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1JST THINK OP IT.
ffall the world were sunnr.
The men iws made o’ mon*-y
Now, w ml'UTt ft 1 e fanny?
That tt would!
I ■v*»rv blossom blowing".
In ns breast had diamonds glowing,
Would we pay the bill* we’re owing?
'That wo would f
But perhaps, for all the sorrow
That we make, or that we borrow
On the note that’s due to-morrow,
It Is best
To juit kwp on complaining,
With a lit11 urn aud ralaing—
Iu the same old world remaining,
Aud h heaven that’s worth the gaining,
’ Hweet with rest N
Atlanta Constitution.
THE DARK ROOM.
by edward KMiiOTT.
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T m
T Harley i u Hall was
Yi occupied;
1 iu,\ uongh.im omm- and j
Jnggage cart had
lw<n t<» and from j
/ Et the station so "1 ten I
m La ia fhat Air Hinder,
l!;k the head of the j
£ VIcT?* ** <le P® rtr,H j nt ’ ;
AsjE:'*’. I ill IUl H f ’ n hcu t0
!il,immr -ometlnng , . J |
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uot very^ oomph
mental-y a. urntpeo
J it who went about with trunks as
big . aystaekH, and who expected
MH
to find ’ carriages and osses awaiting
!'u ills everywhere Men were glad to drag t» be cm bidden up the to
Mitrley; tli-.v louud they could kill
time and pheasant more pleasantly
th.uc than at other place,,; and besides
well stocked coverts there was a
peculiarly attractive stretch of lowland,
through which a small river ran,
which produced a great variety of
feathered fowl, and which enabled a
man keen about sport to get away oc
easionally from door tho everlasting bang,
bang and barn fowl business.
Among the latest arrivals were two
young men who were as unlike each
other in every respect as two young
men could be. Gilbert Hurst was a
barrister, whose father owned a certain
number of acres of land in the coun¬
try, and who found like many other
fathers of the present day that farm¬
ing your own land and feeding, cloth¬
ing and educating a family were pur¬
suits that led to a small balance at
your banker’s aud many sleepless
nights. Gilbert was doing fairly well
at tho Bar, and was a steady, right
minded, level-headed young man, with
a pair of broad shoulders aud a pair
of honest gray eyes that told the story
of a frank and honest nature. John
Beasley, his companion on arriving,
was tall, fair, narrow shouldered, well
groomed and very rich. His father
had made a large fortune out of small
beer and was therefore ripe for Ihe
peerage. Mothers smiled on John
Beasley, but John Beasley smiled
mostly (when ho had the chance) on a
certain enterprising widow at South
Kousiugton, who gave charming little
dinner parties in a house so draped
with art silks that it was called
Liberty llidl, the only object in
dvidow herself. Beasley seuior
had heard something about this lady,
and had lectured his son, and advised
him to marry as soon as possible, and
if possible to “marry money.”
As Gilbert entered the drawing room
his heart gave a mighty leap when he
saw that Dorothy Lane, whom he had
been for two years desperately in love
with, was helping Lady Harley w ith
the distribution of teaoups. He had met
Dorothy often in Loudon, and to make
her his wife was the cherished dream
of his life; but he feared she would
think he cared for the thousand a year
which she was supposed to possess,
that ho w’fts not well off enough to
marry, and, more than all, ho feared
she did not care for lum.
John saw her, too. His heart gave
no leap—it was not of the leaping
kind; but he thought ho had never
seen her to such advanta ge as now, as
she stood m the soft light of the
shaded lamps, her dark red dress edged
with sable at the throat and wrists,
fitting her to perfection, and showing
every curve of her graceful figure,
John remembered his father s advice,
and like a dutiful son, promptly
rushed into conversation with a Miss
Green who was; among the guests as
sembled, and who was favored by a
fortune to the extent of five thousand
a year, and who thought John one of
the most charming men ot her ac
quaiutance.
