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Hy the Eagle I’litjlistiing- Company.
VOLUME XL.
1899.
L E. ANDOE St CO.
START THE
New Year
BY GETTING IN
NEW GOODS.
This week we are opening up a large
shipment of .
SHOES.
To all our customers we wish to say that
this year our stock of Clothing, Hats,
Shoes, and Fine Dry Goods will be
the largest we have ever shown,
R. E. ANDOE & CO..
14 AAain St.
Telephone £>.
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Waterman, Burnett & Co.,
G ( EXCLUSIVE |
Wiers, Tailors,
GENTS’ FURNISHINGS and SHOES, I
GAINESVILLE, Q-7L.
->4he Time to Flow.
The season for sowing grain is now here, and it is to your interest
to have the very best implements. We have a large stock of
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AVERY’S STEEL, ' SYRACUSE,
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All styles—ill prices.—
l^°|oULv/ I vJT Ula O» Breech and muzzle loaders.
A new era in prices. Everything cheaper than ever before.
Come and see us.
S.C. DINKINS & CO
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
COTTON is and will con
tinue to be the money
crop of the South. The
planter who gets the most cot
ion from a given area at the
least cost, is the one who makes
die most money. Good culti
vation, suitable rotation, and
liberal use of fertilizers con
taining at least 3% actual
Potash
cvill insure the largest yield.
We will send Free, upon application,
jamphlets that will interest every cotton
planter in the South.
GERFIAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
HEADACHE
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two days, she tried some of your CASCARETS.
and they relieved the pain in her head almost
immediately. We both recommend Cascarets.
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Dental work of all kinds done in a
skillful manner. Crown and Bridge
work a specialty.
JOHN MARTIN,
NACOOCHEE, GA.
REAL ESTATE.
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Fa: ms and Farming Lands,
Timber and Wild Lands
SOLID INVESTMENTS AT
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Libel For Divorce.
Matildy Nix . 1 Libel for Divorce
vs. ' In Hall Superior Court,
i William Lee Nix. ) January‘term, 1899.
To William Lee Nix, greeting:
By order of the Court, I hereby notify-you
that on the 10th day of November, 1898, Matildy
Nix died a suit against you for total divorce,
returnable to the* January term, 1899. of said
court, under the foregoing caption. You are
further notified to be and uppear at the next
term of said court, to be held on the third Mon
day in January, 1899. to answer plaintiff's com
j plaint. In default thereof the court will pro
-1 ceed as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Hon. J. J. Kimsey, Judge of said
Court, this 12th dav of November, 1898.
J. W. OSLIN,
C. S C., Hall Countv, Ga.
Adams, Deax & Hobbs,
Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
New WOOD Yard
C. L. DEAL
Has established a first-class Wood
Yard at his residence,
No. 1G Grove St.,
where he will keep a large supply of
Stove and Fire Wood cut to any
length desired.
Wood delivered on short notice.
Established KWO.
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 32, 1899.
HARRISON’S SUBSTITUTE. I|
The Backwoodsman Who Undertook *• .
Speak For the Ex-Preaident.
One August day in the summer £
of 1895 there was a great gathering ■
at the only hotel at Old Forge, the »•
best known of tfce gateways to the
Adirondacks. A pole, a tall, sturdy, t
looking piece of timber, was to be ’ ,
raised and ex-President Benjamin ,
Harrison, then occupying his cot-*’*
tage on Second lake, had consented (
to speak. Campers from the chain
of lakes that leads into the Blue ,
mountain region from Old Forge, ,
natives of the neighboring lumber <
towns, guides and woodsmen, min- ,
g]ed in the crowd that wandered. ,
about the hotel, filling the piazzas,
and seeking shelter in the little par- ;
lor from the drizzling rain and pen- ,
etrating mountain air without.
