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HOPE’S DREAMING,
I know lt> coming, coining,
But tho Hails doom far away,
My ship—sweet ship of love for me ;
I know It s spelling swiftly
To the light of dawning day.
My ship—sweet ship on life’s dark sea
•
^Hoon I’ll feci the pressing
Of a soft, caressing kiss,
/ Fjom Soon lips—sw*‘ct T will lie resting lips of love for me;
In tho arms of endless bliss,
With love—sweet love that is to bo.
f Tho heart that’s weeping, weeping,
f Will sraile through chanRing tears,
When day—sweet day of love shall break •
The soul that’s sorrow hardens 1,
When the music sweet It hears,
Will sing—'Will sing for dear love’s sake
► Edward N. Woods, io Atlanta Constitution
The Hitch in the System.
tjfiyfo, H A R L I K N E L -
rJH| thrope was a prig of
* the first water. He
I looked at all things
and discussed Jail
things 1
from a sn-
1 premely priggish
point of view, but
bis priggishnesH ^ subject displayed
to such advantage—
or shall I say disadvantage—as the
subject of women. On that subject
ho “held himself an indisputable
thority.” There was no reason why
he should, for he was young ns vet,
and had really had no special experi¬
ence of the opposite sex, but your
full-blown, typical prig generally
rises superior to such a secondary
consideration as reason. Charlie rose
superior to it and would expound his
views and theories at as great length
and with as much a -mi ranee as if he
had devoted u long life and highly
cultured intellect to tho study of that
particular hieroglyphic which is called
woman.
Ho was a great believer in what ho
called “systematic training.” That
is to say, In c >nM<l<-cd women ought
to be treated fielding to a certain
Bystem that ho ' >ad , “'fi from his
inner eonseiousn* beauty of
tho system in liis eyes was tho fact
that it required no modifications, but
might with safety bo rigorously en
forced in every case. It could not
-
•'/ Chariio was tho lucky possessor of
an unencumbered estato with a very
eonsiderablo rent roll, and he intend
od to find a woman who loved him for
what ho was, without a though for
what ho had, and who would have
shared a mud hut or a garret with him
just as gladly ns slio would sliaro his
fine old place in Yorkshire. When ho
bad found her ho meant to train her
on his infidliblo system. That was
his programme, and it nevor occurred
to him to distrust hjs powers of car
rying it out. His belief in himself
hit) wtis absolute, and tho infallibility of
that, reasoning and judgment a thing
to his mind, did not admit of tho
slightest sUadow of a doubt.
V Carrington, the bride-elect,
was a beauty.
f 'A Boftlv-tinted skin, satin-smooth
and veined like tho petal of a rose;
f»’*, flidy hair that shone golden
bright in the suuligkt; clear, smiling
oyes of Hoiven’s own blue, and inno
oent rosy lijjg that looked just made
for the firs kiss of love, were all
blended, fimcmating toge.her whole. in a dainty and most
childishly Her manner was
fresh *ud simple, and men
found her altogether delightful,
.Women had their doubts of her—
doubts that were principally duo to
the childlike manner afotesaid, nud to
a certain }>retty trick of looking
quickly up and then down with those
great innocent eyes of hers—but
women, of course, are invariably spite
ful and unfair towards their own sex.
Men, as we all know, have the mo
uopoly of just and generous judg
“ ont '
-
-* Well, Evn's soft blue eyes and
bright little ways wrought dire de
etraction iu the ranks of tho stronger
sex, but she appeared quite uucon
eoious of her power, or indifferent to
it, Io all intents and purposes sho
was completely she wrapped up in the
man had promised to marry. His
will was her law, and to please him the
chief object of her life. In short, lus
programme seemed in a fair way to be
earned out.
