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WEFtnoai Tb» Nbwsai Rmim.1 PUBLISHED EYZKY TUESDAY. A. B. CATES, Editor and Publisher. TRaas or iDinctipioi : One oopy one year, in advance }lJiG If not paid in advance, the terms are $2.00 a year. A club of six allowed an extra copy. Fifty-two numbeincomplete the volume. HERALD, WOOTTEJ * CATES, Proprietors. WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION. TEBXS:—*1.50 per year In Ailraoee. VOLUME XXII. NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1887. NUMBER 13. Fee Newnan PUBLISHED EYIRY TUESDAY am*) or vafs tiiyto • One inch one year, $10; a colam one year, $100; less Uine than three mosstna. $100 per inch for first insertion, and o® cents additional for each subsequent In- sertion Notices in local column r ten cents per line for each insertion. Liberal arrange* inents will be made with those advertis ing by the quarter or year. All transient advertisements most b paid for when handed in.- Announcing candidatesp ac» t strictly iu advance. Address all communications to A. B. CATE6, NewnanGa Our lives are albums, written through With good or ill, with false or true. Mathers found that his Italian went bat I Mr - D™fard laughed aloud and then , * very little wav; and. besides, he had to i sw , c * re ‘ TT ... i do the work of three clerks. Sometimes I JIr - Hodgson choked and gasped for he was tempted to regret tliat lie liad left ! hreath - If a shell had burst m the room his comfortable rooms in Torrington j 11 could not have occasioned more sur- square. Bloomsbury; I,ut in his calmer P*i*e than Tommy s modest request. If \ TOE PARTNER. Mr. Thomas Mathers was only a ledger dark in the banking clerk of Hodgson, Dunford & Parr, St. Swithin's lane. Lom bard street. It was neither a very re sponsible nor a very lucrative position, and Tommy (as all his friends called him) longed, as jierhaps fifty thousand young men in a similar situation in London are longing at this moment, for a cliance of turning his brains to better account than adding up columns of figures and copying entries from one big book into another. The chance did not come, but Toinmv did not despair; and there was this difference between him and the great majority of his fellow prisoners of the desk—he had the pluck to work away manfully at whatever he thought might jiossibly some day help hint to better his position, even though he could not see exactly how it was to Ik* done. With this end m view he got up French. Gcrr.in and Italian, and he did everything lie could to pick up information as to the financial circum stances of the customers of the Link. He Benqied acquaintance with every clerk employed by those who had accounts at the Lin!;, as far as lie possibly could, and picked up in time an idea, more or less accurate, as to the commercial status of most of them. One day he happened to Ik* at lunch in his favorite restaurant when an acquaint ance named Darling came in and sat down lie-.ide him. After a little casual conversation Darling asked him lo let him know of any vacant clerkship ho might hear of. “I will, certainly, old fellow,” re turned Tommy; "but I lioi>e you haven’t got into a row with Appleton.” (Fred erick Appleton was Darling's brother-in- law, and he was also the secretary of the Mudford and County Chemical company, in whose counting house young Darling had a suLu'dinate post.) "Oh. no, nothing of the kind.” re turned Darling; anil then lie changed the subject. On his way hack to the bank after lunch, Mathers asked himself why Dar ling should leave his present situation. Ho had a capital prospect there—his brother-in-law lieing the secretary; and there was no disagreement between him tiud bus influential relative. Could it lie that Darling had had a hint from his brother-in-law that the Chemical com pany was getting into shallow water, and that it behooved him lo lx* looking out for another situation? It seemed more than likely; and young Mathers determined to net at once. lie slipped into the bank parlor that afternoon, hoping to find the junior partner, Mr. Parr, a good natured sort of man. who was not likely to snub him for volunteering information. To his disappointment, he found only Mr. Hodgson, a sour tempered old man. who was struggling into his overcoat, prepara tory to leaving the office for the day. "Wen," growled the banker, "what do you want?” Tommy was on the jioint of saying that he had come to speak to JIr. Parr, but in a moment lie changed his mind. •*I heard something to-day sir,” he re plied, "that made in# think that the Mudford company are not in a very good "Nothing, sir; only I thought there was no harm in letting you know.” "Anything of that kind you can say to Mr. Parkinson,” answered tire old gen tleman. as he seized his umbrella and waddled down the passage. Tommy felt