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VOL. XIX.
MIMELLANEOLS
TOO FAT’TOi.MA URT •
A Stout Young; Ludy s In
structive Story.
Avery fat young woman came
to my office and asked to see me
privately. When we were alone
ebe said:
‘Are you sure no one can over
hear us?’
•Quite sure.’
• You won't laugh at me, Till
you?’
•Madam, I should be unworthy
of your confidence if I should bo
guilty of such a rudeuess ’
•Thauk you, but no one ever
called upon you on such a ridicu
lous errand. You won t think me
an idiot will you doctor?’
‘I bog you to go on.’
•You don’t care to know roy
name and residence?’
‘Certaioly not. if you care to
conceal thorn.’
•I have called to consult you
about the strangest thing in the
world. I will tell you all. lam
twenty-three years old. When I
was nineteen, 1 weighed 122 lbs.;
now I weigh 209; I m filling up
with fat. I can hardly breathe.—
The best young roan that ever liv
ed, loves me, and has been on the
point of asking me to marry him,
but of course he sees 1 ana grow
ing worse every day. and be don t
dare to venture. I cao’t blame
him. -ffe is the noblest roan in
the world, and coull roarry any
one he chooses. I don t blame
him for not wanting to uuite him
self to such a great tub as I am
Why doctor you don't know how
fat I am. 1 nn a sight to behold.
And now 1 have come to see if any
thing can be done. 1 know you
have studied up nil sorts ol curious
tbiugs, and thought you might tell
me bow to get rid of this dreadful
corse ’
She had been talking faster and
faster, and with more and more
feeling (after the manner of fat wo
men, who are always emntioual).
until sbo broke down in hysterical
sobs.
I inquired about her habits—ta
ble and otherwise. She replied:
‘Oh, I starve mj9elf; I don’t eat
enough to keep a canary bird alive,
and jet I grow fatter and fatter all
the time. 1 don’t believe anything
can be be done for use. We all
have our afflictions, and I suppose
we ought to bear them with forti
tude. 1 wouldn't mind for mj9elf,
but it is just breaking his heart.—
If it wasn’t for him, I could be re
conciled.’
I then explained to her our tier
vous system, and the bearing cere
tain conditions of one class of
nerves has upon the disposition of
adipose tissue I soon saw she
was not listening, but mourning
her sorrow. Then I asked her if
she would be willing to follow a
proscription I might give her.
‘Willing? willing?’ she cried.—
‘I would be willing to go through
fire, or to have my flesh cut off
with red hot knives. There is
nothing I would not he willing to
endure if I could cnly get rid of
this horrible condition.’
I prepared a prescription for her,
and arranged that she should call
upon me once a week, that I might
supervise her progress and have
frequent opportunities to encour
cge her The prescription which
I read te her was this:
I For breakfast eat a piece of
beef or mutton as large as your
band, with a Biice of white bro-M
twice as large. For dinner the
same amount of meat, or if prefer
red, Osh or poultry, with the sam* 1
amount of farinaceous or vegetable
food in the ferm of bread or pota-
toes. For supper nothing.
2, Drink only when greatly an*
noyed with thirst, then a mouthful
of lemonade without sugar,
3. Take three times a week some
form of bath, in which theie ,-h *4l
be immense perpiration The lur
kish bath ir best. You must work,
either in walking, or some other
way, several hours a day.
•But. doctor. I can’t, walk; my
feet are sore,’
I thought that might be the cass;
but if the soles of your shoes are
four inches broad, and are thick
and strong, walking will not hurt
your feet You mu6t walk or
work until you perspire freely ev*
ery dav of the week. Of eourse
vou are in delicate health with lit
tie endurance, but, as you have
told me that you are willing to do
anything, you are to work hard at
something six or seven hours eve
ry day.
•You rou3t rise early in the
morning, and retire late at night.
Much sleep fattens peeple.
5. A terrible corset you have on.
which compresses the center of the
body, making you look a great deal
fatter than yea really are, must he
taken off, and you must have a
corset which any dressmaker can
fit to you —a corset lor the stom
ach, which' will raise this great
mass and support it.
