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THE SIXTIETH SESSION BEGINS SEPT. 22, 1897.
ORGANIZATION-! L’en separate schools: Latin Language and Literature,
Greek Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Modern Lan
guages, Mathematics and Astronomy, Natural History, Physics and Chemistry,
History and Philosophy, Pedagogy and Law.
EXPENSES — Matriculation fee S4O. Board in Sleeping Halls $6 a month.
Many students get through the year on $l5O.
LAW FACULTY— Strong School of Law. Judge Emory Speer, of United
States Court, chairman. For further particulars of catalogues, address P. D.
POLLOCK, President, Macon, Ga.
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Patrons of the City Delivery and Bicycle Messenger Service: R. E. Andoe & Co..
M. C. Brown A Co., B. A C. Millinery, T. S. Campbell A Son, F. L. Comer A Co.,
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Bicycle Messenger will be on duty on Sunday from 8 a. m. to 11
a. ra , and from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m.
ScliecLixle of l)elivei\y AVagons.
Wagon No. I "ill serve North Bradford and East Washington, also all terri
tory between them, (i. e. Green St., etc.)
Wagon No. 2 will serve all territory south of East Washington to Summit St.,
and along Summit St. to College Ave., and along Athens St. to
Public Square.
Wagon No. 3 W 'H serve Athens St., also both sides of Athens St. beyond Col
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Highlands.
Wagon No. 4 will serve Main St. South Bradford and Maple Sts. down to
Southern depot, also Chestnut and Line Sts., and section known
as C. J. Finger settlement.
Wagon No. 5 "’ill serve Grove and West Broad Sts., also all territory east of
A. B. C. Dorsey down to the C. J. Finger settlement.
Wagon No. 6 will serve Oak St. to West Washington, thence along West
Washington (including Findley St.) to the Public Square.
Air. A. A. Hope has sold to the Gainesville Transfer Company his
Bus rights, privileges and good will.
The Bus Line will be operated upon schedule, giving service to the
entire city :
Passenger to all day trains, including Belle trains 5c
Passenger and trunk to all day trains, including both Belle trains. ..25c
Passenger and trunk to all trains Gainesville, Jefferson A Southern.... 15c
Add 10 cents for two night trains.
Round trip to Gower Springs 10c
Round trip to New Holland Springs ’ ’.’.lsc
We execute orders for Carriages and Buggies, and guarantee satisfaction or
will refund your money.
Kindly phone 102 your orders, and if you wish, we will ring you up for your
train, either day or night, in case you have a phone At your residence.
The Gainesville Telephone Company will have an operator who will remain on
duty all night and protect our patrons from the inconvenience of missing trains.
Respectfully,
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Under the Laws of Georgia.
STATE OF GEORGIA, County OF Hall.
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of H. Hedley Bush, of London,
England, William I*. Epperson, of Gainesville,
Georgia, and Pollard A. Kelly, of Dawsonville,
Georgia, respectfully shows:
That they have associated themselves to
gether, and desire that they, and such others
as may become associated with them, become
incorporated and constituted a body corporate
and politic under the laws of Georgia for the
term of twenty years, with the privilege of re
newing their Charter at the expiration of said
term, under the name of “THE EVELYN MIN
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The purpose of said Incorporation is to buy,
own, lease, sell and work lands for mining pur
poses, and to engage in general mining work
and business, and buy and sell mining proper
ties; and to do a mercantile business in con
nection therewith; and to do any and all things
necessary to carrying on successfully said min
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They propose to employ a capital of ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, divided
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of the capital will be paid in, either in money
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said business anywhere in the State it may be
desired, and to this end desire to establish
branch offices and agencies at points in or out
of the State, wherever their convenience and
business interests may require.
