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THE MONROE hM Sf, i ‘ink / i
VOL XXXVI.
Highest of all in leavening Power.— U. 5 . Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
FEATURES OF CANAL LIFE.
DAILY ROUTINE ON AN ARTIFI¬
CIAL WATERWAY.
The Monotonous Journey Broken by
the Lock* —The Canal Boatmen,
Their FamlileN ami Amusements.
The Delaware and Hudson Company’s
canal starts from the west shore of the
North River at Hoboken. It pursues its
way through the most picturesque and parts New
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania
York State as far as Kondout, where it
has its terminus.
The start is not made by taking up
tickets, blowing whistles and yelling
“all aboard” as on a train or steamer,
hut the driver of the mule or horse, as
the case may lie, steps ashore, connects
the towing line from the boat to the
beast’s collar, shouts “git oop” and the
journey is Ijegun.
To the eye of one unfamiliar with the
canal it looks about wide enough to al
low but one boat to proceed at a time,
but if is really wide enough for two canal
boats, an<l (iie two boats pass each other
fls easily ns though they had unlimited
room. The canal is abfiut fifteen feet
wide, and the towpath about six feet,
The driver of a boat going up the canal,
wheii he meets a boat coining dpwn,stops
his mule or horse and lets his fow line
lie 011 the ground. The driver of the
down coming canal boat walks his ani¬
mal right over the tow line of the other
boat, and then the two canal boats sail
gracefully—if there is any grace in a '
canal boat—past one another.
The day that the canal is declared
open is a day of great rejoicing along the
,ai11 * 1 ’
I tie many little stores that .... line ic
towpath which have been closed up dur
ing the long winter months, as there is
only business during-thc canalling sea
son, start up again with the opening of
the canal, and all is gladness.
For some distance after leaving Hobo
ken tho cuual runs through a level coun
try, and it is plain sailing for the boat
man, but ns tho canal gets into Northern
Pennsylvania and New York State tho
country becomes mountainous, and it be
comes "necessary every two hundred yards
m so to raise the boat some liftecn feet.
To do this locks are necessary, and it is
tho locks that break the monotony of tho
trip and make it enjoyable. A roofed
*
house covers each loqk. This house has
at both ends a pair of swinging doors or
shutters, which are opened aud closed
by a lock keeper. When a canal boat is
going up stream the doors at the lower
end of the lock house are open. The
tow line is thrown off and the boat glides
into the house. The canal on the upper
side of the house is fifteen feet higher
than where the boat lies, and it is neces
sary to raise the boat to a higher level,
When once in tho house the swinging
doors at the rear of the boat are tightly
closed, then the doors at the bow of the
boat are opened and the water rushes in.
As there is no outlet for the water it
quickly rises, ami carries the boat with
it. 1,1 live minutes the boat is floating .=
in enter fifteen feet higher than tl
water it has left, the bow line is again
eonnccted ami the boat continues on its
wav to the nest lock.
As the water is likely / to overflow its
, i , . .
constructed outlets "at regular distance?
too hiirh'for the canal/^Tliis^witcr^o
let out from the canal runs down
the valley and fertilizes the lowlands for
the benefit of the crops.
The canal boat forms the only liabita
tion that the canal boatmen have. On
it, both in winter as well as in summer,
they reside with their families. The
eanal boat reminds one of a bowl made
of lumber, a mere shell, which is hcllow
in,bin, and only tit to use for the
pose for which it is used, as a conveyance
for coal and other commodities. At the
stern of each boat, on the deck, is a lit
tie liou.-e, in which the boatman and his
family live. Where there are children
in the family—nnd It is a rare thing to
find a boatman who has no children—
the father swings hammocks on the
deck, and in these the children sleep.
The house, which forms the boatman’s
little home, consists of one room onlv, iu
which everything, cooking, eatin^ and
sleeping, are carried on. When the
weather is warm the family all sleep on
deck, but when it is cold they crowd to
nether in the little house. Alany an
amusing scene is witnessed in a trip 1 along 3
the canal.
At Kondout the boat is loaded with
rosl, lumber or route other commodity,
and is started down the canal. Each
day at five o’clock the locks are closed
for the day. Then each boatman must
hhch his horse up for the night, tie his
boat to the bank of the canal, and his
bourforrest has arrived. Then there
are great times for the boatman and his
family. Starting from his boat he wan
tier along the canal towpath, visiting at
each boat until he has gone within walk
ing distance of his own boat ’ when ho
turns about aud goes buck. .
