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TO A BOY PIPING,
ftp. While thou may st, oh happy boy.
Thy soap, so true, so rare.
That cost a Hal. pai n w
As this soft natural air.
That from thy lips take easier birth
Ta*a rjoleta from the showered earth.
*!***i ajay'rt, the world is deaf:
Trua time is all tnrne own; ^
Pipe in thy mirth, nor wa6te a idrlv
^Because thou an unknown;
The soogs that win a nation's ear*
Are red with blood, are wet with teas*.
i*ipe while thou may'st, and oh beware-
when tbon to lore shalt bow,
T^t she with whom thy pipe then pleads
oe pure as thou art now,
£or let thy songs untuned’bo
By aught that shames the Muse and thee.
Pipe while thou may'st, for life is short,
•And, ere these leaves are brown.
Death in his Lauds thy pipe may grasp
And toss !t rudely down,
And bring tLe to th- sunless shore.
Where voice and pipe are heard no more.
—Longman's Magazine.
AN OPERATOR'S STORY.
One afternoon last Septeml>er, at the
Glen Mountain Louse, nt Watkins Glen,
Kev.- York; a telegraphic friend told me
now h2 w n great success in his profes
sion. as follows:
One ev<
fk? cl.:ite
In
. cars ago I first visited
s watering place. I had been
;• circuit'’ in various cities and
here f »r a little recreation.
i:s the dining room, amid
of dishes und kuive
the :
..mmmii
In the hands of
all.
- - xnd forks,
iught a meaning from
on the table of knives
l to well dressed men op
to dc. io the crowd, if noticed at
those sounds only indicated impa
tience at the hurrying yet delayed waiters.
If it had been commonplace conversa
tion I should not have heeded their com
munication. except, perhaps, for sport to
“call*’ them. They ticked oil a phrase or
two at intervals during their meal. Once
the head waiter noticed the clinking of a
spoon upon a cup. and inquired if either
of them wanted anything. For an in
stant the>were confused, then one said he
wanted more coffee. A waiter replen
ished his nearly full cup. After that the
tick3 wei less frequeut. Of course it was
pone of my business, but I could not help
hearing the tick talk, and the conversa
tion was so enrious it greatly interested
bae.
not
bbta
That very evening, while I was rending
In the office, the two conversers in tight
ning lingo at the table came in and lit
fresh cigars. Occasionally the hotel
“sounder’* clicked tidings from the world
in the surrounding night. The deaih of
4 man of nat ional prominence was her
alded by the instrument r fore the
hotel operator informed the A dersof
that important news one ot (U^ f -aiige
pprmtors said to the other: “Ile’A
last." w
“Hush!" whispered the other.
Nobody seemed to notice the betraying
observation or its rejoinder.
.5 I wondered at the object in view of
t pair of mysterious conversers I did
-.‘veal my identity, but determined to
heed any signs. Whenever lhe\* were in
the dining room first I thought best not
near them, and, therefore, did not
anv peculiar information.
A::er a steamboat ride on beautiful
Seneca I visited Ithaca to inspect Cornell
When I returned to Watkins
the landlord told me he was sorry he
could not give me iny former room be
cause of an extra large excursion party.
He could. h< -wever. give me one as good,
which I thankfully accepted.
Tha T night I was far from being sorry
for the change of room, as I heard mys
terious raps on the wall. Somebody was
r :gosling to some one in another room.
If the messaze had been ordinary 1 should
have signaled that I an uninten
tional listener
ja§3*r^ -JS3tf«r
me words and phrases. From the fre-
qnen: repetition of some of them n ftw
had become fam;:ar to me. As a com-
mercml operator I had handled many
cipher messages. To amuse inJr * t
tried to solve these. Ia them a ieading
evo-ess;on had been: "The soup Is late.
Vc-w the mp, said: -The soup is getting
r .. j , vs , xnore than ever convinced
there was a plot
thought
to the c
As ih
Ka:rs £
peeped ou
These "conversations, being dis^
were :n themselves suspicious. I
I had made out some of the key
nher. ,
/A - s was pleasant I went down
a stroll. A few stars
. ._. V*-e wind sighed through
W-JL'A, elosebv. I sauntered
ra-r-oasiv, however, as the ad-
-S.s-i would have Been a con- en
^fATLee for a footpad to dispose of his
xri-boat exciting alarm.