He was not pleased later m the even
nig to find Inmsolf next Dorothy at
dinner, while opposite him sat Gilbert
Hurst, who already seemed on the
very best of terms with his neighbor,
Miss Green. Alter answering some
questions of Lady Harley s respecting
h„ journey he looked across the table
“Yes," answered Gilbert. “1 came
by the 2.10,«aud was close to you on
the platform some time.”
“Oh, yes, I remember now. I 8
you get into a third-oUa. carriage
with my servant.’
Lady Hartley looked up, and won
dered , , why . . her , husband had , asked
John Beasley to stay with hint. Bn,
.To m dtd not wonder at all, and he
felt a glow of satisfaction when his
servant opened the shutters of his
bedroom next morning and his
lighted on the coronet worked in red
° n tbe bl r Qk ^ ftnd he th ? U « ht
° u soot > e was going t o i g in
guish himself in during the next ten
ia\s. Iu the half hour devoted to his
"lif* m » 6 tbre f. reso 1 7 e8 '- hrst *
that he would make himself . so agree
^ A d a:irn^o^tav a^aiu n stay^ at at Hai,t\.
°ndl>., mng with that Miss he woiild Green, ma»e with the run- to
a view
matrimony and the possession of five
ous.au a J^ ar ’ at same time
himself . with Dorothy,
amiising wuose
g°* J 0asei i lm thirdly,
that he would write * to the South
sington w.duw, omitting in his letter
any mention of either Dorothy or
Ali&s Green.
He attired himself with great care,
iu shooting Clothes that were a great
ea tuo iitw, sn a sou peon o: scent
ming a out him Mw waixe.l with i
Bcii-satisne avr m r° ,Le bi t- H \last
room. .
e tast as aip unu critical
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSYTH, GA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1894.--EIGHT PAGES.
eye over ( ilbert, liopi e g to find what
want of rh ■mis or wan. ► of taste would
betray i If; hnt not a fault could bo
found with the shooting suit that
Icoked wort but was well worn, and <
John realized ns he looked, that there
was an indescribable something about
the wearer that he, John, could never
arrive at.
He played his cards very well, he '■
thought, during the days that fol
lowed—days in which Gilbert had ’
plenty of opportunities for finding
himself with a bad headache, as he !
watched John making secret love to
the trirl he cared for so much.
The rnen started early one morning
for an outlying cover that wasgener
ally frapp* to produce rocketers,
and that was kept as a bonne bouche
for the end of the week’s shoot. The
ladies were to drive out to lunch, and
Dorothy and Miss Green, who were
rival photographers, were to send their
cameras out in the luncheon carts.
On arriving at the side of the wood,
3Ir. Ridge, the hoadkeeper, had a few
minutes’ conversation with Lord Har
fay, and then set about placing their
guns. “Will you get through that
ga te, jf ycm pfa ftS e, Mr. Beasley, and
stand at the end of that hedge; and
y OU , Mr. Hurst, if you please, will you
s t op about where you are now?” and
Ridge hurried oft to place the great
men of the party at the corner of the
'-overt, at which point the birds were
expected to break, Lord Harley tak
ing a middle place.
Soon silence reigned in the ranks; it
was a perfect early winter day and as
Gilbert turned his head and looked
away over the beautiful English land
scape his thoughts were far more of
n oro thy than of pheasants, and it was
not until a great hare had come loping
out of the covert and had run almost
between the feet of the keeper’s son,
who, weighed down with importance
nml cartridges, was acting ns a loader,
that ho turned his thoughts to the
business before him. Soon something
more t han the “tap-tap” of the “stops”
could be heard, and a sound as though
Bedlam was let-loose gave the pheas
ants and the guns au idea that it was
time to be up and doing.
A few shots at some stray birds,
then a. muttered “Here they come”
from Lord Hurley, and soon every one
was blazing away.
Contrary to Ridge’s expectation,
the birds broko John Beasley’s end of
the covert, and not only did that gen
tleman let fly at everything that came
his way, but he had a turn at every
thing that was rightly Gilbert’s—a
more systematic robbery was never
perpetrated; and Lord Harley, who
was not getting much shooting, had
ty of time to see what was going
on, and to wonder, as Lady Harley had
wondered, why he had asked John to
stay with them.