•This is all the advice I have to
give you at preseut. At first you
will lese hnli a pound a day. In
the first three months you will lose
from twenty to thirty pounds; in
six months.' forty pounds. You
will constantly improve in health,
get over this excessive emotion,
and he much stronger. Every one
knows that a very fat horse, weigh,
mg 1200 pounds, can he quickly
reduced to 101)0 pounds with great
improvement to activity and health.
It is still eqsjer with a human be
ing. Thai you’moy know exactly
what L being done, I wish you to
ha weighed; write the figures in
your memorandum, and one week
from now. when you come again,
weigh yourself and tell me bow
much you have lost.’
I happened tf bo out of the city
and did not see her until her sec
ond visit, two waeks from our last
meeting. It was plain when she
entered that already her system
was being toned up, and when we
were again in my private offiee,she
said:
‘I have lost six and a half
pounds; not quite as much as you
told me, but 1 am delighted, though
nearly starved. I have done ex
actly a3 you prescribed, and shall
eonthiue to if it kills me. \ou must
be very careful not to make any mis
takes, for I shall do just as you say.
At first the thirst was dreadful; I
thought l could not bear it; but now
I have very little trouble with that.
About four mouths after our first
meetiog this young woman brought a
haudsouie young man with her, and
after a plea-aut chat she said to me :
‘We are engaged ; hut I have told
my friend that 1 shal' not consent to
become his wife untii l have a decent
shape. When I came to you I weigh
ed 209 pounds; I now weigh 163
pounds. lam ten times as strong, ac
tive and healthy as I was then, and I
have made up my mind, for my friend
has left it altogether to me. that when
l have lost ten or fifteen pounds more,
we shall send you the invitations.’
As the wedding-day appreached she
brought the fignies 152 on a a card,
and exclaimed, with her blue eyes run
ning over ;
‘I am the happiest girl in the world.
,od don't you think I have honestly
a ned it ? I think I am a great deal
happier than I should have been, if I
had not worked for it.'
The papers said the bride was beau
tiful, I thought she was, and I sup
p,,se no one but herself and husband
elt as much interested in that beauty
is I did. I took a sort of scientific in
terest in it.
Devoted to tins Cause of Truth and Jusdeo, and the Interests ol Ihc People.
GREENES BORO’. GA-, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1884
We made the roual call upon iheti
during the first month, and when, two
uiouths alter the wedding, they wore
spending the evening with us, I asked
him if Ins wife hud told him about my
relations with her avoirdupois. He
laughed heartily, and replied :
-Oh, yes ; she told me everything, I
suppose. But wasn't it lunny ?’
‘Not very. lam sure you wouldn’t
have thought it funny, if you could
have heard our first interview It was
just the reverse of funny : don’t you
think so, madam V
‘I am sure it was the most anxious
visit I ever paid any one Doctor, my
good husband says he should have
married me all the same, but I thick
he would have been a goose if he had.'
‘Yes,’ said the husband, ‘it was fore
ordained that we two should bo one.’
‘To be sure it was,’ replied the hap
py wife, ‘because it was foreordained
that I should get rid of those horrid
fifty-seven pounds, lam going down
till I reach one hundred and forty It).,
and there I will stop, unless my hus
band says one hundred and thirty, I
am willing to do anything to please
him., — Dio Lewis’s Monthly,
the country editor.
The country oditor is a bully old
boy, and has a real fat, juicy,
greasv time. He can take rusty
nails, bottles, pieces of iron, dilap
iiaicd currycombs and weather
beaten umbrellas, in payment for
subscription to bis paper, and then
trade off the whole conflulement to
some looso darkey hanging round
for an equivalent quantity of pos
sums and bullfrogs.
If the editor gives the wealthy
farmer a three column notice of his
new barn and the old circumstance
fails to remunerate, be can hitch
up the cart and steero and take
So Hie and the children out on a
six week’s visit.
The fellow who brings quilts,
patchwork, hoe's or phenomenal
eggs to be advertised free, is migb
tv apt to call for the loan of a
quarter, or a powerful huge chew
of tobacco.
In a small town the editor is a
piutty big sized bulldog—bigness
owing somewhat to the population
of the town. He is the husband of
one wife, and the father of six lit
tle orphan children, mostly boys
and girls
He is his own editor, book keep
er. manager and compositor, and
when the time for settlement comes
he has nothing to settle but bis
coffee.
The editor of a country paper
gets the Constitution and all the
balance of the leading first class
dailies of the State, in ex
change for his dingy 10x12 week
ly, and has on hand a fine chance
of first class wrapping paper for
sale.