In this loitering crowd was a,
chore boy from one of the Fourth- (
lake camps, a reckless, irresponsible* ,
fellow, but of unusual cunning* and*
shrewdness. He had a greedyllppO-, f :
tite, and most of the time was fool- ■
ish with drink. On the morning of .
this day, while we were sailing
down to Old Forge, he had calmly*
swallowed at one gulp a half pint of
whisky, as the initiative to one of *
his terrible sprees. Later, luck at? >
dice in the barroom and a commin- *
gling with genial souls had brought
him to a condition where his smile
never faded and his step was most
uncertain.
The ceremony of the pole raising. ,
was announced for 2 o’clock. At ’
that hour the ex-president had not
arrived at the hotel, and the people |
who had gathered there were nerv
ously moving about, disgusted with
the weather and annoyed at the de
lay. In the interval George, the
chore boy, ventured the remark ’
that if the president didn’t hurry he
would get out on the piazza and ’
make the speech himself. For this
boldness he was dragged from the
parlor to the more congenial atmos
phere of the barroom.
Finally the former chief execu
tive arrived. The crowd, which had
formed on the slope of the lawn be
fore the hotel, immediately revived
and hurrahed and cheered the noted
guest. The formalities of the cere
mony were quickly disposed of by
the long suffering committee and
the chairman took the earliest op-,
portunity to introduce Mr. Harrison..
The ex-president rose and stood by,
his chair, which had been placed
some distance back from the piazza, L
rail. An instant he regarded .the,;
crowd below. Apparently he wa* *
about to speak wßfe the-group
had pressed about the parlor doOTfe
opened and George the chore
nis ’ great, coarse boots, his coat
sleeves falling over his hands and
almost concealing them, his flannel
shirt open at the neck—George, with
his smile and his stagger highly de
veloped—stepped out before the as
tonished assemblage and walked
- quickly to the railing.
Uncovering with great care his
frouzy head, he laid his broad brim
med hat on the secretary’s table.
Wholly unmindful of the gentleman
over whose distinguished face there
fluttered a half quizzical, half amus
ed look, he turned to the crowd, and
with all the confidence and assur
ance of a speaker who is conscious
of the power of his words, said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I presume
you came here to hear me speak.”
The presumption was too greatly
exaggerated to pass unnoticed. Be
fore George could further indicate
the supposed desires of his audience,
he was struggling in the hands of
the irate committeemen, and the
nails in his boot heels were drawing
parallel lines on the boards of the
piazza. His exit was through the
same door that had marked his tri
umphant entry, and it was just in
side this opening that he fell in a
heap and the smile collapsed. After
thus forcibly dismissing the intrud
er the members of the committee
returned to their seats.
And then the president spoke.—
New York Mail and Express.
A Noted Cook.
Formerly appreciative recogni
tion of successful effort was abso
lutely essential to the accomplished
cook. Some cooks were so sensitive
on this point that they could not do
justice to themselves if it was with
held. The late Abraham Hayward
gives an instance of this in Felix, a
noted chef of hie time. This artist
was in the employ of Lord Seaford,
who was obliged to dispense with
his services for economical reasons.
Some months afterward a distin
guished connoisseur was dining with
Lord Seaford and before the first
course was half over he detected the
handiwork of Felix. He made in
quiry and was informed by his host
that the great chef was again in his
service. He had gone from him to
the Duke of Wellington. After a
brief experience with the latter he
had returned to Lord Seaford and
begged to be taken back at reduced
wages or no wages at all, for he was
determined not to remain at Apsley
House. He confessed that the duke
was the kindest and most liberal of
masters, but that when he served
him a dinner that would have made
Ude or Francatelli burst with envy
the duke said nothing. When Felix
went out and left the duke to eat a
dinner prepared by the maid, the
duke made no complaint. “That,
my lord,” Felix said, "hurt my feel
ings. ” —New York Sun.
IOOK OUT for the first signs of
" impure blood—Hood's Sarsaparilla
is your safeguard. It will purify,
enrich and vitalize your BLOOD.
