nor check the flow of the golden sands
That ran through a single hour;
But the morning dews must fall,
And the sun and the summer rain.
Must -do their pArt, and perform it all
Over and over again.
Over and over again
The brook through the meadows flows,
And over and over again
tThe ponderous mill wheel goes;
Otace doing will not suffice,
Though doing be not in vain,
And ii blessing failing ns once or twice
May come if we try again.
The path that has once been trod
Is never so rough to the feet,
And the lesson we once have learned
Is never so hard to repeat
Though sorrowful tears must fall,
And the heart to its depth be driven
With storm and tempest; we need then, all
To render us meet for heaves. /
—Josephine Pollard.
THE DEACON’S MISFIT-
august body.
At Americus, riot long since, Elijah
Cat-son, a riegro : man, "who was badl v
injured by a circular saw, is almost a
wbU man. It is simply woridferfiil that
he Hves. The saw entered two inches
“Reforming, they advanced again,
when Carlton repeated the dose with
the sarrie success.
“Attempting a third time to charge
the battery, and seeing the resolute de
termination of Carlton and his men not
• . . - . , | to yield the field, they rushed peU meU-
into his brain, and two ounces of the . . ..... ’ . , * ,
, . ... - .. . , „ I into an adjoining ravine, when the ar-
bram was removed. . Particles of the ., J . ’
i. ^ , . ...: tilienst turned his guns upon them in
skull bone were taken out deep in the . v < .... , ° , ,
TT . , . their hiding place-, and scarcely a man
brain. His nose was cut off, and his I 7 . J
’ 1 was left, to teH the tale.
upper lip terribly lacerated.
According to. pretty reliable reports,
Editor Brabham, of the Brunswick
Times, wiU take editorial charge of the
Tribune-of-Rome. Editor Frost, late
of the Brunswick Post, has already tar
ken charge of the busiriess management
of the Tribune. There is a fine field at
Rome for a live daily, and with these
veterans at the helm we expect to see
the Tribune sparkle and prosper as it
never has before.
‘“The official report made a few oiys
| afterwards by the Federal officer in com
mand of the brigade, as to the loss in
this engagement, was about 1,000 killed
arid wounded* The loss sustained by
Carlton’s battery was remarkably light.’
After the Insurrnco Companies.
The Georgia Legislature, has passed a
bill intended to prevent the formation
of jjoolsi to defeat competition in insur
ance rates. Jhe author of the biH, Mr.
Some time since Aleck Saye, a carpen-I Tefreil, in closing the debate in favor
ter in the employ of Mr. McGinty, of of P^sage, showed from the State
Athens, had the misfortune to have his CofepfroHer General’s report that there
right middle finger cut off near the first were forty-seven insurance companies
joint. He carried the dismembered fin- doingbusiness in Georgia and that dur-
ger to Dr. Steedly, who united it by ar- Mng fhe last fiscal year they had cleared
tificial means to the stub, and, after $86!,000 out of the people of the State
dressing it, dismissed the man. The firi- | T hes e companies did business all over
ger, strange to say, knitted together firm
ly, and, with the exception of a slight
stiffness, Mr. Saye has fuH use of it.
A slick swindler, named Watson, was
“jugged” at Americus last week. He
was seUing soap from a stand on the
street, and would wrap a $5 biH around
a small piece of soap, wrap the whole
in a paper and lay it on the table; then
a 810 biH and a 820 bfll would be done
up in the same way, and the three pack
ages offered for 82. Of course no one,
though there were plenty of biters, got
the prize—it was hocuspocused off the
table and three little pices of soap was
aH the purchaser got for his 82.
the continent and some of them in Eu
rope; yet, Mr. Terrill declared, the
amount wrung from the people of this
one commonwealth constituted nearly
one-severith of their entire earnings aH
over the world. This showed how the
people of Georgia were being imposed
on. TTis biH proposed to break up the
pool and put each company before the
people on its merits.
A New Departure.
From the Chattanooga Press.
The country newspapers of this sec
tion are adopting the cash in advance
system with their subscribers. This in
dicates that the proprietors are tired of
running a free school and paying their
own teachers. The man who reads
Nashville, Tenn., Apr. 8, ’90.