Soffie of the boatmen «re
and it is on such a boat that the non anl
their wives lov» to con<’rebate white
the little ones play on the shore'. Dancin- evening
is often indulged in, and amerrv to^he
is spent. The single men go Iws
where they will find attractive girls and
lovemakiug is often indulged in. Some
tioles a wedding takes place, and then
there is fun. For miles along the canal
men desert their boats and walk along
the canal to the scene of the festivities"
where they stay frequently, only arriving
at their own boats by five o'clock in the
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, G A,- TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 19 1891
morning, when the locks are again
opened and business must be resumed.
A breathing space is given the boatmen
at noon time, when they arc allowed to
hitch up for lunch. >
One of the interesting features of the
boat is the decorations at the beginning
of the season. Every boat has its flags
and bunting displayed, and as they go
up and down the canal they present a
brilliant picture of colors.
The scenery along the canal is varied
and interesting, and the care taken to
keep the canal and towpath in good* or
der is pleasing to see.
The canal men are, as a rule, good
nntured and talkative. They will always
invite any one they meet on the towpath
to jump aboard, and will ride you as far
as you want to go. When their dinner
hour arrives, if you hnvo traveled with
them, they will invite you to take “pot
luck,” and will be offended if you de¬
cline. Formerly the boatmen owned all
the boats, but by degrees the company
1ms absorbed them, until now a boatman
who owns his own boat is rarity and a
mail to be congratulated. To him the
company pays freight charges, while to
the others they only pay wages, and not
a great deal of that. There are few ac
cidents along the canal, although once in
a while a horse, disgusted with the ine
quality between his lot and his master’s,
will walk into the canal and commit
equine suicide.— New York Herald.
WISH WORDS.
Presumption begins in ignorance and
ends in ruin.
Reputation will do for the present;
time will attend to the future.
Laziness of mind, or rnattention, are
as great enemies to knowledge as im
• .
„
Somewhere , , , best , efforts _ ,
in men s you
* lU hnd thu savlu « S race of woraaQ 8 m '
uucncc.
^ on cannot dream yourself into a char
acter; you must hammer and forge your
self one.
There will always be something worth
living for while there are shimmery
afternoon?.
The eccentricities of a great man fur
n j s ' n more nia tcrial for his biographers
than his deeds.
Dum a boy to be biave and , to . speak
j ! he f ruth ’ aud J™ have don e ?° ur dcst
hln L the r(:st hc must do , for
i “
j Nothing can be had for nothing. What
ever a man achieves he must pay for; and
no favor of fortune can absolve him from
: his duty,
| The art of getting rich consists not in
i industry, much less in saving; but in a
better order, in timeliness in being at the
right spot.
Let every man be occupied, and oc¬
cupied in the highest employment of
which his nature is capable, and die with
consciousness ■x hat he has done his
best.
i I, ,. all ,, ,. things, . , be truthful; , ,, . ,
neve,
:''T Jon are not; honor
I fath " "f *?“ n !? ther ' Be dlk -
! «*“'• re “ Uc ct !“S ' hat »« permanent.uc- ,
I 10 h ‘ e ls . base<i labor '
I ,sblc ’ u0 ? ? nl , ? Prefer , ' f«nr the Pune, respect but m of
your opinions.
mankind to their «PPLuse.
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' A Lost River -
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has lost a river, and inconsequence
! has » bridge whose occupation is gone.
The White waler River has flowed from
the Sierra Aladre Alountains across th«
1 sands of *the region just this side of Seven
Palms as long as anyone can remember.
The station of Whitewater was located
where the river crosses the railroad and
was supplied with water from its cur
rent.
During the last heavy rains the White
water rose in its might and devastated
the whole country round about, washing
! out the bridge and the roadbed and play
ing the mischief generally. Soon the
rain? and the river stopped sitpnltaueous
ly. and the river has not been found since.
It appeared to become ashamed of itself
for doing so much harm, and has appar
ently slunk away in disgust and sorrow.
It is entirely gone. At no point does it
cross the railroad, as it would have to do
were still in existence in some new
course. The railroad company, in order
to secure water for its station at White
water, has been obliged to build a pipe
, lino way up to the mountains at consider
i able expense.
