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THE MONROE U 4- vV ■* ADVERTISER,
VOL XXX VI.
Higher;! of all in Ixmvening Bower.— U. C. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889 .
ABSOLUTE!* PURE
Hf’AMOrri IMil.W CHIEF.
KOMANT 1 Q EER OF MONTE
ZUHA, -r ~RE AZTEO EMPEBOB.
Ills Grave and Skilful Genera’whip
l{e«u!t In i h ' 1 Imlepeadeilce of
Mexico Conquered by Corlez.
Mexico, tho land of romantic history,
writes General (). (), Howard in the
Louisville (*>:/f i( p-%]t n ri, has, perhaps,
no greater mime among her native heroes
than that of Montezuma,who was styled,
according to the poetic custom of the
country, “Archer of Heaven” and “Great
Heart,” from his skill and bravery.
Montezuma was not born to the throne,
but he was a I’rince of high rank under
the fourth King of (lie country, who
reigned iu the Fourteenth century, and
the event which led to his election to trie
throne occurred while lie was yet a very
young man.
1 he reigning sovereign head of Mexico
lent young Montezuma with a large fol¬
lowing to Texcuco as an ambassador, lie
accomplished his mission, and was re¬
turning when an ambuscade was sprung
upon him. He and liia attendants were
made prisoners and hustled off to 01 ml
CO. The Governor of that city, being a
bitter enemy of the Mexicans, sent them
to a miserable prison,and began the pro¬
cess of starving his victims. But the
keeper himself dealt kindly with the
prisoners. 11 is name, Quateotzin. should
be remembered. The Governor, bent on
Speedier mischief than slow starvation,
took a pious turn, and sent them to a
neighboring city to bo sacrificed on the
atarsot .. the God (1 . of , War u . The people ,
Ol this City, though they killed ami of
b red their-own captives, were somehow
incensed at, the brutal Governor and mi
m-dial ely sent bari* he embassy declur
!!'- th ’ lt < ,ur peop’o will not disgrace
them elves ) by a deed so infamous.
imGovernor of Chaleo,a regular Nero
m cruelty planned another outrage
which lie thought would serve »dv,Jri« two pur
I.....■». i r., ...vonx.. him .m his
uid pacify and please a hostile neighbor.,
I’hts neighbor, t’< - Kin of tho 'Pepaut
,
L.ul been previously angered at the
•ruel Governor’s treachery to himself,
be Clmlco Governor now began negoti
nting to send Montezuma and his party
to this King, lie was already at war
with tho Mexican people. While the
Governor’s messengers were making their
journey and carrying the offer, the poor
prisoners were put into a more irksome
confinement. The keeper, Quateotzin,
ulready, strongly attached to Montezuma, !
did, during this delay, a wonderful j
tliing. Ho went directly to his great i
prisoner friend ami warned him of the
new danger, and then told that at the I
almost sure sacrifice of his own life, “he j
proposed to unlock the doors and let j
him and his companions go free.” He j
begged Montezuma, if he himself should
parish, to care for his family. The j !
Mexicans accepted this most generous
offer, left tlio prison, and succeeded in j
reaching their own land.
The enraged Governor, as was antici- I |
pated, soon put the keeper and part of
his family to death. A son and daugh¬
ter, however, got away, the latter reach¬
ing Mexico. Here she received the re¬
ject and honor due the child of such a
father. Montezuma’s return to the City
of Mexico produced a great surprise aud
much rejoicing.
But forthwith trouble was iu store for
the Mexican kingdom. The King of the |
tierce Tepanecans raised a large army aud
’ \
set out for the Mexican borders. The
Mexicans were then kept tributary to the
hostile King had in some way in¬
curred lus terrible anger and hatred. The
Mexican sovereign and his advisers felt ;
themselves too weak to cope with their
fearful adversaries, and the timid people \
besieged the gates of the palace and en¬
treated that their sovereign sue ior peace.