Gilbert, though a very good shot,
had lost his temper and had shot badly;
he swore at the lad for not being
qaicker with the cartridges, and could
have kicked B msley when hesauntered
U1 > to him after the beaters were
through, to'the and remarked: “Not quite
up mark to-day, Hurst; you
lot a lot of these birds get away.
Heavily handicapped, not h iving a
good leader ; my man is a capital chap,
was with Lord Greystone, you know’,
six yearg^aud has been two with me —
-etrgn VTo kffbw'somotuing about it.
“I am afraid you were not very well
please.I, Hurst,” said Lord Harley,
coining up and casting a glance full
of meaning at John ; “we must look
niter yon better next time;” and there
was a kindly ring in the old man’s
voice that did much to soothe Gil
berfc’s rulHed temper.
Dorothy aud Miss Green came out
before lunch to enable them to see a
drive down in the low ground, As
the guns were placed behind a high,
straggling hedgerow John was sorely
tempted to ask Dorothy to stand by
him to witness his skill and prow’ess,
but prudence conquered, and Miss
Green was selected as his companion.
“Will you stand by me, Miss Lane?”
asked Gilbert, “I am afraid you will
not see any brilliant shooting, but I
will do my best. Let me unroll your
waterproof and I can make you a com
fort-able seat here in these dry leaves,
and you will be sheltered from the
wind. ”
“I am so afraid,” said Dorothy,
scanning tho sky that had become
somewhat overcast since morning,
“that it will be too dark for
photography, and I wanted so to get
a group; it is getting late, too, and
tho beaters seem a long time getting
into line.” She knelt down in the
leaves that carpeted the side of the
hedge, aud peered through a small
opening.
“Oh, I can see them now quite
plainly. Just look—they are down
by the oisers, and will soon be here.”
Gilbert knelt by her side, and held
back some brambles that intercepted
his view, his heart beating furiously
and his hands trembling as he found
his face so dangerously near to
Dorothy’s.
bloo \u«?TOrt, t to Deret'iv's iMai fa -e
w»^s,r„td i^- t<>hi.liD. but 05
pair or very soft brown‘ eyca. au
turning tou aid Dnothj, he said.
yei> ’ 1 vv as kneeling by your side;
can t you gness what-"
-Look out a.r there’s a lot of duck
comtng over. This from the loader,
who had been munching twigs in a
ruminative manner.
Gilbert picked np his gun. but it
was too late, and he knew that Beasley
"ciUd have another chance of saying
something uupieasant about his shoot
ing. After mat there was no time for
talking, it was hot worn, for ten
«tes and a big mixed bag was the re
suit.
tied to go ^ home by a returning dog
cart that ha 1 come out with a fresh
supply o* cartridges, and as she was
leaving she saw Miss Green preparing
her camera for action, a young man in
attendance busy with the tripod and
the legs.
John helped her with her wraps,
saying as he did so:
“I am sorry yon are going home,
Miss Lane, I wanted yon to be in the
group; "and then in a lower voice,
“You know very well I vhall not care
to have a copy unless you are on it. ’
“Never mind, Mis- Green will be
there, said Dorothy, a-she clambered
up into the dog cart.
John made a pretense of settling t!i«
rnga aronnd her feet, and whispered:
“Thank goodness she wiil be busy with
her camera; I have had enough of
Miss Green's societv for one
yon know very well that at all times I
infinitely prefer yours.”
Seeing a doubting look in Dorothy’s
face, he added: “You do not believe
me, Dorothy, but it i3 true. I swear
I will not go near Mis Green again to
day.”
The cart moved off, an 1 Dorothy had
plenty to think o' during her liotne
ward drive. She knew very well that
she had cared for Gilbert Hurst, and
that she bad cared for him ever since
she met him on the river two years
ago; they ha loft u met since, and now
had been for a week together under the
same roof. Surely those honest gray
eyes could not lie; yet why did he so
often avoid her and why dul he always
make way for John Beasley whenever
he tried to monopolize her society?
Yet surely he must have meant some
thing just now—or was he only amus
ing himself, and did John really eare
more for her than Gilbert did?