All Inst rummer during the hottest,
driest weather, the river rau placidly
along-in fact, it has never failed until
after its “jag” of this winter. Now it
forms one of the mysteries of that region,
! the Colorado River desert, and perhaps
I is flowing by the Pegleg mine, and P oL
-dblv rippling beside the treasure-laden
i Spanish galleon, which lies somewhere
in that region, buried in sand.-Zo*
! Angeles ( Cal.) Herald.
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fiood Thinks That Lemons Will Do.
-»r #U ^ V°°P‘ , e ^ , no ^’ ,, tne ^“
va e 0
l C “° n 1l |! Ce \ U season. Many,
i *
wrapped L; upTn the bttfe “ e vGloWruiT'fS 3*“°* finilt ' for
derfu?^] ,u wondS
barm’ess tacks' Tt ia 1 ^ 5
i and asthma and .u ai °. S
*
In the hitter ft. 6 1^1 a- S ° r J , e C t “
very hot salt and wnt#> temnnfnrtin t i
with the inside of a baked
or three ntelits running The heat - i
smarting will at once —/wSL’cSw be allaved an 1 •
1 cure speedily effected x> wxiun vuuen.
.
IDEALS.
Like butterflies that fitt
Entangled in a net,
Then at the Last thro' some chairee rift es
•ape
Of half their raidance shorn.
With ruffled plumes and torn, *
Bright mockeries of their former hue* and
shapes;
Bo in the poet’s mind •
The rich ideas confined
Struggle to break in music from his tongue;
He speaks—he speaks— but ah,
How changed, how different far
The thought once uttered from the thought
unsung!
So, too, the painter sees
Bewildering images,
And brush is seized, and canvass quick un¬
furled;
The bright creation glows,
But lo! his easel shows
Mere shadowy glimpses of that vision-world.
Know then whate'er we cull
From Art's fields beautiful,
Whatever fruits philosophies may yield,
Their prototypes more fair
Are blossoming elsewhere,
Sweet songs unsung and visions unrevcaled;
Until the veil is rent,
Our flesh-imprisonment,
And we are borne beyond this dust’s con¬
trol ;
Then shall our orbless eye?
Behold realities,
And soul commune immediately wjth soul.
—Temple Bar.
MARY CLARIMONT, M. 1>.
When Alary Clarimont’s engagement
was proclaimed to the world there en¬
sued a general expression of surprise.
People are generally surprised at mat¬
rimonial engagements. There is always
some cogent reason why things should
have been adjusted otherwise—why John
should have married Joan, and Peter
should prefer Betsey. Nobody was ever
yet married to suit everybody.
But in Mary Clarimont’s case it did
really seem as if the course of true love
had interfered seriously with the current
of common sense and prudence.
Aliss Clarimont was only one-and
twenty, a tall, imperial beauty, with dewy
black eves, a skin as fresh as damask
roses, and dark-brown hair, coiled in
3hining bands at the back of her head.
Moreover, Aliss Clarimont had a “career”
before her. She had just graduated from
Medtield Aledical University, and taken
out her diploma as an AL D.
“And oniy tu think of it,” said Aunt
Jo, bursting into tears of vexation and
disappointment, “that she must # needs
go and ruin all her prospects by get¬
ting engaged to Harry Marlow, down in
Kc v York!”
“It does seem strange. Aunt Jo, when
1 sit down and think of it,” said Doctor
Alary, laughing and blushing, “Six
months ago my profession was ail the
world to me. I neither wished nor cared
for anything outside its limits. The
future was all mapped out before me
without let jor hindrance; and now-”
brainless “Humph,!” id^ot growled Aunt Jo. “Any
can get married and keep
a man's house and mend his shirts for
him, but yon were made for something
higher and more dignified, Alary.”
Alary's dew-bright eyes sparkled.
“Higher, Aunt Jo?” said she. “Alore
dignified? There you are mistaken.
There is no higher or more dignified lot
in life thati that of the true wife of a
noble husband.”
