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The Gainesville Eejle. Official Organ of Hall County. W. H. CRAIG, Editor and Business Manager, Thursday, April 21, 1904. PARKER THE MAN. As was confidently predicted, the democracy of New York has in structed its delegates to the national convention for Judge Parker. The Hearst boom was buried with ap propriate ceremonies at Albany Monday. Harmony is sponsor for a re-united party and'enthusiasm born of principle and hope is cheer ing the debut of a new era for the party. Even Tammany and its leader, Mr. Murphy, have read the signs and joined heartily in the unanimous expressions of satisfac tion which augur well for demo •cratic victory in November. That the name presented by New York will be the slogan of the St. Louis gathering there is hardly a doubt. It is up to the “solid South” and the other democratic States to second the virtual nom ination of Judge Parker by the party which gave him an unpre cedented triumph m his own state. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. Council Chamber, April 16, 1904. Council met in regular session, Mayor Thompson presiding. Minutes of last meeting read and adopted. Special committee appointed to look into the claim of Dr. Curtis was given further time. Special committee to look into the opening of Park, Church, and Summit streets was given further time. The following ordinance was read, the rules were suspended, and after the second reading was adopted, by the fol lowing vote: Ayes, Allen, Craig, Dozier, the Mayor; nays, Bell, Hudson, Pierce : Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the city of Gainesville, and it is hereby ordained by the authority aforesaid: Section 1. That any person within the city who, either intentionally or by negligence, permits any hog, horse, mule, cow, ox, goat, sheep, or fowl, be* longing to himself or herself, to go at large in the city, shall, upon conviction, be punished as prescribedin Sec. 680* the City Ordinances. Sec. 2. Any person who has the care or custody of any 0/ the hereinbefore described stock or fowls, who wilfully or negligently permits the same to es cape and go at large, or to go into the premises of another person without the consent of such other person, shall, upon conviction, be punished as prescribed in Sec. 68 of the City Ordinances. Sec. 3. Any person owning or hav ing the custody of any of the hereinbe fore described stock, which is unruly and in the habit of breaking out, shall be required to use extraordinary care and diligence to keep the same confined, and any such person so failing to use extraordinary care and diligence to keep the same confined, shall, upon convic tion, be punished as prescribed in Sec. 68 of the City Ordinances. The Specific Tax Ordinance was amended by striking out of No. 51 the words “lumber, shingles, laths,” so that when amended it shall read; 51. Lime, cement, or brick, other dhan own manufacture, S2O. And by adding to No. 24 the words, "lumber, shingles, laths,” so that when amended it shall read: 24. Lumber, shingles, laths, doors* sash, or blinds, other than own manu facture, S2O. The following accounts, approved by the Finance Committee, were ordered paid: J. B. George, $13.40; Dorsey Bros., $5.00 ; R. Smith, 15c. ; Gainesville Eagle, $9.00; W. J. & E. C. Palmour, $26.50. All accounts for first reading were read first time and referred to Finance Committee. Street Committee was instructed to look into the advisability of cultivating the land at cemetery and sewer station. Motion prevailed to have the plumbers make sealed bids to the Mayor and Council at the next regular meeting for putting in the sewer fixtures at the City Hall. There being no further business Coun cil adjourned. Howard Thompson, Mayor. H. E. Mundy, Clerk. Prof. John W. Glenn Dead. The Economist announces with much sorrow the death of Prof. John W. Glenn, at his home in Tyler, Texas, where he has been for the past two years. Jackson was his native county and it will be sad news to every one here who knew and loved him, as well as a large number of friends all over the state. Prof. Glenn was one of the ablest and most successful educators Georgia ever had, and Martin Institute, at Jefferson, under his administration, assisted by Prof. S. P. Orr, was one of the most prosperous schools in the state for many years.