After dinner that evening she was
playing some dreamy German music
that seemed to have a particularly
soothing effect on Lord Harley, who
was half buried and half asleep in a
big arm-chair before the fire, when
John came up and leaned over her
shoulder till his lips almost touched
her hair, and said in a low voice:
“I kept my word this afternoon;
what is to be my reward?”
“That you shall be allowed to turn
over the next two pages of music for
me,” she answered. “And this, at
ter,” she added, nodding toward a
gardenia that she had left with her
gloves an 1 fan on the piano.
Gilbert’s jealous ears heard the an
ewer and he went off with a rage at his
heart to the billiard room.
The following day it rained in tor
rents. Miss Green and several of the
guests were leaving, and Dorothy
went off to the dark room at the far
and of the house to develop some
negatives that she had taken o£ a
ruined castle in the neighborhood.
She found all in order as she had
left it, and soon had everything ready
for business, developing solution,
alum, hypo, all in their repective
places, the red lamp lighted, the
matches close at hand and the candle
blown out. Hho reached up to the
shelf for the slide, took out the nega
tive, and slipped it quickly into the
developing tray for the preliminary
wash, and then poured the solution
over its surface. She gently rooked
the tray to and fro in the dim red
light, and saw the high lights make
their appearance one by one. She
searched in vain for the turrets of the
ruined castle, and for the high belt of
trees on the hill beyond, and began to
fear she had taken the two pictures on
the same plate. Presently odd shapes
and strange figure.s began to appear
which, after a little fresh developer
ha l been poured over them, took
the form of folding chairs
aud benches, aud Dorothy saw the
shooting party at lunch before her.
Her hand groped about for the match
box, but the thought struck her that
the negative was not hers and must
not be wasted, so it was left in the
alum a few minutes ^ d_aftg£_a
wasleft in the hypo bath; but her
quick eyes had seen enough to tell her
that John Beasley had lied to her, for
fixed ia her memory as surely as it
was now being fixed on the plate was
the picture of that young man sitting
by the side of Miss Green, his head
turned toward her, his hand almost
touching hers. She sat thinking for
some time, aud was only aroused by
hearing footsteps in the passage, fol
lowed by a kuoek at the door.
“Yes, who is it?”
“It is I,” answered Gilbert’s voice,
“They are trying some new music in
the drawing-room, and Lady Harley
wants “Yes; your help. May I come in?”
the negative is fixed now, the
light will not hurt it. You can come
in.”
G ilbert groped his way into the
room, and found Dorothy seated at
the developing table. “May I see the
photograph you have taken? Has the
old castle come out well?”
She lifted the plate from under the
running water tap, and held it up be
fore the red lamp for him to see.
She turned her head, and their eves
met for a second as he leaned over her
shoulder, but before he could sav a
word of surprise there was a sudden
flare, a snap aud a gurgling sound,
and with one wild flicker the lamp
went out and they were in darkness,
“Where is the door ? I know I shall
tumble over something and do some
damage. Will you lead me? You
know this room better than I do.”
A small soft hand was slipped into
his, and though Dorothy did know
that room quite well they were a very
long time finding the door, but then,
you see, the room was very dark, and
before they left it Dorothy Laue had
promised to become Gilbert Hurst’s
,Vc "‘ i '"' i,ieS 01 *«•**»»*■«.
A great mauy people are nmler the
that the substance of which
-“aunt is made .s washed up by
^ T’uopot th” ^t iLulll
from the word, which signifies sea
£ rot jj but really the name orio-imitp 1
fro-u the fact that J the ,^’ clav when drr
wiIl floll on appears^ the r the water 7o,mv
ancI then F like white U1 5
bubbles. , UK1 Th^ clay , is - taken . , from , beds
“ Its'primi
/ iv Vx e *tate it is white lie
aQ(l soft ’ an q v ^ can cut ^rkev it
chee9e It is foUQ
an Zse q Hnn^arv plpe°s When th^ bowls of
are new they look very theV
^uallv ^ chan^ ivorv but- in meUo^brown usino
f into a a SloftheTo
bLco being n absorbed bv them In the
process of bur nine. "—St, Louis Globe
p eni0 crat.
