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VOLUME XXXVIII.
B. E. ANDOE S CO.
SHOES!
Our Shoe stock is the largest we have
ever had. Our assortment the best we
have ever shown.
OUR PRICES the lowest we have ever
I made. Be sure to see our
IK9 Shoe Cos.
•Own Make*
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We would be glad to show you our
line.
R. E. ANDOE & CO.,
** 11 IVlsxiii St.
Telephone S).
Mcpcop University, m
A high grade Institution with good equipment and excellent Faculty.
Full courses in Latin Language and Literature; Greek Language and Liter
ature; English Language and Literature; Modern Languages, Mathematics
and Astronomy ; Natural History, Physics and Chemistry ; History and
Philosophy; the Bible, and Law.
Many students finish the college year at a cost of $l6O for all expenses.
For catalogue or further information address
-£*- H- I’OLLOCK, Pres’t, Macon, Ga.
Thomas & Clark,
zManufacturers of and Dealers in
harness, saddles, whips, robes,
Xjjz Blankets and Turf Goods.
Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly
done.
Thomas <& Clark.
Next door below Post-office, ... GAINESVILLE, GA.
Venable & Collins Granite Co.,
.A.Tl_i-A-ITT-A-, GrA,,
Dealers In
All American and For- Monuments, Statuary
eign Granites and and Mausoleums.
Marbles.
I
Quarry Owners Blue Building Work of all
and Gray Granite. descriptions.
We have a fully equipped cutting and polish
ing plant with the latest pneumatic tools
to compete with any of the wholesale
trade.
OFFICE 30 and 32 Loyd St.
I*l ant Cor .dullatt St. X Ga. 11. K.
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THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
HYNDS MFG. CO’S
GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, ETC.
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To the Merchants of North Georgia:
We carry in stock a full line of Messrs. P. H.
HANES & CO’S CELEBRATED TOBACCOS:
Early Bird, Apple Jack, Captain Jack, Speckled Beauty, Missing
Link, Man’s Pride and Natural Leaf. You can have your wants
supplied from our stock at
Factory List Prices and Save Freight!
These goods have no equal. Quickest sellers ever placed before
the public. Sales of Early Bird alone EXCEED the sales of all other
brands combined I
We invite new business, and solicit a
continuance of the patronage of those
whom we are already supplying:.
J. G. Hynds Manufacturing Company,
Distributing Agents for North Georgia,
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
FURNITURE I
We are now turning out at our Planing
Mill some very attractive Furniture. Elegant
finish, beautiful styles. For 60 days prices
will be on the advertising basis. Rare oppor
tunity is offered those wishing anything in
Furniture. Samples can be seen at our store.
Don’t buy until you examine goods and get
prices. HYNDS & CO.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
AND
<J OTV IXI C<D TIO I\ s.
For information as to Routes, Sched
ules and Rates, both
fassegger and freight,
write to either of the undersigned.
You will receive prompt reply and
reliable information.
JOE W. WHITE, T. P. A., A. G.
JACKSON, G. P. A., Augusta.
S. W. WILKES, C. F. & P. A., At
lanta.
11. K. NICHOLSON, G. A., Athens.
W. W. HARDWICK, S. A., Macon.
S. E. MAGILL, C. F. A., Macon.
M. R. HUDSON, S. F. A., Milledge
ville.
F. W. COFFIN, S. F. & P. A., Au
gusta.
—*l*lXo-
GAINESVILLE NURSERIES I
A full line of all the best old and
new varieties of Fruit Trees—Apple,
Peach, Pear, Plum, Grape Vines,
Raspberry and Strawberry Plants,
Roses and Ornamental Shrubbery.
Every tree warranted true to name.
All trees sold by these Nurseries
are grown in Hall county, and are
thoroughly acclimated to this section.
No better trees nor finer varieties
can be found.
Don’t order till you get our prices.
Address,
GAINESVILLE NURSERIES,
Gainesville, Ca,
Established in 1860.
GAINESVILLE, GEORGI
To the Citizens
—OF—
Hall County.
I have been engagaged in the real
estate business here for a number of
years, and have been of service to
many of you in selling your prop
erty. I have spent a great deal of
time and some money in advertising
our section and holding out induce
ments to people to invest their means
here and thus help themselves and
us. lam now better prepared than
I have ever been to aid you in
SELLING
your property, and to help those de
siring to come among us to get what
they want. I have with
the railroads throughout the North
and West that place me in direct
communication with those who are
looking this way for homes. I have
properties of all kinds in hand for
sale, but want more, so that I can
give every man just what heis looking
for. City property, farms, water
powers, mines, and large tracts for
colonies. Leave a description of
your property with me and I will
probably find a purchaser, as I now
have inquiries for all these properties.