snublied. but he did not mind.tluit much. He had done what he wanted, brought himself under the jier- gonal notice of one of the partners. If he had given the hint to Parkinson, the ligad cashier. Parkinson, not he, would have had all the credit for it. He retired to his place-among the other clerks a little sore at the rebuff, yet not entirely <? : sat- islieil. On his way homo JIr. Hodgson remem bered that the bank held some shares of the Jludford Chemical company ns se curity for the balance of the account of one of their customers who was deemed rather shaky. Next morning accord ingly he called Tommy into his room and questioned liim as to the nature of his information. “Perhaps you will excuse my entering into that, sir,” said Tommy, with the ut most coolness. Mr. Hodgson dismissed Mathers to his work with a dissatisfied grunt and a wave of his hand, and immediately set to work to have the shares of the Mud ford company exchanged for other se curities. Tommy, who managed to know most of what happened at the bank, noted the fact and rejoiced. Within six weeks the shareholders of the Mudford Chemical company met and resolved to go into liquidation, and. though JIr. Hodgson did not think it worth while to thank the junior clerk for the information he had given, Tommy was satisfied. He knew that people do not forget things which save their pockets. It happened that, some montlis after the incident of the Mudford Chemical company, Messrs. Hodgson had import ant business to transact in Turin, and it was thought advisable that the senior partner should proceed to that city to look after it. There was some idea, if the prospect seemed favorable, of start ing a branch house there. The question then arose, which of tire clerks should moments he reflected that at least he was occupying a different position from that* ma!1< ied to be allowed to help himself accompany the head of the firm as his „ secretary; and JIr. Hodgson, mindful of sir. saul the young man. coolly, the service which Mathers had rendered him, consulted the head cashier on the propriety of the selection. Parkinson, it happened, had a favorite of his own. and Tommy would have lost his opportunity if he had not remembered that at one time, wlien he was bent on acquiring foreign tongues, he had spent his even ings "for a few montlis over an Italian ^ TT _ . T -J 1^4* fnot of the rest of his fellow clerks. The cliief man in Turin, so far as Hodgson. Dunford & Parr were con cerned, was a certain Count JIarsoni. The count's nobility did not prevent his being the principle member of a large firm of merchants anil shipowners. To cultivate this man was. indeed, the cliief reason of JIr. Hodgson's journey to Turin; and, as the old lianker knew very well how to lay aside his crusty and jiom|iou.s manner when it suited his I took to do so, he soon came to lie a not unfre- quent guest at the Villa JIarsoni. Mr. Hodgson began to see that there was a very fair opening for an English hank at Turin, and he was still engaged in pushing his way here and there, when he received news that his wife was se riously ill. This made him hurry off to England, leaving Mathers L hind him to complete a transaction which lie had al ready practically arranged. Delighted at lieing left to represent the firm, for ever so short a time, and ever so formal a matter. JIatliews -was jiacin; one day down the principal street of the city with a look of considerable imjiort- ance on bis face when he met Count Mar soui. The count stopped and asked after the old banker, when Tommy proudly informed him that lie had returned to England, leaving him in charge of the affairs of the firm. “All. indeed! Well, there's a little matter I wanted to s|>eak of to liim.” "I shall Ik* happy to serve you, count,’ said Tommy in his very liest Italian “Well, suppose you (line with us to night. and we can tali it over after din ner," returned the count, who thought he ought to show a little attention to the lonely Englishman. Of course the invitation was accepted, and Tommy had no sooner entered the drawing room at the Villa JIarsoni than he lost his heart at cnce, irrevocably and forever. Jlaria JIarsoni was. indeed, beautiful mu! vivacious enough to have turmil the head of a wiser and colder blooded man than Tommy JIalhers; and so ready was he to amuse her by Iris efforts to speak a language that lie jiar- tially knew tluit lie. won more favor in the maiden’s eyes than many a more brilliant talker would have done. Such an impression, indeed, did the signorina bright eyes make upon Tommy’s suscep tible heart that he was barely able to give due attention to the count, when, after dinner, ho began lo talk of bills, discount, mortgages and debentures. Time went on; JIr. Hodgson did not turn to Turin, and JIr. JIatbers paid several visits to the count's