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THE MONROE 4 |i ADV 4 V ISER.
VOL XXXVIL
Highest of all in Leavening Power—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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A MUVJN Vl iUu fti c a i A1A.
AN IMMFN3F OLAOURR DISCO V*
Eked in califoknia.
it in ft Ml to Long and ilOO Feet Deep—
I'ileil l»y Pacing Age* in a Sun¬
less (lorjce.
i THE existence of an active gla¬
cier in Southern California of
such heroic proportions as to
justify comparison with the l 1( ,
minor Cor,tmenial v er c - the Alps,
Andes and lliimtl can I 5 a ided to
I he Io cal cate ;<>ry of stupendous works
iu the econorn of nature to be found in
sub-tropical California.
The story of the existence of a moving
river of ice buried in the deep canyons
of the San Bernardino niiige of mount¬
ains is an old one, ami among earlier set¬
tlers in thi Ctiou it has been handed
down as a tradition. Among many of
the older residents of San Bernardino
County tlic exi-teueo of a great ice
gorge upon the upper levels of Grayback
Mountain—the monarch of the San Ber¬
nardino range bus been known and
vouched for during the pa t thirty years,
and yet not generally erudite I.
Tne frequent iteration of these stories
prompted the I if) Anircles Herald to
make ?.n exhaustive investigation as to
tliovr truth, and with this aim an expe¬
dition was organized. At Highland
Station they boar.led the Bear Valley
stage and made the first mountain por¬
tion of the journey through a wild and
luggedly beautiful sec ion of the coun¬
try to Pino Luke, where a halt was made
nt the Bear Valley Hotel to procure mus¬
tangs and burros. A sturt was m ule at
<’> o’clock the next morning, and a clitub
of 3U00 feet was made to the summit of
the range south of Pino Luke, the ane
roid barometer hero showing an eleva¬
tion of 8D2 > feet.
At an altitude of 10,00U feet a grass
covered plateau*’ >lf a mile wide was
crossed, and thon the party turned hit.
n canyon that apparently seemed impas¬
sable, Imt a throa 1-like trail wound in
and out the rugged and foroiddiug
mountain sides.
As the party proceeded up the canyon
tho masses of sno.v along the sides and
in the old torrent bed bee ini 1 ; more fre
quent, and at many points it had drifted
into great batiks twenty, thirty and fifty
feet in depth. As the ascent continued the
trees were mostly stunted and dwarfed
in growth, wiiile the snow covered
nearly the entire surface and shone with
dazzling brightness, At 12,01)0 feet
the timoer line was rea hed. Tne ascent
was now up a steep incline, and on either
side were great ravines or gulches that
extended upwards for hundreds of feet
to points near the sum nit. l'he climb
was over small bowlders that rollc 1
downward from under tne feet. Three.
ravines, oblong iu shaue, half a mile in
length and about an eig.ith of a mile in
width, were filled full of snow, The
ravines ran into a canyon that wound
spirally downward, treading m a south¬
erly direction.
Although these great fissures in many
respects resemble headstones of glaciers,
still they were not of sullieicnt dimeu
aions to indicate a permanent existence,
aud the party folio we l the trend of these
ravines in a southerly direction an 1
crossing a ridge projecting from the
main body of the mountain fully 2UJ0
feet they came to the main gorge, which
extended Iro n the summit downward
for fully two and a quarter miles, This j
gorge was wedge-shaped, much like an
immeuse V reversed. It, was fully aa
eighth of a mile in width at the summit
and gradually widened to three-quarters
of a mile at the base. The sno w at the
crest of the u uee at the top ol the
mouutain lay in strata, tuere being one
deposit iu an immense cup-like fissure
hundreds of feet iu depth, Ou one side
of this fissure the strata are sharply de¬
fined, each representing the accumulation
of a single year, the lowest and most
deuse approaching tne blue color of ice.