* Her total submission delighted him,
and he took every advantage of it. It
was not in him to show generosity to
thought a womnui, or, indeed, to anything he
weaker than himself. Ileivas
the sort of man who is brutal to his
dogs and horses, and overbearing to
his servants—who, in short, tyran
nizes whenever he ean do so without
fear of retaliation. His nature as
sorted itself in his dealings with the
woman ho loved, and he took the
keenest possible pleasure in trading
oil her forbearance, taxing her en
durance to the utmost, and showing
off her pliant will and obedient tern
per to the world at large. It was all
ti part of the system that could not
dred Ninety-nine women out of a him
would have torn the system to
shreds and scattered it to the
winds oi heavjin. Eva Carrington
was the hundriflth woman. She sub
mitted to everything w ith the most
remarkable patience, and no word of
complaint or reproach ever passed her
^P 8 *
Lut after a time she grew quieter,
and her bright spirits seemed to flag,
Her merry girlish laughter was not
nearly 60 ready as it had been six
months ago, and the corners of her
pretty mouth began to droop with a
wist’nl expression that was pathetic
enough to touch the hardest of
line hearts.
C liariit 4 ? friends till noticed the
change, and commented upon n
among themselves, and applied to him
a varied selection of opprobrious
epithets. Lord Dolly Dashwood dis
played a surprising amount of
fluency on the subject. “Beastly cad.
No idea how to treat a woman. Ought
to l>e horsewhipped, don’t you know.
fchail have to cut him, by Jove 1 Cana
stand this sort of thing, you know,
Beyond a joke.
thus said his lordship, and a good
deal more that would not look well on
P a Pf r -
Charlie went . .
full play, on givin^ ms petty
arrogance unto, as was only
to be expected, things came to ncrisis.
Ihe wonder they had tic* done
l«if w.filf
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GA.. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21. 1894.-EIGHT PAGES
On Ilie occasion of Lady Brown
•Hues ’b ball he went the length of
forbidding his fiancee to dance round
dances with any one but himself,
nrid, though she received his com
mands without a murmur, her soul
ro.se in passionate revolt against his
tyranny. This last test that he had
devised seemed to her the worst of
all. As a matter of fact, she had sub
mittod patiently to far harder ones;
but we all know the feminine capacity
for swallowing a camel and straining
at a gnat, and Eva was no less iueon
sequent than the rest of her sex. The
gnat stuck iu her throat and ob
sti , uately refused to be dislodged,
There always must be a last straw,
was it.
When tho bft11 WftS half ovcr Lortl
Dol, v I ,ut 111 uu appearance, and at
-
that moment Eva happened to be sit
ting quite alone, Charlie had left her
for a minute or two to speak to a
friend, and she was looking wistfully
a ^ Hie maze of couples that revolved
before her. Lord Dolly made straight
I° r h er -
“Not (lancing, Miss Carrington!
Luck for me, by Jove! Ripping waltz,
this. Have a turn?”
He stuck out his elbow invitingly,
,mt Eva turned away, biting her lip.
“No, thank you!” she answered, in
a tone, “I can’t dunce with you,
Lord Dolly.”
“Can’t?” echoed his lordship,
“How’s that? What’s up? Not ill,
are you? Not cross with mo—eh?”
Eva shook her heud.
“No, I am not ill or cross, but—but
I have promised Charlie only to waltz
with him. Ho doesn’t like to see me
waltzing with other men.”
Lord Dolly choked down a forcible
1,ufc inelegant remark, cleared his
throat violently, and ran his lingers
through his hair. The two latter pro
ceedings were signs of severe mental
disturbance.
There was a'slight pause.
* ‘And he dances so awfully badly, ”
Lva went on, with a queer little catch
in her breath. “Ho can’t waltz a bit
—not a little wee bit. He—holds you
wrong.”
Her voice quivered and broke on
Hie last word, and she looked up at
the man by her sido with great tearful
eyes, like forget-me-nots drowned in
dew.
That look finished it. Lord Dolly
was only a man.
“Beastly shame!” he said, kur
riedly. “Come with me. Nice and
quiet out on tho veranda. A fellow
Cftn talk there, don’t you know. Come
along!”
And Eva went.