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to govern themselves by such rules and by-laws
as they may see proper to make from time to
time, not in conflict with the chartered powers
sought, nor the laws of the State; to elect and
appoint such officers and agents as may be nec
essary, and to define their powersand duties;
to hold, possess, and enjoy all property, either
in fee simple, or for a term of years, as may be
requisite and needful in carrying on the bus
iness; to buy anti sell real estate and personal
property, or let and lease the same; to con
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to have and to use a common seal; and to do all
and singular such other acts and exercise such
other powers as may be necessary to carry out
completely and fully the purposes sought to be
obtained by said association, and such as are
incident to Corporations under the laws of
Georgia; limiting the liability of stockholders
to the stock held by each.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
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Attorneys for Petitioners.
Georgia, Hall County.—l, A. R. Smith, Clerk
Superior Court in and for said county, do
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28th day of June, 1897.
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HE LOST THE TRAIN.
'.The True Story of Why John Duffer
Jumped For His Life.
“I’m from Missouri, and they'll
have to show me!’’
That is what John Duffer of Pike
county, Mo., remarked one morning
as he was being patched up in the
office of Dr. Creighton at Manitou,
says a Colorado Springs correspond
ent of the Philadelphia Times. His
face and hands were badly scratched
where they had come in contact
“ with the sharp gravel, there was a
bruise over one eye where his head
had struck against a fragment of
Pike’s peak, one elbow felt “like a
tarnation wildcat had clawed it,”
and there was a general feeling of
soreness “pretty much every
where,” as he explained to the doc
tor, but he was alive and thankful.
John had jumped from the plat
form of a Colorado Midland passen
ger train, at the entrance to the first
tunnel above Manitou, while labor
ing under a mistake as to the desti
nation of the train, which appeared
to be plunging into the mountain
side.
“You don’t catch me lettin ’em
run me into the ground with any of
their darned trains, when I’ve got
a through ticket to Cripple Creek in
my pocket,” he remarked as the
doctor took another stitch in his
scalp and adjusted an artistic court
plaster shingle on the swelling dome
over his right eye.
“You see, doc,” said the Missou
rian, “I was agoing over to Cripple
Creek to see what those gold mines
look like, where they shovel up the
stuff into a wagon and let her go at
that, and find chunks of gold in the
rocks. I had my grip and a bucket
of grub in the car, and just after
the train left the depot I went out
on the platform to look at the
mountains. Down on one side was
‘ a holler, and up on t’other side was
a hill that I couldn’t see to the top
of, and on all sides was mountains,
and I couldn’t see how the train was
ever going to dodge them all.
“The little shelf the train was
running on kept wiggling through
them hills like a snake in a plow
field, and then I looked ahead and
saw where a hill had been split
plumb down to the ground to let the
railroad through, and that was all
rght, because I could see daylight
on the other side. And then when
the train went through that split
in the hill it switched around kinder
to one side, and then I could see the
tracks ahead of the engine, and saw a
big white mountain all covered with
sticking dear up into the
clouds, and nobody 'knows how
much farther, and the next thing I
knowed the engine give a screech
like she was most scared to death,
and I looked quick and the whole
business was going plunk into a hole
in the ground. And then I jumped.
Came near getting killed, but I
fooled them that trip. You don’t
catch me running up against any
game that I don’t know nothing
about, and I ain’t going into any
thing that I don’t know the way
out of. Then I came down to town
to get patched up, and I’m going to
Cripple Creek some other way, even
if I have to walk.”
“And what became of the train?”
asked the doctor, who had been
feeling of Duffer’s ribs to see if they
were all in place. “Didn’t they stop
for you?”
“Stop nothing. The last I saw
of the darned thing it was still
going into the hole, and I didn’t
care whether it ever stopped or not.
I wasn’t on it. Say, do you reckon
I could get my bucket back if they
get them out?”
It took considerable time and the
testimony of several witnesses to
convince Mr. Duffer that the entire
’ train and its contents were not hope
-1 lessly buried in the interior of Pike’s
peak, and quite a little crowd ac
companied him to the station,
where Agent Dunaway telegraphed
to Cascade to return one lunch pail
and grip labeled John Duffer, Pike
County, Mo.