I will sell several lots at prices
ranging from S6O to SIOO, one-third
cash balance one and two years at 8
per cent interest. These lots are
convenient to Cotton Mill, Shoe Fac
tory and Tannery. Hobbs’s Chapel
on adjoining lot. They are high and
dry and every one a good building
site. Go out and select your lot,
then come in and close trade.
C. A. DOZIER,
Real Estate and Insurance, No. 1,
State Bank Building, opposite
Post-office.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1898.
I>v. <D. V. RYDER,
DENTIST,
GAINESVILLE, - - - GA.
Dental work of all kinds done in a
skillful manner. Crown and Bridge
work a specialty.
W«rdni
has demonstrated ten thousand
times that it is almost infallible
FOR WOMAN’S
PECULIAR
WEAKNESSES,
irregularities and derangements.
It has become the leading remedy
for this class of troubles. It exerts
a wonderfully healing, strengthen
ing and soothing influence upon
the menstrual organs. It cures
“whites’ ’ and falling of the womb.
It stops flooding and relieves sup-
W®
pressed and painful menstruation.
For Change of Life it is the best
medicine made. It is beneficial
during pregnancy, and helps to
bring children into homes barren
for years. It invigorates, stimu
lates, strengthens the whole sjs
tem. This great remedy is offered
to all afflicted women. Why will
any woman suffer another minute
with certain relief within reach ?
Wine of Cardui only costs SI.OO per
bottle at your drug store.
For advice, in cases requiring special direc
tions, address, giving symptoms, the “Ladies’
Advisory Department,’’ The Chattanooga Med
icine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
Rev. J. W. SMITH. Camden, S. C., says:
“My wife used Wine of Cardul at home
for falling of the womb and it entirely
cured her.”
A THORN APPLE TRIP.
Oh, we went to the woods on a thorn apple
trip,
For the apple* that blaze from the low branch’s
tip!
For the sky - was so blue,
The white clouds peeping through,
There was nothing to do
But to give all the world and its people the
slip
And away to the woods on a thorn apple trip.
Then the woodpecker bowed, in his gay scarlet
hood,
And the crow swung aloft in the tall cotton*
wood
While he called his “caw, eawl”
To lay down the law
To these strangers he saw.
Then down under the fence in the best way we
could—
And—all hail—we're at last in the thorn apple
wood!
Then a rush for the trees and a fall or a slip.
Up and onward again, with a laugh and a quip!
Now a toss of a stick,
Or a limb shaken quick.
And the apples fall thick
As the eager young robbers the bent branches
strip
And hurrah for the woods and the thorn apple
trip!
For we went to the woods on a thorn apple
trip,
For the apples that blaze from the low branch’s
tip!
Then hurrah for the sun
And the laugh and the fun,
For the tumble and run,
And again with me join in the loyal hip, hip,
Hurrah, for the woods and the thorn apple
trip!
—Mae Myrtle Cook in St. Nicholas
What Work They Do.
According to the last official cen
sus returns, there wtre 22,735,961
persons employed in gainful occu
pations in the United States. Os
this number 82.78 per cent were
males and 17.22 per cent were fe
males. Roughly classified, there
were 9,013,336 persons employed in
agriculture, fisheries and mining;
944,333 in professional work; .4,360,-
577 in domestic and personal service;
3,326,122 in trade and transporta
tion, and 5,091,293 in manufacturing
industries.
Going somewhat more into detail,
there were 611,482 carpenters and
joiners, 499,690 dressmakers and
milliners, 690,658 merchants and
dealers, 1,000,000 bookkeepers, clerks
and salesmen, 5,291,577 farmers,
planters and overseers, 3,004,000
agricultural laborer, 347,592 miners,
60,000 fishermen and oystermen,
347,344 professors and teachers, 104,-
805 physicians and surgeons, 89,630
lawyers, 88,203 clergymen, 79,664
government officials, 63,155 musi
cians, 43,299 engineers and survey
ors, 22,496 artists and art teachers,
21,849 journalists and 9,728 actors.
Must Have Reform.
In spite of the growth of nearly
every town in Georgia, tax values
continue to decrease. Why ? Be
cause tax payers do not give in their
property at correct valuation, while
others do not make returns at all.