_ ^
WhatR a Wahii* *
“El Mahili’ can best be translated
as “the guide." Moslems generally
are looking for the coming of a
prophet. Sunnis and shiahs a^Iahdi agree in
expecting the appearance of
or Messiah. But they difter as to the
manner of his manifestation. Sunnis
believes the coming Mahdi to be a new
prophet. Shiahs hold that hs will be
an Imam, who ha, disappeared, but
will reappear as the expected Messiak,
—Blackwood’s Magazine,
PALACE AND FARM.
GEORGE VANDERBILT’S NORTH
CAROLINA ESTATE:.
Six Hundred Men Employed for Six
Years Past—What the Estate
is Expected to Ac¬
complish.
w HEN Carolina, bilt around Geortre began Asheville,in less W. prospecting Vender- than North
a
dozen years ago, farming was the
thing which he least thought of. The
palace, for it is that and nothing else,
which he is building—is intended to
be a monument to last for ages, a si
lent, perse-vcranctTand but significant tribute to the
lating ability for accuran
wealth with which this remark
able family is endowed. At present
roofers are covering the main struc
tore so that work may be begun on
the interior. The outer walls of stone
and brick are completed.
So far not a piece ot wood has been
placed iu it, except scaffolding and
false work. Everything is stone,
brick aid iron and steel work. I
heard an eminent architect say that
it would be as solid fire centuries
from the time it is completed as the
day its owner enters it to live. Stop
and think of that a moment. Then
think that 600 men are at work on
this palace and the grounds, and that
Mr. Vanderbilt wilfnot allow one to
be paid less than $1 per day, making
a pay roll alone of $500,000 and
$600,000 yearlv. this'the
Add to fact that six years
will be required to build this ma^nifi
cent home, and that iu all as many
millions will be spent in the work, in
eluding the ’
building of roads, the
terracing of mountains- yes, moun
tains—the planting of trees and shrubs
and other features of landscape work,
and you will have merely a faint idea
of the magnitude of Mr.' Vanderbilt’s
plans.
For several weeks a Wagner palace
car has been standing on the private
railroad track near the uncompleted
palace. It is named Swannauoa. In
fact, Mr. Vanderbilt loves the name,
and uses it whenever jiossible. In this
car he came from New York to per
sonallv examine the work of all kinds
now in progress. A year ago he usu
ally lived in the oar and confined most
of his inspecting to the building and
roads, but now the farming interests
occupy much of his attention, and to
be on the spot he has a suite of rooms
in an ordinary looking two-story farm
house about three miles from the
“mansion,” as the natives around there
term it. The rooms have been newly
papered and have modern furniture,
Here the owner remains with no other
attendant than an English valet, be
sides the family in the house.
From the windows of his bed-room
be can see the fields of grain and the
plowed hillsides ready to be seeded,
It is right in the country without any
indication of city life in sight. Every
morning liis secretary and superin
tendent of agriculture, Baron d’All
ings, visits occwpqfriZ him, and -SttfUoffi -Qr so
usually aJrt*Ee reading such
that yield of corn on this or
patch, how many tons of fertilizer
have been put on the garden, the
comparative yield of milk of Jersey
and Holstein cows, etc. Then he
often jumps into a light, two-wheeled
cart and drives over to this or that
farm with the baron and examines
some new fodder plant or some insect
which may be damaging the grain.
Often he will walk into the field and
talk with the hands at work, on some
detail of planting. In short, it is
easy to see that nature has strong at
tractions for him, and the cultivation
of the soil has as much fascination as
the buying and selling of stocks and
bonds, or the planning of railroad
combinations. Naturally his interest
in agriculture has attracted much at
tention throughout this section. Peo
pie who at first regarded his purchases
of land and his plan with envious eyes
now speak of him in the highest terms.
Thev perceive how much benefit his
experiment will be to agriculturists
generally, as well as to the lovers of
good roads, since he has ample means
to carry out these experiments on the
broadest and most comprehensive
basis.