CrnTwiNBURN,
DENTIST.
CROWN and Bridge work a Specialty. A lib
eral amoun of patronage solicited. I
OvnOß. BOOM 3, GOBDON BLOCK, UP BTAIBS.
Lam cooked in a hay box. I
Danish House wife’s Plan and Its'De*
* lieious Results Told by a Traveler.
“Talk about your turkey stuffed
Iwith Eye-talian chestnuts or Lynn
.Haven oysters, all you want to,”
"said the transplanted southern colo
“but I say give me a thin slice
d> southern ham cooked as they
,po6k it in Virginia or South Caro
lina and you can keep all of your
stuffed birds.”
“I used to think that you south
ern people knew how to cure and
<Wok hams, too, until I went to Den-
Mark,” answered the returned trav
eler, “but, bless your soul, your
southern ham tastes as tame and
flat by the side of Denmark ham as
northern ham does compared with
sbufhern, Os course a ham has got
toije good and properly cured at
ttie start, but the biggest part of a
Sweet, juicy, tasty ham lies in the
cooking. Now’ I’ve been in 17 coun
tries and I have never tasted such
.ham, as I got in Denmark. ‘The
nearer the bone the sweeter the
ifieat’ cannot often be applied to a
flam that you strike in this country,
because half the time the meat is
about half cooked when you get to
iWaid the bone. Now, in Denmark
might carve a hundred hams
a day and each one would be done
through and through, and yet they
Are only allowed to come to a boil.”
“Why, how can they be done,
then?” asked the transplanted
southern colonel’s transplanted
frife. “Ham is a thing that should
he boiled for hours and hours over
> hot fire. Now, in South Carolina,
where I was born, and in Virginia,
lirhere the colonel was born, we al
ways put a ham on right after break
fast when we want it ready for a
jpidday dinner, and, furthermore,
cook keeps a little nigger busy
“keeping up the fire all the time the
ham is on the stove. Ham isn’t ham
if it isn’t well boiled before it is
baked.”
“That’s where you and the people
in Denmark disagree,” remarked
the returned traveler.' “They say
emphatically that ham to be thor
oughly cooked should not be boiled.
How do they cook it? In a hay box.
What is a hay box? Hay boxes are
used a great deal in Denmark. A
hay box is an ordinary wooden box
, with a lining of hay about a foot
thick. The hay is covered with
‘-cheesecloth to keep it in place and
for durability. Os course, your hay
•box can be of any size, but the ves
sel must fit in it closely. But that is
ahead of my story,
s' “When a Danish housewife wishes
a ham, jjrop-
rfhd fiuts 5 «ito a
coht mfter, wTilch showplaces
over the fire. As soon as the water
comes to a hard boil she lifts the
pot from the fire and puts it into a
hay box, carefully covering the top
of the box with a close fitting lid.
When she gets up in the morning,
the ham is thoroughly cooked to the
bone. Will the water boil in the hay
box? Oh, no! But it keeps at the
same temperature all night, and an
even temperature is the secret of
perfect cooking. The water is just
as hot when she gets up in the
morning as when she goes to bed at
night. The ham is done, and she
doesn’t have to worry her head as
to whether it will be done to the
bone by dinner time, and, best of
all, she never has to send it to the
kitchen to be cooked over. _ A ham
cooked in this way retains all the
juice and sweetness and fairly
makes your mouth wafer to think
about it.
“Those Danish hay boxes, Mme.
Colonel,” he went on, “are great
things. Such a thing as running wa
ter is unknown in the houses of
Denmark, but, by George, the peo
ple over there seem to be more flush
with hot water than w’e are with all
our boilers, coal ranges and miles
of hot water pipes. In the cupboard
of the washstand in every bedroom
or in the closet is a hay box, and at
every hour in the day or night you
can find a vessel of steaming water
there. A little enough thing in
itself, eh? But it’s the little things
that make life livable, isn’t it? Yes,
you people down south know how
to cure and cook hams, and you
know how to do it well, but you
yourselves would own that you are
mere novices at the business if you
once got a taste of a Danish ham
cooked overnight in a hay box.”—
New York Sun.