Charlie * . Nelthorpe *„ * * bristling * * with
was
outraged pride and wounded self-es
loom when he went to pay his custom
ar y visit to Eva on the day following
Lady Brown-Jones’s ball. Tho fact
that Eva could forgot herself anil the
respect that was duo to him so far as
to sit on the veranda with Lord Dolly
for half au hour had been a severe
blow to him, and he had not Ho'had yet re
covered from the shock. re
framed from commenting upon her
conduct .at the time, but now he meant
1° take it out of her and reduce her
to the state of abject penitence that
he considered befitting tho occasion.
She was reading- when he went into
the room, but she laid her book aside
at once.
“Oh, Charlie, is that you?”
Charlie frowned.
“Howoften have I told you, my dear
Eva, that a self-evident fact requires
no asserting?” ho asked in his most
dogmatic tone.
Who shrugged her shoulders.
“How often? Oh, I don’t know. A
hundred times, I dare say. You look
cross, Charlie.”
Charlie frowned again. There was
an intangible something in Eva’s tone
and manner that was not wont to be
there. Something that he could neith
er define nor understand, though he
felt It instinctively.
“I am not cross, Eva, but I am
grieved—grieved beyond measure.
Your conduct last night causBd me
acute pain, the more so as you ex
pressed no regret for it. But I hope
you are iu a better frame of mind to
day, and ready to say you are sorry
for what you did. Until you have
done so I really don’t feebtliat I can
kiss you.”
Charlie fully expected that this stu
peudous threat would reduce Eva to
tho lowest depths of dospaii’ and
briug her, figuratively speaking to her
knees; but for once he was out iu his
calculations. She drew up her slender
figure and pursed up her rosy lips
with au air that made him feel vague
ly uneasy. Was it possible, he won
dered, that she intended to defy him?
Yes. Her next words proved that it
was so. .
“1 am not sorry,” she said, “not a
bit. I am glad. I would do it again. ”
Charlie gasped. The situation:was
so unlocked for that he could not rise
to it all at once.
“As for kissing me, Eva went on,
with a little disdainful rnoue, “well,
you will never have the chance of do
ing that again, so you need-not excite
yourself.”
Charlie found his voice then.
“You are talking at random now,
Eva,” he said severely, “abad liabit
against which I have always warmed
you. Will you be kind enough to*ex
plain yourself?”
Eva tilted her small nose in tkefair,
and a horrible doubt suddenly assailed
him. YY’as there—could there be a
hitch in the infallible system after toll:
The thought appalled him.
“Oh, certainly,” Eva answered ,
do it in few words. Lord f
can a very *and
Dolly proposed to me last night,
I accepted him.
Charlie gasped again.
“But you are engaged to me,” he
Cjticulttted. 4 *lou must be niiul. You
can’t seriously contemplate throwing
m’ over for Dolly Dashwood? The
tuing s
She looked at him and smiled.
“Incredible as it may seem to you,
I dp contemplate it.”
“But—but—but,” stammered Char
lie. “this is very—er—extraordinary
. chavior on your part. Eva. Are you
aware that you propose to treat me in
a most dishonorable way, and—and—
. er—in short, very badly?”
Her face grew grave.
“I should be sorry to do that," she
. b more gently. “I—I don’t want
to he dishonorable, or to treat you
b-idiy, Chai .m, But I atu only human,
and uo one V.*u knows what I
i ftoH* IB Vh« l**f t**
months. You have tried "me too hard.
I was very fond of you at one time,
and if you hid treated me fairly I
should have been fond of you stffl.
But you would wear out a saint—and
I am only r. woman. I don’t think
Lord Dolly will be hard on me. He
may not be very brilliant, but at all
events he is a man—the sort of man
we call a gentlemau-~aml knows how
to 1*3 generous even to such au alto
gether inferior creature as a mere
woman.”
Siie paused and looked critically at
her rejected lover, who now presented
a truly pitiable appearance, with all
the starch taken out of him and a gen
eral air of limp depression pervading
his being.
is all, ’ she went on presently.