The general name for the Vander
bilt estate is “Biltmore.” A drive two
miles on the main road leading south
of Asheville brings the visitor to the
boundary of the property, which is
the Swannauoa River. Crossing the
bridge von see a long flirty-looking
shed of a building with no sign to in
dieate that it is the general office of
the estate, where a dozen clerks are
employed. Back of it is a large plant
for making brick. It is equipped with
modern presses, drvers, etc., and fur-
1 nishes all the brick used in building
the mansion, while millions are sold
in Asheville and-vicinity.
; onast«miram,va.vfo„r miles lone;,
^ lf " an '! a gauge
I “«» , IU 'P 8 ?* 1 , traTe feobeT ™ the
by brickworks
Vanderbilt. Pasting the
J ou come to the Biltmore farming
district. At present 1400 acres are
' under cultivation, divided
into six
. f » rms - ««h in charge of a foreman or
I I h«» with four or five colored
.
The land is selected from fertile
P«ts of the estate and is in different
nections, the part nearest largest'. the approach
to the estate being the The
^ aTm furthest from this particular
piece is eight miles distant. It is the
intention to increase the acreage nn
*U it will comprise fully 5000 acres,
on« of the largest agricultural
Parties in America, to feed the
largest number of cattle, horses, etc.
Special attention is being given
fodder, which is growing as' on 120U
a cres. What is known fodder or
ensilage plants are being planted ex
tensively as an experiment. Superin
, tendent d’Allings believes they can be
grown successfully in place of''timothy
and other kinds of hay, which are a
failure in this, as veil as many other
parts of the South. The alfalfa,
teosinta and lathvrus silvestris, the
latter a European production, are new
kinds of lodlei plants which have
been raised sucsessfolly. Thev are
used as en«’.age, of which 700 tons
Lave alreadv oeen made this season.
Corn, rye, wheat and oats are the
principal cereal crops, while on a
twenty-acre garden patch nre grown
asparagus, peas, beets, lettuce, onions,
berries and a variety of other vege*
tables, all of which find a ready sale in
the Asheville market when not eon
sumed at home. The most modern
methods of agriculture are employed
and the best utensils. Mules furnish
most of the hauling power. Fer¬
tilizers are used abundantly, while all
the dead leaves, etc., are mixed into a
compost, which also serves to manure
Ike land. As a result the yield of
corn t:> the acre last year was 55
bushels; of rye, 15; wheat was 25 to
33, and oats, 40.
Stock raising is to be a feature at
Biltmore. At present 160 horses,
principally draft animals; 20 grade
Jersey and other cows; 200 South
down sheep, 110 Berkshire pigs,about
4ft heifers, 4 imported bulls and a
Clydesdale Percheron stallion are in
the stockyard; also stocks of Tou
louse geese, Pekin ducks, bronze
turkeys and Brahma chickens. A hen
house to cost $3000, with artificial
hatchery, nests and other special feat
ures, is to be built in the near future.
For raising trotting and road horses
Mr. Vanderbilt intends securing sev
eral Russian and French stallions,
The dairy farm is one of the most im
portant sources of revenue from the
estate. The milch cows average eight
quarts tela per day and supply all the ho
and most of the boarding houses
in Asheville. The receipts from the
sales of milk alone amount to $600
per week. It is carried into the town
in canvas-covered wagons with the
words “Biltmore Dairy” on the sides
large black letters, and the land
lord or landlady is not slow in inform
in g the visitor that “we get our milk
from Mr. Vanderbilt’s farm.”
Any one going toward the mansion
at Biltmore before the sun is well up
hi the morning or during the cool of
the evening may chance to meet two
men in a road cart or a buggy. One
evidently an English groom. The
other is a small man of light com
plexion, with side whiskers, whoso
f ac ’ e looks as if lie suffered from dvs
pepsia. He is attired in a gray sack
suit, with dark four-in-hand tie,
turned collar and a dark brown derby,
That is Mr. A r anderbilt looking over
kis roads,
He is a firm believer in good roads,
aud has a laboratory on the estate,
where au expert is employed in find
in 8' best soils on the place as well
as rock and stone for road formation.