All the full weight, high-roost
ing people of the neighborhood
have a sweet tooth in their mouths
for th couniry oditor; and peach
es, apples, melons and eggs, phe
nomenal and unphenomerial, crowd
his sanctum and stomach.
The rural editor always enjoy*
the business; never gets fretted,
peevish or morose, and invariably
designs to devote the bottom hour
of his life to the guild; but his pa
per makes him vastly rich in a pair
of years, and he is compelled to
desert his sanctum and go and take
care of his dead oodles of money.—
Sumter Republican.
——
'Here is a cupstderable talk these
days of changing tha gauge of all the
Southern railways from their standard
of five feet to the Northern standard of
lour feet eight and one half inches
This would involve a great expense, an
enormotts one in the aggregate, and i
one which it -eerns the ingenuity of
this country should be able to obviate.
Tha present plan of changing trucks
accomplishes the object but ut too great
a loss of time. EL re’s an opportunity
for a handsome fortune to some enter
prising ioventor —Southern Trade Ov
xstte.
W. %. Garrett. W A. Latimer.
GARRETT & LATIMTrT
Colton (f||g|§|| Factors
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 8 Mclntosh Street, AUGUSIA, GA.
Liberal Cash advances made on Consignments in Store. Bagging and Tie*
at lowest market Prides. , Sept. 14, 3
Win. n Jordan Ereil. It. Cor**.
Formerly of Sib It if <s• Jordan Of M ashinglon Ga.
JORDAN & POPE,
Cotton Omtm's-RSgggjgsion 51 delimits.
No. 729 Reynolds StrM,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WE aro General Agents for Gullelt’s Patent Bltel Brush GIN, Light Draft Cotton
Bloom GIN, I umnui? or lmbroved Taylor GIN, with feeders amt condeusere
for ail of them, Write for terms and circulars.
We will give our personal attention to weighing and selling Cotton, and guarantee
quick sales and prompt returns. We hope by close attention to business t<> merit n
liberal sharoe of the shipment of cotlcn. Sept 14,’1:3
WHEUBSS & Cos.,
Cotton Factors and jgj g Comiission Merchants,
AVGUSTA, GEQBGIA.
(X^Prompt compliance w ith instructions relative to disposition of Consignments.
Liberal Advances on Produce in Store. Sept.l4, 3
JOHN W. WALLACE,
And Agent for the Celebrated
WITH OR WITHOUT FEEDER AND CONDENSER
At Old Stand of Warren, Wallace* Cos , 729 and 732 Reynolds Street,
Augusta, Cileosgia.
Ample facilities for doing it Cothoi tmsiness. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Sl’ MITDa -TMlv If 1883.
Mi. John W. Wallace: Pear Sir—Yours received, asking my opinion "t the llall Gin
1 bought of you last year The Gin is all ihe maker promised i< to be and lam vert,
well satisfied with the Giri and Feeder. Slioulo 1 need another I would piqchasy ' h v
Hall Gin. Respectfully, PAYII) UICKSOX.
CULVERTON, G , May 31, 1881.
Messrs. Warren, Wallace & Co.,—ln answer to your inquiry as to my opinion of
the Hall Gin, I think f can safely say,.that I have never used a Getter Gin than the
Flal'. I have never soen anything to equal it in (deansing the seed of lint. I have
ginned about 40 bales of cotton on the (Jin, and have saved half enough jo p.>y for it in
th wav of cleaning tge seed. It makes a good sample, equal ]o the hast—ns to durabil
ity it has no superior. I think the feeder is a goed thing. I have never used the con
denser, therefore I cannot say anything as to its use, but it is highly recommended by
(hose that have used it. There is no Gin better than Hie Hall, its capacity is good
enough. On a4O saw Gin I can gin 0 hales of cotton a day, making a good somple,
with a four horse engine. Yours most respectfully, J W. MQQUK.
