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THE EASTMAN TIMES.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1SS6
M. L. BURCH, E 15. MILNER
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TIIE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS REAR—9’flE
PRESIDENT AND BRIDE TO TAKE A
TRIP—rOST OFFICE AKK.UgS-
MR. MANNING’S SUCCESSOR.
From our regular correspondent.
Washington, June 19, J.886.—
Having entered upon the seventh
month of the first session of tlie 49th
(Congress, the lower House propos¬
es to make an effort to crowd the
work through within the time coa
sumfd by the session ending July
15th, 1884- This prospect to the
-outside observer is not very prom
i^ing; but those supposed to direct
the majority of the upper and lower
^Houses say that it can and proba
bly will be accomplished. Thera
ip already talk of introducing a
resolution in the House fixing June
2(5tb for adjournment, with jtbe ex
jactation that the date will not bv
set more than 10 or 12 days beyond
: t(bat time.
The President and his bride have
under i contemplation , ■ .. a tour , of , the ,,
portheru lakes, with a select party
of friends, in a chartered steamer
during the summer. It is probable
that they will spend some time ou
Hie seacoast and in the mountain
regions after the adjournment of
Conp/ess, and theu go to their old
Lome in Buffalo. According to the
programme they will leave Buffalo
timo in August unj m.ko »
trip which will IncluJe Lake Ene,
Huron and Michigan, making stops
at pints of interest.
lhe programme may be vaiieu
or abandoned, but it is under sen
ous consideration ut the \v hite
Uonse, and probably will be carried ,
out. 1. Much . 1 will depend , , upon the ,,
date , of , the , adjournment of Con
If Congress „ docs , not , adjourn ,.
cress. 7 ’
h f° , re August, . , tbo „ President ., will ...
o course e 11 ainei in as nn^
ton, and bis summer outing as now
proposed, wi l be abandoned
It is said that the l resident am.
Ins wife lmve never been farther
west than the city of Buffalo. Mr.
Clevelaud is anxious to make a tour
of the lakes, and if he does so the
Chicago Iroquis Club, to which he
has a standing invitation, will enter
tain him.
There seems to have been very
good management displayed in the
pjalter of making contracts for
joost office supplies during the 18
months past, and consequently a
grrrat saving to the government has
i, eeiJ the result. During Judge
Gresbam’s term as Postmaster GeD
era}, this business became greatly
mixed, and certain contracts were
let which subsequently proved not
to have been entire business-like
transactions. Postmaster General
Yilas is giving special attention to
this class of work under him, nnd
together with third assistant Post¬
master General Hazen, after much
gareful labor, now have binding
coutracts which, while they will
doubtless yield fair profits to the
contractors, will, at the same time,
be of great advantage , and benefit
G * be P ub l' c large, lake foi
instance the contract for stamped
envelopes just made by the Post*
master General for the four coming
years, commencing Juiy 1st. Before
advertising for proposals for these
.envelopes the Department had a
great deal of preparatory work to
trausaci, consisting chiefly of get
ting the most suitable paper for the
various styles of envelopes, chang¬
ing the styles of the old ones, and
other work of a similar nature! It
is estimated that there will be or
dered by the Department during
the coming year, $3,250,000 worth
p of stamped envelopes. If it should
pay foi them on the basis of the
present contract a disbursement of
over $950,000 over and altove that
sum would be required. The result
will therefore be a saving of noward
of a million of dollar*, >r about 5£
1 $ my,'. BASTI I / * © J ■ n : ma A.
■ s
i £
VOL. XIV
per cent
Take, again, the contract for sup¬
plying the Department with postal
cards, stamps, tags, register packa¬
ges and dead letter and official en¬
velopes. This contract was enter¬
ed into on 30th of June last, and
is to run four years. The first year
is near enough to its close to ena\
ble a very correct idea being form¬
ed as to how it has worked so far,
and how it will work for the re¬
maining three years. By the last
of this month it is estimated that
the books will show orders by tlie
Department for supplies under the
contract referred to amounting to
$1,932,253,589; and the amount paid
for them will show a decrease of
jabout 25 per cent i« tke outlay foi
postage stamps, about 12 per ceni
in postal cards, and 45 percent in
other articles during the previous
fiscal year. Altogether the Post
office Department under the
.yision of Postmaster General Vilas
is making an excellent record in
purchasing supplies.