Rad am’s Microbe Killer Co.,
Gentlemen—My wife has been suffering j newspaper for a whole year that keeps
for several years with ovarian tnmor; has informed of what is transpiring in
th, great woria, Ml pay the sraall
doctors said they would have to use hero-1 subscription -price and thank the editor
leasures . and perform an operation j or fumishing it to him besides. Many
ch was very dangerous. Having heard fen w t, Q nb t think it necessary to
P ay atrentavok
trial. I procured a jug at once and after buy from a wandering book agent a voi
two days iny wife began to improve and J mne entitled, “How to be your own
she has improved very rapidly ever since. Lawyer,” or “How to he your own
She has been reduced in size neariy tbree p tysician that costs them from 82 to
inches, seems strong and well^nd is ame whic h is not of as much -value as
£ copy of the newspaper they deed-
it a most wonderfulmedicine and believe head.
it will do all you claim for it. j .
Respectfully, XUe First Step.
H. P. Polk. I perhaps you are run down, can t eat,
I cain’t. sleep, caii’t think, can’t do any-
LebanoK, Ky., April 2,1890. I thing to your satisfaction, and you won-
Radam’s Microbe Killer Co. ; <jer what ails you. You shouid heed the
Nashville, Tenn.: I warning, you are taking the first step into
Gentlemen—I have used two gallons, or j jf ervous postration. You need a Nerve
Microbe Killer for indigifetion and gfnivl Tonic and in Electric Bitters yon will
eral debility. I am in better health than j g n£ j the exact remedy for restoring your
I have been for years. Thanks to Mr. nervous system to ^ts normak^healthy
Wm. for his wonderful discovery. | con dition.
Respectfully,
. AHnie Adams.
For sale by S. J. McKnigbt, Dalton, Ga.
FrepiriDC It» Own Coffin.
From the Boston^Iohe, ..
lije’-haS'denounced
wuuu.ii.T—i Surprising results follow the
use of this great Nerve Tonic and Altera
tive. Your appetite returns, good diges
tion is restored, and the liver and kidneys
resume healthy action. Try a bottles
Pnce 50c. at S. J. McKriight’s Drug Store.
The
the force .. .
rapublfcaHs vriUisiihplyhriye jratandther
nail in its own ~
ance States.
[pus!
From the Atlanta Journal. _ _ T ., ,
The pension money of the United
as isript confined to beneficiaries m
_ corihtiy. It is stated that there are
250 United States pensioners in Ireland,
50 in L^nca^KEnglandiA^^”:
. n&jr&'+kexposure; I; have been indis- ber in Canada, and some
posed with acute rheumatism about six tmjia a nd even in Africa.
months. My skill failed to afford mere- ►
lief .'and I was induced to try-Bnll’s Sarsa- Wiadiciiie is given a child, parents
uilla, and must confess that it cured me. >Yh . a -- sa f e and proper one.
;So»r“slSSni-[B s\,ch a remedy is'Dr. BulPs Worm De-
.—■ stroyer*.
I do wish, ” exclaimed Mrs. Deacon
Appleby, “that everything wouldn’t
alius come in a heap!”
Wall, wall, Samantha, don’t fret,”
said the deacon, who sat in a comer
mending a “hold back,” which had
broken while driving home from town
that afternoon.
“I guess if somebody didn’t fret
things would get wuss than they be,
for of ail the procrastinatin’ critters
you beat the wust of ’em. - The idea
of your waitin’ till Saturday afore yon
went to town to git them clothes,
not a thing to put on your back Sbr
Sunday!”
“No use of stewin’ about that, now
that I’ve been and got back and bonght
the clothes,” said the deacon, his* tem
per not the least raffled by the lashing
of his consort’s rather sharp tongue.
“You’ve bought ’em, but they ain’t
here,” returned the good woman.
“I couldn’t wait for ’em to be fixe A
The misfit parlor man said that they
alius cai’lated to have the goods a per
fect, Lang up, nobby fit afore he deliv
ered ’em to customers. Lucky, Saman
tha, that I see that advertisement of
the misfit parlors, for there you can git
custom made goods at ready maRa
prices!”
“You picked up a good many slang
words for one trip to town, it seems to
me,” said Mra. Appleby, amid a great
clatter of tea kettle and other domestic
ntensils upon the kitchen stove.
“Them ’ere ain’t slang. They’re
terms that belong to the trade,” ex
plained the deacon.
“Wall, I dunno what a suit o’ clo’es
11 amount to ye, with >you in one town
and they in another; s’posin’ they don’t
come?” v
SrjvfcvSfcnar
bustling about m the preparation of
tea, and the deacon, having finisbnR
mending the harness, was out attend
ing to the chores, which always hurried
him at that hour.