The tumult increased and the sovereign!
was threatened with violence if he did
not send out the priests to beg on their
knees of the angry enemy for terms of
surrender. '
Here was Montezuma's opportunity,
lie confronted the clamorous and unruly
eou eans^what ^ s 'oC*?x™.
would ye do? Have ye lost
both reason and courage? How has such
cowardice stolen into your hearts? Have
,
vc forgotten that ye are Mexicans, the
descendants t»< those heroes who founded
this noble city, and who defended it
\aliantl\ against all it.s t m “..t>. Ao.m
don your pusillanimous demands or re
nouucc forever the glory ye inherit from
> 0 C
TohU sovereign turning, he quickly
said: “How sir, can you permit such ig
nom y to stain the charactex of your
peop.e? Speak to them again and tell
them to strike one blow, at least, before
they crouch beneath their enemies!”
The sovereign ;>lucked up new courage
under Montezuma's inspiration; he
harangued the turbulent people effective
ly, so that they cried that they would
become his vassels forever, provided they
should conquer in that struggle.
The Tepanecans came on in fine order,
with plumage and shoutings. Monte
«mn led the oppotiag Mexican.. cn-.frc It n,
» de,pcn>tc ti.s-ht lor „n dnj. ami
thouirh almost a drawn battle, the Mexi
CU1I began at la*t to show signs of weak
ness. then followed a panic, and there
was little hope against utter discomfiture.
Montezuma sprang before the scattering
masses and cried with great strength of
voice to the officers. “Let us fight till
death! If we die with arms in our hands
defending our liberties we die doh >»g ■
c!utv. li wc live after defeat we live in
eternal dishonorlu quick obedience
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY. GA. TUESDAY M’OENINO. MARCH 31 18!»1
to this brave soul the leaders formed a
small, solid column, and rushed upon
their enemies, broke their lines and
threw them in turn into an increasing
panic. Montezuma himatlf about the
same time encountered their General and
instantly slew him. This hastened the
enemy’s rout, and gave the Mexicans a
great victory.
IIow much Montezuma was like some
of our revolutionary sires, who staked
their lives upon the issue of the contest
and preferred death to ignominious sub¬
mission.
The Tepanccan King, greatly enraged
at the defeat of his army, speedily
brought another into the field; but the
Mexicans, now under superb leadership,
and intensely excited by their unexpeetd
victory, more easily than before beat
back their assailants and gained another
great advantage. The hostile King, who
hid In a bath-house, was sought for, dis¬
covered, clubbed and stoned to death
and his -body treated to the indignities
usual to the American savages, for in
war the Aztecs were as yet no better.
The result of this terrible struggle was
trio independence of Mexico, in the year
of our Lord 1425. The Tepanecans,
being subjugated iu this contest, be¬
came in their turn vassals to Mexico.
Montezuma was given large posses¬
sions in the conquered territory, and
was a general favorite among a'l classes
of people. On the death of the reign¬
ing sovereign they at once chose him
to be their King. This was during
the eleventh year of their national inde¬
pendence.
We wm not follow this great chieftain
through Ins subsequent remarkable
‘”"v t. Tie prosecuted several wars of
conquest to successful conclusion; he
bruit the great mne-mrle dike that pm
tooted the city and subsequently figured
so much m Cortez s expedition and re
treat; he, by judicious adjustment and
wholesome rules saved multitudes in
time of a famine from death; he terribly
punished Lwd the treacherous men who had
hi. noble brother's death aud had
.slain his Mexicar friends "severity, hi ? * 1
— .zdSFiizzcp Wnn" Ms
when lie gave relief to the women, chil
dren and aged, and brought back to
their homes in safety all the wanderers,
frightened and dispersed by the war.
Montezuma served his country nobly
for twenty-eight years. Hadhisgrand
son, Montezuma II., who suffered such
terrible disasters and finally came to a
deplorable death, resulting from the acts
of the Spanish invaders, possessed ascin
tilla of the heroism of his great ancestor,
the history of Mexicp would read differ
ently from that of Prescott’s romantic
pages. But still, eveiy, Montezuma, the
Great Heart, with all his genius and
courage and intellect, was not strong
enough to abolish the rites of a perpetual
Human sacrifice. They burned on their
altars the prisoners of war; they made
great shows like those in the arena ol
ancient Rome, and allowed noble cap
fives to purchase their lives by public
fights. The sun god was worshiped, and
somehow the sun seemed to the Mexican
superstition to demand human torture as
atonement for sin.
WISE WORDS.
Stand behind the truth.
No man lives any higher that he looks.