A >out half a mile downward from tne
summit the three gorges heretofore de
acribed as containing immense deposits
ceuter in one co n non cuanne*
debouch into the mam 0 r>e. At
the point of juncture there wore^mdica- _
tions that at some long-past period the
smaller channel hid been an active
glacier. Both sides of the m ain gorge
were observed closely, and investigation
revealed the existence of lateral moraines
formed of earthy matter winch had l>.>ea
detached from the mountain sides and
fallen upon the surface of moving snow
and ice. The party turned their faces
agam toward the great gorge which felt
,
away at their feet, and then began what
proved to be an exceedingly perilous
descent. Tuey mauaged to reuc.i a
point near the base of t ie icier. Here
the mighty forces of Nature which had
been working untold year- had piled up
a cross moraine of immense rociv wnose
sharp an 1 angular e Les projected from
the mass of snow aud ice, some of then
fully twenty feet in breadth and equally
high. The base line wnich is at an ele¬
vation of ld.ObO feet was mainly com¬
posed of snow, but at points this had
drifted or melted away, and the ice was
exposed. A stick of giant powder was
placed in a crevice and explode 1, and
immense fragments of icj aud stone
torn away, revealing ancient ice o; a
dark blue color almost verging into black.
Tasting fragments oi tais old ice tuey
were found to be bitter, and permeate l
with a flue silt-liuo sand. The stone
found iu the cross moratn • of the glacier
imhuded porphyry, granite, pure white
quartz, petrified wood and limestone,
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1892
furrowed and scratched us u wn.t
graver’s tools and blocks of marble as
clear as any ever quarried ir, any country.
There was ft small flow of water from
the base of the pass. Judging from the
contour of the gorge there must be a
mass of ice fully a mile in length and
20U feet in depth, if not more.
An interesting point is the question of
the movement of the glacier, and from
corollary circumstances it was computed
that the mass was moving downward
into the valley at the rate of forty-seven
feet per annum, if not more, and it is
assumed without doubt that the melting
of the ice at the base line or this great
wedgeshaped mass of ice and granular
snow is synchronous with its equation of
progression.—San Franiisco Examiner.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
, Paper car wheels ceased years ago to
j ,c a uove Hy
Ahorse was killed by bees at Leslie,
Ga-, recently.
There are said to be 2,800,000 bee
hives in the United States,
Blue and black are unlucky colors iu
China. Red is an auspicious color.
The deepest perpendicular shaft is in
the Ivuttenberg mine in Bohemia, 3778
feet deep.
The largest Masonic library building
and the only Masonic library iu the world
are at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Japan is said to have apple trees only
four inches in height which produco
fruit about the size of currants.
The Friends’ School of Providence,
R. I., is now over a century old. This
| school held a reunion on June 29.
1 The public park in San Francisco,
Cal., recently received a encoanut tree
weighing six tons, from Honolulu.
The first regular passenger railroad
built in the world was the southern
portion of the Baltimore and Ohio, built
m 1827.
The canal system of New Ar "•>
a century old. A conven
men will celebrate the eve_ HlJUV
in the fall.
France has an organization known as
the “Society of tho Friends of Trees,”
the object of which is to restore tire
abandoned forests.
Presidential candidates were first nomi¬
nate;! by Congressional caucuses, and
later l>y State Legislatures, The era of
conventions began in 1832.
James Richard Cocke, just graduated
from the Boston Uuiversity School of
Medicine, has beeu blind from infancy,
and is the first person thus afflicted to
receive the degree of medical doctor.
An English carpet firm, said to be
over two hundred years old, has bought
an acre of ground in Elizabeth, N. J.,
and proposes building a factory for the
manuiacture ot Axmiuster and Wilton
carpeH and rugs,
The original “kicker,” in a meta¬
phorical sense, is mentioned in the first
book of Samuel, second chapter, tweaty
ninth verse, where a man of God said
imt0 Eli - “Wnerefore kick ye at my
sacrifice and at mine offering?”
On one of the islands off the coast of
Maine lives a man, now fifty years old,
who was born there, aud has never been
off the island. He has accumulated a
fortune in the grocery business, and is
content to live aud die ou t.ie few seagirt
acres.