Six o’clock came; supper was all
ready. Still no express bundle arrived
for the deacon. It ought to have come
on the coach.
Mrs. Appleby grew more and more
uneasy; even the' calm deacon began
to brush with his hand the clothes he
had on, wondering if they couldn’t be
made to answer in case his new suit
’■ did not come.
But no—they would not do. He haR
been humiliated enough by being com
pelled to wear them to town that day.
The truth was, his thrifty wife had
undertaken a few days before these
events to sponge the deacon’s clothes
with a famous cleansmg soap which
had been recommended to her.
The soap was indeed effective. It re
moved all the stains .and grease, but
at the same time took out every vestige
of the original dye wherever the
sponge was applied. The result was a
generally mottled effect which was so
ridiculous that the wearer laughed
every time he looked at them.
He had hoped that the new suit
would arrive before the young minister
came down to supper. But it was a
vain hope.
“I guess he’ll think we’re mortal poor
for you to wear them things,” ««RR
Mrs. Appleby.
“Mebbe he’ll think I’m all the more
stiddy for a deacon if I don’t pay so
much attention to dress, h'Vo the
world’s people,” was the ready reply.
As a matter of fact Mr. Graves did
not think of noticing his genial host’s
attire, and although Mrs. Appleby was
“fidgety” at the table Doris and her
father were pleasant enough to make
up.
But when 9 o’clock—the deacon’s
bedtime—came and Mr. Graves retired
for the night the Applebys looked at
each other in dismay.
“Now what d’ye think?” exclaimed
Mrs. Appleby.
“Looks as if I’d got to stay at home
from lneetin’ to-morrow or go and wear
these here brindled trousers,” said the
deacon with a rather dismal smile.
If it only wasn’t wicked to pretend
to be ill and not to go,” said Doris
faintly.
“But it is wicked,” asserted her fa
ther.
“Jest as I expected ’twould turn out
when you come home without the new
clo’es, ” said Mrs. Appleby.
I don’t see how I could help it.
They needed fixin’ over, and I knew
you’d scold if I axed you to do it with
so little time. ”
You oughter got ’em the fust of the
week, as I told ye to. It all comes of
your procrastinatin’ that I’m alius tell-
in’ ye about.”
“There is somebody at the door this
minute,” cried Doris, and she flew to
Brandon, Ky."
meetin’, and have it given but from
the pulpit with the rest of -the church
notices that I’d got a new outfit some-
wheres on the way, ” suggested the
deacon, with a humorous twist of his
lips, which always had a smile lurking
about them ready to spring into visible
existence. .
“I wouldn’t make sport out of sacred
subjects if I was in your place,” said
Samantha with unabated asperity.
The current of debate was turned
at this point by the appearance of
Doris, whose twenty years of life had
developed the energetic qualities of
her mother with the never fading good
temper of her father—a combination,
by the way, which went very well with
a sweetly simple manner and a full
share of beauty.
“The coach is coming, father,” she
announced, “and I think it brings Mr.
Graves, the new minister.”
“For pity’s sake!” cried Mrs. Ap
pleby.
_ “I never thought of its bein’ time for
the coach yit,” exclaimed the deacon,
hastily thrusting the piece of harness
which he was mending into a pocket
and running to the sink to wash his
hands.
“Doris has got to meet him at the
door. I shan’t, with this faded caliker
on,” said Mrs. Appleby.
“I will meet him, mother, and show
him to his room,” said Doris, and .she
added, “You and father will have time
to brush yourselves up a bit before he
cranes down to supper.”
With nothing but sunshine npon her
sweet face she adjusted a ribbon at her
throat, and another at her waist, with
the effect of a general change of attire,
for it took but little to adorn her sim
ple beauty.
She opened the front door just as
Mr Graves alighted from the co^ch.
He was a pleasant faced young man—
a student sent there for one Sabbath as
a “candidate.” As yet he had -not
gained a very ministerial look, Espe
cially since he wore a traveling Suit of
gray, with russet shoes and crush hat.
Doris greeted him with unconscious
grace, but he was a little embarrassed-
‘If I may tax your kindness so soon,”
he said, as he paused in the doorway
of the pleasant chamber to which she.
conducted him, “I would like a peedle
nr.R +hrg«rt. I caught my coat sleeve^
oh the door of the coach and the re
sult is a sad looking rent.” 7
And he held up his arm to shdw the
extent of the damage.