—Jackson Economist. ®o®o®o®o®o®o®®o®o®o®o®o®o< I A MUSICIAN’S I j THEFT j O V o •<>•o® OfptOtOW O® O® O® O® o® o ® Professor Smythe, an impoverish ed musician, was on his way to play in the orchestra at the Globe thea ter when the door of a residence he was passing opened and a man in evening dress rushed out and, seiz ing the professor, begged him to come in. Smythe told his necessity of earning his evening’s wages. “I will pay you twice as much, and you will have nothing to do but make yourself agreeable. It will be a great accommodation, and I shall never forget it, I can see by your appearance that you are a gentle man. Consider me a friend and ac cept my offer.” “But what service is required of me?” asked the professor, who had a vague idea that a grand piano had suddenly gone wrong. “Why, you see, I am giving a din ner to some friends. It is all on the table, and we have just discov ered that there are thirteen of us. That would never do at all. Now, if you will dine with us, you shall be well paid for your services, and I dare say you will be in time for your flute solo at the theater, as you can be excused when you de sire. You will come? Thanks!” The professor followed his host in a state of absolute subjection, as if he might have been hypnotized, but the fact was that the poor man had not broken his fast since morn ing, and the delicious aroma of the dinner coming through the open door proved irresistible. He gave his name in a whisper and was handed over to a servant, who took him up stairs into a guest chamber, helped him remove his shabby overcoat and whisked off his best suit with a silver handled brush, taking its threadbare glint for dust. It was well he was engaged to play; other wise he would not have been in evening dress. He was beginning to enjoy the little comedy in which he was himself an actor. There was no introduction. His host motioned him to a seat be tween the maiden lady and a severe matron who turned her silken back on him to talk to her neighbor on the ‘ other side. The professor’s pride did not once assert itself. He was masquerading; that was all. But fate had not done with Pro fessor Smythe. The consomme had a dash of i\ampagne in it, and new life was infused into the veins of this pro fessional diner out. The fish and game and pate that followed were all triumphs of the culinary art, and the hungry man cloyed the edge of his appetite, not by the bare imag ination of a feast, but by the feast itself.. It was no feast of the Bar mecide either, for the viands were actual, and the wine was not a pre tense, but a delightful vintage, served in cut glass goblets. The poor professor felt like saying to his neighbor, “Pinch me!” for it was like a dream or an illusion rath er than a reality. But the striking of the clock re minded him that he had been there an hour, and as he had broken the spell of the unlucky thirteen he ven tured to excuse himself and rose stiffly from his place and bowed himself out of the room. He was followed by a servant, who handed him an envelope with the compliments of the gentleman with whom he had just dined. Not for worlds would he have opened it, though it was unsealed, before the man, but he accepted it graciously and went upstairs to get his hat and overcoat unattended. A number of handsomely appoint ed chambers were on the upper hall, and the professor glanced into each as he passed on his way to the par ticular guest chamber where he had left his belongings. Perhaps he was a trifle overcome by sherry and other beverages, but he thought the room had been darkened and that he was right. He stood a moment in the doorway and looked cautiously in, peering about at the luxury, but at the same time noting that it was not the dressing room for which he was looking. Before he could step back and turn down the corridor again the unexpected happened. He received a sudden and violent push from behind, which flung him for ward out of the doorway into the room; the door was instantly locked upon him, and he was a prisoner. “Smythe luck!” said the poor man as he tried in vain to open the door and knew by the rumpus he could hear outside that the house was in a state of excitement. “I suppose they will think I was trying to steal something.” And to add to his terror he’heard the alarmed household coming up stairs, and the next moment the door of his room was opened, and his host, backed by all the male guests, stood in