The repoit that ex-Senator Davis
of West Virginia, might possibly
be appointed Secretary of Treasury
has caused much amusement dur¬
ing the past week, for it is well
known that the President has no
idea of appointing a successor to
Secretary Manning—at least until
the coming October.
It is probable, if the truth were
known, that the presence of Ste¬
phen Elkins, son i« law of Mr. Da
yis, and Blaine’s lieutenant in the
last campaign, was tiie only draw¬
back which the President found in
spending the first of his married
life at Deer Park. It was really
laughable to see with what ^lacrity
the fat-witted Elkins reached the
latter place from New York in pr
; ut r to q, l,«ve have his his arrival arrival announced announced
during he 1 resident s a
there. Mr. Elkins is by no means
i c oae-mou mt persjn, am hh
fore, though only arriving at Jeer
Park on the morning ot Mr. Cl eve
land’s departure, he managed to in
terview him, and parade his views
of the President in the press dis
patches the following day.
..... IHEINV KMOR Of 1 ....., llh ClUt-U- n,, r
In a i oue[y an( il7dmleJ spot in the
n0) . t | J>lve9t corner „f t jj C cemetery,
nea| . lhe l)(iautiful | ittlo U)lVU of Kicll
uiond, , Kalamazoo „ , county, , Michigan, .. . .
the , reader hud , white ...
can on a pure
marble ,, slab , , nearly , concealed , , from .
view . . bv a large , cluster , . of ,, lilac , bush* . .
'
engraved , the ,, simple . inscription: ...
os,
. lBenj;lIllin Cummings, born 1772,
^ j) X843.’ And who was Ben
j amin Cummings? He was the in*
yentor,of the circular saw now in use
in lWa country and in Europe. Near
G0 yeara ag0 , at Burtonville, New
y ork in d Amsterdam, this man ham
meJ ea out, at his own blacksmith’s
a„ v .!, the first circular saw known to
mankind, lie was a noted pioneer in
Richmond; a 5rst cousin to one of
the Presidents of the United Mates;
a slave owner in New York State; a
leading Mason !n the days of Mor*
gnn, at whose table the very elect of
the great State of New York feasted
j and drank freely of his choice wines:
a vessel owner on the North River
beforetbedateofstcamboatsjaeap
tain in the war ot 1812, where, after
having three horses shot under him.
! w * tb one stroke ot his sword brought
i bis superior officer to the ground for
insult because lie was a traitor and a
coward ; and alter having beeneourt
martialed, instead of being shot, fie
was appointed Colonel in his place,
In tiiis lonely grave are the ashes of
the man who, 70 3 , etirs ago at Al.
bauv, N. Y., took up and moved bod¬
ily large brick buildings to the won¬
der and astonishment of tlie world,
constructed a mile and a half of the
Erie Canal through a bed of rock,
^ whoalso built, on contract, those
, g fgt j ow bridges over thesame. ) e
^ a|so ai(led iu the construction of the
1 tniles of railroad built in tiie
! fir3t len
Uniteit States, and founded both the
' of Esperenee aud Bostonville
j villages
on the Schoharie, near Amsterdam.
The study and aim of this man's life
appeared to be to do that which no
other man could accomplish, and
when the object sought was secured
he passed it a9 quietly by as he would
the pebbles of the seashore - Cali
forma Architect,
‘I must have order In this court room’
sternly commanded a justice of the
. ])eace J must and will have less noise
and confusion here. I have disposed of
three important cases without being able
j to hear one word of the evidence,
I
The Boston girl never ssys ‘‘it is
1 raining pitchforks. She sa\s it
| is raining agricultural implements.”
EASTMAN, GEORGI A, THURSDAY JUNE 24, 1 SS(>.
A SMALL BOY’S FIRST CIGAR.
Philadelphia Times.
A half-dozen mouthfuls of smoke
usually briugs the first drop of per¬
spiration to the surface, and about
that time there is also a hollow lit
tie cough which seetus to issue from
the region of the small boy’s heart.
Something has gone wroug-he
does not know exactly what, but he
thinks be has swallowed one-eighth
of , the A , smoke—and , lie takes .i the
cigar out of l.is mouth and regards
witb n sus P ,clous & cze ' lbe I,ls
speetjon seems to assure him that
-he cigar is not an anarchist s bomb
or a socialist s torpedo, and lie be*
^ u3 a 8 a ‘ u - 1 his time he swallows
seven-eighths of the smoko, ami
tears duu his youthful oyes as he
frantically tries to bring the smoke
out of Swears; but lie doesn’t faU
ter ? et ‘ thou " b be wonder3 wbat
is going to happen next, ns he re*
t,irn3 to tbo '™ rk ^ has himself
laid out. It is laterin the program
that the work lays him out, but
barring a little shiver or two there
has been no symptom ot such a dis
aster yet.