Got Kid of the Loafers.
“There’s nothing so good as con
genial company, and few things
worse than uncongenial associates,”
remarked Captain R. J. Smith to a
Paducah (Ky.) Sun reporter. “I re
member once when I was young a
lot of fellows-used to hang around
my place that were not the most de
sirable companions imaginable. One
day a friend said, ‘Do you w’ant to
get rid of those fellows?’ I said that
I did, if I could do it without offend
ing them. He suggested a plan, and
the result was I provided myself
withan English history, a Bible and
several other books 1 don’t guess
those fellows ever heard of before.
The next time they came in I began
reading aloud to them from the
books. It wasn’t long before they be
gan to look at one another, and
finally one said as they all got up,
‘Well, Jim, we’ll drop in again after
awhile.’ Whenever they dropped in
I always pulled my books, and soon
they were afraid to come at all.”
Not Necessary.
“I suppose,” said the village dea
con to the minister, “that your con
stant prayer is that you may ever be
poor and humble?”
“Not exactly,” replied the minis
ter. “I pray that I may remain
humble, but my congregation at
tends to the other part of it.”—Chi
cago News.
THE YELLOW FLAG.
Plan of an Artist by Which He Saves
Himself From His Friends.
An artist whose habits are con
vivial, but who is willing to work if
no one calls on him, removed to a
suburban town last summer so that
he might finish a lot of illustrations
which he had promised.
"New York is all right,” he said
to his friends, "but I know too
many people here, arid my friends
keep calling on me in my studio,
and this sadly interferes with my
work. I have selected Lonelyville
because my wife likes it and I know
absolutely no one in the place. I
have.orders for a year's work, and
I simply must do it on time. You
fellows may come out to see me on
Sundays, but not on weekdays.”
Several weeks later some of his
friends from New York went out to
see the artist on Sunday and they
found him enthusiastic about the
place.
"There is a fine lot of fellows
here,” he said, “and I have enjoyed
the town immensely. I have joined
a yacht club, a bowling olub, a whist
club and a Saturday night smoker
club. Found several old friends out
here also.”
"But I thought that you came
here so that you might do your
work without interruption,” said
one of his callers.
“Well, yes, that was my reason,
and as soon as I have met all the
boys and each of them has made his
call on me I can settle down and
make up for lost time.”
A month later the publishers for
whom this artist worked began to
complain that they had received no
illustrations from him. The artist
made promises and broke them.
Finally one of the publishers went
out to Lonelyville to investigate.
He found that the artist was out
yachting. He waited for him, and
then laid down the law to him.
“This book must come out on
time,” said the publisher, “and I
will give you just one month more
on which to finish your illustrations.
If they are not done then, we will
get another man and never give you
any more work.”
When the publisher went, the art
ist said to bis wife: “Now what am I
going to do about this? I can’t pos
sibly tell my friends to stay away
for a month. They wouldn’t under
stand my purpose. The committee
from the yacht club is coming here
tomorrow afternoon, and on the fol
lowing day I expect some of the
whist club men, and so it goes. What
am I to do?”
The artist’s wife was ingenious,
and she explained a little scheme of
her Own to *jty’hen the.
committee from the yacht Club call
ed the following day, they saw a big,
yellow flag fifing over the door.
Underneath it was a big placard on
which was printed: “Keep off. Con
tagious disease here.” They did
keep off, and soon all Lonelyville
knew about it. The local health offi
cer went around to investigate, and
after a short conversation with the
artist’s wife he went away with a
broad smile on his face. When the
other inhabitants of Lonelyville
questioned him about the case, he
looked serious and said that he was
not at liberty to say what the dis
ease was, but that no one was likely
to catch it unless he went into the
house. During the next month that
flag waved and no one saw the art
ist. The publisher got his illustra
tions, and then the flag was hauled
down, and the health officer an
nounced that it would be safe to call
on the artist. His friends in the town
came around to see him and con
gratulate him on his recovery. He
didn’t look like a man who had been
through a serious illness.