Whenever you find a cross, die on ittc
self.
Contentment is a full brother to hap.
piness.
Bo a worker! A loafer is never happy
anywhere.#
The surest way to a man's pocket is
through his heart.
The days are always too short for the
man who loves his work.
To have a big head and a small heart
is a very great misfortune,
Pray that you may not thiuk evil, and
then you will not speak it.
One of the saddest conditions in life is
to have nothing good to live for.
Thp m;m who looks at everything
•»""<* "O-* - “*
It is.a great misfortune to be born sc
rixat all wie laugh , has to sta\ iastde . of
J 011 *
There rye not many poor men whe
would do a rich mau's work for the pay
p e .rets.
The time to be pleasant and make it
couut is wheu everybody else is un
p j l ,. iSau t
One way to drive the boys to the bad
» to shut up tho parlor and live in the
kitchen,
All that is needed to make a man hate
himself is for him to get a good square
look at himself.
One of the commonest of mistakes is
to look at people through the wrong end
of the telescope,
The greatest wrongs people commit
against each other are those of which
they are not eonseiou*.
Every flme the soldier handles his
, k _ . *«•* , .. , “"«*“*• ,, . }°J° . .
ra "* « » 11 ““
Wllh ' ae wa >' be w *» « Iu bat,le -
There are people who would a .good
deal i rather be the whistle or the bell on
a steam engine than to be one of the
^ r »viug wheels.
Wnen an engineer wants to stop an en¬
gine he doesn’t put a break on the bal
unce wheel, buc shuts off the power that,
makes it run. When you want to quit
your meanness the work must begin on
the inside .—Indianapolis (I*cd.) Uam't
Liam.
THE MILKING OF THE COW.
The milk pail used to versify a mild and mel¬
low metre
When I used to milk old Brindlo in tho
yard.
And the shining milk was sweeter unto me
and little Peter
Than oriental perfumes of myrrh, frankin¬
cense and nard.
The sunsef flung its banners from tho gilded
hills about us,
And the odors of the evening seemed to
drop from every bough.
There was peace and glad contentment both
within us and without us,
' At the sweet mellifluous milking of the
J cow.
I And wandering like a memory, from the si¬
lent. past’s abysm
I smell the grateful odors of the fragrant
evening breeze,
And I bend to catch the chrism of the twi¬
light’s glad baptism,
And the outstreched benediction of the
trees.
The glory of t'ue summer night, the magic
of the mountains.
And the tinklings of the twilight on the
farm are with me now
But through all the mingling music still I
hear those falling fountains,
The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.
Still I hear the joyful rhythm of that tittil
lating tinkle,
And I smell the grateful odors of the placid,
perfumed night,
Odors blown from glens a-sprinkle with wild
rose and periwinkle,
And from lakes where lazy lilies loll in
languor for tho light,
Through the valley of Long Years that is
glimmering behind me
I peer down tnrough the vista that con¬
nects the then and now,
With a youth’s audacious unconcern a care¬
less boy I find mo,
At the sweet mellifluous milking of the
. cow.
—/S'. IV. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
TIIE PICTURE IN THE FIRE.
IJY FLAVEL SCOTT MINES.
The fleet of yachts lay at anchor off
Newport, swinging idly to and fro in the
gen tle wind. It was a peaceful, lazy
of taking Ufe appealing to the
higher senses in all externals, and pro¬
moting placid thought. Nothing to
worry no social or business cares, it was
an Arcadia rcpletc with aU mndern con _
ve uieuces-something truly to be dc
slmL go Tom Armstrong ,? thought J? to
, • > f ’^Li, . , , UU-«, „ , , . - 4
^ --i. t beyond
.
the land in a blaze of golden glory, and
every yacht reflected some color of the
sunset, lhichts on every side of him lay
rolling in a passing swell, and his own
yacht rocked gently from Jfde to side. A
little while after the sun sank from sight
the moon came up over the ocean, and
lights began to dot the shadowy fleet.