residence, suing away more in love every time, Meanwhile, by dint of going aliout con tinually among tbe citizens, the youn; man was able to send home so gixzl a list of prospective customers that tile partners determined to establish n branch office at Turin. ;md offer young JIatbers a sulior- ilinate [Hist in it. Nothing definite, however, had been fixed, when one day Tommy findini Jlaria JIarsoni alone when lie called at the villa, lost his head completely, and was making love as well as his ini[iorfcct knowledge of Italian permitted, when the count, suddenly coining in. caught liim in the act of kissing his daughter's hand. Jlaria fled like a hare disturbed on her form, and the count advanced with heavy frown on Ills aristocratic brow. More as a matter of form than any thing else, for he knew his case was hope less. Mathers formally asked the hand of the signorina in marriage, laying the blame of his irregular declaration on the strength of his passion and his ignorance of Italian etiquette. The count heard liun to the end, and then surveyed liim from head to foot with a look of contempt, "It is a piece of gross presumption in you—a mtro clerk, a nobody—to address iny daughter." said the count at last in English, with his chin in the air. “Of course,” sa’d Tommy bitter stung by the count's look. “If I were a partner in Hodgson's, though, you would give me a different answer. "If you were a partner in Jlessrs. Eodgson. Dunford & Parr's,” said the count, with an altered expression, "t’uat would make a difference of course: but as 1 do not understand that you have any prosjicct of entering that firm, I don't see how that affects you.' ’ Tommy sighed, and made his escape as soon as possible. lie knew that lie might as well ask for the lord chancellorship as ask for a jiartnersliijr in the bank. For two. days he remained in a state of collapse ami then he received advices from London informing him of the do cision to which the firm had come with respect to the new branch. A fe montlis before Mathers would have been transported with delight at. the proposal which tlic firm made to him; but now he considered that lie was getting barely his due. and. besides, he was so cut up with respect to the beautiful Jlaria that mere commercial matters did not possess their usual interest for him. Suddenly, as lie sat with the open-let ter bearing the well known signature lie- fore him. Tommy conceived an idea. Without a moment's delay lie called for liis bill at the hotel, sent a waiter for a cab and took the first train northward. He arrived at Victoria early in the morn ing. went to a hotel, washed ami dressed himself, and. purjwsely delaying until the partners should have reached the office in St. Swithin's lane, he presented himself before liis employers as they were engaged in discussing the morning's let ters. ••Hollo sir." cried Mr. Hodgson, as he caught sight of the young man. “What are you doing here? Anything wrong?” "Nothing is wrong that I know of. grammar. He contrived to let this fact be known, and in due time Mr. Parr in formed his senior partner that “it seemed that young Mathers knew something of the language.” This decided the point. Tommy re ceived his orders, and in three days more found himself on board the Dover and r>laia packet, in charge of a large dis patch box and Mr. Hodgson's bulky portmanteaus. The journey was by no a comfortable one, for the young man found that he was- expected to travel second class, and generally act an oourier to his employer. When at lai* Turin was reached, things ware no better. Then why are you here without leave?” asked the junior partner. ■-Didn't you get our letter informing you of our new arrangements?” I did. JIr. Parr. It is in conse quence of that letter that I am here.” Tlfis was said with considerable gravity, and Tommy helped himself to a chair as he spoke. *-I am afraid, sir." he contin ued, --tliat I cannot accept the situation yon were good enough to offer me at Turin." • --Don't, then!” burst out old Mr. Hodgson, in great wrath at the tone which the young man was assuming. “JVe'U find fifty clerks ready to jump at it—five hundred, for that matter.” “You forget sir,” said Tommy, re spectfully but firmly, -that I have been at Turin for some time. I know the business there, and what I came here to propose was ’that I should have a small share in the firm”—|—— Mr. Parr stared and ejaculated, “What, ■r?” the sweeper at the next crossing had de- from the drawers under the counter, it would not hare seemed so absurd as this demand of the jtlnior clerk’s. “Of course, having no capital, I expect only a very small share in the business.” continued Tommy; "but you will see that as Count Jlarsoni's son-in-law” “Wliat! What? Wh@t do yon say?” echoed the partners in various inflections. “-Vs C6unt Marsoni’s son-in-law I should