.,,, 1( 18 ,, lc , ks ,,, said . , Aunt , J°- “As
” '
‘
if every poor fool who was dazzled by
the glitter of a nodding ring didn t say
the same thing! You’ve disappointed
me, Mary Clarimont, and I’m ashamed
of you, and that is the long and the
short of it.”
ear . unt Jo, saul she, “I shall
not let my sword and shield rust, believe
me. Harry has only his own talents
advance him in the world, and it will be
^ ' ^rrv' Tn 1 'thTnT! ? aU
* 1 shfdi f®*
th i t nf • - Hn ^ P i y ” C1R ?. t0 the
£ ^ f • n J 3 • . , Sdrae and as lf practise tber e ^ere my
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^ 3 q, 1 ° S° ot a ness there wasn t,
., T iIai
fA ( ° “ n * inc °’ -' ia , C ‘ srm yo .\ l mg, . wuat smootn- ’ T»
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11 h Ut ' ^ 0U!1 a m - lu 0 yottrs.au never
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... ’ept her
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! T ’Y S01 g\\V . Qt ,, , ssdd .
, But I hope ’
P easan ,, that you will
even ua y c ange ? ou. mm .
' U T' t .° ei P at reaa-and-needle
Stor , f Y
n T * as - 1 woman, re
mar Y , Y L 1 ' ir ‘ aQ d I always
o ’• ’ r
V r" 1 e riD S ° t !l couu ^ r ‘ eit
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1 0 ai . n a cus omei aid it on the
C0UUte ^ cou tnen. and I can now
’ tU J l te ' M there s base
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me J 1 xr° a ^ r V V' ,r ° W *
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J L' , 1K -.,- er 1 ?," 1 discuss .
tr j a L s f ' W5 ‘ ,P°; the
su jecturt er, unt, o, she said, with
^ ulet d,gult ?’ and the old lad - v * aid °°
| , T Vi „ .
Vr L. s 7- V
’ , ^s • making a , fool , of , herself!”
1 ^Wenburj.was v a mam a pretey .. ^ treet manufacturing shaded , by
^brageous B ° map.es, f made a "west tbeir end where
’ ( J - f 00 ™ 7 h °" JSeS
1 su ^ ounded h b y veteet i laws and , terraced I
I a nd an ead ’, wh ere P eo '
P le f ongut , . desperately and not f always ,
i gether on the *» merest *«;!• pittance. ““ d «ul
; And a little way out of the village the
j ft i ms houscs. lin built and endowed by a cer
! sm,1 ^ - sea ^ptain, whose con
; science had pricked him during his latter
i da ^* th * ir ^ 3toae to
1 the sky, and made a picturesque back
b rnnmd t0 the landscape.
Dr - Mary Clarimont made something
of H senSlitioD at Aldenbury. Up to this
time all the resident M. D.’s had been
^uffy old gentlemen with wigs, or pert
i )OUDi ' T ° neS with e J e ff laisei -
I A jp beautlfui j jounglady compounded who pills wrote aud pre-
6Ci tions au po-
tions was a novelty in the town, and l»y
no means a disagreeable one. People
rather liked the idea, once they had con
| v * nce( * themselves that the lady doctor
understood herself anci her patients.
And the poor old people at the aim
house grew to love Dr. Alary and listen
with eager ears for the sound of her
carriage wheels over the blue gravel
drive which led up to the portico.
It was a brilliant Bomber day when
\ the young physician s'-rod in the neatly
capeted reception-rooni drawing on her
fur glove? previous to catering her fieat
phaeton once agad, while she reiterated
to the white-capped maid sorao direc¬
tions concerning old ' Ann Aludgett’s
rheumatism, when the matron hurried
in.
“Ob, I beg your pardon, Dr. Clari¬
mont,” said she, “but I clean forgot the
new old woman.”
“The new old woniau:” repeated Dr.
Alary, with a smile."
“That is,” exclaimed Airs. Cunning¬
ham, “she only came Iasi, night—a quiet
old soul, half blind, and quite bad with
the asthma. Perhaps you’d better just
see her before you go. She brought a
card of admission from Dr. Merton, the
New York clergyman, who is one of our
directors, you know. And she seems a
decent body enough.” * ;
So Dr. Alary went cheerfully into the
little brick-paved room, with its white
pallet-bed, cushioned rocking-chair, and
neatly-draped casement, where sat a
poor, little, shriveled-up woman,wrapped
in a faded shawl.
She looked timidly up, as Dr. Alary
came in, from under the borders of her
cap.
“I’m a poor body, miss,” said she,
“and I’m sensible I’m making a deal of
trouble in the world. But the Lord
don’t always take us, miss, when we’d
like to go.”