There was a new activity among the
people about, and presently a quartet on
one of the yachts began to sing. Then
row boats put off from each of the
yachts, and before long a lhie of boats
encircled the yacht where the singers
were stationed, The party was a col
lege glee club, and the young men, ap¬
preciating the applause which came
from the audience, went on one song
after another, while the half circle of row
boats tossed in the water, Tom Arm
strong was among the assemblage of row
boats, lie and his guest having rowed out
from the yacht, and the effect was one
that appealed directly to him. His oars
rested on the gunwale, and he paid no
heed to the fact that his boat was slowly
drifting toward its neighbor.
“Hullo, there 1” said some one, sud¬
denly, almost in liis ear.
Tom started, and saw that he was
bearing.down upon the boat, and almost
touching it. He put forth his hand to
catch the stranger boat and prevent them
colliding, but as he did so hi§ fingers
touched another hand that was out
stretched. It was only a second before
both hands were withdrawn, but iu that
time Armstrong’s boat'had gently bumped
agairfst the other.
“I beg your pardon!” he said, raising
his cap hurriedly and reaching for the
oars. “It was very careless in me.”
He looked toward the occupants of the
boat as he spoke, and quick as a flash
the thought darted through his mind
that his carelessness was a blessing, for
looking at him was the prettiest girl im¬
aginable. It was her hand that he had
touched and drawn away from so quick¬
ly. It was not more than a glance that
he gave, but he could have picked her
out again in any throng. He rowed
away very slowly, and stopped as soon as
he could. He could just see the form
and outline of the other boat, and could
count the occupants. There were two
ladies and two men, and Tom wondered i
who iu the world they were girl; and what seemed re- j
lation they were to the he j
to be wonderfully interested in her, con- i
sidering the time he had seen her. The
songs had been going on ail the time,
but Tom bad paid little attention to j
them.
The college boys had about exhausted
their stock of new songs and chanced
upon some of the old favorites. When
they sang “Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party”
the occupants of the surrounding boats
took up the chorus, and Tom was certain
that he could distinguish the voice of
the prettv girl when they sang
“And Ws from Aunt Dinah’s quilting
party 1 seeing Nelly home.’’
was
With this idea (for it was all imagina
tion on hfs part, no doubt) he called
loudlv for au encore, and sat still, trying
again to distinguish her voice in the
score of others. When this was done
the singers were evidently gettihg tired,
for they started “Good-night, Ladies,”
and the people, acting inwall upon directions, toe gentle
hint, began 0 to move off
looking , in the pale moonlight, like a
lot of gigantic water spiders. At least
that was what Tom’s guest and friend,
Will Townes, suggested; but Tom
sneered at the idea', and ".itemed to get '"ox
icallv angry over it, He lost sight
the particular boat tnat the girl .as in,
so he went directly to his. yacht .V quasi,
Itemoaning his hard fate that he
been unable to find out whica her yacht
was, so that he might find an opportunity J;
to meet her.
Tom-went on deck very early the next
morning, and he was no sooner there Mian
a voice hailed him.
“Ahoy, Asquam. ’
It was from the yacht Phyllis that had
come to anchor a few lengths from h m
the night before. -
Ilubo. he answered.
The gentleman who stood on the ot.icr
boat put ud his hands to his mouth, .ogo and
c,llo.l .lowly: -Don't you want
outside to-day anu hate a little
There’s a beautiful breeze. ” ®
Tom hesitated a moment, and looked
at the sky. He wanted very much to
find the girl that had taken his fancy
the night before, but as he looked around
at the fifty or sixty yachts he realized
the hopelessness of his task. S.
“All right, ’ he replied; “I’ll go.
When “Right shall we start?’’ il * willing,” fp
away, you are
shouted the other. “By-the-way, you
don’t appear to recognise me. My mime
is Quincy “Why,* ”
oh yes! It’s such a time since
I saw you I had forgotten it for the mo
ment,” answered Tom, as he recognized
a friend of bis elder brother. “IIow are
you?”
“Fine !”‘called back the other. “This
is rather a distant greetiug, but 'we’ll sea
more of you, I hope. By-the-way, Arm¬
strong,” he added, as a second figure
came up from behind him, “let me in¬
troduce my niece, Miss Quincy, Mr.
Armstrong.” And Tom was face to face
with the girl whom he had seen in the
boat on the previous evening. “Tt*
yacht’s named after her.”
Tom bowed low,for a minuted he could
not reply, and then he made some com¬
mon place remark, wondering if the girl
remembered him.
