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PH(EBUS OR CUPID.
A rain of hot light was beating down
on tne baked meadow, and the sere, un
waving banners of the cornfield. Hud
dled beside the corn, as if to get the
benefit of
a narrow strip of ragged
ahaddow, was a cucumber patch! The
glory of that patch was not its much
maligned fruit, but the frisky insects
which were eating its strength away.
Out of sorrow cometh joy” for some
one, nearly always. The sorrow of the
farmer was the joy of the scientist; for
the little poacher on the vine was the
potato-bug, the far-famed Colorado
beetle, Doryphora decem-lineata. Be
sides Doryphora, in tho pitiless glare of
the sun, knelt Professor Timotheus N.
Jones, assistant state entomologist,
spectacles on nose, microscope in hand,
glowing with enthusiasm, pimpled with
heat.
Professor Timotheus N. Jones was a
great genius, but even the immature
young potatoes in the adjoining field
must have winked their blind eyes at the
man who would kneel in that tempest
of sunshine without a cabbage leaf in liis
hat.
Ignorance and immatnrity generally
laugh at science, but this time the scien
tist’s symptoms endorsed them. A pain,
about the size of a man’s hand, slapped
the top of the assistant state entomolo
gist’s head. The mate to it gave his di
gestive organs a shake. Then a thrill
went down his spine; then he was very
warm; then he was chilly; then he felt
faint; after which he did not feel at all.
When Timotheus recovered conscious
ness he was in a cool room. He took
cognizance of its having windows draped
with muslin curtains. The swaying
motion of these adornments made him
dizzy, so he closed his eyes again.
“Don’t speak,” said a voice. “Lie per
fectly quiet till the doctor comes.”
He had no intention of speaking, but
this moved him to inquire, “Where
am I?”
“At my house,” said the voice, which
emanated from a comfortable, middle-
aged farmeress, who was applying mus
tard plasters to the soles of his feet. “My
son found you over in the cornfield, and
brought you in. He’s gone for the doctor
now. S—s—h! don’t talk. You ain’t
dead.
“There! Miss Rose,” continued the
voice, after an interval, “I wouldn't put
on any more ice if I was you. Ain’t it a
mercy the ice-man came yesterday! He
so often forgets us country folks. Why
don’t Andy come with the doctor!
S—s—h! don’t talk to him. There’s
nothing so bad for sick people as to talk
to ’em”
Again the aching eyelids unclosed, and
Professor. Timotheus N. .Jones saw, bend
ing over him, the most beautiful blonde
lady he ever beheld. She looked as cool
and well-starched as the white dress she
wore, but what a world of sympathy
was in her heavenly-blue orbs, as she
bent their gaze on the limp and prostrate
naturalist.
“He is reviving, Mrs. Lee. I think I
can be of no further service; besides,
there is Mr. Andrew and the doctor.
Poor niamnu will be so frightened when
she sees Doctor Gray come in, if I am
not with her *o explain the cause of his
visit,” said the blue-eyed maid.
She glided away, and, without any ap
parent reason, Professor Timotheus N.
Jones felt ill-used.
Alas for Timotheus N.! Before that
moment of fate all womankind had
6eemed to him to be divided into two
classes—fat women who kept boarders,
and thin women who taught school.
Dull as his brain was, he made an in
stantaneous resolve to revise this cata
logue.
This new and perfect specimen of a
hitherto unknown species of the genus
mulier, he learned during his convales
cence, was named Host Allen. She,
with her invalid mother, had ‘‘iken
board for the summer at the farmnouse
of “Widder Lee,” parent of the good
Samaritan, Andrew.
Professor Timotheus engaged board
at this agricultural Eden, pre
sided over by the “widder.” His
physician warned him not to
expose himself unduly to the direct rays
of the solar luminary; therefore, as be
hoved an industrious naturalist, he de
cided to sit him down in Mrs. Lee’s
parlor and write up a few hundred pages
from notes already taken on Dorj r phora
decern-1 in eata.