It is related of Sir Isaac Newton that
when he was getting up iu the morning
he would often sit w r ith one leg in his
breeches and would remain for hours
pondering over some mathematical
comiudrum without ever thinking of the
other leg.
Although jade was first cut by the
Chinese, their only ornamentation of it
was sculpture 1 figures. The jewelers of
India were the first to use it as a ground
for mounting precious stones, and the
finest known specimens of this work arc
found m the India Museum at London.
Macncysti*, a seaweed of the South
R ;ic 'de, h > 8 said, oltea grows to be
tv y ent ? to thirty inches iu diameter and
tc ^ eet b * h’ n gtb- In no
case do any of these have roots, in the
proper sense, their nourishment being
absorbed from the water by all parts
alike.
The longest canal ia the world is the
one which extends from the frontier of
China to St. Petersburg; it measures ia
ill 4172 miles. There is another canal
mqning from Astrachiu to S:. Peters
burg wnich is 1131 miles loug. Both
of these were begun by Peter tue
Great,
The old Danish Vikings had the pleas¬
ing custom ot stabbing an enemy in the
throat when he was drinkiug his mead,
From tais arose the custom of a man's
inviting all the members of a company
to “drink his health,” as, while thus
occupied, they could not use their
weapons.
A Rat’s Queer Caper.
Some things are stranger than fiction,
How is the following: In a manger at
Barnhill & Robertson's stables a full
grown rat has taken up its abode with a
litter of kittens about its own size,
Everything goes well until the mother of
the kittens comes on the scene; then it
is time for disappearing for the rat. At
least 100 people have visited this strange
| spectacle to-day. The rat seems to en
joy the notoriety.—Marshall (Mo.) Pro¬
; gress.
riNlSt
1 a*k not,—
V> hen sLall the day be done, and rest come
on?
i pray hot
Tbatfoon from me the “curse of toil” be
goner,
I seek net
A sluggard’s couch with drowsy.curtain
'
<j rawrl
But give me
1 ime to fight the battle out as best I
taay
And give me
Strength and place to labor still at even¬
ing’s gray;
Then let me
Sleep as one who toiled afield through all
the day.
—Whitman Bavbe.
A TRANSACTION IN ICE.
15V If. E. ANDREW'S.
2 Martyn OOI) old Dr. departed Eben
Xh this little life, leaving
except the
weather beaten an¬
\k & m A eJ cestral the and venerable chaise, homestead, almost horse
& worn out in the
IfjaJI \l' ~ Aft r .‘—faithful *\m a11 the service of
^r v countryside,
r -yi yl/y and a rather shab
bil y builtice house,
j| propped on one of
the high banks of
)J the the Kennebec River
at angle of the
famed tower of Pisa. The residue of his
belongings consisted of his two daugh¬
ters,Regina and Mary Alice, not exactly
juvenile,but much better preserved than
any of his other possessions.
“Oh, Reejy!” said Mary Alice, after
the funeral was over, the neighbors were
all gone, and their lonely estate for the
first time fairly confronted them. “Ob,
Reejy! What shall we do?”
Mary Alice was the older of the two
sisters, but from the days of her multi¬
plication table she had leaned on Regina.
Perhaps that partly accounted for her
bent shoulders and faltering gait, so dif¬
ferent from Regina's trim, erect figure,
and brisk, reliant walk.
“Now, sister,” replied Regina, “don’t
worry about that. We’ve a comfortable
home, the year’s wood is up, and there’s
half a barrel of corned beef in the cel¬
lar.”
“But, Reejy, that beef won’t last for¬
ever.”
“Well, there’s the horse—”
me faint to
“ We can get seventy-five dollars for
him, and that will last a long time.”
“Oh, dear, yes. I thought you were
joing to propose something awful—but
what can we do when the horse is gone?”
“What are we going to do when the
world comes to an end l Don’t borrow
trouble. We must economize on every¬
thing; we mustn’t exhaust our whole
stock of money at once. We’ll get along
in some way, but of course I don’t know
how,” and then the sisters had wliat sis¬
ters usually call “a good cry.”
Thenceforth Regina took the manage¬
ment of their affairs into her own hands.