lie able to influence a large amount of business, and it would be more fitting if my name appeared in the name of the branch firm.” "Do you mean to say that you are going to marry that young lady, Count Jlarsoni's daughter?” said Mr. Hodgson, with wonder, incredulity, and a tinge of new bom respect for liis clerk mingling in his countenance. “It is as good as settled, sir,” said Tommy modestly. “Of course this is a private matter, but it is one that would naturally be taken into account.” This was quite evident, and Tommy, having made his shot, rose, bowed and withdrew. Before half an hour had passed the firm had taken their resolution. * The share which Tommy was given represented little more tlian a somewhat lilieral salary but lie was included as a partner in the branch firm of Hodgson, Dunford, Jla- thers & Co., of Turin. As soon as the partnership deed was drawn up and exe cuted. Tommy returned to Italy, and had another interview with the count, who, imagining that he had misconceived the young man’s true position all along, was politeness itself. The young partner in the wealthy house of English bankers was one who might, without any impro priety, lie presented to society as his daughter’s husband. Within throe montlis the marriage was celebrated. Tommy had done the trick.—Whitehall Review. WHEN ALL THE DAY IS DONE. When all tbe day is done, then ft Is sweet To turn thy kmginc sttps upon the way That wings brave labor to love’s endless day. There, for thy coming, quickening pulse tnd lay Of heart-sung welcome, ringing true alway, FID an thy home with ministry replete. When all the day is done, then It is sweet That loyal love hath drawn thee from the race And direst trial of thy strength from place. For then, the world shut out, thy heart can trace Its kingdom whole within one blessed face— Thy wife, thy queen, thy other soul complete! —Edgar L. Wakeman in The Journalist. SftCRET OF MIND READING. How Victoria Wma Named. Considering the “strained relations” with Russia which have marked the whole course of the queen’s reign it is re markable that her first name. Alexan drine. should have been conferred upon her in honor of the then reigning czar, of whom the Duke of Kent was an ad mirer, and who was our faithful and close ally. It was in the Castlereagh period of our foreign jxilicy. George IV ras to have contributed another name, Georgiana. But Georgiana Alexandria would have deprived the emperor of the place of precedence, and "Alexandria Georgiana” would have derogated from the claims of the name borne by the ac tual king of England and all liis Hano verian predecessors. The name of the queen's mother was therefore substituted' for that of her uncle. In the commence ment of the christening of the new- bom princess she was called Alexandria Vic- toire. but the second name was speedily Anglicized or Latinized ito Victoria. A little before 'William IV’s death there was some flutter among official people as to the designation under which the queen expectant should be proclaimed and should remain, and Lord Campbell, then Si John Campbell and attorney gen eral, represents himself as having decided tills matter, in conjunction with Charles Greville and Lord Lyndhurst as represent- ig the opposition, i favor of the baptis mal names for the proclamation, leaving it to the queen to choose af terward the name miller which she should reign. Among other absurd suggestions there was one that she should be styled Elizabeth IL The assumption apparently was that her majesty was always to remain a maiden queen, with jierhaps Lord Melbourne for her Leicester. Lord John Russell for her Essex, and Sir John Campbell for her Sir Francis Bacon! The fates happily have ithcrwise determined. But it is curious to think tliat but for chance or caprice or good sense we might now be preparing for tbe jubilee, not of Queen Victoria, but of Queen Alexandrina or Queen Georgiana—I put Queen Elizabeth II out of the question.—London World. A West African Telegyapt. Amid the throng of canoes that come crowding around us as usual ajijiear three or four big aristocratic boats manned by twenty or thirty natives apiece, and roofed in amiilslfijis with the awning of brown matting which jiroclaims them to be the projK-rty of a chief. One of these black magnates—a rather good looking young fellow, with features almost as regular as those of a Eurojiean—conies on board, md is presented to us by the somewhat original title of "David Fine-Country. ” As the boats circle to and fro there arises from them a weird, monotonous music like tile distant beating of. a drum. This is produced by a kind of rude har monium formed of thin slats of wood nailed ujxm a rough framework, and jilayed with two short sticks. Tlfis curious contrivance is a telegraph as well -- a musical instrument, every note lieing signal unintelligible to outsiders. In this way two natives can hold a conversa tion at a considerable distance, and a negro trader aboard one of the floating •hulks" can signal to his agents on shore. The huge wooden drums of the Duaflas, on the Cameroon? river, are used in a similar way.