That all happened in July; and through
the summer wherever the Phyllis went,
there was the Asquam to be found .also.
Whenever Miss Quincy needed an escort,
Tom Armstrong was on hand; and when¬
ever the young man indulged in any of
his day-dreams, there was Miss Quincy to
be found. Her uncle, who was older
than Tom, was very glad to have pleas
ant company for the girl, and she did not
seem to object particularly. Iu fact, she
was not an impulsive girl, and gave no
signs when her dislike was not deep,
neither showed she any deep interest $i«s.
when she wished to hide her f
T om, as it might ! imagined
more and more devoted rl.-.y by
was free to confess* 8 " " TyS^v^nore
deeply interested with Phyllis Quincy
than he had ever been before in any
other girl. He, of course, regarded her
through glasses of rose, but an outside
observer would have acknowledged her
to be a girl of much sweetn^s and
strength of character; and she was beauti¬
ful as well. Not above medium height,
with brown hair, and dark eyes of won¬
drous depth,,it was no wonder that the
young man was so deeply smitten. As
for Tom Armstrong, he was one or those
fortunate individuals who are blessed
with a great talent in art and music, aud
yqt so well ®ff in worldly goods that he
did no more than gain a mediocre success
in the various lines—a mere dabbler, in
truth. But yachting seasons have an end,
and when the two yachts sailed into New
York Bay, and the parties went their
different ways, there was much regret on
both sides. They had lots of mutual
friends, however, in the city, and
they met at outside entertainments
so frequently that it seemed strange
they had never met before in their
lives, though it must be confessed that
their meetings were not altogether
chance. Miss Phyllis lived with her
uncle, and Tom was soon at home there.
Months passed by, but brought no defi¬
nite results, for Tom, who could not be
termed faint-hearted, was not sure of
winning his suit, however sure lie was of
himself, aud he dared not risk his hopes
by a premature confession. They were
seen together in society a great deal, and
sharped-tongued gossip had them en¬
gaged, but Tom Ihe had to visit his family
iu Boston during Christmas holidays,
and society kindly broke the engagement
during his absence.
“Has it been ten weeks or tea days
since I went away?” asked Tom, upon his
return shortly after New Y'ear's.
“It depends altogether how you
reckon time,” she had answered, quickly.
Phyllis had been glad, indeed, to see
him again, but he could gather no idea
of her feelings toward him, and he was
terribly slow about proposing, so con¬
trary to his usual reckless way of going
things,
-It was an evening in 3Iareh. Tue
great logs blazed in the open fire-place
aU( I Ailed the room where Tom sat with
a ros y gleam. lie was in hi? library at
home, and he watched the great black
shadows taat rose and fell as; the fitful
shot suddenly to life and as quickly
died. That evening he was more than
ever conscious of that love which had
entefed into his life, something higher
! } Qd P" rer th .^ a he had er er dreamed be
Imagination had never pictured
suc b a perfect state, anti yet it was so
imperfect in its semblance to a dream.
He searched his heart honestly and tried
banish - tue dream, striving ah the
while to retain the ideal, it seemed as
though two forces of his nature worn
alert M he reviewed the past. He had
no assurance that she loved him, ana yet
that evening had waked a feeling of
reality in him, and he felt as though he
had received her whispered “yes.”
; One of the great logs in the fireplace
fell asunder, sending forth a puff of
smoke, which floated out into the room,
I and as he gazed at ic he suddenly
j started. The red glow of the fire lit up
1 the room with strange effect as it spread
! wider and wider until it formed a thin
veil, and pictured through it he saw a
j wonderful sight. recognized.and He saw a mu^-room, before
>ne that he seated
the piano lightly runniugher finger over
the keys was Phyllis. Stopping, she
looked in his direction, and her beauti-
' ful 'xf'Tt fillccf with sadness, and
eves
! the quiver of her itluvtb told of deep
j feeling. He felt her eyes iortk into his
for a moment, and then turning to tile
~
j piano sb« began softly to sing. He list
eaed attentively. - sounded aivi na she touched the
[ keys the music Ndftly througn
j the room, The and melody he caught the and weird? 'he
sang. was new strange,
but full of a gentleness and sweetness.
while tho words sounded as though
heard in a dream—tho teuder words
j which Mrs. Browning wrote:
, " Unless you can think, when the song is
done,
Noiic is sweat in the rhythm:
t .
rou can know, when upraised by
T his breath,
hat >' our beauty itself wanWoving;
TT ,
% death’_
Oil, fear to call it loving!”