The results of these experiments, ««
well as those of agriculture, are free
furnished to all inquirers and put
to practical use at Biltmore. The
result is that already around the man
sion and at Biltmore forest are ten
miles of as fine drive-way as can be
found in the vicinity of New York
City, But before the improvements
are completed this length -will be in
creased to fully fifty miles. Macadam
ized stone, gravel, ashes and clay are
the principal substances used.
While examining tho forest road
one cannot help wondering at the im
provements to the forest prm
which comprises 11,000 ■
aTdifferent h* afforded, poifiWBS^^PB and other 'work is
y * evr
being done which will finally convert
this place into a vast park similar to
thosefoundatsomanyEnglishcoun- places.
try Over 100 men have been
busy with ax and hatchet, and what
was formerly a mountain wilderness
now presents a wonderfully changed
appearance. Game and birds are be
in 8 placed in the forest for hunting
purposes, but the greatest game re
serve will be on the side of the Mount
Pisgah, a portion of which Mr.Van
derbilt owns. This will be stocked
with bear and deer and will form truly
a “sportsmen’s paradise.” Such,
briefly, is the way Mr. Vanderbilt is
exercising his taste in the Blue Ridge
Mountains. — Philadelphia Times,
Laugh.
To , , lftU , ®. , A f oocl ]au gb 18
r medlcl . ^ e - Learn howto
+ „ii ! a story A ^ ell - toM story is as
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f & snn ‘ be f m 1Aa slck room ’
?3? ® rn ft ke6p f° ld Ur “ J to roubles ° busy t ^ to T care ° ur ‘
stop T y0Ur croaking. ™ an If £ you sorrows cannot - Learu see any to
8 °° ( ^ W01 ‘ d ke ® 1 ' the bad to
y< T Le ? rn to ■ 1 hlde /our pains .
aches i under a pleasant smile No
cares to hear whether you have
^ n ® arache . keadac rheumatism, en T gh “
JltUo A in L" * 6 °f et JOUr , friends ?
h 1 The good-humored
man or woman is alw’ays welcome, but
the dyspeptic or hyjioehondriac is not
wanted anywhere, and is a nuisance as
well.
OT1 ,
S&y& 1
ftm] Slv f _ J I? ? ■?. ld f°°\ to be heaT ^
,“but to one that
will Bounrl through the honse ; it will
not only do your child good, but will
!=<> a beneHt to all who hear, audbe au
Z^from ' ° Merriment is
very catching, -- and spreads in a re¬
markable manner, few being able to
resist the contagion. A hearty laugh
is delightful harmony ; indeed it is the
best of all music.”—Home and Farm.
Mexicans Like Circumlocution,
While the American landlord writes,
“Don’t blow out the gas,” the Mexi
can notice runs as follows:
“There is a matter to which the
management respectfully attention desire to
call the distinguished of the
guests who exceedingly honor the ho
tel with their desired presence. In
asmuch as many lives have been lost
aforetime through the inadvertency
or reprehensible carelessness of per
sons who have, instead of turning the
small brass cock attached to the gas
burner, which hangs from the ceiling
or is attached to some portion of the
wall—it is confidently hoped by the
management, etc."
After this we are not surprised to
learn that the Mexicans are deficient
in humor.—London Globe.
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The total number of blind persons
in the United States and Europe i?
i 252,745, or about eightv-oue to each
100,000 of population.
FLASHES.
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting au Epitome of the
South’s Progress ami Prosperity.
1 here is great and growing discon¬
tent throughout the whole cotton pro¬
ducing region of Mississippi over the
arbitrary and unreasonable manipula¬
tions of the cotton oil trust which dic¬
tates and enforces the price of cotton
seed.
The house of bishops of the Episco¬
pal church met at New York Wednes¬
day night with fifty-nine bishops for
the election of a missionary bishop for
the diocese of Olympia, Washington.
The day was occupied with prelimin¬
aries.
The first consolidated mortgage deed
of the Southern Railway Company lias
been filed at Knoxville, Tenn. The
mortgage is for $120,000,000, in favor
of the Central Trust Company, of New
York. No mortgage for as large an
amount was ever before made in Ten¬
nessee.