“A change was lisped about the
acacias” that lifted their blossoms to the
farm-house windows.
Farmer Andrew Lee was the mail that
lisped it. "Professor.” said that candid
yeoman, one evening, after Miss Rose
had gone up to her mother, "you are not
a marrying man. are you?”
The embarrassed professor stammered
an incoherent reply.
"Just so; I thought so,” said the other,
taking the answer for granted. "Now I
am. and what I want to ask of you is.
that, you being as you are, and I being
as 1 are, you take a back seat, and give
me a better chance.”
-To ah—I fear, my friend that I do
not quite comprehend the true signifi
cance of your last remark.”
“1 thought I'd made it plain enough,
eaid the farmer, sturdily, while a fine
crimson wave swept frqpi his massive
neck to his narrow temples. "What
1 mean is just this: I think Miss Rosy
is a number 1 figure for a wife, and
X know most that she likes me;
but vou keep up such a bug-racket that
I don't get a fair chance to show her
that I mean business. If you meant
business. I'd say a fair field and no fa
vors and let the girl take her pick, but
as vou say you don't (!) I ask of you to
take a back seat. Is it a bargain.- All
rieht’ give us your hand on it.
Tho poor gentleman who had not said
anything that might be considered
.neech felt ids hand gripped m a clasp
that brought to his mind the Xureraburg
virgin, and was then left "a prey to con-
“^Vhft^houhMie do? What could lie
do’ His brow gn*w cold, ms spectacles
moist It seemed such a pity for Miss
££ to abandon the study of uaturM
SsTorv, just as her mind was openmg to
. V ’ It would be an incalcular
Uctos to her. And himsell-he ao-
£££*•* humbly hi# obligations. . SIie
*•«*» oacn am inspiring pnpii; sne stimu
lated effort in a thousand pleasant ways.
The poor professor heaved a sigh that
shook all his bones and tissues, and
thrilled his cartilages as with rheuma
tism.
Almost he resolved to ignore Andy
Lee’s request: then came the hideous re
minder—Andy was his benefactor, had
saved him, and thereby the precious
history of Doryphora decem-lineata, to
jhe world. “Trouble on trouble, pain on
pain!”
He may have hoped that “gazing on
the pilot stars” would teach him some
thing. Be that as it may, he sat at his
window looking out on the night, till
blazing constellation and glittering
binary slipped out of sight, and a hag
gard dawn came toiling over the hills.
Truly, this was much wakefulness for
the j>ossible loss of one pupil in ento
mology, a slimpsy girl who was afraid of
grass-hoppers, and had been heard to
wonder, whether Pterophera, with jew
eled eyes, would look well on an opera
bonnet!
If Miss Allen felt any surprise when
her quondam teacher passed her by
with an awkward bow and melancholy
smile, as he stole forth to the cucum
ber patch, she gave no sign. She
made incursions into shady lines
with the farmer, she accepted his bou
quet of sweet peas and boneset. She
sang “Auld Robin Gray,” and “Kitty
Wells” to him, he, meanwhile, wildly
hunting for the air on an antiquated fid
dle. She listened with exemplary inter
est to his renditions of “Money Musk”
and “Napoleon Crossing the Alps” on
the aforesaid instrument. She petted
the colts, she praised the calves, she took
an interest in chicken-farming. The
farmer was radiant, the professor was
the opposite.
Nothing is eternal save eternal change.
In the hall, one morning, this fair Rose,
blushing like her dewy namesake out
side the door, said to the sad and silent
Timotheus, with beseeching accent and
eyelids meekly dropped:
“Professor Jones, I know I am dread
fully stupid, and think you were quite
right in stopping our lessons, but won’t
you, as it is too warm to continue your
observations to-day, won’t you p-l-e-a-s-e
read me another chapter of your de
lightful book?”