—Bonny (West Africa) Cor. New York Times. A Boston Editor Thinks He Has Discov ered It—Hr Experiments. One of the most attentive spectators at the recent remarkable mind reading per formances of Washington Irving Bishop in this city was Charles H. Jlontague, city editor of The Globe. Mr. Montague is a gentleman of fine nervous organiza tion, and he made up his mind that he could duplicate JIr. Bishop’s perfonrl- ances. He at once began practicing JIr. Bishop's feats, and with such marked success that on Friday evening he invited some twenty of his acquaintances to his room at Hotel Middlesex to test liis pow ers. Here JIr. Jlontague pilaced himself in the power of his friends, and under conditions which rendered collusiom im- jxissible. He successfully performed every one of the masterly achievements with" which JIr. Bishop electrified Bos ton. A scarf pin was taken from a gen tleman and placed in a match safe sus- jiended from the chandelier. JIr. Mon tague was then brought in from an ad joining room blindfolded. By taking the liand of a gentleman, who kept liis mind intently fixed on the object, Mr. Jlontague easily found the piin. Various agents were selected from the assembly, and with every one JIr. Jlon tague liad no difficulty in finding the con cealed objects. When the “unattached process" was tried, articles were secreted about the room by various persons, and by liaving the agent hold his hand about four inches over JIr. Montague's hand the latter easily found all the hidden arti- .cles. JIr. Jlontague then enacted the mock murder scene exactly as JIr. Bishop does it. While Montague was blindfolded in another room a knife was jiroduced, a piretense made of stabbing a lady, and the knife was then concealed in the sleeve of a gentleman. Mr. Jlontague was then led in, still blindfolded, and by simply elasjiing the hand of an agent whose mind was fixed intently on .the act, he found the knife and repieated the feint of stabbing. Tlfis operation was followed by the finding of a sjxiol hidden in the attic, JIr. Jlontague being con nected with his agent only by a piece of wire. Then the mind reader asked a lady se lected at random to think intently on the first note of some piece of music. He then went to the piano, and, after a mo ment’s fingering, played the ancient song, “Go Tell Rhody, ” which the lady said was correct. While blindfolded JIr. Montague succeeded in four and one- half minutes in reproducing a geometrical figure drawn by a member of the jiartv while he was absent from the room. JIasy other far more complicated feats were successfully performed. JIr. Montague says he jierforms these acts through no occult piower, but purely by natural agency. He blindfolds him self in order to secure the most jierfect abstraction of mind. He wants the en tire outside world, except his subject or agent, shut out. The subject must fix his mind intently on the object to be dis covered, and must give no muscular in dication whatever. The secret consists in this: A jierson healthy in body and mind will go toward an object of which he is thinking a great deal easier than he will go away from it. He has been ac customed ever since birth to do tins. If he fixes his mind intently on some object he is bound by the very nature of his mental and physical organization to go that way more easily than the oppiosite. The province of the mind reader is simply to discover in which direction the subject wishes to go and to lead him there. Being blindfolded and having his mind intently fixed on his subject, the mind reader observes the slightest indica tions of volition and by quickness of mo tion he soon throws his subject off his guard, and the rest is easy. Various sly tricks connected with the above described principle enables the reader to jierform feats without physical connection almost as readily as with.