And as he left the station to fill
up on “free soda biling right out of
the ground,” Mr. Duffer explained
once more: “When the train went
into that hole, I thought we’d never
see daylight again, and my only
chance was to jump, and so I jump
ed. I’m from Missouri and you’ll
, have to show me!”
ANECDOTES OF AGASSIZ.
Fwo Meals at Which the Professor Was
Served With a Surprise.
“I was in Brazil when Professor
Agassiz made his expedition there
in behalf of the Harvard scientific
school,” remarked a friend lately.
“At that time I was associated with
certain other engineers, English and
American, v» ho were directing the
construction of Dom Pedro’s rail
roads. The emperor, himself a lover
of science, had given Agassiz a cor
dial reception, and when the expe
dition began its journey into the in
terior I was one of the several en
gineers detailed by him for an hon
orary escort. We knew the country
and the language and bore the rank
and uniform of Brazilian officers.
This made it doubtless an agreeable
arrangement for the professor, and
I recall those several weeks in camp
with him as the most delightful I
ever knew. His quick, nervous man
ner and bright talk rendered him a
never failing source of entertain
ment, and his general good nature
and affability at once endeared him
to every member of the party.
“The professor was particularly
solicitous for a specimen of the
horned frog, a broad, flat lizard in
fact, which is found in our own
southwest country, but in Brazil at
tains unusual size. All of us were
anxious to gratify him. One morn
ing, just as the cook was serving
breakfast, some one appeared out-
siue wnn an immense frog of the
kind desired. We were taking our
places at table, and at a sign from
me the cook intercepted the bearer,
substituted the frog for buckwheat
cakes between two platters and
placed it covered before the pro
fessor.
“The tent was filled with the appe
tizing odor of the buckwheats, and,
talking in his bright vivacious way,
Agassiz turned the cover to attack
his pile of cakes. Out jumped the
frog upon the cloth, into the pro
fessor’s lap. Agassiz,with a startled,
delighted cry, was on his knees in
a moment, scrambling under the ta
ble, where he triumphantly captur
ed the prize. In the laugh which
followed none joined more heartily
than he.
“A tank of water stood in thedin
ing tent wherein rare and curious
fish were placed for the professor’s
leisurely examination. Among these
one day "was an uncommon speci
men, somewhat like our pike or
jackfish. It was a foot long and its
mouth was armed with rows of sharp
teeth. The professor, very near
sighted, was bending close down to
examine this, when suddenly the
fish struck up and seized him firmly
by the nose. Here was a demon
stration of its unusual characteris
tic. This fish was a treasure. It
was now doubly valuable as a mu
seum specimen. The professor was
in ecstasy. In the midst of the next
meal he was displaying his scars,
proud as a German student, and
nothing would do but that he must
show us the teeth of the fish. But
the fish was gone. ‘You have just
eaten him, sir,’ the cook explained.
The professor’s disappointment was
too apparent. He might possibly
secure another specimen, but hardly
one which would leap out of the
tank to seize him by the nose, even
if he cared to venture the experi
ment.”—New York Post.
AT THE NURSERY WINDOW.
Up at the nursery window
The children watching stand.
One holds a picture hook and one
A doll in her dimpled hand.
With ripples of merry laughter,
With bright eyes steadfast and sweet,
They watch for their loved one’s coming
Below in the busy street.
I know there are nursery windows
Where bright eyes shine no more,
Where dimpled hands no welcome wave
As loved ones knock at the door.
There the mothers lay with bitter tears
The dear little clothes away,
And the tiny shoes and all the toys
With which they were wont to play.
Up at the windows of heaven
Their little ones waiting stand.
The light of a never fading spring
Shines over that happy land.
Be still, sad hearts! The children
Yet watch as they did of old
For the feet of their beloved
To pass through the gate of gold.