Timotheus N. Jones, assistant state ento
mologist, was a great scientist, a great ge
nius; but, be it known to all men, by these
presents, the superstructure of genius
is generally reared on the same sort of a
clay foundation that is employed in the
composition of ordinary men. The scien
tific mind, therefore, was permeated by
an agreeable warmth, diffused from the
igniferous flattery of this female plotter.
Tht; owner of the scientific mind tried to
say something gallant, and failed; he
made an effort to answer profoundly,
and failed again. Finally he contented
himself with the assertion that he would
be “very pleased” to read any number of
chapters from “my poor book.”
♦That afternoon he made a discovery of
more importance than any accredited to
Lubbock or Darwin. Miss Rose was in
love, not with the farmer, but with him
self. He read it in her innocent eyes,
he heard it in her softly modulated
voice. He was astonished, embarrassed,
enraptured; his usually steady scientific
brain reeled. When he arose and went
to his room, he felt that it required an
effort to keep from staggering.
Again, he watched the night out.
From 10 p. m. till m. he sat and smiled
so inanely that it is a wonder that the
dog-star forbore to bark at him. From
12 to 2 a. m. he formulated proposals
of marriage. From 2 till 3:15, he
pictured himself bringing out his book,
with a preface acknowledging the valu
able assistance rendered by “my wife.”
Then he thought of Andy Lee and he
was remorseful. “When the great,
gray, unlit earth lay chill in the still of
I the dawn, he wondered if it were true,
! as some said, that the cares of a family
I were so distracting as to prevent an in-
’’ vestigator from attaining the maximum
of success. Then, as the sun came up
! like a cohort of radian * seraphim, his
! head fell over on the window-sill and he
slept.
That day Mrs. Allen had what was
known to a large and sympathetic cir
cle of acquaintances as “one of her bad
spells.” 'Miss Rose, as a *’ .tiful daugh
ter should, staid upa^vs and minis
tered unto her.
The assistant state entomologist
had not a spirit thrice dyed in
cruelty, but, on the whole, lie
was not sorry for the affliction of
Allen mere. It gave him more time for
consideration.
To wed or not to wed—a serious ques
tion? He fidgeted around the house for
a season, and, after noon, taking his
microscope and note book, wandered
down the lane. The very black black
berry vines and nigger-heads (Oscar
Wilde sunflowers), which bordered the
ljnes of worm-fence seemed to wave
their long branches and shake their
saucy heads in derision of this too-suc-
cessful lover, who was afraid to take
the good the gods provided. On, on, he
went, past the corn-field, past the
lodge of cucumbers where dwelt his
chosen bug, into a dusty road that led to
town, and a narrow path that ambled
here and there among lush green grasses,
and finally lost itself on the
bank of a willow-framed brook. He
followed the brook to where it twisted
around a little knol crowned with cot
tonwood trees. There he sat down.
Sould he marry this lovely, loving
girl, or was he honor bound to leave her
to Lee? Over and over, the question
asked itself, she was so fair, so deli
cate, surely, life on a farm would be for
her a burden too heavy to be borne;
I and. evidently, it was not Lee she loved.
| His temples throbbed as he remembered
: the look that revealed her girlish soul.
! Would it not be a crime to allow her to
: flirr- away her hand where her heart was
i not? He remembered reading of a case
j in point, where a gentle, yielding maid,
I ?ad from the conviction of love unre
ciprocated, had married one who loved
her. and died of atropia.
The die was cast—he must save her!
x^cvi nwci near jars. ximumeus r«.
Jones in pros pec tu! How she loved him!
how she loved science! He should have
to take a house and furnish it. And
that would take time, and, what he had
still less to spare, money. The book
i would be interrupted, trips about the
I country to study the habits of Dory-
• phora ’ decem-lineata would be discon
tinued. A crumpled roseleaf, a—yes—
a very decided thorn!
He began at the beginning and
thought it all over again.