“What was the disease ?” they ask
ed.
“Loafing,” said the artist serious
ly. He then explained that he had
quarantined the house not against
loafing within, but against his
friends who might come and infect
him with it. The idea of the yellow
flag impressed his acquaintances and
in accordance with their advice the
artist still uses it. Four or five days
a week this flag flies before his door,
and none of his friends calls. As soon
as it is hauled down they know that
the artist is ready to receive them,
and they call. The artist’s publish
ers heard of it, and as an evidence
of their gratitude they sent hiqi a
big yellow silk flag which hasn’t its
equal in Lonelyville.—New York
Sun.
May Taka It.
Traveler—Do the trains for WTax
tonbury leave this station ?
Railroad Attache—They always
have up to date, but the thing is
getting pretty shaky.and it wouldn’t
be strange some day to see one of
the trains carrying it off.—Boston
Transcript.’
The Worm YVas Up Late.
A father was lecturing his son on
the evil of staying out late at night
and rising late in the morning.
"You will never succeed,” he said,
"unless you mend your ways. Re
member, the early bird catches the
worm. ”
"And what about the worm, fa-
I ther?” said the young man sneer
ingly. "Wasn't he rather foolish
j in getting up so early?”
"My son, ” said the old man, “that
worm hadn’t been to bed at all. He
j was only getting home.”
The young man coughed.—Pitts
; burg Chronicle.
The Household Boss.
"Let’s see, you married Darling
ton’s widow, didn’t you?”
i "Yep.”
“But you always said you’d never
marry a ready made wife.”
“Well, I found out afterward that
this one was made to order.”—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
.OO Per Annum in Advance.
PROUD OF HIS ENGLISH.
The Austrian Gentlfcmau Helps Entertain
an American Tourist.
An American physician was in
vited to dine at ‘the house of a prom
inent journalist in Budapest. He
was introduced to an Austrian who,
the host whispered proudly, spoke
English fluently.
“I saw’that Mr. Fehevary was not
at his ease, for his English and repu
tation r ere at stake,” says the doc
tor.
“Our Magyar fiiends immediately
wished us to speak English to each
other, and a circle was formed
around us, as if we were two prize
fighters ready for the fray. I said:
“ ‘Howdo you do, Mr. Fehevary?’
“ ‘Most veil,’ he answered brave
ly-
“ ‘Where did you study English?’
“ ‘ln myself,’ he said, with great
effort. ’ ”
The young woman the doctor took
out to dinner had come in from the
country especially to meet him. She
was much disappointed to find the
gentleman from America was white.
She plied him with all manner of
questions. Dinner began with chick
en soup, “and,” continues the nar
rator, “of course my neighbor ask
ed did we eat soup in America.
“Next came roast goose that melt
ed upon the lips like butter. Green
peas w’ere the wheels of its chariot.
“ ‘Do you have geese?’ my neigh
bor asked.
“ ‘Plenty of them,’ I said.
“ ‘Are they as good as those in
Hungary?’
“I wanted to say much better be
cause the kind I meant asked no
questions, but I controlled myself
and said instead that they couldn’t
compare with Hungarian geese.
Spring chicken, fried in olive oil—
the chicken better than the goose—
was the third course.
“ ‘Do you have chickens?’ queried
my interlocutor, ‘and what do you
do with them?’
“‘That depends upon their age,’
I said. Dessert, which has no name
sake this side of the Atlantic, follow
ed. Fruit and w’ine, the ladies also
partaking of the latter, closed the
dinner, but not the mouth of my in
quisitive neighbor.
“ ‘Do the girls dress differently
from the boys ? Do you have bath
rooms?’