the open doorway. “What are you doing here?” was the first question his host propound- THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE, APRIL 21, 1904. ed. “Tell the truth now as you would hope for mercy.” “I came here to get my hat and coat,” said the professor, the dig nity of all the Smythes since Mount Ararat in his thin, rasping tones. “A likely story. Turn your pock ets inside out,” commanded the host. “I refuse to do it.” “Then I will send for the police. I was willing to give you a chance, but if you refuse to be searched you are guilty.” “I am not a thief.” “I do not know. Your actions are very You can ex plain matters to the chief of police. There must be reasons why you re fuse to be searched. If you are honest, you can have nothing to conceal.” A hollow laugh rang through the room. Was it possible the bold in truder dared to laugh at them? It was the laugh of despair, and as such it smote upon the heart of the host, who looked troubled and per plexed. His enforced guest saw the look, and it suggested a line of ac tion to him. “Send these men away,” he said, pointing to the group of alarmed guests crowding in at the door. He was glad the women had remained below stairs and not come to gaze upon his discomfiture. He did not know that they were locked up in fear and trembling in a distant par lor. “We won’t go!” chorused the group. “He may want to murder you.” “I don’t think he will,” said the host, who was really soft hearted. “Til trust him, and you fellows can go to the ladies. I’ll call if I need help.” They went, rather glad to be out of it, and the two men, left togeth er, eyed each other, one waiting for the other to speak. They were ex actly opposite in appearance, one rosy and rubicund, the other thin and anxious, a meager travesty on a successful man. “I refused to let you search me,” said the professor slowly, “because —oh, my God, how can I acknowl edge it?—l am a thief!” The other man started and moved toward the door. Then he waited. “I have stolen from you —here, let me show you, and you will know why I could have died easier than to have those people gloating over me. See here—and here—and here.” He took the valuables out of his pocket one by one. They made a strange exhibit as he piled them up on the table in front of him. They were a roll of dinner bread, a pate, a sweetbread rolled in a leaf of let tuce, a chicken breast, a bit of toasted bread and a caviare sand wich. He brought them out to the last crumb, with the manner of one who lays his life on the altar of sac rifice. “Great heavens, man, what does this mean?” asked the astonished host. ~ “It means,” replied the other sol emnly, “that my sick wife and my little children are starving, and that I pilfered from my share of food at your table to give them, for my rent is overdue and the money I earned is already spent.” “But what did you eat yourself ?” “More than I have eaten for many a day. But now do with me what you will.” “Would you mind putting these things back into your pocket?” in quired his host vaguely. “Now come with me.” He took him by the arm and led him downstairs and into the presence of the shaking guests. “I I made a bad mistake, my friends,” he said. “This gentleman has proved himself perfectly innocent of any attempt at crime, and I must beg you to remain silent as to the events of this evening. He is under my protection from this time, and you will all agree with me that we are extremely sorry that such a mistake should have occurred.” Os course they all agreed with the sentiments of their host, what ever they were, and Professor Smythe was allowed to take his leave amid profuse apologies.—Mrs. M. L. Rayne in Detroit Free Press. Billings' Thermometer. “Billings has a thermometer that invariably runs to extremes. When the temperature is at zero Billings’ thermometer always goes several degrees below. When the July heat reaches 90 Billings’ thermometer in dicates 95.” “Where does it hang?” “I don’t think hanging has any thing to do with it. It’s the way it lies.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Hard Part. “Try to bear up, dear,” said the great man’s wife as he lay moaning in bed. “The doctors say you are much better today and? they think you may live for at least a week.” “o£, it isn’t the thought of hav ing to go so soon that worries me,” he sadly replied. “Not one of the papers has referred to me this morn ing as the illustrious patient.”