“That is too bad, but I can soon
mend it for you. I’m afraid;” she
added, with her sunny smile, “that un-
you are more nimble with the
needle than father is you would"
have a hard time mending that. It is
dreadful tear and it will show, the
best I can do.”
Mr. Graves laughed, and handed her
the garment with a grateful look:
“The worst of it is,” he added, “I.
had a parcel checked on the cars and
the baggage man couldn’t find it at the
station when I arrived. It contained
more suitable garments than these for
to-morrow.” <• t
‘T hope it is not lost,” said Doris.
“Probably it will be found in time
for me to check it back again when I
return.”
In the meantime Mrs Appleby was
answer Jhe.IimooL-— - - -— f-
A boy stood on the step with a
bundle. _____
“Express for the deacon,” explained
the youngster. “Carried by on t’other
train, and come back on the one from
the west. Dad' told me to fetch it right
up, as ye might be wanting of it!”
“There, there*Samantha!” cried the
deacon, holding the bundle exultantly"
close to the good lady’s face. -
“Now what comes of all your talk?
Here ’re the clo’es, and they sent ’em
jest as they said they would.”
Samantha relented in spirit, as she
usually did after the worry of the day
was over, and so they retired in peace.
The deacou would have liked to try on
his purchase before going to bed, but
it occurred to him that that would ap
pear like boyish impatience, so he con
tented himself with tearing a hole in
the wrapping paper -and obtaining a
glimpse of the dark goods through’the
opening.
In the morning, for some unaccount
able reason, the Applebys all over
slept, and when the deaeon and bis
energetic wife arose they found that
they had a narrow margin of time in
which to do the ordinary morning
work of a farm, which cannot be omit
ted even on the Sabbath.
This tended to irritate Samantha,
and even the deacon found it hard to
keep his Sunday countenance during a
hastily’prepared breakfast. Mr. Graves
was a little anxious over the coming or
deal of preaching, for the second time
in his experience, a regular written ser
mon.
“We’ll be late, just as sure as the
world 1” said Mrs. Appleby for.the doz
enth time after Mr. Graves had gone
to his room for a half hour of medita
tion.
“Time enough, mother. Don’t fret,”
said the deacon.
But you’ve got your clothes to
change yet, and no knowin’ whether
they’ll come within a rod of fittm’ ye,”
persisted Mrs. Appleby.
“FH resk it. I’ll wear’em anyway,
fit or no fit,” said the deacon impa-
cne ample ngure or ms nose, wnue ms {
pale cheeks became almost as red as !
the deacon’s.
“Got the hoss ready?” ventured the
latter.
“Yes, father. But”
“Wall, we hain’t much time to spare.
Ye see”— The good man was on the
point of making an explanation, but
checked himself and began, with short,
cautions steps to cross the room, add
ing:
■ “Come, come, if the hoss is ready.”
A more ridiculous figure than that
jut by the deacon it would be hard to
imagine.
He had put on his new suit of dothes.
They were made of dark goods of fine
quality. But the legs were several
inches too short, and so tight that they
set like the costume of a circus per
former. The coat was equally short,
and to introduce the buttons to their
respective buttonholes would have
been an impossibility. And every mo
ment the deacon made a vain attempt
to stretch the too economical waistcoat
down to cover a zone of white-shirt and
suspender buttons betwixt that garment
and the trousers.
“What in the world did you bay
them duds for?” gasped Samantha in
the deacon’s ear, when they were seat
ed beside each other on the forward
seat of the beach wagon.
“Don’t say a word, please don’t, and
mebbe there won’t nobody notice it!”
was the hurried response.
“Not notice ’em!” echoed Mrs. Ap
pleby.
“There’s a pesky mistake, unless the
clo’es shrunk tremendously after I left
them,” said the deacon.
At the meeting house the latter glid
ed into a pew near the door partially
unobserved, after the services were be
gun ; and in perspiring misery he sat
through the hour of worship until
aroused by a touch upon his arm. It
was the boy who had brought the ex
press bundle the evening before, and
he had another bundle now.
“Dad didn’t see this one when he
sent me up last night, and so I fetched
it here, knowin’ you ’ always was ter
meetin’,’’ said the boy, handing over an
other J5undle.
“What have you there, father?”
Doris exclaimed noticing the bundle
hugged under his arm.
“Oh—yes—I forgot—but it’s yourin,
I guess,” he stammered, giving it to
Mr. Graves.
The latter looked at it and shook his
head.