No small boy in his guileless un¬
wisdom ever begins his first cigar
without previously laying in nil in¬
exhaustible supply of matches.
This enables him to scorn seeking
another boy fur a light; it also en
ables him to get appropriately sick.
4 he . returns L to . * his * , he
x\s cigar now,
notices that .. ... the smoke , has . ceased ,
curling .. from p the ,, lighted , . . end, . and .
, lie rinds, ... after . due . investigation, .
’ ®
that it has really gone out. lie
re lights it, but tbo taste seems to
have changed and grown bittei,
and lie begins to doubt tlie expedi
eucy of prosecuting bis study any
further. Then another little boy
B asses “l° n g. tugging valliantly at
^ ^ h(J begin8 to tako
hope Re bftS grftV0 lloobtH
by lbi8 Ume of the 6anity of the
men w j 1{) insist that smoking is a
pIensur ^ but j 8U - t quite prepared
for tJje revo]utioil that soon begins,
Tben tbere ifl ft heavi'neas about
^ re <)f t)je Htouiftch which
fae don . t un( j er8tac( distaut' j. he hears the
rumble of thunder; the
bird, cease tlieir singiue: tlio sky
^ ^ (L ,
aud a look of unutterable anguish
«ttlas upon his face. 1C he he des
tined for future greatness his im
mortal soul stays down.
rT ihe ,. life of c the small boy is ruled
with ... exciting ... incidents, , , but , there
is . no day , so big as that . on which , ,
ue smokes ins first cigar. In time
ho , has , bis first affair of the , heart; ,
then he graduates from school, and
later on gets married, und still.later
he dies. But none of these events
affect him quite as the first cigar
As Le grows older the memory of
that event seems to linger by him,
and thou?h recollections of other
eventg farle> this nt l east he carries
end An(] whon iu after
hig own 6raftll b oy comes
^ r with the odor of bad
tobacco, amt , tbat . same , look , of , ails
guish on bis face, it is with the con¬
sciousness of conviction that he
assures the boy’s mother of the fu¬
tility of cholera antidotes, and ud.'
vises the boy to go and ho down.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF LKTs
TKRS.
Many a time and oft has the face and
tor tune of a country been changed by
the contents of a single written sheet of
paper, savsa Mr. Howard in a New
York letter to the Boston Globe. But
there are other reflections to which the
sight of the myriads of letters, which are
to be seen every night in the post office,
is calculated to give rise, 'there may,
perchance, be found lying at the same
moment, in that establishment, a letter
from a parent to his son in a far distant
country, and one from the son to the
parent, both parties being anxious to
hear from each other, hut neither know
ing that the other wat about to write.
T:,e letter of a lover to the object of his
affections, and thatot the latter to him,
may also meet in tlie general post office
under similar circumstances. But this
is a train of reflection in which 1 mu-t
not indulge There is one other ^int of
view in which the men of contemplative
mind cannot fail to regard the tens of
thousands of letters before him. 'there
is to be found the concentration of the in
telleet, of the moral worth, aye, and of
tlie villainy of tlie land.
Of this country only ?
Of tlie civilized world itself, for where
is tb<* corner of the earth visited with the
j «Kbt of civilization from which comma
| nieaUons of all kinds arc not daily pour
J ' mg in through metropolis? the general The post post office office to
the great is
to the social system of this eonntrr. wh.it
the heart is in the physical system.
From it proceeds to the remotest
treniitiei of the land, through thc con¬
duits of tlie highways and byways ot
vai ions dittriets, that blood which is
life of the “fM-is! system.
An Editor’s Dream.
BY SCOTT WAY.
Once upon a time a village editor
®»t in his quiet sanctum industrious,
b; Pausing the political editorial m
bis daily city exchanges. At length
that which he read began to have its
l^in.ate effect; the editor nodded
" IK0 ” llubl ’ ll ' s l US c °* Cl ’
tbo city tl,u VU f h /
~ m /“
lingers, and three lues lit upon his
bowed, bald head and balance l all,
and swung corners, and crossed over,
and promenaded all arond to the mu¬
sic of the rythmical editorial snore.