V-AVvr 1 caw a light Cash out and
a '“U.-above the olen. Almost with
dn*ppe*v* j ;;ir;le j m yhcad and us
.-AX from the upper portion of the
moonless night swallowed
, .V 1-htv Perhaps the light I11 the
cph-Sl-.-i. Mav be my excited
hotel was f-* 1 ' -bout the gleam
=*** "Nobody of flesh and blood
out suy i
bOtca-
over ‘
. - iA-bT'bgbt 150 feet above the little
^ ~ e wbntTvo ce was lost ia the black
be ow. Perhaps it « »
Cashin
y-roiintheempti.
nes
; ^-&t iron, bank u, bank at
hit point. a large tTee and
1 SttP? for »me time about the _un-
oTthat - soup.- 1
aown “Syj-ffly pine tree as some
nggea 'he pasti going to-
ody waited a - f m i u utcs after I
mrd the , ,'h vf l;mUe one theon'.
eternnued to m , _ t ^ e Ir ack of the
Cautiously 1 » e along the tie,
all way. Care ^; r b e abvss. I estimated
a d went out over - flashed, and
,e distance wbere^e^eti,,0,.. , knew
lestly gro? 041 1 .i.jj.c I was foolish,
what, hou m - 'j K , ck to the hotel
was “^“t. a rail, touched
tea my right h^- besme shieldin
I the copper wire
. blare. I , „<j box tied secure-
lintonp^ 0 ^^ The wire led
under a cio. hotel,
to the air There I clnng,
The brief ^ ° which, for all it»
:ld nphvtheftrn^ seemcd to almost
one, iron «md down the
?ay - ?Ai^out my P p^ke; knife I
nron- TaBas , oU t«.dcftf the rail
a^edthewireontheo right
th my “knife blade. The
*ed over^t^ j’^teoed around a
A T carefully net led that
Vsimay be »mre teavc it into the
oi- 1 that such a course
■sftSsr 1 ’
*be hotel- ^ the nig’
to the
w&tfX- aUU
motions in a low tone and
1 - key. I slyly went to my
clerk so
handed
room
The h*•. -•.* :v 1-. v:llL Suddenly there
tnng r>;:5 • ai.-.n . >f fire, Soon confu
Bion rtigned. (Lie-d- were rudely awak
ened. They hurried ont of windows or
down the stairs. In a few minutes every
body returned, pale, trembling and nerv
ous. The lire had been put out with not
very hex.' v damage, strange to say.
Nobody, fortnriately, was hurt. Every
body congratulated everybody on narrow
escapes. To thk day there are, I under
stand, only three persons who have known
the origin of that fire alarm.
To any outsider would it not have been
surprising that the occupant? of rooms
adjoining mine were more dressed than
any others of the fleeing guests? Further
more, my neighbors had scarcely disap
peared for downstairs till my pass key,
furnished by the proprietor, was used. If
ever an intrusion was justifiable that
was, for a quick glance before a hasty
exit showed me n lighted bull’s eye lan
tern set qn the carpet and near it an open
valise. That Valise h&id an electric bat
tery. Its wires led to another valise
.which contained a reel from which led a
wire running through a space beneath
the partially raised lower sash out into
the darkness toward t lie railway bridge.
Scarcely had the fire alarm commotion
subsided when there came a rumblinunnd
a roar in the quiet night. The New York
night express was nearing Walkin'? G'.en
station. The bridge watchman came from
his shanty and signaled “Goabeadt’’ To
what? The ponderous train crept over
the bridge. I shuddered, thinking of
what might have happened.
The conspirator? were hushed. I could
imagine one, whose room gave him n view
of the bridge, peering out anxiously as
the train’s light? flashed ou to the doomed
bridge. Did any remorse seize him for
the dastardly deed of trying to hurl that
unwarned train tocertain death and ruin?
He seized the reel with one hand to quick
ly draw in the evidence of liis crime.
With the other he pressed the electric
button and sped the fatal spark to the
end of the wire. The devilish contriv
ance did not work. Before the fiend could
recover from his astonishment the train
had passed safely across the bridge.
With an oath the villain turned as the
door was flung open and revolvers Leic
him prisoner. The tarantula when cor
nered stings itself. Tho traiir.vrecke-
pushed his right hand into a side pocket
and withdrew it, not holding a revolve!
but something which ho swallowed. He
staggered and fell—dead. Prussic acid;
carried for years, had rescued him from
earthly punishment. His partner, next
door, was captured by surprise. % IIe toe
was fully dressed but stoutly denied his
complicity in any crime.
The electric apparatus, wire, iuferna.
machine and my testimony convicted him.
He is now visiting Auburn to be enter
tained by the state for ten years. He
turned traitor to the rest ot the gang and
tried to turn state’s evidence. A number
(if rascals had planned to wreck t lint train
Severn: stationed themselves in tho glen
below to plunder the debris and the
bodies.
My good luck in frustrating the mur
derous design commended me to the rail
way company and I was given a lucrative
position as some of my reward for pre
venting what- would have proven a
calamity almost unparalleled in the his
tory of railroads. The cuff box is kept
among the archives of the company.
Come out north of here to-morrow and
I’ll show you a hole like a cellar dug by
the explosion of its contents. It con
tained enough dynamite and chloride of
nitrogen to have more than accom
plished its villainous purpose.—T. G. Ls
Moille in The Current.
In a Ladle*’ Lunch Room.