Here is a place for the reformers to
get in their work. Make every man
oarry his part of the burden.—Val
dosta Times.
Our contemporary has made a cen
ter shot. If the weekly press of
Georgia will hammer away on this
line the next legislature will inaugu
rate the needed reform.—Augusta
Herald.
The Graphophone as an Entertainer.
Science, through the Graphophone,
has made it possible for one to have in
his home at any time reproductions of
music of any kind. In fact every pleasure
that appeals to the sense of hearing, is
placed at the command of the owner of a
Graphophone and at small expense. On
a Graphophone one can make records of
his own words or songs and reproduce
them immediately and as often as de
sired. This can be done only on talking
machines manufactured under the
Graphophone patents. Endless variety
of entertainment is thus afforded.
Catalogues can be obtained by writing to
the Columbia Phonograph Company, No.
919 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington,
D. C.
Rich Folk Not So Bad.
Col. John Jacob Astor of New
York has again astonished the na
tives. Some how or .other many of
Col. Astor’s fellow citizens have
imagined it impossible for a rich man
to be either patriotic or honest. By
volunteering and fighting hard for
his country this rich man has shamed
the pessimists, and now he has still
further confused them by requesting
that his tax assessment be increased.
He pays $300,000 a year in taxes,
but says that is not enough.
It is Just as Important
That you enrich and purify your blood
in the Fall as in the Spring. At this
time, owing to decaying vegetation, a
low water level, and other causes, there
are disease germs all about us, and a
weak and debilitated system quickly
yields to attacks of malaria, fevers, etc.
By purifying and enriching your blood
with Hood's Sarsaparilla you may build
up your system to resist these dangers,
as well as coughs, colds, pneumonia and
the grip which come with colder weather.
To be on the safe side, take Hood’s Sar
saparilla now, and always be sure it is
Hood’s and not something represented
to be “just as good.”
A member of the Second Alabama
regiment at Jacksonville refused to ac
cept any wages when the paymaster
came around. He said that he entered
the service purely through patriotism,
and did not want any compensation.
This being the first case of the kind, the
paymaster had no precedent to guide
him. After some thought he drew a red
line through the name, indicating that
the sum had not been paid. Should the
soldier ever need his pay, the govern
ment stands ready to settle the account.
The Times-Union should publish his
name. There might be presidential
timber in such a man.
* 1.00 Per Annum in Advance.
“VANITY FAIR.”
An Interesting Thackeray Letter That Car
ries His Characters Farther On.
A re.nl find appears in Longman’s
Magazine in the shape of a letter of
Thackeray to his friend and Leigh
Hunt’s friend, the Duke of Devon
shire. His grace had expressed his
regret at “Vanity Fair” coining to
an end and his interest in the fur
ther adventures and fate of the char
acters. To gratify this curiosity
Thackeray wrote:
My Lord Duke—Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,
whom I saw last week and whom I informed
of your grace’s desire to have her portrait,'
was good enough to permit me to copy a little
drawing made of her “in happier days,” she
said, with a sigh, by Since, the Royal acade
mician.
Mrs. Crawley now lives in a small but very
pretty little house in Belgravia and is conspic
uous for her numerous charities, which always
get into the newspapers, and her unaffected
piety. Many of the most exalted and spotlassof
her own sex visit her and are of opinion that
she is a most injured woman. There is no sort
of truth in the stories regarding Mrs. Orawley
and the late Lord Steyne. The licentious char
acter of that nobleman alone gave rise to re
ports from which, alas, the most spotless life
and reputation cannot always defend them
selves. The present Sir Rawdon Crawley, who
succeeded his late uncle, Sir Pitt, 1832 (.Sir
Pitt died on the passing of the reform bill),
does not see his mother, and his undutifulness
is a cause of the deepest grief to that admira
ble lady. If it were not for higher things,
she says, how could she have borne up against
the world's calumny, a wicked husband’s cru
elty and falseness and the thanklessness, sharp
er than a serpent’s tooth, of an adored child?
But she has been preserved, mercifully pre
served, to bear all these griefs and awaits her
reward elsewhere.
She took the style and title of Lady Crawley
for some time after Sir Pitt's death in 1832,
but it turned out that Colonel Crawley, gov
ernor of Coventry island, had died of fever
three months before his brother, whereupon
Mrs. Rawdon was obliged to lay down the title
which she had prematurely assumed.