“But before you go there is one thing
that I shonld like to impress upon you
for future guidance: It is always
worth a man’s while to be just and fair
—even to a women. ”
She paused again and contemplated
him her big blue eyes, but he said
nothing. He was too bewildered to
speak. It seemed to him that all the
laws of creation were reversed and the
whole schemo of the universe turned
upside down.
There was a hiteli iu the system
somewhere,
It had failed !—London Truth.
Chicken Surgery.
Mrs. Walter E. Megarev, who lives
in tho southwest section’ of Jamaica
Villages takes a goo) deal of interest
in the raising of chickens, and be
stows much core upon their culture
and development. The other day she
discovered that a pullet was off its
feed, and was apparently dying ot
atrophy. An examination of the lit
tie chicken disclosed an abnormal en
largement in the neck about the size
of a hickory nut, and almost as hard,
Believing the chick would die if left
to its fate, Airs. Alegarey decided to
try what tracheotomy would do fox
the little sufferer. She availed her
self of a sharp pair of scissors, and
dispensing with an operating table,
told one of her daughters to hold the
pullet by the head and the other by
the feet. These preparations having
been made, she “snipped” the
feathered throat at the offending lump
and introduced the end of her
“piukey” into the incision and can
tiously pressed tho foreign body pos
teriorily, and out it came. It proved
to be a portion of a cabbage stalk
about the size of a walnut.
So far the operation was successful.
The cause of the trouble was removed,
hat tho question whether tho pullet
would survive was a grave oue. In
stead of sewing up the wound, as a
surgeon would, she made a liberal up
plication of a healing ointment and
permitted the little patient to again
mingle with tho brood. To lior great
delight the pullet began to improve at
once, and was soon picking about as
usual. The wound healed up, the
chicken takes its food and is appar
ently as well as ever.—Brooklyn
Times.
" ~ "^7- Eating. ’
edibility . of snails lias been an
established fact for a long time, said
Henry Farness, of Philaclelpaia, at
Wormley s, and it is well known that
Parisian epicures are very fond of die
little animals when they are propeily
cooked. In the vicinity of Paris there
are several places taat are devoted to
the propagation ami rattening ot
emails for the city markets, and you
doubtless be surprised to leaiu
that there is a similar establishment
over in Jersey, not far from I nuadel
P^ a - ^ n J ari ua ’ aiet '- CionAhite nas
what he calls a snail para. It is not a
very large establishment, as it corn
prises only three or tours acies, which
are very thickly wooded, but here he
raises snails in prodigious quautiae?.
aU1 ^ I understood that lie has steady
demand for the unpleasant little
creatures. Cronkhite eats snails him
S ®H> and says they are no^ony c e
Hcious as food, but are almost a speci
^ c » w ^ ien hoiled in mi Ik, ioi c isea 3 es
of the lungs, and that a arge numoer
of his customers are persons who are
afflicted with pulmonary comp aints.
He says that it is only a maner ot
education about eating snails, the
same as it is about eating craos and
oysters, and may be he is about halt
ri ght. Washington boir.
A 1
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“I once attended a swell Chinese
banquet, and was not a little sur
prised at the way in which some of
the delicacies were served,” said AYal- ^
ter F. Logan, of Sacramento, Cal., at
th e Laclede last night. "After wo
had discussed the more substantial
portion of the repast and dessert was
being served, oranges were placed be
fore each guest, the skins oi which
had apparently not been broneD, yet
from which the pulp had in some mys
terious manner been removed and
four or five different kinds oi jeliy
suostituted in its place. The guests
expressed a good deal of astonishment
as to how such an operation had been
accomplished, but their amazement
was only increased when a dish of
eggs, the shells of which appeared to
be perfectly whole, was placed upon
table. Examination showed the
contents of the eggs had been re
moved and the shells filled with nuts
and candy. Our host smilingly re
fused to tell us how such wonderful
results had been accomplished, and
H’ft the house completely my s t.<
St. Louis Criobe-Demoerat.
ice 11 .. ' 1 u ! D.-i niv
*
The cultivation of rice is highly de* ^
veloped in the interior of the island,
but much less along the coast, where
the lazy, careless natives find the lan 1
more fertile and the temperature more
favorable. In some places, as in the
neighborhood of Tananarive, immense
marshes, subjeottoannual inundations
the source oi malignant fevers,.
have been transformed into rice
fields.