The shadows grew long, the aricketi
came out, the night fall.
ne started larmhouseward.
At the hickory trees he came to a
decision. He would leave all in the
lady’s hands. He would put a sup
posititious case, and let her comments
guide him. He felt almost positive
what she would say. Woman, the
most reliable authorities have stated,
is a creature governed by the impulses
of the affections; she particularizes, she
cannot generalize on questions of ex
pediency, and merge the cravings of the
individual in the polity of race-aspira
tions.
He went softly by the window; he
heard Rose’s voice:
“Dear Walter, you cannot know how
lonely I have been without you. Only
duty to poor mamma has made me en
dure it. I have had no solace but your
letters, no companionship but your
photograph.”
Involuntarily, he looked in. Was
that, could that be Rose? and who was
that handsome stranger with his arm
around her waist?
The spheres seem to be breaking up;
the stars tumbling from the sky. He
groped amid chaos for the front door.
Suddenly a shape confronted him.
“Say, professor,” it said huskily, “I’m
going over into another county in the
morning, to look at some hogs, and I
guess I’d better explain my little joke
before I go. I ain’t after Miss Rose.
She’s too finicky for a farmer’s wife. I’ve
got my eye on one of Pettigrew’s girls. I
was only chaffing the other night. I
got to thinking, yesterday, I’d as well
explain the joke or you mightn’t see it.
You know you’ve been sun-struck, and
that makes a fellow kind o’ dull and
queer for a while, but you’ll right up in
time.”
The shape disappeared, leaving the
unhappy lover in a whirl that made the
laws of gravitation visible to the naked
eye. Was—was he “kind o’ dull and
queer?” Was this rudely shattered dream
of connubial bliss the delirium of coup
de soleil?
He could not answer—in fact he was
afraid to hazard any guesses. That
night he packed his .effects with trem
bling hands, and hied away.
From time to time his symptoms re
turned in a mild form, but as Andy Lee
had prophesied, he “righted up.” After
the night he looked in the window, he
won never dangerously affected, save
when he received Mrs. Walter Stacey’s
wedding cards. Even that paroxysm
passed harmlessly, and he took a pensive
satisfaction in sending her a valuable
collection of grasshoppers, originally in
tended for the Smithsonian institute.—
Julia Scott in Overland Monthly.
The Tomb of Bolivar.
In the pantheon in Caracas, in the
north edge and overlooking the city, the
remains of Bolivar repose, surrounded
by th ise of others worthy of such honor.
His mortal part lies under a high mar
ble cenotaph, crowned with his marble
bust, a fine piece of the sculptor’s art.
Bolivar was born in Caracas. He was
rich. He had slaves. He emancipated
fully his bondsmen, risked and lost his
riches, won the independence of five
great states of South America—Vene
zuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and
Peru—and died at last in exile, poor, al
most friendless, and was buried in a
shirt borrowed from a British merchant
named Cage, the father of the present
British vice consul at Laguayra. Yet,
as a general he was superior to any
of our own revolution, and as a pa
triot not inferior to Washington. But
he probably lacked in statesmanship
and so fell a victim to the aspirations of
others and to the turbulent political
movements of his time. His whole ex
ample and his deeds are worthy of the
high admiration and honor of our own
people as well as those of South Amer
ica.—Chicago News.
j Sleep with the Head Lower.
; A French physician, having tested his
theory, advocates sleeping with the head
lower than the feet. He slept that way
for four years, and finds that his neck is
nearly two inches larger owing to the
swelling of the thyroid gland. He says
in this way the brain receives a more
plentiful blood supply, and is conse
quently better nourished, while there is
no danger of so much blood passing to
the cerebral structure as to cause con
gestion. Tliis danger is obviated by the
enlargement of the thyroid gland, which
holds back a certain portion of the blood
in its dilated vessels, and which also acts
as a regulator of the cerebral circulation
by exerting pressure upon the carotids,
and thus diminishing their calibre.—New
York Sun.