The drinking habit in men is mostly b
matter of appetite, but appetite has very
little to do with the lunching of women.
She becomes a regular frequenter of the
ladies’ lunch room because she loves a
crowd. She delights in variety, and be
cause of her innate vanity. If every
woman had a separate room to lunch in
there would be no lnnchers. There is in
consequence a spirit of rivalry in these
lunch rooms which makes them as fas
cinating as a horse race. Every woman
means to be ahead of her neighbor, either
in the quantity or quality of the lunch
she orders. There is no hanging back,
and the woman will startji race with the
■saT 'iw-Uiauh. ^nd they come in neck a«d
nerk with the same steaming fourth cup
of tea.
Sometimes it is like watching a game of
poker. Four women, strangers to each
other, will sit at the same table. They
are all regular lnnchers. Each is reluct
ant to give her order first, because each
is desirous of bettering her neighbor’s
repast. At length one of them, with the
air of a man who 1. >K two jacks and a
pair of ace?, orders opiate of turkey and a
cup of coffee. Her neighbor immediately
orders a pinto of tnrkty, a cup of coffee
„ n d a plate of ice cream! The next one
Hees that plate of turkey, the cup of coffee
and tin* ue cream, a ml goes one better
and order? a chicken salad. The fourth,
Hoeing how matters stand, decides on her
play ‘she has not ho much money as the
other* She cun t go the turkey, the
chicken. ti“* ice cream and the coffe*
S<» t-hequietly tscnnstho board and make:
li inuLriiificciil bluff with an oyster pattie.
I u‘taka Hint first, she remarks to the
wniirc&s Then rdm dallies with the bill
of fare mid oils out the other three, win-
nil,,, II.. .it,iiu* Will, 25 omits.—New York
Mail Ullil l-*l"
ThrUL'nff n.-mio In it Ktroot Car.
A handAomo woman nt 30 or there-
utwuts, iu-i:niii|Hiii. .1 1>y an attenuated
,-ouih miter, dn lliumlway rar lastn.ght
The woman earrled n Seoteh terrier in her
ami- mid vainly looked about the car for
n scat Presently a smut man with huge
cavalrv whisker., arose umi offered the
woman ids seat, whk I. she «*;k without
n "thank you, ' "Idle e'ni held t.ie dog
up under her chin*. •!>«<■ n ■ ■-nld look
out of the windin' In n f- w minutes a
passenger next her vm-ated Ins sent, and
before the fat man could get to itshrhad
pulled her escort down into it. The fat
man glared hut said :;oth:n;;. After the
car hud P"»c oerernl blocks further an
other riassouger arose to get out. The
woman's attenuated escort touched tho
stout man and pointed to the sent.
-•No thnjak you,” said the s.out man
•is he ambled low.-rd the door, ‘ I get out
here. Give it to your dog.”—New York
Sun.
An Expl<*le<l Slander.
“Talk: exclaimed the barber, intlig-
nantlv. That is an exploded slander.
There ii not a first class shop—that
is tonsorinl parlor—in the city where
a man will talk to a customei^-;nless the
customer speaks first. It is very bad form
norr for even a barber to say Good morn-
in-.’ or .-uivthing of that sort. A slight
nod of recognition, with the fpintest
shadow of » pleased expression, which
mast not bo allowed to extend into a
6mile, i. the only correct caper.”—Phila
delphia Call.
TO FAME.
"Bright fairy of the mom. with flowers arrayed,
Whose heauti s to :by younj? pursuer seers 5
Beyon 1 the ecstasy of poet's dream—
Shall 1 o’ertake thee, ere thy last re fade?
•’Ripe glory of the noon, to dazzled eyes
A jiagcant of delight and power and gold.
Dissolving into mirage manifold—
Do I overtake thf-e, or mistake my prize f
“Dull shadow of the evening, gaunt and pray.
At random thrown, beyond me or above.
Anil cold as memory in the arms of love—
Havo I o'ertaken thee, but to cast away?**
“No morn, or noon, or eve, am I,'* she said.
“But night, the depth of night behind the sun;
By nil mankind pursued, but never won,
Until my shadow falls upon a shade."
' —R D. Blackmore in Harper's Magazine.
JEANNE'S SMILE.
A young man and a fair young girl
were Fitting In the Park Moneear. talk
ing in the shade.
“You say yon have found me very nice;
well that is all right, but afterward’’
“Well, afterward, my dear Jeanne,
what else could I think except that I
lo*o you and you will return my
love”
“That is all very well,” she inter
rupted; “but so far I have lived an honest
girl and I intend to continue so.”
All this was said with the utmost good
humor and good faith, without the least
prudery or affectation and with a smile
that disclosed the most adorable teeth.