The late Joseph Sedley, Esq., of the Bengal
civil service, left her two lakhs of rupees, on
the interest of which the widow lives in the
practices of piety and benevolence before men
tioned. She has lost what little good looks she
once possessed and wears false hair and teeth
(the latter give her rather a ghastly look when
she smiles) and for a pious woman is the best
crinolined lady in Knightsbridge district.
Colonel and Mrs. W. Dobbin live in Hamp
shire, near Sir R. Crawley. Lady Jano was
godmother to their little girl, and the ladies
are exceedingly attached to each other. The
colonel’s “History of the Punjaub” is looked
for with much anxiety in some circles.
Captain and Lieutenant Colonel G. Sedley-
Osborne (he wishes, he says, to be distinguish
ed from some other branches of the Osborne
family and descended by the mother’s side
from Sir Charles Sedley) is, I need not say,
well, for I saw him in a most richly embroider
ed cambric pink shirt, with diamond studs,
bowing to your grace at the last party in Dev
onshire House. He is in parliament, but the
property left him by his grandfather has. I
hear, been a good deal overrated.
He was very sweet upon Miss Crawley, Sir
Pitt’s daughter, who married her cousin, the
present baronet, and a good deal cut up when
he was refused. He is not, however, a man to
be permanently cast down by sentimental dis
appointments. His chief cause of annoyance
at the present moment is that he is growing
bald, but his whiskers are still without a gray
hair and the finest in London.
I think these are the latest particulars relat
ing to a number of persons about whom your
grace was good enough to express some inter
est. lam very glad to be enabled to give this
information and am your grace’s very much
obliged servant. W. M. T«irvnuiv-
Lincoln and the Reporters.
When Joseph Medill was in the
city, he was entertained at a dinner,
at which he told many interesting
stories about Lincoln. Mr. Medill
was, with Mr. Hitt, one of the corps
of reporters who followed Lincoln
in the great debates with Douglas.
“You will all remember,” said
Mr. Medill, “that after Lincoln had
been nominated he was asked to
speak at Cooper Union, in New
York. The eastern people knew
nothing about him, and they desired
to see and hear him. Lincoln pre
pared a speech and gave copies to
quite a number of us, requesting
that we study it carefully and make
such corrections and suggestions as
we saw fit. Well, I took my copy
and went over it very carefully, and
finally made about 40 changes. The
others to whom the address had
been submitted were equally care
ful, and they made several amend
ments. When the speech was final
ly delivered, it was exactly word for
word with the original copy which
Lincoln gave us. Not a change sug
gested had been adopted. I never
knew whether Lincoln intended to
play a joke on us, or whether he
really believed that the alterations
were not effective. I never men
tioned the matter to him, and he
said nothing more to me. To tell
the truth, I was not exactly proud
of the part I played in the matter.”
—Washington Post.
Late at the Play.
We know from Pepys and from
passages in the plays of contempo*
rary dramatists that the manners oi
theater audiences in the restoration
epoch were not nice, but there is no
reason to believe that even the sops
habitually arrived at the theater
! late. Mr. Sparkieh, Mr. Novel and
their fellows would talk loudly while
the play was going on to show the
superiority of their wit to the poet’s,
but they likely were on hand early
to lose none of the fun. In later
epochs of English theatrical history
theater going wag a serious under
taking, not a mere pastime. One can
tell from the beginnings of old playa
that the authors counted on audi
ences closely attentive from the
first. Lady Randolph is the first
speaker in “Douglas,” Orestes in
“The Distressed Mother,” Almeira
in “The Mourning Bride.” The cus
tom of “playing the audience in”
with a short piece was of still later
origin. Perhaps about that time the
habit of going late to the theater be
came common. “Half price” for
late comers was a custom of Thack
eray’s time, so perhaps the ordinary
New York playgoer of this era, who
nearly ruins the enjoyment of a few
by going late to the theater, talking
as loudly as he pleases as he enters
and selfishly fussing over his wraps
before he settles in his seat, has
some sort of historical precedent for
his behavior. It has nothing else to
recommend it.—New York Times.
A Queer Snow Fact.
It is an inexplicable fact that men
buried in an avalanche of snow hear
distinctly every word uttered by
those who are seeking for them,
while their most strenuous shouts
fail to penetrate even a few feet ol
the snow.
NUMBER 3G.
SNAKES OF THE VERDIGRIS.
A Queer Meat Provided For a Score of
Razorback Hogs In Kansas.