—Good Words.
Bank Robberies.
After adopting what are supposed
to be all of the latest improvements
in safety appliances, employing
watchmen, guards and a full corps
of officials and subordinates, pre
sumably with the idea of safety,
bank robberies seem to continue
just the same as before, and the
criminals escape with the utmost
ease, and all efforts to capture them
seem unavailable.
Bank and other robberies are not
committed unless the perpetrators
thereof have reason to suppose that
there is a lack of vigilance on the
part of those in charge of the busi
ness. It is an interesting fact that
some of the banks have been robbed
while the officers were in session in
a president’s room, which is usually
a private apartment shut off from
the main counting room by thick
partitions or heavy draperies, or
both. The private and confidential
business of a great house is not to
be overheard, and therefore this
shut off condition of the apartments
occupied by the officials. An im
provement on this plan would be to
arrange a gallery overlooking the
counting room, and in this station
a force of clerks, a certain number
of whom were to be on duty during
business hours. Each one should be
connected with an alarm and with
outer doors that would close at a
touch and fasten automatically.
It would seem to outsiders that a
few simple precautions might pre
vent these robberies. Os course it is
the habit of feeling secure that
causes carelessness. Everything has
been all right, and too much is tak
en for granted. After a robbery ev
erybody is for awhile on the alert,
but at this time there is really very
little danger of attack. It is after
the excitement has died out that the
danger begins.—New York Ledger.
When Doctors Disagree.
“Some time ago,” says a man who
always tries to heed good advice,
“I stopped eating hearty dinners on
the advice of an eminent physician,
who said that a hearty dinner tend
ed to shorten life. Not long after
ward I saw that another physician,
equally eminent, said it was simply
suicidal to eat a heavy luncheon,
and so I made an apple or a cracker
serve me for luncheon. It was pretty
tough to get up from luncheon and
dinner in a famished condition, but
I consoled myself with the thought
that I was lengthening my life,
and besides I could eat a hearty
breakfast. But the other day I saw
that still another eminent physician
says that no one who wants to live
long should eat any breakfast, and
I am puzzled to know what to do.
These men are experts and presum
ably know what they are talking
about, but if I adopt their direc
tions for the attainment of a long
life it looks as if I might die of
starvation in less than a month.”
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VICTORIA CROWNED.
A Baltimorean’s Recollections of the Ac
cession of Rugland's Queen.
Mr. John Carpenter, who has lived
here since 1845, was present at the
crowning of Victoria at Westmin
ster. He talked about the event
without hesitating :
“Victoria,” hesaid, “wasdeclared
the lawful heir on June 20, 1837,
but on account of her age—she was
not yet 18—the public coronation
did not take place until June 28,
1838. It is a long while ago. The
pageant was a magnificent one, how
long my memory does not serve
me, but it was gorgeous. I saw the
queen. She was a fresh looking
young thing with a happy, smiling
face, as innocent looking as she was.
There was not a care upon her
brow. It seemed as if no thought
of the stupendous responsibilities
which she was assuming had come
to her. She appeared utterly uncon
scious of self or the part she was
playing in that notable event.
“She did not appear frightened,
but to the plaudits of the multitude
she turned to the left and right,
bowing and smiling most gracious
ly. I had a good position on one or
the thoroughfares through which
the piageant passed and got a good
look at her. Os course the trappings
of her horses and the chariot and
what not were most gorgeous.
And such cheering! Such crowds!
People? There were people every
where. Strange as it may seem,
though the queen should have been
the central figure, I think what im
pressed me most on that occasion
was the superb appearance of Mar
shal Soult, the French embassador,
and his staff.
“Everything was gorgeous in the
pageant, but Soult was more than
gorgeous. I can see his trappings in
m.y mind’s eye at this minute. To
attempt to describe them would be
beyond my powers. Gorgeous is all
I can say for them, and he knew
they were gorgeous. While there
was no self consciousness about the
queen, there was plenty of it about
the French embassador, and the peo
ple fed his vanity, for cheer after
cheer rent the air as he passed by.