— Chicago Record-Herald. THOMPSON’S MILLS. The farmers are getting along nicely. Some are done planting cotton seed and many others not far behind. Mr. E. A. Langford’s entire family are on the sick list this week. Mr. Lu-, ther Langford, their son, of Weather ford, Texas, has arrived to wait on the family. Three of W. L. Moore’s children are very sick —gastric catarrh of the stomach. a It is almost a certainty that we will have electric cars spinning through our county soon. The road will probably run from Atlanta by the way of Hog Mountain, Hoschton, Jefferson, Carnes ville, and on to some point in South Carolina. The road may come by Thompson’s Mills. Braselton Bros, have begun to break the dirt for their large store house. It will be a nice structure when finished. What is known as German measles have visited most of the homes in this county, and those measles seem to be close kin to the Gentile measles. Letters Uncalled For. List of unclaimed mail remaining on hand for the weekended April 16, 1904: LADIES’ LIST. Mrs. Henrietta Humphreys, Mrs. Kaizz Fambrough, Mrs. Reuben Huff, Mrs. Henry Daniel, Mrs. Ed Barnes, Miss Minnie Marcrum, Miss Dollie Thomason, Miss Arrie Ross, Miss Learv Wilson, Miss Hattie Smith, Miss Lula Thomas, Miss Janie Smith, Miss Mazie Smith, Mrs. Heary F. Andrews. GENTLEMEN'S LIST. S. C. James, Ben Stovall, C. T. Nor ris, Colquitt Smith, S. E. White, R. L. Mcßee, Fletcher Westmoreland, James Wheeler, Capt. J. McDaniel, James Bird, J. H. Adkins, Perry Bird. Parties calling for same should say “advertised” and give date. One cent due on each letter. Henry P. Farrow, P. M. The Pianoforte Recital Os Miss Nellie Howell, pupil of Mr. August Geiger, assisted by Miss Mary Wartmann, will occur at Brenau Audi torium Tuesday afternoon, May 3rd, at 5 o’clock. The program consists of selections from Mozart, Saint Saens, Rubenstein, Schubert, Liszt, Beethoven, Hawley, and Meyer Helmund. The music-loving public is cordially invited to these recitals. CAME NEAR DYING From an Awful Skin Humour. Scratched Till Blood Ran. Wasted to Skeleton. CURED BY CUTICURA One Application Soothed Him to Sleep. Cure Speedy and Permanent. «»When my little boy was about three months old his head broke out with a rash, which was very itchy and ran con siderable watery fluid. We tried every thing we could, but he got worse all the time till it spread to his arms, legs, and then to his entire body, and he got so bad that he came near dying. The rash would itch so that he would scratch till the blood ran, and a thin yellowish stuff would be all over his pillow in the morn ing. I had to put mittens on his hands to keep him from tearing his skin around his wrists. He got so weak and run down that he took fainting spells like we would think him dying. He was al most a skeleton and his little hands were thin like claws. “He was bad about eight months when we tried Cuticura Remedies. I had not laid him down in his cradle in the daytime for a long time. He had got so that he just slept in our arms all the time. I washed him with Cuticura Soap and put on one application of Cuticura Ointment and he was so soothed that I put him iu the cradle. You don’t know how glad I felt when he felt better. It took one box of Cuticura Ointment, pretty near one cake of Cuti cura Soap, and about half a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, to cure. I think our little boy would have died only for the Cuticura Remedies, and I shall al ways remain a firm friend of them.” Mrs. M. C. MAITLAND, Jasper, Ontario. No return in 14 years. Mrs. Maitland writes, under date of Feb. 24,1903, that the cure is permanent. “ it affords me much pleasure to in form you that it is fourteen years since my boy was cured of the terrible skin disease from which he suffered. “ He has been permanently cured and is hearty and strong.” Sold throughout the world. Cuticura Resolvent, 50c. (in form of Chocolate Coated Pills, 25c. per vial of 60), Ointment, 50e.. Soap, 25c. Depot* > London. 