Antpinc—I have not yet told you his
name—was the neighbor of Jeanne. He
was very much in love with her, which
was not astonishing, as she was very at
tractive, with the most irresistible smile
and teeth so beautiful, indeed, that An
toine had never forgotten them since the
first frugal breakfast when bo had seen
the young girl biting a peach. At the
same time I am obliged to say that he
had ever thought of marrying her, for he
Wits somewhat ambitious, young, inde
pendent and counted upon marriage in
the future accompanied by a good round
dot, which Jeanne could not bring him.
She was a fine workwoman, earning good
wages in a fashionable store, but nothing
more.
After the interview which I have re
lated Antoine, although always obligin:
and Amiable, became more reserved in hi:
into.- (.arse with the young girl. Both Oi
then., in fact, held themselves on the de
fensive: ::.:e did not appear to wish to
marry any more than he, so they remained
simply good friends.
One day, however, she announced to him
that she was going to leave Paris. She
had a brother who had long been estab
lished in America and he wished her to
come out and join him. Antoine was
somewhat annoyed at this intelligence,
as he ’ ad become so accustomed to their
Sunday talks.
When tdi£ day of departure came he ac
companied her to the railroad station and
then returned, not without a feeling of
regret, though nt the same time he took
her departure very coolly, saying to him
self: “Perhaps it is all for the best;” that
a little romance begun like this rarely
had a serious denouetnent.
But one never knows when he is really
involved, and he consoled himself for the
past by dreaming of the future. Never
theless, he could notrstTeaslTy forget his
first fancy.
More than a year had passed since fche
departure of Jeanne, and her old neigh
bor thought he was on the point of eue-
cess, for he had been introduced into an
honorable family, authorized to pay his
court to the daughter of the. house. She
was (lark and did not resemble Jeanne in
the least. However, as to that, he had
not thought of it or dreamed of making
the comparison, the past 6eemed so far
away.
This was the way matters stood when
one fine morning ho stopped astounded
before a wall on which was stuck a great
beautiful bill, upon which a good
draughtsman had drawn the charming
head of a young girl with an enchanting
smile and exquisite pearly teeth. It was
the head of Jeanne—there could be no
donbt of it—and above it in great red
letters ouo could read:
: The Best Df.ntrtfice in the World :
The Tooth Powder of :
; Robinson, Jr. :
A Lawyer'* Dying Word*.
“f have lain awake a thousand nights |
wonlerteg how I could clear a guilty ras- i
cal, v. her.* 1 have been troubled ono hour j
to get an honest man his just deserts.”
were the dying words of a New England
lawyer, who, of course, died rich and re
spected.—Detroit Free Press.
Casters made oX he«vy dole leather are
«w invention.
Antoine went nearer—the bill bore the
name of a New York printing house.
Then it was over there in America that
they had taken Jeanne’s portrait, and
this portrait was used to advertise the pro
ducts of :m industrial exotic.
*Tt is very stupid,” said Antoine to
himselt; but he could not keep from gaz
ing at the .portrait- and saying she was
very pretty.
As the new bill attracted a great deal
of attention, Antoine was compelled to
listen to the comments upon her beauty,
as if the opinion of such boobies amounted
to anything.
This day hi? fiancee did not appear so
attractive, and he discovered that she had
two crooked teeth, which he had not
noticed before: however he would give it
no attention, ns incisors did not constitute
happiness. lie even reproached himself
for the impression Jeanne’s portrait had
made upon him, saying “It would pass
off next day.” But the next diy and
many days following it it was the same
thing.
The firm of Robinson, Jr., advertised
•* I’Amcriraine”—incessant, persistent
advertising, '.aking all shapes and cover
ing all pi ace s. The most careless eye
could not avoid seeing them.
At the door of the tobbaco shops, in all
the omnibus bureaus and-wine shops was
the same smiling head and the same bill
stretched out. Then it was the turn of
the papers: on all tlie fourth pages a plate
appeared, an imperfect reproduction, it
was true, of the colored bill, still suffi
ciently strong to more than recall the
memory of Jeanne. It became a perfect
craze—an aggravation—and at last an in
cident occurred, which heaped to the full
Antoine*? measure of irritation.
One evening at the house of his fiancee,
a little nephew, the spoiled darling of the
house, amused himself playing with some
empty boxes covered with the brilliant
pictures,- and these boxes had contained
“The best Dentifrice in the NYorld—the
Dentifrice of Robinson, Jr.,” the portAit
of Jeanne with that eternal smile always
the beautiful ornament on the top. An
toine could control himself no longer;
with a movement of impatience he sent the
boxes here and there. The child began
to cry; the young girl took the part of the
child*; the father took the part of the
young girl—and as Antoine, his nerves
.-ill on edge, promptly replied to this
weeping family, the discussion grew hot
and ended in a grand quarrel.
There was no marriage, and, thinking
It over, Antoine, though a little vexed,
could not prevent himself from saving;
••These people were bad tempered, and
doubtless he had made a happy escape.”