For life—for death! there was some
; thing so sweet in tho deep miuor straiu
in which they sung. There was no
printed page before her, and she sang
with her eyes half closed whilo the ac
companiraent was an inspiration,
“Unless you can muse in a crowd all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love as the angels may,
Unless Through behooving and unbehooving;
you can die when the dream is past—
llever call it lovinjg! ’
The picture slowly faded, and Tom
bowed his hea l. He did not think ol
it as a delusion, it was real to him.
Suddenly starting up, he lit the gas,
and drawing out a box of colors,sketched
swiftly on a paper before him. It was
the pictute that he had seen. Dim, un¬
defined, he drew the background, the
piano, and with a few r steady strokes he
barely outlined the sweet face so dear to
him. And when it was done he printed
underneath a line of music—that aii
which she had sung. He wrote no
words. Would she understand? he
wondered.
He decided to deliver it in person the
next day.
Phyllis was somewhat surprised at his
morning call, but greeted him gladly.
He placed the picture in her hands
without a word, and going over to the
piano, ran over the music that he had
heard accompanying the song. When
he Turned the girl was standing gazing
at the picture in wonder.
“Phyllis,” he said, at her side, “is it
true?”
,,, &he turned , , to , , him . w lth ... a wonderfully , , „
s T est smde. “Tom , ” she hesitated,
“bow—how dld J ou find lfc out? Hom
rould yo.^have heard it?”
U he. laughing, “somi
but lov<
lias second-sight, . my Fnytns.“
“It is true,” she said, simply, holding
out her hand.— Harper's Bazar.
The Beautiful Blue Danube.
Among the most important rivers in
Europe is the Danube; in fact, it is the
second river. It has a length of 170G
miles; it and its tributaries drain a val¬
ley having an area of over 300,00G
square miles. Many natives live along
its banks and those of the rivers which
flow into it, and nearly thirty dialects
are spoken from its source to its mouth
It rises in the Black Forest, to the north
of Switzerland, and almost iu sight of
the French frontier. Through Bavaria
and Austria is its course, through Hun¬
gary, past Servia and Bulgaria, Rou
mania and Roumelia, which tributaries
flow in from Bosnia and Macedonia on
the south and Poland on the north, so
that practically the valley of the Danube
comprises the most important portion of
Eastern Europe. It runs through the
battle-ground of civilization and sav¬
agery. Here the Romans contended
with the Scythians and the IIuus; here
the Greek Empire strove to maintain its
supremacy over the hordes of savage
tribes which came down from the steppes
of Russia; here, after the Empire of the
East faded away, Charlemagne contended
with savage tribes of semi-Asiatics; here
all Europe fought the Turks for genera¬
tion after generation, until, by a great
battle fought under the walls of Vienna,
the flood of the Mohammedan invasion
v#as rolled back toward Asia .—Detroit
Free Press.
The Most Powerful Telescope.
Half a dozen serious-faced men arc
working at Cambridgeport, Mass., over
a great lump of glass, with a delibera¬
tion that might suggest, under different
circumstances, that they expected to be
paid by the hour. What they accom¬
plish in a day is not appreciable to the
untrained eye, and the amount of work
they do iu a month is hardly worth
mentioning. Indeed, the ever-present
anxiety in their minds and the minds of
their employers is bst they may proceed
too rapidly. They can afford to work
slowly, for, if they succeed m theii task,
they will have given to the lump of glass
a value comparable only with that
c f the rarest gems. The 'lump of glass
l intended to form one of the lenses ol
; the fortv-inch telescope for the Uni¬
j versity of Southern California, and it is
being ground by Alvan Clark A Sons ;
the world-celebrated makers of mammoth
refractors.
it will be the most powerful completed, telescope and
j j u t] ie world when it is
the famous instrument in the Lick Ob
SC rvatory on Mount Hamilton will be
r :legated to second place. The Lick
: telescope Is to be beaten by four inches,
— g aJl Francisco Examiner.