Mury Alice was the undisputed mistress
of the kitchen, and wrought magic with
needle and shears, but Regina was the
provider. Everybody in Middledale and
for miles up and down the river knew
“the Martyn girls,” and everybody knew
who was their business manager.
“Don’t you suppose you could sell the
ice house for something?” asked Mary
Alice, after Regina had disposed of old
Dobbin at a shrewd bargain and rented
the stable to one of the ice men for two
dollars a month.
“I don't want to sell it,” said Regina,
quickly.
“But of what good is it to us?”
“1 am going to fill it this winter.”
“Fill it? Why—’’ but Mary Alice
could go no further; she sank back in
her chair, staring at her sister as if she
suddenly unfolded a pair cf wings in¬
stead of so simple a plan.
“Yes, of course, I’m going to fill it.
I heard father say the old ice house paid
him better than bis practice last year,
and cleared up all his debts. What do
I know about the ice busines? Well, I
can hire men who know how to put up
ice; there are enough of them on the river,
and somebody in Middledale will advance
the capital with the ice as security. I
know I can do it, and why shouldn't I?”
And after the river had fairly frozen,
Liswn ap P ene( S f nr°t>! tc be ra veI 7 ]ate Eeadl J at sea ‘
e ^ ns an
emissary down on the ice - to stake , out
her field. The big operators, above and
below, saw the move with surprise; but
they all respected Regina s claim, and
Mr. Hiram Lawry, the superintendent of
the Knickerbocker Company, whose
great houses were only half a mile up
the river, came down a little later and
gave her some good hints about buying
hei toois.
Now please don ^ t think of Regina as
a mannish sort of person, striding about
in the doctor's old iur coat aud rubber
boots, braudishing an ice chisel and
scolding the men. She was very much a
woman, with a disposition to avoid snow
drifts and kicking horses an l holes in
the ice and all such disagreeable things,
She actively oversaw her enterprise, and
even ventured down on the ice once or
twice, but trusted almost everything to
her foreman, who fortunately was ex
perieneed and honest.
The other ice packers made neighborly
calls and offered kindly services. Mr.
Lawry w<^ nearest, and almost every day
he asked if he could help her or gave her
a good suggestion. When her elevator
suddealy broke and Mr. Lawry sent one
of his spare chains and had the break
mended in an hour, Regina thanked him
with blushes; he had saved her a round
sum.
“Oh, Reejy, just think of the expense,
with all those men to pay while they
were loafing!” exclaimed Mary Alice,
“Don't you think it was very good of
Lawry?” '
Mr.
“I'm act much acquainted with him.
but he’s been very kind,” said Regina,
becoming absorbed in her pay roll.
That was a memorable fear on the
Kennebec, marked by an unprece¬ nDrece
dented mania for speculation in
ice. It came on late in the winter
after Regiaa’s harvest was con
pleted. Wnen, in the last, days of Feb
ruar *’ il wa3 certain that there would
be no crop on the Hudsor, or anywuere
in the Middle States, and that the whole
ebuntry would have to depend for its
ice on the rivers and ponds of Maine,
the craze spread like a plague.
It was too lafe to build additions 1
houses; the ice was piled up on the
tz “sr ks * ud humedlj
‘‘Mary Alice, I'm goiuJ to put up a
stack,” Regina exclaimed one day.
“There’s a line chance on^he level just
below our old house, and I can double
up just as well as not,”
“You almost take my J>eath away,”
said Mary Alice. “It frightens me to
take such a risk—but dear me! You
know so much more about these
things.”
Mr. Lawry called that evening. He
had come two or three times during the
winter.
“Have you heard of Reejy’s new
scheme?” asked Mary Alice, innocently,
Regina bit her lip; but preferring to
tell of her plans in her own way, now
the cat was out of the bag, sne went on,
“I'm going to stack some ice. Our house
holds only five thousand tons and I may
as well stack five thousand more.”
Mr. Lawry became grave. “H’m!
My experience with stacked ice hasn’t
been very satisfactory,” he said, with a
laint smile.