The German Household.
The German household moves easily.
No bread is baked at home, and the
was!ling is sent out. Every member of
the family goes out for a daily walk;
and if you ask the distance to a neigh
boring village, nobody knows the answer
in miles. “It is a two hours’ walk, or a
three hours’,” you are told.
There is nowhere the noise, the rush,
the stir that one finds in American cities;
things move quietly. There are no flar
ing advertisements, no flaming placards,
no signs reaching across the pavement,
no goods obstructing the sidewalk.—
Stuttgart Cor. Courier-Journal.
Of 192 revolutions in Europe the
months of June and July have the larg
est share, November and January the
smallest.
There are thoughts, like wounds, from
which there is no recoverv.—Balzac.
A petroleum spring has been dis
covered in France.
Half a Thousand in a Month.
.Anar, -nee of 500 would fill an average
con :y arch full, and there ere multitudes
• n - which never see such an audi-
| c 1' : 500 was the number gathered by
;le missionary in the southwest in a
month. He organized ten Sunday
schools with a membership of 518. Many
of the families live in small log houses,
having a single room, which is kitchen,
j dining room, bed room and parlor for
1 a large family. The children and many
i of the grown-up people go barefoot. They
are experiencing very close times while open
ing up new homes, and they must be sup
plied with religious reading by donation, or
. go without it. These peoj ic have very few
religious privileges. One pious lady said to
the missionary: “If we could only have
preaching once a month through the summer
1 should be so thankful” Our hearts are
moved with compassion toward these people,
who are as “sheep having no shepherd.” Were
it not for the American Sunday School Union
and her noble supporters, many of these
; poorer communities would be wholly uncared
j for. —Tb# Sunday School World.
GENERAL NEWS-
The total cotton crop for the year
ending August 31 reaches 6,550,215
bales, while the exports are 4,348,
SOI bales, and the spinners’ takings
are 2,117,676 bales, leaving a stock
on hand at the close ol the year of
173,728 bales.
Thomas E. Benedict, the newly
appointed Public Printer, is said to
be a very pronounced Democrat, a
fact which has caused mueh pleas
ure to the Democrats ernpl >yed in
the office, who have not had a bed
of roses to rest on under Mr. Round-’
administration.
Hon. Clifton R. Brecklnrid
son of the late John C. Breckin
ridge, has been unanimously renom
inated for Congress in ihe Second
Arkansas district. Mr. Breekinridg'
though quite a young man, is serv
ing his second term in Congress
where he has made a fine record
It is merely a question of time
when he will sit in the Senate once
occupied by his honored father.
The yacht Volta, propelled by
electricity, started across the En
glish channel to Calais on a trial
trip from Dover, September 12. She
reached Calais in three hours and
fifty-one minutes from the time ■ f
her starting from Dover. The ro
turn trip was made in four hour
and fifteen minutes.
There has been, in the past year,
an uncommon railway activity in
Georgia and South Carolina. This
means a vital improvement in gen
eral business. Crops are excellent,
and capital only needs encourage
ment to come out and make itself
useful.
There is not much change in the
situation in Charleston, but stren
uous efforts are being made to patch
up houses in a rude way to make
them water tight. Business is be
ing resumed. Considerable excite
ment has been caused by a refusal
of bricklayers to work tor less than
five dollars a day. The objection,
apparently, is not so much to the
amount asked for, as to the charac
ter of work to be done, many of
those claiming advanced rates be
ing inefficient.
The official report to the govern
ment from Tequisixtaiu, State of
Mexico, says a shock of earthquake,
with oscillations from east to west,
was felt there between 4 and 5
o’clock on the morning of ihe 3d
iDst. The last severe shock there
was four years ago, when a massive
building, occupied by the London
Bank, was cracked and other edi
fices injured. Great interest is felt
throughout Mexico in the recent se
vere earthquakes In the United
States.
