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the Eagle JPnblishing- Company. 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* Jnt M 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. ■ l i ■ i 1 I » ! THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. HYNDS MFG. CO’S GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, ETC. r 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.