In tho mountainous parts the rice
fields are in terraces on the slopes oi
the mountains and tue hills or in the
high valleys, ihe water coming upon
the high ones, passes successively to
each level. There are some remark
able works of this xind, and one often
sees these tiers of rice he ids raised to
the very summit of the high mount
aine, where the water is conducted by
means of little eauals. running at the
ilauk of the dewivitw* an! bringing
-twq'icotly several kilo*
'eicsur.e aafTtaaB.
HOARDED MONEY.
ODD CURRENCY SENT UNCLE
SAM FOR REDEMPTION.
Hard Times Compel People to Draw
on Ancient Reserves—Much Frac¬
tional Currency Received—
Old Coins Melted Down.
H ABD tracting ple ner to for times rake cash. ancient iu are every They forciug hoards odd are from peo¬ cor¬ ex¬
stockings and teapots, and much queer
and out of date money thus put in cir¬
culation is now finding its way to
Washington. Suspicious looking
notes, doubtful coins and even frag¬
ments of old greenbacks are received
by the Treasury every day from own¬
ers, who want to know if the money is
worth anything. The cash thus
transmitted includes Canadian paper
money, Confederate notes and “wild¬
cat” bank notes of ante-bellum date.
During the last twelve months the
Treasury has received and destroyed
83367 in fractional currency. This
exceeds the record of the previous
year by nearly 8400. Most of that
sort of cash comes from the estates of
old people, who leawe small quantities
of ic stuffed away in disused pocket
books and other odd places. The
heirs send iu redem&iou. the queer little pieces of
money for Last v, e ck a
hanitkerchief full of this money ar
rived, consisting of the earliest issues
in fine condition, each note signed bv
General Spinner’s own hand. The
collection was worth far more than
face value, if the owner had known it.
Sometimes the fractional currency
reaches tho Troaisury even now in the
shape of blocks of sheets from banks
which have held the money unused for
a quarter of a century, perhaps. It
was issued in sheets originally, the
notes being cut apart first with scis
sors. Aftetrward they had perfora
tions, like postage stamps, so as to be
torn apart. There is now outstanding
815,273,791 worth of this currency.
In 1879 Congress estimated that .$8,
000,000 worth had been lost and de
stroyed, and this sum was transferred
to the funds for the payment of pen
sions. It ia now believed that this
Reckoning was a mistake and that not
more than 81,000,000 has passed out
of existence. The remaining fourteen
millions are supposed to be held to
day by collectors and private individ
uals.
Among the out of date coins flowing
into the Treasury are some of the old
three cent and five cent silver pieces,
which used to be contemptuously de¬
eignated as ‘'‘fish scales.” It was a
great relief to the officials in charge
of Uncle Siam’s coffers when they were
withdrawn from circulation. Coant
ing them was fearfully hard work,
The fish scales were three jiarts sil
ver and oqe part cojiper. They were
created in 1792 by the first coinage act
under the* Constitution. The silver
half dime and the three cent silver
piece were discontinued in February,
1878. t j ireQ cent piece was
brought into being by tho same act of
Congress which created the three cent
postage stamp. For some reason it
seemed to be taken for granted that it
was necessarv to have a coin of the
same denomination as the posta^o
stamp. The Treasury will not sell the
6Ca i eB nowadays to anybody. They
are sent to the melting pot as fast as
they are received, and on that account
they are likely to increase in value as
curiosities.