Dr. W. H. Felton and Col. Henry
D. Capers announce themselves
through the Cartersville papers, as
candidates for Representatives of
Bartow county. Dr. Felton names
the measures of State poiicy which
he has heretofore supported or op
posed, and says that if elected lie
will stand by his positions on those
questions. Col. Capers promises to
make known his views in addresses
to the people. There are now four
candidates for the Legislature in
Bartow, T. Warren Akin and A. M.
Foute having been previously an
nounced.
The New Orleans Picayune takes
an encouraging view of the busi
ness situation. It had already, last
spring, pointed out that the increase
in the project far the building of
new railroads and extensions was
an indication that the country was
getting over the effects of the very
dull season which set in about 1S79
and culminated in 1885. Matters
being pretty nearly down to bed
rock, an improvement is the natu
ral order of t hings.
■5 One by one the famous old Con
federates are passing away. Re-
ce tly Gen. H. H. Sibley died in
poverty and distress at Fredericks
burg, Va, When the war com
menced he held the rank of Major
in the regular army of the United
States, but promptly resigned to
cast his fortunes with theSouth. At
that time he had invented the cele
brated army tent, now known by
his name, and for which he would
have received a large sum if he had
not. joined the Counfederaey. The
United States government to-day
is justly due his heirs thouiands of
dollars, but it is not likely that they
will ever realize a cent.
Chairman Manly, of Augusta, Me.,
ent the following telegram to the
editor cf the Tribune, New York:
“The result of to-day’s election is a
far larger Republican majority than
was anticipated—the largest indeed
given in the State for the past fif
teen years except in Presidential
years. We expected seven or eight
thousand plurality. The figures
at this hour (11 o’clock) indicate
a plnralityfor Bodwell of not
less than 12,000, and not improb
ably 14,1*00. We have carried every
Congressional district and elect
ed iw-thirds to three-fourths of
the Legislature—thus securing the
Senate and county officer, probably
in fourteen of the sixteen conn ties
of the State.
Under instructions irom th
Treasury Department, Earle Sloa.
nas visited the fissure on the Savan
nah and Charleston'road, and find
it due to the continuity of the mi;
pond and not to the eartbquak
Mr. Sloan will visit those aboi
Summerville and the whole lin
of the South Carolina railway, f.\
amining the phenomena and of
serving specially the changes in t! e
levels of the earth. Gen. W. S.
Crawford, U. S. A., of Philadelphia
who visits Charleston to see for him
self the condition of affairs, is much
impressed by the character of th
loss by the earthquake, and ho'ds
it to be far beyond the usual esti
mate. At a special meeting of Cit^
Council, Mayor Courtney reported
the amount of the relief fund to this
time about $200,000. He said, fur
ther, that this amount was very
small when there were so many
sufferers to be provided for.
Judge McCure, of California, who
is now in Washington, thu- tells
how he manages to live on ten
cents per day: “I usually turn outnt
about eleven o’clock and take
breakfast. I go to the dairy around
the corner and buy a cup of coffee
for five cents, and with the other
five cents T get five Maryland bis
cuits. My breakfast is eaten slowly
and well digested. It generally lasts
until about four o’clock in the after
noon. I always go provided with
several pieces of alum. When I
begin to get hungry I place one of
these bits of alum in my mouth and
ailow it to dissolve slowly. The
effect is that it contracts the throat
and the stomach, and the sensation
of hunger disappears. I repeat this
dose until bed time, and I fall
asleep like a child. Gentlemen, ie
me tell you that eating is nothing
but a habit after all.” This may be
valuable hint in hard times.