“He’s a mean snake, the water
moccasin cottonmouths we cal!
them in Kansas, because the inside
of his mouth is white like cotton,”
said J. F. Hildreth, once of Law
rence, Kan. “He’s meaner than the
rattlesnake, for he strikes without
warning, and if he is not so deadly
it is because he is smaller—can’t
load his poison gland up with so
much venom. He is bad enough,
lying round as he does in paths in ,
the swamps, and in southern rivers
wherever a log lies partly in the
water you are likely to find a pair
of moccasins sunning themselves
upon It.
“I got an idea of the number of ♦
these reptiles that can inhabit a
stretch of riverside by what I saw
once down in the Verdigris valley,
in southeastern Kansas. It was 30
years ago, before the country there
about was much settled by white
people. It was in the early spring,
and I was there with a wagon tak
ing up young trees for transplant
ing. I had a negro boy with me for
helper, and one day, as I jogged my
horses along the river bank, looking
out as I drove for likely saplings, I
sent the boy to dig up a young tree
that stood by a ledge jutting into
the valley about 50 yards from the
water. He started, but stopped
when he got near the ledge.
“‘Golly, boss, I dasn’t go darl’
he called to me. ‘De place is plumb
squirmin wif snakes.’
“A negro dreads a snake as much
as a monkey does and is apt to take
fright at a false alarm.- But I
thought I would go up and see what .
the boy had found. I left the team 1
and went to where he was, and—
well, there were snakes, as he said, ♦
and to spare. Such a sight I had
never seen or imagined. In the face
of the ledge was a deep crevice, and,
the day being warm, the cotton
mouths that had denned up there '.
through the winter were crawling
out into the warmth of the sun.
Most ot them, on coming
the ledge, crawled to join their.fel-,
lows in a great ball of snakeg that ’•
had formed on the ground a few
paces from the crevice. It was as * -
large as a half bushel basket. Oth- -«►’
ere of the snakes were lying about *
on the ground jhardly to .
be distinguished amofog the dead
leaves. The boy and I picked up
sticks and stones and for a full half
hour pelted the ball of snakes; They
did not. try to get away, but as of
ten as One of our missiles struck
among them every head would dart
out and" the monthr open
‘jess like a cotton field at pickin
time,’ the boy said, and he ex
pressed it precisely.
“The young negro got a scare
that spoiled his fun for a bit. He
picked up what he thought was a
dead stick and dropped it with a
yell as it bent up toward his hand,
opening up white at the end as it
did so. Luckily he had tqken it by
the right end, and the snake, being
half torpid, did not strike at once
with its fangs, so the boy was able
to let it go in time to save himself.
We killed a considerable number of
the snakes, as we could teH by their
being cast out of the ball by the
others as fast as they were! disabled.
“At last we left off our snake kill
ing and went on. A half! mile up
the creek a score or more of razor
back hogs were rooting among the
trees for last year’s mast. Seeing
them, the idea occurred to me of
starting them down the river bank
to the ledge, for there nothing
that a southern hog better to
eat than a snake. As for its venom,
he pays no attention whatever to it,
being apparently poison proof. The
boy and 1 left the wagon and with
some trouble drove the hogs down
to the ledge. After the foremost
came to where the snakes were they
did not need any driving. To make
the story short, in a very few min
utes they cleared the ground of all
the snakes in sight and were nosing
about the ledge for more. I reckon
that the crop of cottonmouths must ,
have been thin the nest summer
along the Verdigris.”—New York
Sun.
The Trapdoor Spider.
One of the most singular speci
mens of insect life is the trapdoor
spider of Jamaica. His burrow is
lined with silk and closed by a trap
door with a hinge. The door exact
ly fits the entrance to the burrow
and when closed so precisely corre
sponds with the surrounding earth
that it can hardly be distinguished
even when its position is known. It
is a strange sight to see the earth
open, a little lid raised, some hairy
legs protrude and gradually the
whole form of the spider show it
self. These spiders generally hunt
for food by night, and in the day
time they are very chary of opening
the door of their domicile, and if
the trap be raised from the outside,
they run to the spot, hitch the claws
of their forefeet in the lining of the
burrow and so resist with all their
might. The strength of the spider
is wonderfully great in proportion
to its size.
Nine Years to Walk Tiirougn London.
The largest city of the world is
London, lying in four counties and
having a population of 4,250,000,
equaling the combined populations
of Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg and
Rome. To walk through all the
streets, avenues, lanes and alleys of
the city, never traversing the same
one twice, would require a ten mile
walk every day for nine years. The
streets, placed in a row, would reach
round the world and leave a rem
nant that would stretch from Lon
don to San Francisco.—Ladies’
Home Journal.