“This i? the doctor,” said Airs. Cun¬
ningham.
The little woman would have • risen
up to make a feeble curtesy, but Dr.
Alary motioned her to keep her seat.
“What is your name. said she pleas¬
antly.
“Louise Marlow, mi»s.”
“Marlow! That is an unusual name,
isn’t it?” said Alary Gla' .mont, coloring
in spite of herself. *
“ We’re English, miss ’ said tho old
woman, struggling bi vely with her
asthma. “There ain’t uany of us in
this country. I’ve a s a, miss, in the
law business, as any ti it^jr might be
proud of.”
“Ason!” echoed A* Sjunningnam;
‘and you in <h« aloU
“Not that it’s his fault, ma’am,* the
old creature made haste to explain. “Aly
son is to be married to a fine, proud
lady, as. is fit for any prince in all the
land, and,of course,he can’t be expected
to burden himself with a helpless old
woman like me. He says I’m to write and
let him know how l get along,and if I’m
sick or anything he’ll try to see. I
sewed carpets until the asthma got hold
of me, and supported myself comfortably.
But, of course, I couldn’t lay up any¬
thing for a rainy day—who could? And v
! Henry couldn't help me, for he’s getting
ready to be married, poor lad! So I
went to Dr. Merton and asked him did
i he know auy decent place where an
old woman like me could end her days
in peace. And he gave me a card to
come here aud some money to pay my
traveling expenses—God bless him!—
1 and here I am.”
Mary Chariraont listened quietly to the
! garrulous tale, but the color varied in
her cheek more than once as she stood
there.
“Is your son’s name Harry Alariow?”
she said, slowly and thoughtfully.
J‘Y T es, miss, at your service,” said the
j old woman, with a duck of .her white
capped head, which .was meant to do
j duty “Is in he place like tnis! of the said impossible Dr. Alary, curtesy. tak
j ing The a photograph old from with her trembling pocket. hands.
woman,
' fitted on her iron-bowed spectacles, and
i looke f at th ? picture, uttermg a little
cri ‘ ° f recog ? lUo “’
i ( ? > ure J ’ mSS ’ 13 . hfc . . 36 lf !’ ., ,
cried. You acquainted - with him,
are
then.
* voraev.hru, sai r. . aiy, com
posedly, as she returned the photograpa
| something- t0 lts P; ace * to ‘ And now u.is I will 1 leave cu you
le ie\c $ 10
. trea-niog. eyed her
But the old crone wistfully. .....
Perhaps you know t e young .v y my
: son is to mairy.
said Dr. Alaiy, wri mg some
, thing m her prescription boos. • I nave
seen her.
'‘Perhaps, miss, . fa ered tne ,
woman, “you would,give eruny numble
duty, and tell her I wou^d just like to
}p ok at ker Ip r once and see what she is
like. There s no feai o my troubling
her, miss, for I mean to end my day?
here. But I would like to see her just
once. Ana if it woulc.n t oe asking too
muen, miss, would voa please -Ante to
my son, and teil him v.aere I ara, ior
I m no scholar myseL, ana mhismotner,
after all.”
^ wil1 write to him ' sald Dr ' Mar V ’
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^Tneve”’ i never see w t a hdTdoctorTfore laayaocior a tore, ’ said said
old Mrs. Alariow, with a long sigh. "But
she s a pretty creetur and ,t seems good
to have her around. I hope she il come
again scoa.
“You may be very sure of t^t,-_ „ said
tee ^ matron, brusquely. “Dr Clarimont
T 1 0116 '° ne ? leL ' t P °° r p£ ° p ‘ e beCaUSe
they are poor.
Taat e [ eal “S Aunt Jo. frying crullers
over tne kitchen fire, was surprised by a
vbit *» ,=> u
wrapped in furs, with her cheeks enm
soned with the frosty winter air.
“Bless me! this ain’t never you!” said
Aunt Jo, peering over her spectacles.
“I drove over to see you, Aunt Jo,”
said ‘* to ^ you were
nght. The metal was counterfeit. ’
,“ Eh? ” Said Aunt Jo ' c,cchanicalI J r la ‘
dling , out the brown, curly crullers, al
though she did not look At what she was
doing.