“I think not. Mine was larger and
in plain wrapping. ”
.The deacon stared at the bundle
which was returned to his charge, «tiR
the words “misfit parlors” in large let
ters swam before his gaze.
On the way home Mr. Graves and
Doris did ail the talking. The deacon
went into the house with .the bundle,
and the first thing he did was to
open it.
“Woll T in x.
IS COTTON KINO?
WILL THE CROP OF 1890
COMMERCE?
EFFECT
“I will hitch up the horse for you,
father, so you can have more time,”
said Doris.
‘That’s a good galP I wish ye
would, for I declare for it I hate to
have ter hustle round so like *a house
afire Sunday morning.”
Mr. Graves came down ready to
start. Mrs. Appleby tried to entertain
him with- becoming before meeting
topics while the deacon was getting
read'fe Doris came in and said the
team was ready.
Stffl Deacon Appleby did not put in
an appearance. His wife fidgeted,
Doris became uneasy, and Mr. Graves
looked at his watch.
‘What in the name of natur* can
that man be a-doin’?” exclaimed Mrs.
Appleby at last.
She started to go and see, when the
door opened and Deacon Appleby came
in. His face was very red, and there
was a queS? pucker about his lips as
though he were suppressing an indinar
tion to laugh.
Good land!” ejaculated Mrs. Ap
pleby.
“Why, father 1” Doris exclaimed.
Mr. Graves stared at the apparition
in the doorway, then looked down at
his own slim length and_back again #
lip coat and trousers, which
were certainly a fit for himself,
“Them are the clo’es I bought!” he
declared.
“Then whose are them you’ve been
tryin’ to squeeze yflurself into, I’d like
to know?” demanded Mrs. Appleby.
Both glanced toward the ^doorway.
Mr. Graves and Doris stood on the
threshold, and both were smiling.
“Father,” said Doris, with her sweet
est laugh, “the parcel which came last
night was for Mr. Graves. Those are
his clothes which you have on.”
It hardly seemed like Sunday in a
deacon’s household, with a minister for
a guest, during the next half hour. It
would be difficult to say which laughed
the hardest, for even Mrs. Appleby did
her share in that line.
“Wall, we’d better swap back, if ’tis
the Sabbath,” said the deacon at last.
And Mr. Graves laughingly assented.
* * * * * * *
Mr. Graves remained through his
vacation and preached regularly at the
little meeting house.
With the next term he graduated,
was called to the rural parish, and set
up Ms home there, with Doris Appleby
to furnish sunshine for him.—Ernest
A Young in Yankee Blade.
The Indian of Today.
There are no longer any Logans,
Blaekhawks, Tecumsehs, Pontiaes or
Osceolas, and in their places we have
only the greasy prowler of the plains,
the semi-barbarian, the mendicant.
The Indian of the present day is lazy
and treacherous, and is not even pict
uresque in appearance. He is not tall
and well proportioned, as we once fan
cied him, and as for being straight and
commanding, his legs resemble a pair
of ice tongs, his back is humped and
his eyes have lost their aboriginal fire.
He is no longer a creature of kingly
form, and there is absolutely nothing
about him to excite interest or sympa
thy. Who can weep for “Chawer-of-
Thnnder?” *What poetic inspiration
can be worked up over “Split-Chunk?”
What sentiment is to be aroused by
“Bone-Pounder” and “Mashed-Hoof?”
“Rain-in-the-Face” has a providential
sound, but “Dirty-Back” chills the ro
mance in one’s nature, and when we
read about “Old-Man-Ain’t-What-He-
Used-to-Be” the conclusion is compelled
that Indians and Indian nomenclature
are not what they used to be either.—
Kansas Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Just Like Him.
From the Boston World.
Here is what one of the “Wool Hat”
hoys of the Georgia Legislature said to
an Alliance brother when his collar and
cravat had gone awry: “BiH! come here
and fix this dura thing forme. It’s the
second one I ever wore, and I ain’t worth
a dura with them j but I’m hell on hame
strings.”
Dr. James Corrie, Dentist, of Baltimore,
writes: “Ihave used Dr. Bull’s Cough Sy
rup personally and in my family for two
or three years, and I am prepared to say
that there is nothing to compare to it as
a remedy for coughs, colds,etc. 25 cents.
Pams in the hack are frequently caused
by a sudden wrenching of the spine. A
few applictions of Salvation Oil :: ill give
permanent relief.
A Big Crop and a Tight Money Market
May Combine to Ho Damage.