Under the influence of all these inci
dents he finally determined to leave Paris,
lie would go and rent a little hut in the
oitskirts of the city; there he would re
gain his tranquillity and at least avoid
seeing the papers. He would walk in the
fields or the woods and for intellectual
amusement play “cup and ball.”
Just in front of the house which he
rented there was a great white wall
whose reflections had frequently annoyed
him. One day he saw some workmen
suspend from it a scaffold sad begin, to
cover the wall with * coat of/blue. This
did not distress Antoine tn the least—It
«yuiu oe sorter ior tne eyes, men aite?
they had worked some time, ascending
and descending the movable bridges of
the scaffolding, they outlined with chalk
something very difficult to distinguish f£
such a distance.
At last, however, a pointer came with
his pots of colon, and Antoine, interested
and curious, saw him little by little de
sign a gigantic head; this head became
blonde, with smiling mouth and pearly
teeth, and above it in golden letters the
name of Robinson, Jr., shone forth to all
observers. It was Jeanne again—always
Jeannel Antoine renounced the straggle
and returned to Paris resigned and sub
jugated. There, surrounded by these pict
ures, that sometimes stretched in dozens
along the walls, he began to ask himself
if it would not be better to marry—even if
it had not been better to marry Jeanne
than to have let her go so far away.
But could he find her now? And if so
was she still free?
This idea taking possession of him, he
wrote to Robinson, Jr., and asked him for
the address of the young girl who had
been the model for his advertisements.
Twenty days after he received an answer,
and at the.top of the paper the Inevitable
head, finely engraved. We will translate
the letter for you:
“Dear Sir—I thank you for your let
ter, which added much to the interest of
my publicity. It will be printed in thirty
eight of the papers of. the new world. If
you will send me your card photograph
and the authority to reproduce it I will
gladly forward to you $100. As to the
obliging child whose smiling head is from
this t iine forth inseparably connected with
ray business, I do not know what has be
come of her. One day I bought her photo
graph. which appeared to me altogether
suitablo f >r the end for which I desired it,
and rv i; • /uced it with the consent of the
model, to whom I paid $200 but whom I
never saw. With much respect, etc.,
. “Robinson, Jr.”
Antoine was forced to give it np, though
he hoped that the publicity given to his
letter in the American papers would at
tract the attention of Jeanne, and she
would write to him; but nothing came.
Months passed by in anxiety and fever
ish excitement. At last one day he saw
again in the Rue Batignolles the head of
Jeanne, living, smiling, speaking in the
same well remembered voice, and she was
holding out a hand to greet him. Was
he crazy? No, it was no hallucination, it
was Jeanne, Jeanne herself, returned to
France and who was there before him.
Forgetting that they were in the street,
he embraced her then and there and, put
ting her in a carriage, anxious and ex
cited, he made her relate her story and
then he told his.
She had loBt her brother in America;
he had left her a little legacy and she had
returned to Paris.
It was she—really and truly herself;
only after the first emotion had passed it
seemed to Antoine that her smile was not
quite the same: and, looking still closer,
it seemed to him that herj>eautiful teeth
had not the brilliancy of other days. He
spoke of it to her.
“Ah, yes,” she replied, “you doubtless
have heard them speak of Robinson, Jr.”
“Robinson, Jr.l I was in correspond
ence with him; ho paid you $900 for your
photograph.”
“Indeed! You know that? Well, it is
true, and he also made me a present of a
■great T>ox of his powder. I was wrong to
use it, for see how it has served me!”
All the same, Antoine married Jeanne,
who no longer recommended the incom
parable powder.
Little by little the bills of Robinson,
Jr., have been replaced by others, but our
lovers are no less happy, Jeanne’s smile
no less enchanting and her teeth almost
as brilliant as in other day^, but she no
longer uses the “Best Dentifrice in the
World—the Powder of Robinson, Jr.” —
Translated for The Cincinnati Enquirer
from the French of Charles Nutter by E.
G. Wagener.
HO*. JAMES C MIXON,
Representative From Coweta County,
What Ton? Hand Means.
A soft hand, said Mr. Heron-Allen, in
his lecture, indicated a fervent hut fickle
lover, while a hard hand denoted a long
enduring, though possibly smoldering,
love. A spatula hand, wherein the tips of
the lingers were broad and the tops flat,
denoted inconstancy,desire for change and
love of locomotion. It was found in
jockeys and colonists. A hand with
conically tipped fingers indicated inspira
tion, instinct, Bohemianinm and gener
osity. ,
A hand with squarely built finger tips
showed order and arrangement, particu
larly when the joints throughout were
prominent. A scientific hand was irregu
lar to a marked degree, the joints lumpy
and highly developed—altogether a mal
formed conglomeration of knots and
twists. This sort of hand is invariably
small, white the analytic, hand is large.
The hand of the idealist is the most sym
metrical of all and the most useless in
every sense.
A supple hand indicates generosity.