-p|, e v jjj a g e editor was asleep; and,
sleeping, the village editor dreamed,
u e sat at his desk with weary tin—
[ ao , 9 a ml aeliing head. The last local
item ll;ui gonc illlo type,the last in*
J side reading notice had been set up,
and the youngest apprentice stood
grimly by, with lires of impatience
upon his brow and a daub uf ink unv
dor his loft eye, waiting for more
copy. Suddenly there was a step
without, the door opened, a man en
loved, and taking the vacant chair in
front of the editor’s desk, to which
Ihe editor had politely called his at¬
tention, he said:
“My dear sir, my name is John W.
Smith. 1 am a subscriber to your
P a P er ’ a9 vou very well know, and
bein S in town 10 da >- 1 tho,, S ht 1
"’oiild take the opportunity to call
lel1 * ou thftt 1 bked *>"*
ail but one tiling. i You don t print
°
enough , matter the tanti . question .
on
Poetry r% anu . stones and , hinny
graphs , and , local , . items may do well
enough . to . rn hll up a paper with ... in . or
di times, but just now, the whole
count ,. y is ftWhke to the tariff ques
am ^ ,(• y0ll want to koei> your
per alive, you’ve not to give your
| subseribcis lighten the tariff. You
; shmii<l U , u have Icm than three col
i u na ot editorial and live colums of
; CKlniCtg ou llu , tnriir i98UC riiat - 8
.
;lU rvefeot t0 8ayj and j llo , )0 vou q,
bear it in mind.' By the way, I owe
' for two years’ subscription, and
you
oucof these days I’ll call in and pay
it. Don’t forget to let yourself loose
on the tariff. Good by.”
Ab lLo man who wanted more light
on the tariff passed out of the sane
turn, a little, ndrvous-looking person
“ n ' 1 “Pk Ui « v "*«
. All . Ile „ iUl , m U c .......
; that didn’t look strong enough to be
out, -ah, my dear man, 1 see you are
absorbed in thought, as an editor al«
should Oo. And that reminds
me that J you are neglecting—almost ®
totally neglecting, science. loorauch
ol , politics, . dear
‘ my J man; your paper
will never grow in . citculatton . , . while ,
B
you neslect , science . for „ pohtns. .... ion
*
3b , ° a > .. d d . «vole not . less . than , four col- ,
iiinns a week to science. That’s all I
come in to say. Will be in tome day
and pay you my subscription. Good
day; but do not forget to give us
plenty of science.’
The footsteps of the man who want¬
ed science had not gone beyond the
editor’s lieaiing when a third visitor
entered and took the vacant chair as
if he were accustomed to sit in it.
‘I ain sorry to notice that you are
neglecting polities just at this im¬
portant period, he said kindly, but
gravely. ‘You should strive to keep
the vital principles of our party con
staStly belore the people. I like your
paper iu all but its lack in this res¬
pect, and some day, perhaps at the
beginning of the next year, I will call
and subscribe for it. I see it now,
every week, at Brown’s office. If you
would write about five columns of
fiesh political editorials every week,
you would see your paper going right
u p j (1 circulation. That’s what I
told Brown yesterday, and he agree!
with me. A story and a scientific
article occasionally', and a little local
matter, and some marriage and death
notices, to please the women, arc all
well enough, but 1 can tell you that
a (. oun t, ry paper, to amount to any—
thing and have any influence, has
got to be full on political matters.
Tbat ’ 9 a11 1 want t0 sa v now ' Wben
-
; you want anv pointers on politics, 1
shall be glad to help you out. And,
i y the wav, do not forget tha‘, 1 am a
! canaidate for the Legislature; good
dav ’
*
wbo k thc va _
i the vil
cant chair that sat in front of
lage editor’s desk, spoke as follows:
q stopped in to-day, sir, to tell
j y 0U that I do not want your paper
any longer. In some respects it is a
good paper, but you do not print as
much news matter as I would like to
see. You should have a full page of
news at least. I don t care anything
about your protective tariff and your
| tarifl for revenue only, or anything
of lhat 80rt . [ waDt the te w8 when I
take a paper. 1 want a full account
of the murders and suicides, and the
| railroad collissions and divorce cases,
i well seasoned with good market re
i ports, Don’t send iuj the paper any
longer. 1 will come in and pay you
wliai I owe you when I sell my corn.