When the farmer is in trouble every
class of business suffers. This fact is
painfully evident in every part of Geor
gia. The low price of cotton has al
most precipitated a panic, and if relief
in some form or other does not soon
come the list of failures wiH be unpre
cedented.
Every farmer who is not forced to
sell his cotton is determined to hold it
for a better price, and the commission
merchant who has it stored has locked
up his money vault and lost the combi
nation. So it is a case of “freeze out,”
and the limit of endurance only wfil de
cide the result.
It is a question whether good seasons
and lig crops are a blessing or a curse
When a commodity is plentiful, it depre
ciates in value. If only three-fourths of
a cotton crop had been made the staple
would now be worth 10 or 11 cents,
whereas with a big crop it ofily com
mands 7 and 8. In the first case all
of the crop would have been on the mar
ket by this tune and the money, in cir
culation, while in the last, not more than
one-half has been sold.
And here is another evil resulting from
big crops. Southern people are very
sanguine, and along in Jnly and August,
when everything points to a good crop,
we begin to feel independent -and be
come extravagant. This thing is bought
and that thing is bargained for without
any thought as to what cotton is worth
when placed on the market. When the
outlook for a poor crop presents itself we
feel the need of retrenchment in expen
ditures, and so shape our transactions
as to meet a probable emergency. Then
follows a lively demand for cotton at a
good price, and all things taken together
we find ourselves better off in the end
than if we had doubled our production.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANEY.
Nests fob Gebms.—The impurities
that collect under the finger-nails have
been investigated by the bacteriological
laboratories of Vienna. The matter
obtained in 78 examinations was placed
in culture solutions, and gave 36 kinds
of micrococci, 18 of bacilli, and 3 of
sarcime. Cleanliness of the nails is es
pecially necessary tor all who come near
a wound, and'for those who live in a
nei(R>lu>rhraul Oniilnmif
alig.
Electrically Aimed Gtrxs.—In a
new invention, a small .dry battery, an
electro-magnet and a circuit-closer- of
mercury are so arranged in the stock of
a gun that the weapon can be discharg
ed only when elevated to a predeter
mined angle. At other positions the
trigger is locked and cannot be puHed.
The device is claimed to ensure precis
ion in range, and accuracy of firing at
night when the range has been previous
ly obtained.
The Moon-Weather Problem.—
From tables made by the use of synop
tic charts, eliminating local disturban
ces, Dr. G. Meyer believes'that he has
accomplished what other investigators
have sought to do without success—
shown an influence of the moon on the
weather. The height of the barometer,
in months of September to January, is
lowered at the time of full moon and
raised during the first quarter. No ef
fect can be traced for other months.
Artificial Skull-Shaping.—As
tonishing success has attended the ef
forts of Dr. Lannelongue, an eminent
specialist of Paris, to give intelligence
to a little idiot girl. Though four years
old, the child could neither walk nor
stand, and never smiled nor took notice
of anything. The doctor concluded
that the abnormal narrowness of the
head obstructed the growth of the brain,
and in May last he made an incision in
the centre of the skull and cut a piece *
of hone from the left side. The result
was marvelous. Within less ’than a
month the child could walk and she has
become quite bright—playing, smiling
and taking notice of everything around
her.
Cold Waves.—A cold wave is de
fined by Prof. T. Russell ag. a fall of
temperature in twenty=four hours of
20 degrees Vver an area of 50,000 square
miles, the temperature in some part of
this area ascending to 36 degrees.* Be
tween 1880 and 1890 no less than 691
cold waves were recorded in the United
States. In the great cold wave of Jan.
17,1882, the fall of 20 degrees extended
over an area of 1,101,000 square miles,
and the fall of 10 degrees included 2,-
929,000 square miles. In six cold
waves of the ten years the area of the
fall of 20 degrees was more than a mil
lion square igiles. Cold waves foHow
a day after an area of low pressure,
or occur to tha southeast of an area of
high pressure, reaching their greatest
extent when both conditions are present.
The New Discovery.
You have heard your friends and neigh
bors talking about it. You may yourself
be one of the many who know from per
sonal experience just how good a thing
it is. If you have ever tried it, you are
one of its staunch friends, because the
wonderful thing about it is, that when
once given a trial, Dr. King’s New Dis
covery ever after holds a place in the
house. If you have never used it and
should he afflicted with a cough, cold or
any throat, luug or chest trouble, secure
a bottle and give it a fair trial. It is
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