“There, Reejy!” exploded poor Mary
Alice, with a nervous start.
Regina turned a flushed face to her
sister, but bit her lip again and smilingly
appealed to Mr. Lawry. “You wouldn’t
have me let the chance go by, would
you?”
“I wouldn’t have you make a mis¬
take,” he said, quietly. “Your okl house
is well filled with good ice* and is pretty
sure to pay you a fair profit, but if you
put up a stack you risk everything.”
“Never mind,” laughed Regina, in a
tone that seemed very strange and un¬
pleasant. “I’m in for it. Nothing ven¬
ture, nothing have!”
“Reejy,” said Mary Alice, after Mr.
Lawry had gone, “I’m really afraid
about that ice speculation.”
“Pshaw!” said Rearinia. “The big
companies are always jealous if we little
operators branch out.”
And she stacked the five thousand
tons of ice on the lowlands, within a
week. “Mary Alice,” *id she one April
day, “you shall have ealskin sack
next winter; auu lUv. rtunoow or
bright hope spanned the skie3 of early
spring.
But hark! Hear the great sheets of
rain storming down upon the roof!
Listen to the howling of the gale as it
drives the flood against the panes and
tears at the quivering shutters! Three
days of steady rain were followed by
warm, damp weather. The melting sno w
poured down the hillsides and the ice
began to break. Daily the river rose,
struggling masterfully with its frozen
barriers; and then, swollen to an alarm¬
ing tide that stilL rose higher and
higher, it hurled tne ice floes oceanward
in leaping, crushing rna-ses. It was the
greatest, most fright ml ice freshet ever
known on the Kennebec.
Regina stood out on the bluff, watch¬
ing its furious progress. They nad told
her of disasters up the river, and she
w T as nerved for die sight when the hurl¬
ing tumult of ice and water attacked and
quickly undermined her ice stack and
swallowed up its ruins. It crumbled al¬
most like a heap of sand, under the
beating of that tierce torrent.
“So much for women fooling with the
ice business!”
Tne brusk old villager’s remai’k was
not intended lor Regina’s ears, but she
heard it.
Mr. Lawry came up and spoke en¬
couragingly. “Your house on the bluff
is safe, and you’ll make enough from
that to set you right,” said he.
Regina was brave, but she couldn’t
keep back one insistent tear.
“It hurt more to show him my weak¬
ness and to feel that he had a chance to
crow over me, than to lose the ice,” she
sobbed, when she reached home,
“Poor dear,” crooned Mary Alice,
“it's all for the best—of course it is—
and I don’t believe Mr. Lavvry would
wish to humiliate you.”
“Inat shows how little you know
about ga H and the bltterness men. retorted aad ^ Iar Regina,^ y A lce ssus with
» ‘ ‘
i picions were strengthened
j Three anxious months left their marks
upon Regina. She grew pale aad worn,
and Mary Alice said she didn t eat enough
to keep a canary alive. She fed mostly
on the weekly market bulletins ol
Ice Trade Journal, which grew less
nourishing as the season advanced.
“I hope it won t be any inconvenience
; to you, Miss Reejy, said tne President
of the village hank, “but we are calling
in our ice loans and must ask you to pay
your notes within thirty days. There’s
a big lot of ice on the market. It seems
as it everybody put up some, and the
bank can’t risk such collateral any longer.
If you've a mind to mortgage your home
stead, now—”
“Oh, I’ll take up the notes,” inter
rupted Regina, but her queenly spirit
quaked. How could sue raise the
money? She had been unable to get an
offer of more than a dollar a ton for her
ice, and that would not bring enough,
Oh, if she had not put up that unlucky
stack!
Mr. Lawry had been coming quite of
ten, of late, to sing to her accompani
ment on the jingling old piano. When
he called, the next Tuesday evening, she
put it off till the last moment, but in
sheer desperation appealed to him just
as he arose to go. Wnat would he ad
vise her to do? Did he think there was
the ieast prospect of a more favorable
market?