Good dav.’
And then there was a light stop at
the door, and a | erson wearing a so
verc countenance and a shawl, came
in'and took the vacant chair.
T am very sorry.’ he said, in mens*
ured tones, and with a fixed and
critical stare at the end of the edi¬
tor's nose. ‘1 am very sorry to nos
tiee that you are giving in your col¬
umns so little attention to the cause
of Prohibition, the noble cause
Prohibition. You must rouse your¬
self on this great question and give
your readers a page of it weekly. /
am not a subscriber to your paper,
but I borrow it every week of my
neighbor, and I loan him the Banner
of Light m exchange. So you will
observe that 1 have been one of your
faithful readers, and 1 know just
where you fall short ot making a
good newspaper. 1 will leave you a
few of these tracts from which you
should make liberal extracts from
time to time. You will notice that
this one, entitled—‘Dash the Cup
Away!’ is written by myself. You
are at liberty to print it in full, and
when I come across anything partic¬
ular good in the columns of the Ban¬
ner of Light, I will cut it out and
send it around to you. You have a
grand opportunity to make your pa¬
per grow in circulation and influence,
and I hope you will come boldly to
the front on the right course, and no
longer continue to devote your valu¬
able space to trivial matters. By the
way, have you a few exchanges that
you have perused? Ah, that will do;
thanks; good day,’
In the door, the man in the shawl
passed a person with a merry twin¬
kle in his eyes.
‘I like your paper, lie said; it Is
lir*t rate, when lie dropped into the
vacant chair, all except that it does
not contain humor enough. Why
«lon’t you fill her full of jokes and
h '^ Ut lhin « H U|C fuun ' l ' olloft ' H *
!‘ a,ld m, d'° V 0111 '^ reaild s laugh ? No'
| bo,, y a ccnt fop tbosu l ,0,iticft l
o-IitoriuU and those scientific arti
cles, and that stuff about the tariff
y 011 P rint - Tbat ,nc lo * Blee I’
Give us plenty of jokes to shake up
! ‘ niau’s liver ami let the tarHM.uke
*’•
J°" 'f'"' 1 ”>•«*
The next person who took the va¬
cant chair had ■» countenance as sol*
ciun as a second handed hearse, lie
did not look as if lie bad smiled more
than once in 40 years, and the vil¬
lage editor took him for an under¬
taker who wanted to auvertise a pat*
ent embalming process and pay in
trade.
‘Sir,’ said the solemn man, after a
silence that became truly painful to
the village editor. ‘I am grieved to
notice the tone of levity that has re»
cently pervaded the columns of your
paper, and I am compelled to ask you
on that account to take my name oil
your list. You seem to forget that
this is a world of calamity and woe,
and that a spirit of levity in the press
is unseemly, and tends tc draw at¬
tention from the solemn realities of
life and the near proximity of death.
Last week you declined to print my
article entitled: “Reflections on tlie
Grave,” alleging that you did not
have room for it, and then gave up
nearly a column of your [taper to a
few frivilous jokes. I do not intend
to read anything light this year, and
that is all 1 have to say; good after¬
noon.
The door closed behind the sol¬
emn man and then softly opened
again to admit a dreamy eyed man
with a poetic brow, and a general ex*
pression that seemed to indicate that
he wanted something he had never
had and never expected to have.
‘I merely came in to remark,’ he
began, as he took the vacant chair,
‘that you are sadly neglecting the
literary department of your paper. I
not only have notice! myself, but
several of my friends have called my
attention to it. You should, by all
means, run a continued story, and
have from two to three good short
stories in each issue. Good stories
are the thing that is wanted to make
a village paper popular. Everybody
you ask will tell you that. A little
news and some local matter and tlie
marriages and deaths should be
printed, of course; but you should
not allow anything to crowd out thc
stories. 1 do not take your paper;
but my brother-in'daw does, and J
just run over and borrow it some
times even before he has seen it. 1
have intended for some time to men*
tion this matter to you. but could
never think of it when I was in town
before. If you think these suggest*
ions are of auy value to you, you may
send me your paper gratuitously for
a year. Allow me to bid you good
day, sir,’
NO. 25
The drearaj-cyed man went out ns
softly as a GO day's note falls due,
and a moment later another style of
person dropped into the vacant chair
and spoke thusly, in tones that were
sharp and quick:
‘1 do not think I shall take your
paper another year. You are not rna
king us good a paper as you should
with yonr opportunities. You are not
giving yonr readers enough local
matter. Local matter should be the
chief feature of the village paper.