—Boston Cor. Phila delphia Press. A REFORMED BURGLAR. His Excellent Wine. Cliampoireau was dining a few friends. When dessert was placed on the table all his guests joined in complimenting liim on the excellence of liis wine. -And yet,” cried Jlrne. Chamjioireau. intent on maintaining the family reputation for blundering, --do you know we have by no means given you the best we have?” —From the French. A College Paring the War. Tbe building of the bridge across the Hud son at Poughkeepsie puts us in mind of the fact that the project was first broached a great many years ago by Professor Eastman, c£ that to»vn. He labored long and bard to ingthe public to see the advantages to be derived from such a work, but died before he had enough supporters to bring his plan to a head. Eastman made an enormous fortune in Poughkeepsie with a business college. At the time of the war he was eking out a living as the proprietor of a small school. Under the draft law scholars were exempt from mili tary service, and Eastman soon found his school so full that he had to move into more commodious quarters. The secret of tlffe plan to evade conscription leaked out, and within six months Eastman rented, every vacant room in the town and tilled it with u 8cbolars. r Illiteracy spread with alarming rapidity, and middle-aged men who had been considered fairly educated merchants suddenly forgot howto read and write or to do their sums, and found it necessary to attend Professor Eastman’s business college. The prof ewer prospered accordingly, and even when the wardeprived him of his ‘^scholars’ 7 hisbosinea was finely established.—Chicago Sieve. * The Greatest Number. Hume, the historian, found himself one day at a social dinner next to Lord John Russell. In the course of conversation liis lordship said: “What do you con sider the object of legislation?’’ “The greatest good to the greatest number,” was Hume’s answer. “And what do you consider the greatest number?” con tinued Lord John Russell. “Number one, my lord,” was the historian’s prompt reply.—The Argonaut. Was Well Acqualvited. An Oxford university man insisted on keeping bees. One day a local clerical dignitary told him plainly that his bees must be sent away, because a gentleman commoner liad just been stung. He re plied instantly: “JIr. Dean, I assure you you are doing us a great injustice. I know that bee well. He is not mine at all but belongs to Mr. Bigg, of Merton.” —New York Sun. An Awful Conceit. It was an awful conceit of one sea writer that the bodies of the dead that have been cast overboard along the prin- cijial routes between America and Eu rope are now standing erect on the bot tom of the sea shoulder to shoulder, from port to port.—New York Sun. ■mr the Chanffe trta Brought About—A Good K«iolutioD*Tlie Result. On my discharge from prison I found the way open to me far fresh offenses even greater than the one I had com mitted. My father liad died while I was still in prison, and my mother liad mar ried again. I found my former jirison associate waiting for me in a large city. We formed a partnership in crime which lasted nearly seven years, during which we perpetrated over fifty burglaries. In none of these were we detected, though several times we had narrow escapes, and I was once arrested, charged with an offense with which I had no connection. Fortunately for me, the real criminal, a man of whom I liad no knowltilge, was discovered, and I was discharged from custody. Why, then, did I cease being a burglar and become an honest man? I had been more than ordinarily successful in my criminal career, and had, save in my first crime, committed when I was a novice in the business, escaped all punish ment tar my violations of law. This is how the change came about. One night as I sat in my well furnished room read ing the last number of a jiopular maga zine, something that I jierused set mo to thinking. It was a story in which oc curred the expression that in the long run a man, other things being equal, could make more by honest than by dishonest work. I stopped reading and endeavored to call to mind the amount of my gains. 1 liad no trouble in doing so, being as sisted by full notes that I had kept in a cipher of my own designing. I had never fully contemplated the matter before, but now, with pen and paper, I put the whole subject before my eyes. Not counting my first burglar}-, I found that my share of all the others amounted to the sum of about $21,000, or nearly $3,000 a year. At tliat mo ment I had as the entire profits of my profession, the. sum of $210 in cash, to gether with a fair stock of clothes and a watch that I had bought, for I was too slirewd to wear one that I had stolen. I was not addicted to drinking, gambling, or other of what I may call small vices, but my expenses in traveling, in eluding detections and in feeing certain officers of the law had been heavy, so that I had never been able to do much more than to maintain myself in a way that was neither luxurious as regarded the body nor comfortable so far as the mind was concerned. I was always unsettled and constantly in fear of arrest. I was never sure.at night when I went to bed that I should not before morning lie in irons and on my way to jirison. Besides all this, I had had a great deal of hard physical labor to perform, and was often obliged to spend hours in all sorts of cramped and otherwise uncomfortable positions. Three thousand dollars a year! Tliat was all. I knew that I liad the ability to make much more