' “I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” said he.
briskly. “I'm al ways speculating, and
will make you an offer for your ice. You
see I have better opportunities than you,
can take more risk. I’ll give you a
dollar and a quarter a ton for the lot.”
A sudden elation took possession cf
Regina. Before she fairly realized what
sne was doing, she had accepted tha
proposition and signed a bill of sale.
Sixty-two hundred and fifty dollarsl
That would pay her notes and leave her
a small profit.
After Mr. Lawry had left the house
she hugged Mary Alice .2 a transport of
joy and Kissed Mr. L 1 s check. In
a moment more she was weeping like a
child,
“What have I done! Oh, what have
might a, welt have giveu me the money,
and I can never look him in the face
again. Mary Alice, I shall go crazy.”
“Why, Reejy! He made the price
himself, didn’t he?” asked Mary Alice
in perplexity,
“Yes, but he knows he cau’t sell it
for that, and I was mean enough to ac
cept his charity. I’ve a good mind to
demand my ice back aud tear up hi?
check!”
“Dear me,” exclaimed Mary Alice in
allright.
“But then he’d think me a biggs*
fool than ever. Oh, how contemptible
I must seem to him!”
“Reejy, I believe you’re fond of him I’ 1
“I hate him, and I’ll hate you if yog
speak of him again!” cried Regina, and
rushed up stairs in a storm of tears.
The ice market continued to go down,
and although the summer came in all its
beauty the Martyn homestead did not
emerge from the area of depression. Of
course the Middledale people heard
about Regina's transaction with Mr.
Lawry, and did not spare their corn
ments.
“He’ll never get more than ninety
cents for it,” she overheard one of the
gossips say. Regina tossed her ice
Trade Journal into the fire wnen it came
that night, aud never looked at an ice
quotation again.
“As I look at it now,” she said to
herself, “I was stupid, but ho was
positively idiotic. I can have no respect
for such a man, even if he has done me
a favor.”
Mr. Lawry cam' - to ask her to go for
a drive the next ifteruoon, but she de¬
clined to see him, pleading a headache.
Mary Alice looked mute reproaches at
her; she did not dare to speak.
Several weeks passed beiore Mr.Lawry
came again. Then he asked Regina to
play the accompaniment of a new song,
and she could not refuse. It was one of
Moiloy’s,and she became much interested
in it; Mr. Lawry certainly sang it with
much, spirit.
“Why! Where’s Ma^g Alice?”
She had left the room while they were
absorbed in the music, “J never knew
her to do such a thing before,” said
Regina apologetically.
“Let’s ha\e that last verse again,”
cried Mr. Lawry, with enthusiasm.
And one song followed another till
Regina found her voice mingling with
his, and she blushed to think she was
actually enjoying it.
“By the way, Miss Martyn,” said Mr.
Lawry, as Regina resolutely wnirled
around in her piano chair, “I hope you
will congratulate me on my good for¬
tune !”
He laughed good naturedly at her puz¬
zled look, and added, “evidently you
haven’t watched the ice market recently.
I’ve sold tnat ice I bougot from you tor
a dollar and seventy-five cents a ton!”
A glow catne into Regiua’s cheek, and
she uttered a cry of pleasure.
“Nothing in the world could have
given me so much delight,” she said,
stretching out her hand.
He grasped it and held it.
“Ah,” said he, “I need one thing
more to make me happy. I want you to
share my good fortune with me, Regina.
I dare not tell you of my love, and to
hope you’ll give me yours. I’ve loved
you for a long time—you know I have—
and you can’t refuse me, my Regina!”
“But it never could have been if ice
hadn’t gone up!” declared Rjgina, as she
struggled from his arms.
She lushed into Mary Alice’s chamber,
after he had gone.
“Sister, dear, I’ve something great to
tell you!”
“I know all about it,” said Mary
Alice, in her fond and gentle way, press¬
ing Regina to her heart. “I’ve followed
the ice market every day.”—Munsey’s
Magazine.
Tea-Chest Lead.
One of the industries in connection
wita the tea tiade is the collection ot
the lead with which tea-chests are lined.