Every thing else should be made to
give glace to local matter. A story
now and then, when you have plenty
of room, an.I a bit of poetry Vo please
the young folks who are in love, and
a little news matter, are all well
enough, but if you want to mak a
village paper a success, you have got
to let yourself out on local matter.
Give the news of your own columns
nity and lot the big dailies take care
of the rest of the world And, by the
way, if you are a little short of local
matter this week, you might say that
I have invented and patented one of
the best common sense churns that
lias ever been introduced to the pco*
pie of this State. I’ll be in again in
the course of a few weeks, and will
theu pav you iny subscription for last
year; good day.'
The village editor was about sli¬
ding under the table, a crushed and
mentally demoralized man, to hide
Ins head in despair or the wast pa»
per basket, or both, when a loud
knock at the outer door brought hi in
from his dreams to his waking sen-,
see.
‘IIow arc you, i.ld follow?’cried a
cherry voice, and the Old Subscriber
from up the creek took the village
editor by the hand with a hearty
grasp and shook a pain in the edi¬
tor’s shmildei sblade. And then the
old subscriber from up the creek
seated himself in the vacant chair
rrid merrily spoke thus:
‘Well, old hoy, you are just giving
us the very best paper we ever had.
A good story every week, some poetry
to please tlie women folks, a column
or two of fresh humor to make us
laugh and keep our lives running on
regular schedule time, just about
enough of politics, all the news that
is worth a busy man’s time to read,
every important local event written
up in breezy, readable style, and ad¬
vertisements of all the public sales
and of the stores and shops t|int offer
us bargains. Yus, sir; your paper is
good enough for me - worth three
times what you ask for it—and 1
want to pay you a year’s subscription
for myself, and hero are iffl.OO more
for which you may send year paper
to my son out West, and my daugh¬
ter down South, for they both like to
get the news from the old home, and
you give them more of it in one issue
of your paper than I couid write in
20 letters. That’s all 1’ye got to say
to-day. (Joinu out and see me when
1 begin to make cider, and bring a
jug along if you have one, and if you
have none I’ve got one to lend you;
good bye.’
And the old subscriber from up
the creek went out with a smile upon
bis face that began just below lus
left ear and spread leisurely about
over his face and then quietly meant
dered hack to the place of beginning.
The village editor was about to
pinch himself to assure himself that
he was really wide awake, when the
cry of “copy!” came to his ears, and
then ho didn’t think it necessary to
pinch himself. He only folded up
the crisp two dollar bills uml put
them in bis pocket, witli the beauti¬
ful thought that, this wotld in which
wc live, is no; half so bad a world as
some IoIks sometimes dream it is.
—Middletown (Del.) Transcript.
RHYMING AT A LOVE FEAST.
Apropos of the visit of the Rev.
E. L. Magoon to Richmond, Va., the
following incident is told:
Some time about 1884, one night
after the Rev. Dr. Jeter of sainted
memory had preached for Mr. Ma»
goon, he turned to the latter and said:
“Brother Magoon, please raise the
tune.’
Air. Magoon responded:
“Dear Brother Jeter, I’ve lost the
meter.’
At this an old deacon standing by
said:
“Why, bless my time, they speak
in rhyme,’’ and an elderly lady sang
out to the late James ( '. Grace, one
of the pillars of the church
“Dear Brother Jim, do raise the
hymn.”
When the audible stniles that these
involuntary and impromptu poetical
effusions provoked had subsided,
some one struck up:
‘‘Coase thou iouut of every blessing,
Tub e my heart to sing Thy praise, ”
and the good old Baptists had a real
ioye feast.—Richmond Examiner.
A DRUMMER'S STORY.
HOW A FRIEND OF U1S MADE MONEY.
When I first met .lack he was al¬
ways flush. In fact he is now, but
he is manager. Jack was at work
then for a sewing machine house, and
had charge of tlio city trade. He
used to ask me often to dine with
him, and I noticed lie never paid for
anything he got. We seldom ate
twice at the same place, and I began
to think his credit was monumental
“Next lime we go to Craft’s to dine,
let's take 'all the hoys in ihe office
with us,” said Jack as we left a well
known restaurant one day. “I don’t
like the place at all, aud I am anx¬
ious to cat out what lie owes me.”