It is remarked, that although
Emperor Francis Joseph, #f Aus
tria, is at Przenysl. in Galicia, and
the Czar ot Russia, at Brest,
Litovsk, in Poland, not more than
250 kilometers apart, neither ha«
given any sign ot desire or inten
tion of meeting the other. In fact
neither has sent the other greeting
—evesi by deputy. The Neue Fiere
Presse of Vienna complains of tin
Czar’s breach of courtesy towards
Austria. It says it is noteworthy
that Russian military manouvers
are taking place at the precise
corner of the Russian dominion-
which would be the principal thea
tre of war in event of a Russian con
flict with Austria. Emperor Frau
cis Joseph is at the same lime re
viewing an equal number of Aus
trian troops, the total being over
sixty thousand men, at a point
which would naturally be chosen
as the Austrian ba3e of operations
in the same event. “Thus we see,”
says the New Free Press, “two rival
camps and two rival courts almost
Vithin sight of each other.
San Francisco is situated in an
earthquake region. Mild shocks
are felt there often. Provision has
been made, as far as possible, against
severe convulsions. The Call thinks
that much of the damage to Charles
ton houses, built of brick, was the
result of defective mortar. It adds
that “the modern styleof construct
ing brick buildings insures a larger
measure of s'afety. The mortar is
compounded with cement, which
will hold even after the bricks have
been broken. This is why, with
brick edifices three or four stories
high, "their occupants in this city
feel a security against earthquakes
that would not otherwise be enter
tained. The shock must be violent
which would wrench their walls or
throw them down. In the recon
struction of Charleston, cement will
doubtless be used. No one in these
days would put up a large brick
building without the mortar being
com posed of at least one-third ce
ment.”
A special from Akron, O., says:
The people living in the coa’ mining
regions, embracing four towns and
a large range of country, were
awakened at 1a.m. Sunday, the
12th inst., by low, rumbling sounds,
accompanied by shocks i f earth
quake, so distinct that houses were
terribly shaken and articles on
mantels were thrown to the floor.
-Several years ago the earth settled
several feet without any apparent
cause in this region, and the peoj !e
are badly frightened, fearing they
will be swallowed up. To make
matters more unpleasant a very
large meteor the same morning
passed over the shaken up portion of
the country, travelling close to the
earth, and throwing off heated par
ticles every few feet. The meteor
illuminated the country for a great
distance, and is supposed to have
truck the earth near the eastern
part of the city as the shock in that
locality was distinctly felt immedi
ately after the great fire ball passed.
THE FOUNTAIN OF HONOR.
How the Waters of English Aristocracy
Are Muddied—“Divine Right.”
The queen is the fountain of honor.
She can, it is said, make every man in
England a peer. She can not only give
to any man any title that he asks, but
can confer the arms as well, which, if
there is anything in heraldry, should bt
exclusive property. The vile wretch
may become noble at a stroke; a man
kneels down a commoner and rises a
knight; we all know this; but that she
should bestow a second time the vener
able titles that have acquired historic re
nown is damaging to the very principle
of aristocracy; that the family name
should be torn from barons of the mid
dle ages, the names which they ren
dered illustrious, of which they were so
proud, and given to some modern place-
hunter, is to a democrat inconceivable.
Even the arms they fought for, the cres
they devised, the bearings on theii
shields that indicated their deeds or their
character or history, must be shared by
some pretender or usurper of to-day.
One of the most pretentious nobles in
Scotland of this generation, of largest
possessions and exalted rank, bears a
name that all the world knows; that was
famous a thousand years ago, renowned
alike in history and romance. But two
of the earls who live near him, and meet
him on an apparent equality, who are
themselves of the stock of Robert t$ruce,
have assured me that their neighbor is
descended from a peddler who carried
his pack in the last century. Jemmy
made his way in the world, became first
rich and then political. His son served
the premier in some opportune war
and received a peerage as his reward. He
selected a great title and assumed a great
pedigree, which Burke sets down in his
“Peerage.”
But Burke the English themselves
laugh at. He sends to every nobleman
the proofs of the pretty stories he prints,
and the new-made peers correct the mis
takes and invent the pedigrees. They
tell their own history, which is to pass
afterward as authority. I know what I
say; I have been present when the proof
came in. You should hear the aristoc
racy discuss each other’s claims to de
scent if you would appreciate the reality
of their nobility.
