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<Thc fcewbw 1 litili ( ESTA WISHED /.V THE TE (ft 1805), jcs* C. ELEAIFtiD,) PROPRIETOR. ) 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' NO 10