“Then he owes you money,” said I,
to draw Jack out.
“Yes, they all owe me more than I
will over be able to get. 1 might quit
now and board around from place to
place for two years nnd not eat up
the accounts. You see I once put an
advertisement in a Sunday paper,
which read something like this:
44 4 W anted— Firstclass board lor a
llrstclass sewing machine, direct from
faotoiy. References required.’”
“Well, I got over seventy live an¬
swers. 1 was given the best of ref¬
erences—bankers, preachers and doc¬
tors. Most of. the letters were from
hoarding house keepers and restau*
ranters. They were from all parts of
the city.
“As manager of the city trade I
could sol! a city machine as a sama
pic at tbo wholesale price. Bat I did
not do that. I picked out twenty
good restaurants and boarding houses
and bought twenty machines on my
own account on four months’ time.
“The \> holesalo price of each ma¬
chine was $!!>, and the retail juice
$55. Of course I paid $1‘J each, and
sold them at the retail price.
At each of the twenty places I told
them If they wanted a bran-new ma
ehine I would let them have one di¬
rect from the office for $20 cash, and
would take the balance out in board.
They jumped ut it, especially as the
machine was one of the best made,
and I promised to take it back if not
satisfactory.
“Near three restaurants I got a
suit of rooms on tlio machine ac
•
count. In less than two days 1 had
delivered the twenty machines, had
$400 cash in pocket, with feur months
in which to pay for the goods. I had
$700 to takeout in board nnd lodging
in various parts of tlio city, and at 1
say, I got tired of eating up tlie pro¬
fits on the scheme. The $700 was *1)
profit and also $1 on each machines
“Why, I worked the same plan on
tlie tailors—they wanted sowing ma¬
chines. 1 could sell a tailor a heavy
manufacturing machine for $60,which
cost me $30—and what an elegant
suit of clothes I got for that $30!”
MOST EXCELLENT.
J. J. Atkins, Chief Police, Knox¬
ville, Tenn., writos: “My family and
I are beneficiaries of your most ex¬
cellent iiK'dicine, Dr. King’s New Dis¬
covery for consumption; having
found it to bo all that you claim for
it, desire to testify to its virtue. My
friends to whom 1 have recommended
it, praise it at every Discovery opjxirtunity.”
Dr. King’s New for Con¬
sumption is guaranteed to cure
coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma,
croup, and every affection of throat,
chest and lungs. Trial bottles free
at Hen man A, Hcrrrnan’s drug store.
Large size $1.00.
WONDERFUL CURE*.
W. D. Hoyt A Co., wholesale and
retail druggists of Rome, Ga., say:
Wc have been selling Dr. King’s New
len’s Discovery, Electric Halve Bitters and Buok
Arnica for two years.—
Have never handled remedies that
sell so well and give such universal
satisfaction. There have been some
wonderful cures effected by these
medicines in this city. Several cases
of pronounced consumption have been
entiroly cured by use of a few bottles
of Dr. King’s New with Discovery, Electric taken
in connection Bitters.
We guarantee them always. Sold by
Herrman A Henman, Eastman, Ga.
BUCKLEN’S ARNICA S&LVB.
Tiie lx-Ht salve in the world tor Cut*,
Bruises, Sores. Ulcer*, fait, libeam, Fever
8or<-«, Tetter, Olmppea Hands, Chilblains
Corns, and all Hliin Eruptions, and js/Hitively
enresPiles, or no pay required. It is RUar
utitevd to f;ivn port,-1 autiitaciion, or money
refunded. Price 2J cents l« r 1 k>*.
For o.do by Herrman A Herman, Eastman
G,i.
TOBACCO.
Tobacco nic, tobacco nic,
When l am well it makes me sick,
Tobacco illtobacco nic.
It makes we well when 1 am sick.
Wife—-“Leave n?e some money,
please. I am going to make a loaf
of cake, and 1 shall want a little
chauge to buy some of tho ingredi¬
ents.” Husband—“Half a dollar
enough?” Wife—“I don fc know.
1 am going to make it according to
the receipt in the cook bock .”--f
Husband—“Oh! Well thnt makes
a difference. Here’s a ten-dollar
bill.”
Another washout—On the clothes
line.
The only nmu who has the Presi¬
dent's ear—Mr. Cleveland.
It is not considered necessary in
society to return a bill collector's
CftUd,