“ ‘Yes, and we take a bath once in
awhile. ’
“ ‘How large a city is America?’
“ ‘Considerably larger than Buda-
• pest. ’
“At this point our hostess rising
afforded me a blessed release from
the witness stand. The gentlemen
were going to the coffee house to
read
would"follgw in ah hour, I was told.
Mr. Fehevary kept ata safe distance
from me all the time. I saw him
handling a pocket dictionary and
knew he was getting loaded with
something, for he looked very studi
ous, and his lips were moving inces
santly. At last he seemed to have
it, for a look of triumph came over
his face.
“We were ready to go. The serv
ants all stood in a row, waiting for
a fee. Mr. Fehevary couldn’t go to
the coffee house—he was too busy—
but he followed me to the door, and,
in hearing of all the Estetys, the
whole newspaper staff, and the serv
ants, male and female, he said tri
umphantly as he shook my hand:
“ ‘I been enthused to make your
gonnections. ’ ” —What to Eat.
The YouujftHt Was the Eldest.
A curious legal point was decided
in the reign of Elizabeth—at least,
so the story goes. A country gentle
man bequeathed his estate to his
eldest son and £lO to the younger.
He had only two sons, who were
twins. The firstborn claimed the es
tate, but it seemed that he had been
round the world with Drake, and so
had lost a day on the voyage; hence
the lawyers, sly rogues, assured him
that his brother’s claim was the
best and, the adventurer acquies
cing in the decision, departed on his
travels with the £lO in his pocket.
Could Onlj Turn His Collar.
Eli Green was exceedingly bash
ful and resorted to all sorts of expe
dients to avoid the girls. Ontherare
occasions when his mother had com
pany he was careful to let his work
take him to some remote part of the
farm.
But on his twenty-first birthday
he determined to assert his man
hood becomingly and he went to
the house of an uncle in the next
county and spent an entire w’eek.
When he returned, his mother asked
him if he had enjoyed himself.
“Waal, Idunno,” he answered re
flectively. “I didn’t s’pose Uncle
Jason ’d’have comp’ny, but there he
was, with a house chock full o’ city
gals, a laughin an racin an a makin
out like I was a fine beau. The wust
on’t was they changed their clothes
five or six times a day, an I could
only turn my collar. Course there
was slews of icecream an fixins, but
I guess, take it up one side an down
t'other, I’m willin to git back.”—
Detroit Free Press.
Poor Grindstone.
The minister, with his little son
Charles, was calling on an old pa
rishioner, w’ho poured her troubles
into his sympathizing ear, ending
with The remark, “I’ve hadmynose
held to the grindstone for 30 years.”
Charlie, who had been looking in
tently at the old lady, instantly re
marked, “Well, it hasn’t worn the
mole on the end of it off yet.”—
Harper’s Bazar.
Too Spry.
“Jinks is the meanest man on
earth.”
“Why?”
“I told him a good story on the
way out to a dinner, and when we
got there he worked it off before I
had a chance.’’—Chicago Record.
NUMBER 2.
SAILING SHIP PASSENGERS.
The Various Keasonn That Prompt Them
to Take a Long Sea Voyage.
Almost everybody that travels on
the sea nowadays goes by steamer,
but there are still some persona
who, for one reason and another,
take passage on sailing ships going
usually long voyages. All big ships
have one or two or perhaps more
spare staterooms in their cabin, and
so are able to carry comfortably a
limited number of passengers.
American ships sailing out of this
port carry passengers—one, or it
may be more—on probably half the
voyages they make. Sometimes
there are applications from more
than can be accommodated ; some
times there are none at all.
For a long time it has been a cus- .
tom to some extent to send on long
voyages men whom it was sought
thus to cure of a craving for liquor,
for the benefits of the voyage and
for enforced abstinence. There arw
yet such passengers, but some vessel
owning firms now decline them.
Passengers making these long voy
ages in sailing vessels go some for
pleasure, and others are actuated by
various motives. For example, two
young men who were friends went
out from here together to Japah.