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! The Harmattan, Withering Wind.
or
;
j ! The name of harmattan has been given
a periodical wind which blows from the
j interior during of Africa the towards three months the Atlantic of De
Ocean
! cumber, January and February. It sets
in with a fog or dry haze which some
j times conceals the sun for whole weeks
; together. Every plant, bit of grass and
• leaf in its course is withered as though
; it had been seared by heat from a ”ffur
s ice: often within an hour after it be
gins to blow green grass is dry enough
x > .burn like papar. Even the hardened
natives lose all of the skin on exposed
parts during the prevalence of this with
eriug wind.— -IR. Lorn Republic.
. LOOK OUT!
A STARTLING CALAMITY
EDGAR L ROGERS.
With my new Spring Stock I propose that competition shall reali/ •
"Wliat a Calamity
It is to them and their high prices; that I am in Business.
My most grateful thanks arc hereby extended to my friends for their liberal
patfonage. I have really done such enormous business in past years, that l am my
self teally astonished and pleased. Yet with the very laudable ambition to excel.
I must tcfl every body that this season and its purchases put me on top. Custom
ers of mine knot*' me too well to even charge me with boasting. Yet I know that
I am now fixed for competition in either town or eity.
DRESS GOODS
To me have become so familiar that I provide the newest for my trade, and my sug¬
gestion, hs to style, is always udopted.
CLOTHING
Merchants at home and abroad are always com; laining. that I sell too cheap, and
they can’t see how I can furnish the style and good tits at my prices, 1 make the
prices and other men can only wonder.
I keep everything and defy every one as to prices. For cash ov credit, come to
see me. i know your interests and will serve them.
Yours truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga-, March 10,1891.
!J5i?”N. B.—Messrs. L. A. Collier and J. F. Howard are still at home with me.
A Wonderful Discovery!
■S-Y *,
■p: MRS. BUSH’S
SPECIFICCURE
-FOR
m x Bams Soils ad Ssais Cron.
This Wonderful Medicine!
Will cure burns without a scar. It ifc a 'uecitic for Spasmodic croup among
children. For any skin eruption, try ' for poison try it; tor Inflamation
of bowels most excellent. This remedy is ^ jylorsed by the leading men of
T. the H State. FA JOS.il. >N, BROWN, U. M. MU R. U.li.ll, W. IIA of Ogl**- ill/ |L\N, «m. (’Of. V' G PFA K, J.
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* Mrs. Bush G U ARAN TEES
any oolite.
NO CURE, NO PAY !
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS IN TOWN AND COUNTY.
Schofield’s Iron Works!
-MCa,n.-a.f a,ct*a.rers and. 3*oToToers of
Steam Engines, Boilers, SAW MILLS, Cotton Presses,
General Machinery and all kinds Castings.
-Sole Owner and Manufacturers of-
Schofield’s Famous COTTON PRESS!
-;To Pack by Hand, Ilorse, Water or Steam
BRASS GOODS, PIPE FITTINGS,LUBRICATORS, BELTING, PACKING,SAWS.ETC
-General Agent for
FUNCOCK INSPIRATORS AND GULLETT’S MAGNOLIA COTTON GIN.
J. S. SCHOFIELD & SON,
MACON. GEORGIA.
Barnesville - Planing ■ ills
-ARE NOW OFFERING
SOOtOOO Cypress Shingles
153,000 1*10. a Pine Shingles
120,000 No. 2 Pine Shingles
20000 Orawn Shingles.
and also
100,090 FEET GREEN LUMBER,
.100,000 FEET DRY LUMBER.
And fuR lin^ of Doors, Sash, i Bhnd=, Mantels, Mouldings, etc. Fresh L’n%
and Brick always on hand. Paper Hanging promptly done by the be-ft
workmen. CALL AND SEE US.
TURNER & PROUT,
__Barnesville, Ga.
JOB PRINTING I
We are prepared to do all kincu o!
■ j j JOB WORK,
—— WIT II-
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NEATNESS
-AND-
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%nd re *P e . a trial . , ;rom . n n aesir- , .
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b g anything in that line.
j Prices and material to suit your pocket
1 <| taste. Call and have all at
an on us
your job work done %i ham*.
NUMBER 11.
TheBest Spring
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