A hand the fingers of which when placed
together and held to the light exhibit
transparency, and between which no rays
of light penetrate, shows avarice, or, in
other words, closeness. Fingers which
submitted to the-same test will not fit
alongside each other without openings,
and which are- denser, indicate curiosity
and loquacity. People with hands that
are always white are egotistical and have
no sympathy.—New York Sun.
A Short Sermon.
There are times when you are brought
to realize that you stand on the shores of
mysterious eternity—when you can hear
the lapping at your feet of the waves-
which roll across the sea so boundless
that mortal eye has never reached the far
ther shore. It is when you have met
some good friend on the street, given him
a friendly grip and heard him say that he
hasn’t felt so well in years—the words
hardly cold upon his Ups before he throws
up his arms and sinks to the walk as dead
as if a buUet had entered his brain. The
doctors call it a case of heart disease, and
those who did not pass that way read of it
to forget it in an hour. To you, who even
held his hand as the swift messenger came,
there is something never to be forgotten—
a sermon such as no divine can ever
preach—Detroit Frfce Press.
Rigidity of C*rp*Mi
The experiments of Dr. Brown Sequard
have convinced him that the rigidity
retained in corpses for several days is
due to a true muscular contraction, in
dicating that the muscles ddsnot give up
their vitality until after the body has
been otherwise lifeless for a coVuderable
time.—Arkansaw Traveler.
“Krosiot." in Artillery.
-Erosion" is tho greatest difficulty of the
modem artillerist. For some reason or other
modem big guns are scored to pieces by their
own charges before they ham been fired
many times. At the Iron and Steel institute
the eugineers had a good deal to say on the
subject, hut they did net come to any definite
conclusion about it Some authorities main
tain that it is the friction of solid particles of
powder driven along at enormous speed ever
the intensely heated surface of the tube which
destroys the gun. Others thint it is dus to
the chemical action set by tba gases liberated
in the ignition of the powder. But in reality
very little is known about th* matter.—Bt
James' Gasette.
Ooar: .home Light Ho
lino c. o t quarreled about the etfior of the eea,
and did not exchange another word for
three months, when both were discharged by
the government.
In Newton county, September
14th, 1820, the above-mentioned get -
tlemao was born. He was the
fourth child of Elijah Mixon, who
was born in Pamlico county, N. C.,
and who was engaged in the peace
ful pursuit of farming. He was a
Whig in polities and a M ithodist in
religion. His grandfather wus
Z dekiah Mixon.
His mother’s maiden name wus
Charlotte Ortrey. She was born in
Hancock county, Georgia, and en
tertained the same religious views
us his father. Her father was Mr.
Wm. Ortrey.
The childhood and youth of James
C. Mixon was passed in Oxford,
Newton county. He has since
lived two years in Campbell coun
ty, two years in VlilaRiea, and
since that time he has resided in
Coweta.
He was educated at Emory Col
lege. Being of an unusually quiet
demeanor, and so punctilious in bis
habits whilst there, he obtained the
Sobriquet among the boys of “Old
Man Mixon.”
After leaving school,“teaching the
young idea how to snoot” became
bis avocation. He soon grew dis
gusted with that monotonous occu
pation, and resorted to merchan
dising for several years. Then he
again began to teach, and contin
ued at that work for about five
years. The pleasures of the country
attracted his attention, and he then
engaged in the life of a farmer. In
November '7th, 1850, be won the af
fections of Miss N. E. Skein. She
was the only womun he ever loved
or ever asked in marriage. Hei
father was Mr. Furnel! H. Skein, ol
Coweta county. In her religion she
and her father adopted Methodistic
views. He combined the two oc-
cupations-of farming and preach
ing.
The family of this interesting
coupie consists of five boys. Tbe
oldest is practicing medicine at Cor
inth, Heard couHty,Ga.; tbe secoud
is a practicing physician at Palmet
to, Ga.; the third son is engaged in
the profession of dentistry in Balti
more, Md.; the two younge- are at
homeifarming.
Mr. James C. Mixon is not at all
fond of outdoor sports. After his
daily duties are over nothing pleas
es him more than to sit by his own
fireside, surrounded by his family,
enjoying social converse with them,
or with some neighbor, who is al
ways a welcome guest at this hos
pitable home.
Seldom do we meet with a man
so utterly devoid of had habits as he
is. His only weakness i9 for the
filthy weed. He has never taken a
drink in his life, never visited hous
es of bad name, never entered a
tn eater, or seen a game of cards
played. Four of his sons can boast
of the same clean life record.
The subject of this sketch entered
upon the duties of the office of J.
P. in 1872, and yet holds that posi-
ti->n.
In the Representative Hall he is
on the committees of 't'emperance,
Agriculture, Emigration, Public
Property and Excuses of Members.
During the Confederate struggle
he entered the army May 7th, ’862,
and served as an independent high
private with Gen. Forrest un'il «n
ov rwhelniing number of the ene
my foreed a surrender.