Sept. 14, 1883
P. E. PEARCE N L. WILLETT. C. 11. BALLARD,
PEARCE, WILLETT & BALLARD
and
Commission Merchants,
No 19 Jacktnn Street,
AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA,
personal attention given to business intrusted to us. Liberal advances
on Consignments. sept. 11, 18S3
W. 11. HOWARD, C. H. HOWARD, S. P. WEISIGER.
W. 11. HOWARD & SONS,
Cotton Merchants;j
JYo. 20 [JWcfntosh] Street ,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
INSTRUCTIONS implicitly obeyed. Consignments of Cotton and other Produce c*
lirifod Orders for Ragging and Ties filled at lowest prices. S! P
JONN C. FERRIS. CIIAS. 11. FERRIS.
FERRIS & SON,
Merchant Tailors,
820 Broad Strict,
October ‘2O, 1883— _
(ictt, 11. Sibley. Aslnirv I Hull, !*• IS- To bint
GEO. R. SIBLEY & (XX,
Cotton Factors.
84-7 aiulß49"licijn olds Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA;
fitsT Liberal Casn advances on Consignments. Personal attention given to Weight*
and Sales. S ®P* 38, ’B3
g. in. i in i " ii ■ ■>' I ■LU..JJLM
PLOWS. CUTLERY,
LOOKS. HINGES,
BELTING, SCALES,
And
Agricultural Implements
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
AT LOWEST PRICES ! !
IIIAKY I*. 510015 P.
September 28, 18^3—• *4? OCSTA, Ga.
It. P SIBLEY. Wm J CRANSTON;
R P. SOLS?
Cotton Factor, rgfffjjggj) <•'* Wealer
Commission Merchant,
734 n(l 736 Reynolds Street,
f@r Libel al advances made on CVnsignwenls. lagging and Ties furnished a
lowest rates. Strict personal attention given to weighing and sampling Cottou. t.a
feignments <<f Grain solicited. ° <!t #
MraaM———————————
Assignee’s Sale!
mm • im i
THE ENTIRE STOCK OF CARRIAGES. BUGGIES. WAG
ONS. SADDLES. HARNESS. LEATHER, <* .
at the old stand of
R. H. MAT & Cos.,
WILL BE OFFERED FOII THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS At
Greatly Reduced Prices ! !
THE above Goods are nil clean, fresh stock, made by the Bert M ; ofnch.rern in <M
United State., nn.l comprise 'he well known mikes of SMldehakcr. \UHmru and Man
.l lhl plantation H neons, ill si7.es Host quality of Open and lop B'W**.
Victoria* :int Bxtemnnn Top CnhrioVoes. made in the Xorthern and bartorn
Also seventy-five Open Top and Top lluggiej of Cincmuati Wopk. >|>nn Z Wagons nadf
R'>%l Carts,
J_j£t:rg’o Stock
nr Mnzle nnd Double Harness, Singe !lnfne>s. Plow Gear, Baines, Traces. < of
lars TiU BuckS. l?ow Bridles. U nbrellas. Whips. Horse Blankets, Bap Kobe.
si",, Kfr aTJis ’
MUST BE SOLD !
WD L \UE INDUCEMENTS will he offered to CASH Buyer*. Call early and
examine the Goo Is and secure the Bargains now offered.
N I? Fiery Velth Is sold subject to the regular twelve mouths guarantee.
John S. Davidson, Assignee,
701 Broad Street, A'JGPSTA, (la. Of HOB T I). AU? & Cos. .
Sept- : ,— mmmmm—mmmmmd
n ilffici.l I—Greene County.
\ I Elijah M. Philips, Administrator of
the Ha'ate of Ma.y A. It Philip*. applies
fir Letters of Dismission, Mid such letters
will be granfe lon the first M<u lay in
April, 1881, uuless good objections are fil
ed-
JOEL F. THOHNTON. Ordina l
December 18, 188#.—tint Monday. Apri>
fH. T. LEWIS,
\ KDPTOR.
Of Kentucky University, LEX!N€TM, KI.
Tint f o complete the Foil i‘.puma Hun#*i Cos .rot d>Mt
10 Wi.ek. Total C', lr*lc4ln* Tuitlo*. Book*. Btatmmmtf,
Hoard. *c., aboil s*s. Telegraphy **#!. Lmrmy Cone*.
for O'.e year If drrlreJ. free. Nearly 400 *re H 4—ll
last ve*V S.OOO sorcewful fraduat**.
can Larina: any time; no vacation. Vail nwlsl
feegms heplesibtr 10th. For full particulars, adorn*
WILBUR R. ttMITM, LM'npon, Nf'
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