27 Charter home So.; Pari»,s Rue de la Paix; Boaton, 187 Columbu Ave. Potter Drue * Chem. Corp-, Sole Proprietor*. Bend for “How to Cure Every Humour.” Real Estate. GRIGG BROTHERS. We Buy Real Estate. We Sell Real Estate. We Rent Property. We Collect your Rents. We Settle Promptly. We insure your property. Gainesville. - - Ca. QUEEN OF ACTRESSES \ praises pe-ru-na: MISS JULIA MARLOWE. In a recent letter to The Peruna Medi cine Co., Miss Julia Marlowe of New York City, has the following to say of Peruna: “I am glad to write my endorse ment of the great remedy, Peruna, as a nerve tonic, / do so most heartily. "—Julia Marlowe. Nervousness is very common among women. This condition is due to anemic nerve centers. The nerve centers are the reservoirs of nervous vitality. These centers become bloodless for want of proper nutrition. This is especially true in the spring season. Every spring a host of invalids are produced as the di rect result of weak nerves. This could be easily obviated by the nse of Peruna. Peruna strikes at the root of the difficulty by correcting the digestion. Digestion furnishes nutri- SIO,OOO forfeit if we cannot produce the original letter and signature of above testimonial which well demonstrates its full genuineness. T. 0. WATKINS Cuts the Bottom Out of prices. Read the Small List of Specials: Men’s Vici Kid and Box Calf Shoes,'worth $2.50, to close out at $1.50. Ladies’ Slippers in Vici Kid and Pat. Leather, for $1.25, $1.50, and $1.75; worth $2.00 to $2.59. Boys’ Knee Pants, 35c. and 50c. 2,000 yards best Calico to sell for 4|c. per yard. 10c. Madras Cloth cut to 7|c. Mercerized Chambreys, 30 inches wide, 12|c. Men’s Negligee Shirts made of good quality Madras Cloth, best 50c. value, price cut to 39c. Boys’ Madias Cloth Shirts for 25c. 13 yards best Cabbot yard-wide Bleaching for SI.OO. See our line of Sun Bonnets, all colors, 15c., 25c., 35c. each. White Lawn Apron for 15c. $1.50 Umbrellas and Parasols for 98c. Turkey Red Table Damask, 64 inches wide, 50c. quality, cut to 35c. 72-inch Satin half bleached, all-linen Table Damask, 75c. quality, for 50c. per yard. Bal)y Elite Shoe Polish Bc. per bottle. Good Writing Ink 3c. per bottle. 5,000 yards Embroideries at half price. x I carry at all times good line Dry Goods, Notions, and Shoes. Give me a call. I will save you money. Yours truly, T. 0. Watkins. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY R. H. SMITH. See me if you want another store, renting for near 10 per cent. Dr. Nance’s property on Caldwell hill. Rev. Mr. Battie’s property on Athens street. Three homes on Green street. Judge Estes’ beautiful home. One 9-room residence on Main street. New 7-room residence on Candler st. Splendid vacant lot near the Oliver residence. A 400-acre tract, fine land, all in the woods, 6 miles from town, on Homer road. Many other properties the owners don’t want mentioned here. Also some cash buyers who withhold their names from print. You see me. tion for the nerve centers. Properly di gested food furnishes these reservoirs of life with vitality which leads to strong, steady nerves, and thus nourishes life. Peruna is in great favor among wo men, especially those who have voca tions that are trying to the nervous sys tem. Peruna furnishes the lasting in vigoration for the nerves that such peo ple so muchTneed. Thousands of testi monials from women in all parts of the United States are being received every year. Such unsolicited evidence surely proves that Peruna is without an equal as a nerve tonic and a vital in vigorator. Buy a bottle of Peruna today. If you do not receive all the bene fits from Peruna that you ex pected, write to Dr. Hartman, Co lumbus, Ohio. LETTERS OF DISMISSION. GEORGIA —Hall County. Ordinary’s office, Apr. 6, 1904. Notice to all concerned: Mrs. J. C. Dorsey, executrix of the estate of Win. Horace Tucker, deceased, rep resents in her petition duly filed in office that she has fully and justly administered the estate of said deceased, and prays to be discharged from said administration. This application will be considered and passed upon by the court on the first Monday in May, 1904. W. N. DYER, Ordinary. LETTERS OF DISMISSION. GEORGIA—HaII County. Ordinary’s office, Apr. 6, 1904. Notice to all •oncerned: F. T. Davie and Thoa; J. Odell, executors of the last will and teetrament of Little Berry Hutchins, late of said countv, de ceased. represent in their petition duly fifed in office that they have executed the will of said deceased, according to the terms of said will and according to the laws of this State, and pray to ne discharged from their administra tion. This application will be considered and passed upon by the Court on the first Monday in May-1904. W. N. DYER, Ordinary.