The new naval dry dock at Port
Royal, S. C., is expected to be com¬
pleted within a month. In anticipa¬
tion of this, the bureau of yards and
docks has contracted with Rittenhouse,
Moore & Co., of Mobile, Ala., to
dredge out the channel necessary to
open the dock to our large, new battle¬
ships.
The United Mine Workers of Ala¬
bama held their annual meeting at
Birmingham and elected the following
officers: John G. Smith, president;
William Malley, secretary and treas¬
urer; J. B. Atkins, vice-president;
John Stitch, AV. G. Cantley, Dick
Hooper and H. B. Hamper, executive
board.
The express officials at Richmond,
Ya., now think that theQuantico train
robbers did not get over five thousand
dollars. Mr. Murray, who handled the
pouches and cut them open for the
robbers, says he is satisfied from feel¬
ing of them that the amount did not
exceed this. He says tho bonds were
all saved, as he threw them iu a pile of
stuff the robbers discarded.
A rumor to the effect that the head¬
quarters of the western system of the
Southern Railway will be removed
from Washington to Knoxville, has
, f. „ • • V _ V • ™ .. 1
V ’
• i r I t l
1S ' C ltVC< • ° mve some oum a
tion as Knoxville was headquarters for
the old East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia system which is now the wes¬
tern system of the Southern.
IIARDIN AND KLROL ACQUITTED.
Finale of the Sensational Express Rob
beryCase in Nashville.
At Nashville Tenn. Wednesday a
j verdict of not guilty, as to all the" de
j fendants was rendered by the jury in
of Charles Hardin ’ Charlton ^ nftmon
rles Taylor and James Nor
jre been on trial for two
je charge of embezzling
■ppbm the All y m a E xpress Com
pTsspi Hardin was’*Indictefl"' ^s Tile
principal and the others as accessories
before the fact. A large number of
witnesses were examined.
Watching John Bull.
A dispatch to The London Times
from Berlin says that troubles at Lou
renzo Marquez, Delagoa Bay, create
the greatest concern in Berlin. It is
assumed that England intends to seize
the occasion to extend her possessions
northward along the coast of the In¬
dian ocean, and, possibly, to attempt
to acquire the whole region belonging
to Portugal.
Pleaded Guilty of Embezzlement.
Cashier Buchanan, of the Sonora,
Texas, bank, pleaded guilty Friday
morning in the United States court of
embezzlement from the United States
postoffice and was sentenced to eight
teen months in the penitentiary. He,
with his brother, the president of the
bank, and his deputy postmaster,
raised $3,000 on fictitious postoffice
money orders.
Young man, have a proper ajipreoia
Hon of your own worth. Don’t sell
yourself for a glass of whiskey.
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Mulberry Street,
MACON, GEORGIA.
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THE OLD RELIABLE
ENSIGN’S
BOOK STORE.
Having renovated and improved
the old stand I am prepared to offer
inducements to purchasers of School
BOOKS ANDSTATIONERY
and to subscribers and purchasers of
Magazinesand Newspapers. Call and
examine.
I. W. ENSIGN.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
Hygienic Sanitarium.
WATEE OTJISE.
Is permanently located one block from
the passenger depot for the reception of all
acute and chronic invalids of all kinds.
PRICES.
Rooms, board and lodging included in
all prices. Chronic patients will be
charged SI per day; fever and syphaletio
cases will be charged a reasonable price
extra for extra attention. Nurses will to
.warded free if needed by the doctor, oth¬
erwise they will be charged. Adults, 510
per month; children, $5. Bad fever and
syphiletic bed clothes. cases must furnish their beds
and Each patient will re¬
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every hour in the day and night if neces¬
sary. Each patient must bring with then
for bathing two sheets, four towels,
blankets, two quilts or two coverlets atm
three yards cloth.
J. M. ARMSTRONG. Prop.,
Griffin. Ga.
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K. L. SHELLABEKGER,
70 S. Forsyth St. ATLANTA, QA
F. J. Stilson,
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