There were long lines of resplen
dent soldiery. The brilliant uni
forms, the glittering gold lace, the
flashing of the arms in the sunlight,
the blare of the trumpets, the caval
cades of horsemen, carriages of state
—everything went to make up such
a pageant as is seldom seen and can
hardly be eclipsed by anything at
the present time.
“Was'the queen beautiful? lean
hardly say that I obtained any such
impression of her. I think she was
pretty. Yes, I know she was. But it
was her youth and her freshness
that impressed me most. She had
clear cut features, and her portraits
of this date show nothing of the
slender young girl with the grace
ful carriage I remember seeing that
summer day so long ago.”
Mr. Carpenter has in his posses
sion a copy of The Sun, a paper pub
lished in London and probably the
only one to be found in this city, of
the date of the coronation. It was
printed at the time in gilt, all of
which has nearly worn away, but
the paper is in an excellent state of
preservation. On the front page is
a vignette profile of the young
queen, which Mr. Carpenter says
was an excellent likeness at the
time, and an editorial note pro
nounces it a triumph of art.
The paper was printed on June
20, 1838, and the number in the
possession of Mr. Carpenter is the
twentieth edition. It contains a his
tory of former coronations, the
make up of the pageant and the po
sitions of the various troops, etc.,
in the coronation parade, a sketch
of the young queen and every mat
ter pertaining to the event. There
is also a description of the crown
which was placed on the head of the
youthful daughter of the Duke of
Kent. This crown was estimated to
be worth £lll,OOO. —Baltimore
American.
PRESENCE OF MIND.
An Emergency Which Demonstrated the
Value of Its Possession.
“In time of an emergency,” re
marked an elderly man in a group
of talkers, “I would rather have
presence of mind than a gun.”
“I fancy the gun might do more
harm than good if there'were no
presence of mind with it,” admitted
another.
“Which reminds me of a story
corroborating the wisdom of the
first statement, ” said a third, who
on an appeal from the others con
tinued. “Something like ten ora
dozen years ago,” he said, “I was
in a western town of 10,000 people
or so, and it happened that a show
was billed for that night. Having
nothing to do, and not knowing any
body in town, I took in the show.
It was a barn storming troop of
Thespians doing a repertory of blood
and thunders, and the consequence
was they had nearly a full house.
Everything went along very nicely
except the peculiar actions of the
leading man, who seemed to be
drunk or getting that way very fast.
“As no effort was made by the
management to suppress him, the
audience after awhile took a hand
and began to hiss. This brought mat
ters to a climax at once, and with
an oath the actor stepped to the
center of the stage, and, whipping
out of his clothes a pair of revol
vers, he announced to the audience
and the people on the stage in the
calmest and coolest manner possible
that the time had come when some
body had got to die, but that he was
not yet decided who it should be.
Somebody started at this, but he
said that the first person who rose
to go out would be shot. Everybody
in the house seemed to be paralvzed
NUMBER 30.
oy me man s coolness and nobody
moved. I know I sat well down to
ward the front and would have
given up my place willingly to any
body who asked for it, but when I
looked up at that cold face and those
two guns pointing down my way 1
preferred to take chances on remain
ing as I was.
“For at least a minute the acctor
addressed himself to his trembling
audience, and then deliberately se
lecting a conspicuously white haired
man in the very center of the
house, he commanded him to rise
and be shot. Otherwise he would
shoot promiscuously into the crowd.
*‘At this point in the proceedings J
am willing to state without bias
that I never was in the midst of sb
much suppressed excitement. For a
second the house was as still as
death, and then, as the white haired
man began to twist about as if he
were going to obey the actor’s com
mand, a woman shrieked, and as a
half dozen followed suit and fainted
the actor suddenly disappeared from
the stage, nobody knew where, but
he was gone and the panic wiis
averted, though everybody made ia
break to get out as fast as possible.