"I have written to Harry Alariow, can
our engagement,” said Dr. Alary,
c amly, albeit her voice faltered a little.
j "The man who will heartlessly let his
old mother go to the aluspbovtse, Sooher
than to take the trouble to’ maiutifitf
can be no fit husband for any woman!’ 7
And then she sat down by the fire and
told Aunt Jo everything; for crabbed,
crusty old Aunt Jo had boen like a
mother to her, and the girl’* heart was
full to overflowing,
When she had ceased speaking, Aun?
Jo nodded her head.
“You have done well and wisely,”
said she.
Old Mrs. Marlow died that winter in
Aldenbury Alary Almshouse, with her head on
Dr. Clarimont’s arm, and never
knew that htf garrulous confessions had
deprived her son of his promised wife.
And Mary says quietly and resolutely
that her profession must be husband and
home to her henceforward.
“Just what it ought to be,” says Aunt
Jo. “No women ever yet succeeded in
doing two things at once .”—Indianapolit
News; "
Fresh-Water Commerce, j
Probably there are few people whose
attention has not been specially directed
to the "subject, who are aware of the
magnitude of the commerce upon the
Great Lakes.
It has been asserted that more tons of
freight pass through the Detroit River
in a year than the total imports and ex¬
ports of the United States for the same
period.
The commerce of the Great Lakes is
carried upon more than two thousand
vessels, of which more than half are pro¬
pelled by steam.
About six hundred schooners, some of
them great four-masted craft, ply on the
lakes during the five or six months when
the straits and ports are not closed by
ice. Alany more are small schooners;
and of these a large number, on the up¬
per lakes, are owned and manned by
hardy Norwegian sailors who have emi¬
grated to this country.
Steam i3 gradually displacing the wind
as the motive power of the lake traffic,
and steel is displacing wood as a mater¬
ial. The steam vessels, too, are con¬
stantly increasing in size. In 1886,
there were but six steel vessels on the
Great Lakes; in 1890 there were sixty
eight.
At the same time that these changes
in the size and material of vessels are
taking place, a change is going on in
their ownership. There is a smaller pro¬
portion of vessels owned by individuals
or small partnerships. The traffic of the
lakes is rapidly coming under control ol
i 1 corporations possessing large capital..
The two great items of freight in the
} vast traffic of the Great Lakes are ore and
grain. Alany millions of tons of ore are
yearly brought through the Sault Ste.
Alarie canal down the lakes. Seventy
million bushels of wheat and four million
bushels of flour go annually by water to
Buffalo. The corn tonnage is still
larger.
Yet the Great Lakes are closed to
navigation during as least six months a
year, and winters have been known when
Lakes Superior and Alichigan were frozen
from shore to shore.— Youth's Compan
ion.
The First Public Bank.
To Venice, the “Queen of the Adri¬
atic,” belongs the honor of having es¬
tablished the first public bank of which
any record can be found, such an institu¬
tion being unknown to the ancients.
In 1711 the Republic of Venice was
very hard pressed for fuuds to carry on
the wars in which it was continually en
gaged in order to uphold its supremacy.
As a consequence a tax«was levied on its
moneved men , who were promised a per
| petual annuity of four per cent, on the
j loan thus contributed, the borrowers
never d rea ming of the posibility of re-
1 turning the principal
The lenders immediately instituted a
; | p ureau for carrying out the proposed
plan of receiving and paying out the in¬
terest, and in a comparatively short time
it was erected into the Bank of Venice.
The exact date of its founding is not
known with any degree of certainty,
Interest on the loan was promptly paid,
■ j the creditors of the Republic
an( were
j subsequently paid in full the sums they
had advanced. Consequently, so popu
] ar did it become, that it was found abso
lutely neee ssary to transform the private
bank into one of deposit, that all classes
miuht take advantage of theaccommo
elation thus afforded,
In 1723 the interest paid bytheGov
; .$i,000*0Q0 ernment alone amounted to upward of
i a year, and the shares and
. cre dits of the bauk were so well sup
i ported that at all times its bills were
quoted a nd hdd at a premium above the
; curren t money of the Republic,
( After many years of prosperity, the
was given its death-blow by the
F ren ch invasion of 1797. The freedom
of the city and the independence of the
Republic vanished like a dream before
i n vader 3 , and as a natural consequence
^ ie having thus lost its credit and
support, also disappeared in the general
wre ck .—Detroit Free Press.
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The Strongest Race.