The melting pot at the’mint is the
bourne toward which all the out of
date coins that teach the Treasury do
traye] _ Among them are the silyel .
twenty cent pieces, which were author
jzed by an act of March, 18751 They
only ran for three .years, because they
made themselves Obnoxious, being so
frequently mistaken for quarters. Even
more objectionable were the nickels
with a big V on which the word cents
did not appear. Of thesie 2,000,030
were thrown into circula#tion before
their dangerous character was per
ceived. Then they were altered. Per
SO ns of an imitative inclination gilded
them and passed them off for 85 gold
pieces.
The nickel three cent piece minted
from i 865 to 1890 are rarely seen
nowadays. Three millions of them
exist somevehero unaccounted for.
Of 4,000,000 bronz® two cent pieces
issued from 1864 to 1873 3,0D0,000 re
m ain outstanding. Yet it is not often
that a specimen is found in one’s
change. What has become of all the
big copper cents, of which 119,000,000
are unaccounted for? Nearly all of
them have been lost,
People often apply to tho Treasurv
£ OJ . g 0 ]d 81 pieces, the minting of
which was discontinued in 1890. But
the Government will not sell them,
j g dggij-eq to withdraw’ theim entire
j y from circulation beca/use they
proved inconvenient, being so easily
]ost. Oneday a man wandfcred into
Redemption Bureau and handed
to the official in charge a very much
disorganized twenty dollar note, ask
ing for a new one. The person ad
dressed said that it looked as if a rail
-way train had run over it. “You are
mistaken, mister,” said the visitor,
who was evidently from rural parts,
“Aly wife has been wearing that bill
inker shoe all of this week in YVash
ington.”
A great deal of the money that is
sent into the Redemption Bureau has
| 0 re turned without repayment,
Some of it is real enough, but reduced
to ashes or so far destroyed otherwise
as to render identification impossible.
Such rejected paper cash is ordinarily
marked with a bigK, in order that it
may be recognized if it makes its ap
pearance again.
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Way Animals Swim Instinctively.
man can no t swim without
2iavin ,ir learned, while other animals
can> is explained by Mr. Robinson in
the Nineteenth Centurv. It is a ques
we make tho defensive movements
most f ami }i ar or instinctive to us.
The firgt ; mptl i se G f quadrupeds is to
ran atrav> au q the movements of ran
*
8US tftin them in the wa ter, while
maE! trne tQ his s j m i an ancestors, tries
to catell G f something, and
pnahes tis arms nPj ^ith the sure re
su it of himself going down.
1B __
Nicelv-mated pairs of horses either
draft or light harness d«aaad* breeds
nawly alwayi ia
The Cable Mess.
,f Everythiug is a mess on board
ship,” said an old naval officer at the
Arlington this morning, “A mess is
reully a club, in which the officers, for
instance, join together and subscribe
P ro ratfl to ft common fund for a com
mon purpose, Thus there are the
newspaper mess, the cigar mess and a
whole lot of other messes, and on a
vessel which is newly commissioned
for a cruise—and cruises generally
last three years—the:#' is a cable code
mess, the details of which may be in¬
teresting. The officers belonging to
the cable mess select some one person
in the United States, usually the wife
of one of their number, to whom will
be cabled, whenever the vessel reaches
a port, the news of the general condi¬
tion of the mess. The cablegram is
sent to this one person, and she iu
turn telegraphs the translation of it
to each of the families of the officers
belonging to the mess. In this way
the expense of communicating with
home is largely diminished. I re¬
member once when in Japan we sent
home a cablegram of two words. It
cost us 89, or about forty cents apiece.
These two words informed several
hundred anxious people in all parts of
America that their dear ones on the
other side of the world were safe and
well. The message was sent to the
wife of our executive officer, who iu
turn sent the translation, as I have
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c is 11 ln e imjiro... , V 1 ' ■' 1 u . .