CbiQa ha3 beea noted for maay ceaturieJ
fo r purity of its lead, and this tea-chest
i ea d, as it is called, is regarded as the
finest in existence. There are many uses
f or jj. it is found very valuable in making
the best kind of solder. No machinery
; g employed in the production of this
sheet lead; every sheet is made by hand
i n the most primitive fashion. A large
brick i 3 provided, the size of the sheet of
lead to be made, and is covered with two
or tbree sheets of paper, On these the
molten lead is poured, and another brick
j S placed on tne top, which flattens the
] ead out the required size and thickness,
p Qe sheets are men soldered together to
the size of the interior of the tea chest;
the taa is packed in, and the top sheet is
fastened in place. The workmen are
ver y expert, and they turn out an im
mense number of sheets in the course of
adav, and, where labor is so cheap, at a
pr j C e much less than if the articles were
produced byamchinery.— Boston Tran
scr ipt.
A Rat’s Queer Caper.
Some things are stranger than fiction.
How is the following: In a manger at
Barnhill & Robertson’s stables a full
grown rat has taken up its abode with a
litter of kittens about its own size,
Everything goes well until the mother of
the kittens comes on the scene; then it
is time for disappearing for the rat. At
least 100 people have visited this strange
spectacle to-day. The rat seems to en
joy the notoriety.—Marshall (Mo.) Pro
grese.
NUMBER 30.
/f CD ' V—' < ■ 1892 .
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
SPRING OPENING!
Front April 1st L will be prepared to show to my trade aud all
the people the
GREATEST LINE OF NOVELTIES
<>- -<*•«•, »»?»*>* *“»•“» ° r m ““
pvol”' no uneasiness. My record boon selling places
me far above all efforts of all Liliputian competitors. 1 have
the
Clothing and Dress Goods
In Barnesville lor years and now 1 come with even mote startling „
revelations than ever,
MY STOCK OF EMBROIDERIES
In all widths are of my own inportation and the small merchants will have
be quiet while 1 show and sell the people. Don't overlook your inter*
ests? but come ant j i 00 k. Yours ahead,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga., April 1st, 1892.
P. S.—Messrs. HOWARD and COLLIER arc here to help display
the panorama of wonders,
FURNITURE
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
-AT
Prices to Match the Times
FOR
CASH O R CREDIT.
i
ILEY L. SMITH,
Gor. Hill St. and Slaton Ave., GRIFFIN, GA.
---WRITE FOR PRICES ON-
linds, Doors,
And all Kinds of Building Material.
-WE HAVE THE FAMOUS
Krustch EMBOSSING Machine.
And are prepared to make any design of Embossed Work, A trial
will convince you that our goods are the BEST and CHEAPEST.
W. C. AYCOCK,
On Street Car Lino, GRIFFIN, GA.
ieoma i 9 eed Company,
GROWERS AND DEALERS IN SEED.
We are headquarters in the South toral! varieties of Grassos, Clovers,
Genuine Eastern Seed Irish Potatoes.
!ALL VARIETIES GARDEN SEED
j Onion Sets, etc. German Millet, Pearl or Cat Tail Millet, Milo Maize,
Kaffer Corn, Early Amber and Early Orange Cain Seed, Finest Call variety
Melon B Seed. In fact everything carried in the Seed Line. and eeo
-
, . ,.
' 1 ”
GEORGIA SEED CO.
Corner Second and Poplar Streets, MACON, GA,
Having greatly enlarged our shop and capacity for turning out work, w*
again solicit the trade ol Monroe.
FLOORING, CEILING,
BLINDS, DOORS and SASH constantly on hand. SHINGLES and
LATHS always in stock.
LIME, BRICK,
TERRA COTTA PIPING, PAINTS, GLASS, WALL PAPER, and a
kinds of builders aepplies 1 can be bad here at any time,
TURNED WORK.
BlRACKETS and SCROLLS of endless pattern and variety.
GIVE US A CALL.
We are prepared to make POPLAR FRUIT CRATES to order and
an Y 9 uan ^^Y*
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BARNESVILLE GA June 2nd lSJ^jL