“The Irish is the strongest ,= race in the
" or „ 1 - ° e ° f th ' llW ,
^tnti of ^thT . Brifeh ? ofXoth^ ^rm^were
onei _ r0 a t
; There Tnere were 1000 J03 Englishmen En li^men of of the the
“her The lines lint be-an at streteS he Vine
j niac^ ^ but the V‘further of Irishmen tha™ ^he othef
1X f , e * v '“ ^ ta e ot .f r '
or ^She ' “ ro ‘ tne men ^n in in boTh oota regiments regiments .
toucaed , elbows. bt. Louis Republic.
Pardoning the Dead.
j 1 Tli« Emperor Expressing of China has a curious
way of his gratitude
for the faithful services of a de
ceased minister. In the issue of the Pe¬
I kin Orjicial Journal which followed the
death of the Afarquis Tseng an imperial
decree was published announcing that
his majesty freely pardoned the dead
, statesman all the faults and crimes
1 which he committed during his life__
Chicago News.
LOOK OUT!
A STARTLING CALAMITY
EDGAR L ROGERS.
With my new Spring Stock I propose that competition sh.dV rnaliso
What a Calamity
It is to them and their high prices; that I am "Business.
Aly most grateful thanks are hereby extended to my friends for tbclr liberal
patronage. I have really done such enormous business Itt past years, that I am my¬
self really astonished and pleased. Yet with the very laudable ambitioif to excel,
I must tell efery body that this season and its purchases put mC pn Yet top. l know Custom¬ that
ers of miuc know me too well to eveu charge me with boasting.
I am now fixed for competition in either town or city.
DRESS GOODS
To me have become so familiar that I provide the newest for trade, and my sug¬
gestion, as to style, is always adopted.
CLOTHING
Merchants at home and abroad arc always com; laining, that I sell too cheap, and
they can’t see how I can furnish the stylo and good fits at my prices. I make ther
prices and other men can only wonder. prices. cash credit,
I keep everything and defy every one as to For or come to
see me. 1 know your interests and will serve them.
Yoiys truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga-, March 10,1891.
£§jT*N. B.—Alcssrs. L. A. Collier and J. F. Howard are still at homo with me.
A Wonderful Discovery!
MRS. BUSH’S
A SPECIFICCURE
FOR
Boris Scalds mi spsioiit dm.
This Wonderful Medicine!
Will cure burns without a scar. It is a Specific for Spasmodic croup among
children. For any skin eruption, try it; for poison try it; for Inflamation
of bowels most excellent. This rotUed} T is endorsed bj' the leading men of
t he 8tn to. J OS. H BB 0 W N, R. W. IIA UD B M AN, COL W. L P te » ” r
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Airs. Bush GUARANTEES any bottle.
NO CURE, NO PAY !
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS IN TOWN AND COUNTY.
Schofield’s Iron Works!
jbv4Ca,xi.-a.f a.ciro.rers a,xid. T ololoers of
Stun Ellis, Bun SAW HILLS, Cattoii Presses 1
General Machinery and all kinds Castings.
-Sole Owner and Manufacturers of-
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-To Pack by Hand, Horse, Water or Steam
BRASS GOODS, PIPE FITTINGS,LUBRICATORS, BELTING, PACKING.SA’W’S.ETC
—-General Agent for-*
U/iNCOCK INSPIRATORS AND GULLETT’S MAGN0LIAC0TT0N GIN,
J. S. SCHOFIELD & SON,
MACON. GEORGIA .
Barnesville ■ Planing ■ IViills
-ARE NOW OFFERING-
100,000 Cypress Shingles
150,000 No. I Pine Shingles
120,000 No. 2 Pine Shingles
20,000 Drawn Shingles.
AND ALSO
100,000 FEET GREEN LUMBER,
100,000 FEET DRY LUMBER.
And full lins of Doors, Sash, Blind.- 1 Mantels, Mouldings, etc. Fresh Limo
and Brick always ,
on hand. Paper Hanging promptly done bv the best
workmen. CALL AND SEE US.
TURNER & PROUT,
__Barnesville, Ga.
iOB PRINTING t
We are prepared to do all kina* M
JOB WORK,
-WITH——
NEATNESS
-AND-
DISPATCH
«nd respectfully ask a trial from all desir¬
ing anything in that line.
Prices and material to suit your pocket
&nd taste. Call on na and have all at
your job work dost at horn*.
NUMBER 18.
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