All of which, it may be, is useful for
Americans to consider. We who believe
that the rank is but the guinea stamp,
and that the son of a great man is no
greater than another until he proves
himself so, why should we care for these
antics and assumptions of the aristoc
racy? Because pretence is vulgar and
falsehood ignoble, and these patricians
who strut under borrowed plumes, who
wear names that are not theirs, and steal
coronets from the coffins of men who
earned them in other times—to place
them on their own foreheads—those who
call themselves Percy and Essex and
Warwick and Holland—should be un
masked. If a man has an ancient line
age and is proud of the deeds of his an
cestors rather than his own, let him be
proud; but he Bhould at least have the
ancestry that he claims. Yet the queen
wears the crown that if there is any
thing in divine right, belongs to another
family, and the proudest of her nobility
to-day are those whose descent is as ir
regular as her own.—Adam Badeau’s
Letter.
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Another Story of Ludwig.
One of the best of the numerous anec
dotes of the late king of Bavaria is re
lated by a Munich artist. He was at
work one day on some statuettes which
the king had ordered for a new park
when the royal botanist entered his
atelier and tried to explain to him the
plan of the new grounds. The matter
was somewhat complicated, and the
artist did not quite understand some of
the details, when the botanist suddenly
unbuttoned his coat and showed the
astonished sculptor the whole plan
drawn on his vest. He th&i explained
that he had just been to see the king,
who, to make things perfectly clear, had
taken a piece of charcoal and painted
the outlines of the park on his white
vest, “so that you may not forget it,” the
king had added, laughing.—Chicago
Times.
A Medallion of the Qaeen.
Mr. Boehm, R. A, was summoned re
cently by Queen Victoria to Windsor to
take a medallion portrait of her majesty
for the new gold, silver and bronze coin
age to be issued during the jubilee
year, 1887. Mr. Boehm has executed
many effigies of her majesty and other
members of the royal family. The queen
gave the artist several sittings, which
is an innovation in the matter of design
ing a head from which to make a ma-
srix for coinage. The features of her
majesty are to be reproduced with mi
croscopic fidelity. The image of her
majesty impressed on the coin of the
realm hitherto has been the one taken in
1837, the year of her accession to the
throne.—The Argonaut.
Why the “ Tortlea” Were Crippled.
A scientist, discourisng on snakes,
said: “I am told that out in Kansas
there are snakes that catch hold of the
legs of land turtles, or ‘tortles, ’ as they
call them here. A snake will swallow
the hind leg of the ‘tortle, ’ and. of
course, cannot swallow any more. Then
the ‘tortle’ goes tramping about with the
snake attached to his leg, and using the
snake pretty roughly. The snake can
not let go. for its teeth, which are turned
back or inward, are locked fast. It
keeps its hold until the leg becomes so
decomposed that it drops off. That fact
accounts for the great number of lame
‘tortles’ found in that country.”—Chicago
Herald.
Paris consumes forty-nine tons of
snails daily. An American messenger
boy would stand a poor show in Paris.—
Dansville Breeze.
We respeck our naybur. but we want
our beets ?n’ cabbage an’ onions to keep
about a w eek ahead of his.—Brother
Gardner.
Ladies should bear in mind that of all
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is also among the best.
“Oh! if my creditors were only
like my sins,” exclaimed Mr. Brown
to his wife. “Why, my dear?”
“Because my creditors call and
catch me every day, but my sius
always find me out. ”
me Dumber of those who pass the en
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do not enter is increasing. The reason
given is that pupils present themselves
for examination without intention of
entering, 6imply for the honor; but it is
rather hard for the patient professors,
who this year examined 4,800 papers,
averaging at least five sheets to each
paper.—Chicago Timaa,
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