than that sum at honest work if I could only get the honest work to do, and tliat, too, with out such wear and tear of mind as I had endured for seven years, to say nothing of my term of imprisonment. Tliat night my resolution was taken, and the next morning I was on my way to a remote part of the country under the name that I now bear. With my $200 and $150 more that I obtained from the sale of my watch, I bought a small busi ness that was for sale, and became a citizen of a thriving town. Reading in duced reflection, and better principles were develojied in me, and little by little the idea dawned ujxm me that it was my duty to make restitution, and I began to save money with that object in view. I cannot, without danger of revealing my identity, give any further particulars of my life. Suffice it to say that I am now nearly 60 years of age, that I have restored over $15,000 of stolen money, and that I have the rest in safe keeping ready to give it back as soon as I can find the lawful owners. I have retired from business of my own, but I hold a resjionsible jiosition in a first-class estab lishment with a salary of over $4,000 a year, and am, I believe, respected by all who know me.—New York Star. THE RATS OF NEW YORK. A Very Remote Ancestor. Word comes of the death of the Due de Levis, head of the oldest family of French nobility. In his ancestral halls he had two jiaintings, one representing one of his ancestors bowing, hat in hand, to the Virgin JIary, who says to him, “Couvrez- vous mon cousin!” and the other showing a more remote ancestor shouting to Noah as ne entered the ark, "Sauvezles jiajiiers de la Maison de Levis!”—New York Tribune. A Curious Observation. According to L’Electricien, M. H. Dun- ville pledges his scientific reputation to the accuracy of the following observation: If two glasses of water be placed, one ujxm the north jiole of a jiowerful mag net, and the other upon the south jiole, in four or five minutes the former ac quires a slight alkaline reaction, while tliat on the south pole becomes slightly acid.—Boston Transcript. Sure Sign. “Why. my dear, what’s the matter?” kindly asked a lady of her friend. “Oh, I feel I’m beginning to look quite old.” was the mournful reply. Nonsense! Whatever put such an idea into your head?” Because,” was the reply, “I notice that whenever I cross Breadway the po licemen never take my arm as they used to do.”—Judge. Billions of the Pests nt Work All Over the City—Property Endangered. It Is safe to say tliat there is not now a building iu the city not infested with Norwegian rats. All the cats and human rat catchers can at l«st hut destroy an insignificant projtortion of them. As a matter of fact, the brown Norwegian rat is so big and fierce that an ordinary cat Is no match for liim, and no cat possess ing the usual instinct oi self-preservation will beard a cellavfnl of these rodents as big as himself. Most of the uptown hotels keep all the way from a dozen to 100 cats in their cellars, and even this nmnber -is insufficient to keep their active foes from penetrating to the rooms, destroying fur niture and making timid jieople think that burglars are “a-burgling. ” The most serious asjiect of the rat ques tion. however, is. as above stated, that New York's billion of Norwegian rats are all the time burrowing lieneath the foundations of buildings, eating into jiil- lars and supjiorts and thus actually en dangering life and, property. And the more they are driven from the houses themselves the greater the danger, for the rats, driven 1 iv ferrets, weasels, jioison and cats from the living portions of a house, take to the cellars, the sewers and the great subterranean world of mold and filth. Here they are not molested and here they burrow and mine until more than one sjilendid edifice is to-day liable to topple and collajise. A six story building uptown was a few months ago condemned as unsafe be- canse one side of the structure hail dan gerously settled. When the workmen who tore down the house reached the cellar they found it literally paved with rats, and it took an entire day to drown them out by the use of a hose anil fire hydrant. Then it was revealed that the rats liad so burrowed under the supjiorts in order to get at a provision warehouse the other side of the supjKirting wall that the brick had given way and caused the wall to fall. If the streets and sidewalks of New York could be suddenly removed like a cover to a box and the underground world revealed,” said a well-known builder, “the sight would not only apjial, but alarm every house owner and dweller in the city. It is a solid fact that perhajK a biliion of rats are even- second of the day and night burrowing and mining lieneath and around the gas pijies, the water mains, the sewer mains and into the very foundations of the buildings. The