This gentleman, as a pure, good
man, with a soul uncontaminated
by the vice9 ot the day, has a clear
head. Right ably and well does he
represent Coweta, and reflects cred
it on the good jailgment of his con
stituents, in giving him the position
he holds.
he Legislature, and he was elected
> that body in 18S0, and returned
here in 1882, after which he was
iectedto the Senate.
He was married October 5, IStiS,
i Miss Anna Maxwell, a ■ aughter
t Dr. E. W. Maxwell, of Dougins
unty. Unto them three bright
nd attractive girls have been born
o add sunshine to Iheir home. As
i Senator he is making the same
ecord as in every other otfie that
le held. II *is one of the working
numbers on the following eommil-
t ws: General Judiciary, Finance,
Itaiiroads,. Auditing, Penitentiary,
ind that one looking to equalize the
Judicial Circuits. He is) Chairman
■f the Penitentiary Committee, and
;s working in that connection with
an energy worthy of commendation.
He is a fluent speaker and good
listener, a ready debater and a deep
thinker, with all the powers ol
which he is possessed.
0.
H.
ATLANTA.
GENERAL NEWS-
HOS. JOSEPH S. JAMES,
Senator From tbe 36thDlstrlet
Among the young men of the Sen
ate, Hon. Joseph S. James stands in
the front ranks. He is liberal in his
views and is ready to fight any biii
that his conscience dictates as con
trary to the interests of his con
stituents or the state at large.
He is the sixth child in a family of
thirteen children. His fattier,
Stephen James, was a native ot
North Carolina, and was a Justice
of the Peace in one district for 24
years. His mother was a Miss
Shippey. a native of Georgia. Sh<-
is still living at the age of sixty-
one.
she early life of the Senator whs
spint in what was then Campbc",
now Douglas county, and after re
ceiving his education in the com
mon schools of that connty, he com
menced reading law, and in 1875 he
wa- admitted to the bar. Since
that time he has been engaged in
farming, merchandising and law,
and has occupied manv Important
offices of public trust. At the early
age of 21 received the appoint
ment of J.- P-, which appoint
ment he fllie^yith satisfaction to
all par' ies c«>ne»ie<i. He was next
Tailis-'it house keepers on th* North Cmo- elected • "Mayor rf Douglasville.
and ao well did he fill that
ijo.aition that l «. eonstif-
Prof. W. M. Robinson has gone
up in Coweta for a few days. The
professor is actively at'work in the
interests ol the school for another
year, and there is every assurance
that the school will be full and in
teresting. We have one of the be-n
young teachers in the state, and
there is no reason why we should
not have, a flue school.—Frank!in
Xews.
Gov. Gordon has issued an order
pardoning George T. Jackson, of
Augusta, of the crime of emorzzle-
uient- Tho preamble recit-es the
numerous petitions which have
been filed in the e . cunve office,
invoking clemency, Jiu kson’s en-
eel>. li couJiu III, amt the fact thai
he hngih of the term of imprison
ruent is not the measure of his pun-
ishmt nt.
Mrs. Jefferson i^avis has just
written a letter to a friend in New
York in reply.to one thanking her
for the permission given to allow
Miss Winnie Davis to visit the
North. In it Mrs. Davis says that it
was with great reluctance that her
parents consented to Mi«s Winnie’s
visit, but that any sacrifice they
may have made in having her away
from them so long a time has been
more than repaid by their fiatisfae
tiou »t the kind reception she has
received in tbe North.
t’he death of Representative
Dowdney, which was announced
December 10th, swells to twelve
deaths thelistof the forty-ninth Con
gress. It is as follows: Vice-Presi
dent Hendricks and Senators Mil
ler, of California, and Pike, of New
Hampshire; Representatives Ell-
wood of Illinois, Rankin of Wiscon
sin, Hahn of Louisiana; Beach,
Aruot and Dowdney of New York;
Price of Wisconsin, Cole of Mary
land, Duncan of Pennsylvania.
Dowdney was stricken .with apo
plexy while ente r ing his house in
New York.
The Attorney-General briefly urg
es the importance of legi°)ation on
the following matters, the necessity
for which was pointed out in his
annual report: Fees for marshal's
in the territories; the pay of deputy
marshals; the revision of the fee
hill; the substitution of the fiscal for
the c-.leudaryeai; he chief supervi
sors of elections; the protection to
civil officers and witnesses; fees for
witnesses and jnrors iu the territo
ries, and the reorganization of the
jury sys'em in the District of Co
lumbia. HedevotC! a chapter to the
sui ject of United Ktate." prisoners
and the gener 1 questions of convh.1
labor, and advocates the building of
a Government penitentiary and
reformatory at an early day. He
recommends the appointment of a
commission to enquire into the mat
ter. He also renews the recommen
dation that authority be given to
judges of United States courts to
sentence in their discretion prison
ers convicted of their first offenses
to such reformatories or graded
prisons as the attorney-general
may select. He also urges the
necessity of additional Uni tad
State 9 jails, and mentions Atlanta,
ia., and Louisville. Ky., as cities
where such buildings are much
needed.