“The curtain went down quickly
then, and the management, white
and scared, came out and announced
that the actor had gone crazy ovei
the loss of his wife, and that, thanks
to the presence of mind of the stage
carpenter, that gentleman had hur
ried under the stage and pulled the
trap on which fortunately the crazy
man stood. The fall had rendered
him helpless, and he was then wait
ing at the stage door to be taken
away by the authorities.”
“Which proves what I said in the
first place,” said the elderly man,
with an air of pride, and the proof
was accepted.
A FAMOUS EXCURSION.
The Greatest Junketing Trip In the His
tory of Our Country.
A northwestern congressman,who
was on the famous excursion whibh
Henry Villard gave to witness the
driving of the golden spike of the
Northern Pacific road, recalled some
of its interesting features recently:
“It was the greatest junketing trip
in the history of the United States,
bar none,” said he. “Villard had
completed the road, putting an
'enormous amount of money in it,
and he decided that he could inter
est English and German capital in
the enterprise by taking the capital
ists themselves out over the road.
So he made up his party, including
a large number of distinguished
Americans—General Grant among
them, I remember—and four trains
of Pullman cars, each train hauled
by two locomotives, started for the
northwest. You never saw such en
tertainment as was lavished on the
party. Champagne flowed like wa
ter, and no one was allowed to pay
for anything—not even for a shave
or a newspaper. The trip altogether
must have cost at least $400,000, for
there were 400 persons in the party,
and SI,OOO per head is a low esti
mate.
“Well, the tragic part of it was
yet to come. The sword of Damocles
was hanging over Villard’s head all
the time, and he did not know it.
He had invited the English and Ger
man capitalists to go out over the
road. They had never seen any
thing except railroads between cities
closely situated, and they could not
appreciate transcontinental lines.
They could not understand how a
road could pay that ran through
long Stretches of unsettled country,
and while they were dining off Vil
lard’s terrapin and champagne, they
were wiring back to New York and
London to sell the Northern Pacific
stock. The stock, which was worth
78 or thereabout when he left, the
east, kept dropping until it was
down to 50. Villard could not ac
count for the decline. Finally he
was telegraphed to hasten to New
York to bolster up his property.
Hiring a special engine, he hurried
east as fast as steam could carry
him, leaving his guests to follow
behind him, which they did, but
marking every mile of the way with
a drunken orgy. Champagne bot
tles were flung around the cars and
out of the windows, and costly ci
gars were trampled under foot, just
for the fun of crunching them.
“The sequel of that famous trip
always reminded me of Napoleon’s
trip to and from Moscow. He Went
out in glory and hurried home,on a
sled to save bis head and crown,
while his army followed in a rout
behind him. Villard, traveling on a
special engine to save himself from
ruin, was history repeating itself.”
—Washington Post.
Indian Children at Play.
The summer days are none too
long for Indian children at theii
play. They mimic the occupations
of their elders. Miniature tents are
set up, and the mother’s shawl is
sometimes purloined from her
to serve as tent covering. If- the
boys are inclined to gallantry, they
will cut tall sunflower stalks for
poles, and there will be fine sport
with a tent large enough to creep
into; no matter if feet and legs pro
trude, heads are under cover and
children are children all the world
over in the delight of “make be
lieve. ” Boysand girls sometimes
join in playing “going on the hunt;”
the play tents are taken down and
poles and bundles tied upon the boy
ponies, who are obedient or .frac
tious, as the case may be, obstjinate
when fording streams and stamped
ing when attacked by enemies. Some
boys carry their pony reputations
through life. Women have laugh
ingly pointed out to me certain eld
erly men who were in childhood
their “very bad” or their “very
good ponies.”—Mrs. Alice Fletcher
in Century..