One of them was the son of a New
York importer who was going out
to be a resident agent in Japan of
his father’s house. This house char
ters ships and has constant dealings
with ships, and it was desired that
its representative should have some
practical knowledge of them, whiich
he could acquire on the voyage out.
The other passenger on this voyage
expected to follow the sea as a pro
fession on steam vessels. He took
this voyage as a part of his prepara
tory education in acquiring a knowl
edge of ships.
Men sometimes make the Icing
voyages to gather literary material.
There are sometimes passengers
who take passage simply to get to
some port of destination.
Awhile ago a New Yorker of am
ple means and of perfect health and
with a love for the sea, who Went
out from here to San Francisco in a
sailing ship, liked the ship andjthe
captain and the life so well that he
sailed in the ship for three years.
He went in her from San Francisco
to Liverpool and back to New York,
out to San Francisco again, once
more to Liverpool and back to New
York and then to Japan in her. But,
while some men make long voyages
simply for the pleasure of it, prob
ably more go for their health. The
number of those who go to recover
from the effects of overwork, men
who are pretty nearly worn out and
who need a rest, is considerable.
They get here three to five months
of absolute rest and freedom from
care, and the results attained in
some cases seem almost marvelous.
The charge for a long voyage on the
finest ships is S3OO. A long voyage
would be that to San Francisco, 100
to 150 days; to Japan the same, or to
Australia 100 to 125 days. If the
passenger remains on board in port,
the charge for that is $lO a wedk.—
New York Sun.
Why Cold Harbor?
Coluber, from the snakelike Wind
ing of the Roman way at the point
thus indicated. Coluber, the shake
on the Roman standard there set up,
Colubris arbor, the tree on which
the serpent was lifted up. Col. ijrva,
the fields of the Roman colony.
Col. in the same sense, but harbor
left to find its own meaning of sta
tion, hereberg, auberge. Coal har
bor, a port for ships bringing coal.
Coal harbor, a station where char
coal was stored. Coaled arbbrye,
wood fuel Caerberlarber, from
caer, town, and arbhar, camp; {com
pare Clabber Napper’s Hole, Graves
end, Cui arbhar, a place of safety
for grain. Cole harbor, a kailyard,
from Teutonic kohl in succession to
Latin caulis. j
But the conclusion generally ar
rived at was that Cold Harbor meant
pretty much what it appeared to
mean—that cold was cold, whether
to be enjoyed or to be protected
from, and harbor was harbor,
whether originally justifying itfl
etymological signification of a mili
tary post or approaching more near
ly to the place where one “may find
his warmest welcome, ” as in a Kal
ten herberg of the present day.—
Notes and Queries.
A Watermelon Paradise.
As the effort to colonize negroes
in Liberia is not working satisfac
torily, it might be feasible to induce
them to go to the Messilia valley, in
Mexico, where the largest water
melons are grown. It is said that a
farmer in that valley had no wagon
strong enough to take one to mar
ket, so he had to cut slices out of it
with a crosscut saw as they were
needed for home consumption. But
one of them became too ripe; it
burst and washed away all the lower
acres of his farm. No lives were
lost, but much damage was done, as
the flood rushed down the irrigation
ditches. This story is vouched for
by an exchange whose editor wears
seven shooters in his belt.—Atlanta
Constitution.
She Burned Her Letters.
Tennyson once wrote to Glad
stone: “I heard of an old lady the
other day to whom all the great men
of her time had written. When
Froude’s ‘Carlyle’ came out, she
rushed up to her room, and to an old
chest there wherein she kept their
letters, and flung them into the fire.
‘They were written to me,’ she said,
‘not to the public!’ and she set her
chimney on fire, and her children
and grandchildren ran in, ‘The
i chimney’s on fire!’ ‘Never mind,’
i she said, and went on burning. I
; should like to raise an altar to that
old lady and burn incense upon it.”
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