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* rc' ’V mt * cl |V 1 er ** U °.' V '
aD l^ \ ?! i S1!U • P 1 . l y 1 ° '1° ,1
tx en ln am sm prisei .fu. u m
, used more than it is on land in the
j )o „ s rjj iat j ()V(l >[ us i c
, Dogs have most acute ears in do
tocting, diftei’ences in the quality of
souut K said a musician yesterday. “1
^ ome a ^ ar 8 0 Newfoundland
is a great lover of music. Nc
matter in what jiortion of the house
he may be, he always comes to me
when I begin to play, lying close to
the piano. I have an old organ. It
is one of those instruments with many
stops and but few good qualities. I
think I have been able after much en¬
deavor to distinguish two different
qualities of tone iu all of tho long row
of stops, but my dog made it apparent
to me that my ears were not as acute
as his. 1 play for variety upon tho
organ, notwithstanding its being an¬
tiquated, and my dog seems to enjoy
this as much as the piano, all except
one stop. Whenever I pull that stop
out he rises to his feet suddenly and
commences to bark and growl at me in
a most vicious manner, sometimes
biting at the organ. Now, to my ear
that stop makes no difference in the
sound of the organ. I have tried hard
to detect the distinctive quality which
aggravates the dog’s nature, but with¬
out success. I have tried to fool the
old fellow by commencing a tune upon
one stop and suddenly pulling out the
obnoxious one. He never fails to de¬
tect this, though the sound to me is
just the same.”—Pittsburg Dispatch.
“YVho Struck Billy Patterson.”
It is many years now since the
slang expression “Who struck Billy
Patterson?” was heard all over the
country. Few people remember tho
origin of the expression, which was
really the killing of a young man by
sheer fright. Hazing at colleges was
as rough then as now, and a common
plan was to capture a new student,
try him for some imaginary offense,
condemn him to execution, and then
hold his head on a block while a blow
was struck on the ground with the
dull side of a hatchet. A student
named YVilliam Patterson was caught
and tried in this way and was led
weeping and shouting to tho block,
He was then blindfolded and held
down, told that hi3 last day had come,
and then the bogus blow was struck
with a hatchet. His cries censed in¬
stantly, and when the students iu
alarm tore off his eye bandages and
felt his pulse they discovered that he
was dead. Several investigations
were held to ascertain who struck the
fatal blow, and it was because it was
finally ascertained that no one ever
struck Billy Patterson at all that the
aggravating question referred to was
shouted at every stranger by street
boys, bootblacks and other juvenile
nuisances.—St. Louis Globe-Demo¬
crat.
The Prayer Fetched the Rubio,
I once had an adventure with i.
droschky driver iu St. Petersburg,
whose tactics in order to obtain extra
payment for driving me were more in¬
genious than a threat to hang himself
or throw himself into the Neva, I
wanted to give him eighty kopecks,
and he demanded a ruble ; but, as I
was determined not to give way, he
suddenly, to my amazement, flung
himself on his face on the floor of tho
open droschkg, joined his hands in an
attitude of supplication, and began to
bawl a wild screed of, to me, then in¬
comprehensible Slavonic. “What on
earth is he howling about?” I asked
my interpeter. I was informed in re
ply that my Istrostcnik was praying
that the soul of the wicked stranger
might not be consigned to eternaltor
ment for his cruelty in seeking to
reduce a humble droschky driver, his
"wife, and family to a condition border
ing on starvation. The prayer
“fetched” me, and I gave him the dis
puted twenty kopecks.—London Sun
day Times.
The Largest Rosebush.
“The largest rosebush in the United
States is in Alobile, Ala.,” said H. L.
Thornton, of New’ Orleans, as he
strolled around the corridor of the
Lindell last evening. “It belongs to
the species which, in common p3r
lance, is known as the cluster-musk
rose, and blossoms so luxuriantly that
during the season from three to four
of roses have been gathered iu
the week, and when shedding its
ly covered with its fragrant blossom®,
Its trunk, for five feet from the
ground, is nearly a foot in cirenmfer
ence, and it has been estimated that if
Hs branches grew in one continuous
vine it would exceed a mile in length,
These branches have entirely covered
the side of a house near 'which the
bush grows, and have extended to the
neighboring trees surrounding it, so
that when it is in bloom it forms a per*
feet bower of Voses, ” - — St l.ouif
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