The number of United States
prisoners in custody June 30, 1886
was 5,929 The attorney-general
calls a’tention to the unsatisfactory
I--.- iliti in of rev mne litigation in
hesouh. r disirict ’New York,
and commends a sug-.estiiiu of th>
solicitor of the treasury for the ap
i.ointment of an additional judgt
lor the exclusive trial of revenue
cases in that district.
Supplementary legislation re
specting the restoration ot the court
of reeords is strongly urged by. the
No Introductory Chat with our friends. There is no apol
ogy to offer for this, either, because this is ;i
BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENT!
And Don't You Forget It !
CLOAKS AND WRAPS!
We can openly defy the whole state on these goods- W c J*a\ e.an o\ cr«
stock and will close them out at wonderfully low prices. Tm* winter m .
gun. - he prophets and the “goose bone” all predict cold weather alien l Come
while we can afford to give you timely bargains. Jersey? at \ ei \ 0 ' c ‘ l
—awav undei what they were earlier in the season.
KNIT UNDERWEAR
Here again we are defiant, because nobody ran torn .1 us. Kn t Ac
--- \Vo do all the business ot the town in tins line, ami
We have bought, out the fncto-
Ladies, Children and Men
are not afraid of being touched by factory prices,
ries and are underselling them.
LOWER YET.
On Flannels and Pant Stuff, we are ahead of the closest competitors. We have
an immense stock, and everything is dolvn to low rock prices.
A new and extensive stock of handsome holiday goods, something nseful am
something to please everybody. _ -
Water Proofs and Repeilants
For ladies’ and childrens’ suits. We know wo are underselling everybody here,
and we say it boldly. Cotton-Flannels, from 5r to20c. immense bargains, and you
will not fail to sav so when you get the goods. New Wool Hosiery- New- Woo.
.Mittens, for ladiesand children. New Silk MulUers. New bilk Handkerchiefs,
ive have them from 25 to 50c. Sold last season at from oO to 7oe. N ew Cotton and
Linen Handkerchiefs in great variety-, very- low.
atorney-general as necessary •
the preservation of recoras of great
value. It is almost impossible, the
attorney-general says, to over-esti
mate the necessity that exists for a
change in the judicial system to
meet the constantly increasing busi
ness of the country; and he urge r
that something be done to reme
dy the-evils complained of on a l
BLAM1T3 MB COMFORTS.
Let everybody blow theirhoms, but'vou will make a mistakejif you fail to cornu to
ns for any of 'these goods. Blankets from 85c to jfto.00. 10 per cent, low
er than any house in Georgia. Comforts from o0c to $3.50 and $4.00. Now these
are big values, anrl wc won’t deceive you when you come.
DRESS GOODS.
A fearful reduction in everything we have in the way of Dress Goods.
W e have a heavy stock, a superb selection, choiee material, and we in
tend to surprise everybody who will come and look at them. Nowr
Evening Bilk in great variety. New Bilk Cord and Buttons to match
for evening trimming. The handsomest line of Holiday Millinery ever
for evening trimming,
brought to Atlanta
Or
OVEB.
New Kid Gloves in all colors, 50, 65, 75, $1 and $1.50. Our $1 Gloves
are guaranteed.
TABLE LIIXTEWS.
We will save you 25 per cent, on these eoods. New Ruchings. New
Col'ars and Cuffs. Big drives in bleached and unbleath d Domestics.
Good Prints at 3 and 3}£c. Prints at 5c, cheap at 7>,jc.
SHOES.
We are ahead of our own purposes in Shoes. We run more men and
have more Shoes and sell more Shoes than any house—than any two
houses—in Atlanta. Shoes for everybody and Shoes cheap enough to
open your eyes.
1. H. 1SIC1MTY &
THOMPSON BROS.
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Bedroom, Parlor and Dining Room Fnrnitnrr
Big Stock and Low Prices..
PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS,
WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL CASES!
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“Orders attended to at any hour day or night.
THOMPSON BR03 Newim it*
E. VAN WINKLE & CO.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Wind Mills, Pumps,
Tanks, Etc.,
ALSO
Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses
Oil Mills, Etc.
CONSTRUCT
Public and Private Water Works,‘Railroad Water
Supplies, Steam Pumps, Pipe and Brass Woods.
Mend for Catalogue and Prices.
E. VAN WINKLE & CO-,
Box 83, ATLANTA, GA.
52-13
G-G. McXAMARA.
NEWNAN WABBLE AND GRANITE WORKS.
ISON & McNAMARA.
—DEALERS IN*
MARBLE&GRANITE
MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND HEADSTONES, TAB
LETS, CURBING, ETC.
^W"Special Designs, and Estimates for any desired work, furnished oa
application.
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