fact is liecoming a serious one, I assure you. to builders, for we already have to take into considera tion the ravages of these jiests, and wliat the result will lie ten years from now is fearful to contemplate. I feel safe in asserting that nearly all the many recent cave-ins of buildings are due to the hurrowings of rats. Of course iron buildings are safer in this respect than woollen ones, but even in iron structures many wooden sujiiiort.s are commonly used, and the rats eat away at them until they are honeycombed, likely as not thereby endangering the stability of the structure and consequently life.” “How long has this state of things pre vailed to your knowledge?” was asked. “Only since the introduction :uid proj> agation of that Norwegian rat. The old American black rat. to the cellar bom, was not destructive of such solid proper ties as wood and iron, that I know of,” was the resjxmse. ‘‘■Why, I was in a South street provis ion warehouse the other day,” he con tinued, “and hapjieneil to mention the subject to the proprietor. He told me tliat rats hail in two days eaten into a dozen boxes of cheese and lard and bored holes in two or three rider liarrels. letting the cider all out into the cellar. The next day he found about 100 rats dead drunk on the floor from the effects of the cider. It might seem incredible to you, but from my own previous knowledge of the jienetrating jiowers and the omnivor ous apjietitc of the Norwegian rat I could readily believe the statement.” Professor Jennings said that one of the most dangerous features of the Norwegian rat, aside from his projiensity to under mine buildings, was that his bite was al ways dangerous and usually fatal. “I have never yet been bitten by one of tlie •Norwegians,” said he, “and I take mighty good care not to be. I have been bitten by the old black rat thousands of times, but never with serious results, and I understand that the bite of the Nor wegian rodent is almost as certain death as that cf a cobra.”—New York Journal. 0.1. DOIIGHEITT k CO., ATLANTA, GA. No Introductory Chat with onr friends. There is no apol ogy to offer for this, cither, because this is a BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENT! A\d Don’t You Forget It ! CLOAKS AND WRAPS! We can openly defy the whole state on these goods. We have an overwhelming stock and will close them out at wonderfully low prices. Tin winter has only bo- gim. iiie prophets and the “goose lxme” all predict cold weather ahead. Come while we can afford to give you timely bargains. Jerseys at very “low cut” prices —away tindei wliat they were earlier in the season. KNIT UNDERWEAR! Here again we arc defiant, because nobody can touch us. Knit Underwear for Ladies, Children and M in. We do all the business of the town in this line, and are not afraid of lieing ton lied by factory prices. We have bought out the facto ries and are underselling them." LOWER YET. On Flannels and Pant S'uff. we are ahead of the closest competitors. We have an immense stock, and everything is down to low rock prices. A new and extensive stock of handsome holiday goods, something useful and something to please everybody. Water Proofs and Repellants For ladies’ and childrens’ suits. We know we are underselling everybody here, anil we say it boldly. Cotton Flannels, from 5c to 20c, immense bargains, and you Will not fail to say s i when you get the goods. New Wool Hosiery. New Wool -Mittens, for ladies and children. New Silk Mufflers. New Silk Handkerchiefs, we have them from 25 to 50c, sold last season at from 50 to 75c. New Cotton and Linen .Handkerchiefs in great variotj', very low. A Truthful Liitcner. “Indeed, it hapjieaed in less time than I take to tell it,” said the lady, who was considered somewhat of a bore. “Oh, I haven't the least doubt of that,” replied her patient and truthful listener.— Yonkers Statesman. An Exception. “Pitch your voice in a low key,” says a writer on etiquette. We presume eti quette can be temporarily dispensed with when trying to wake tbe boys in tbe morning. —— Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele graph. A Ventilating Window Pane. A' German engineer, named Henkels, has invented a ventilating window pane which admits fresh air while preventing a draught. Each square meter of glam contains 5,000 holes, which are of a conical shape, widening toward the in side. The new device has already been adopted by many of the German boa- ptteda.—New Orleans Timee-Democrat. Blind Creatnreti. There are 172 ojjecimens of blind crea tures known to science, including cray fish. myriapods, etc. They are mostly white, whether from lack of stimulus of the light or from bleaching out of the skin. Some sjiecies have small eyes and some have not any.—Chicago Times. Patti’s Beautiful Gifts. Adelina Patti’s castle in Wales is filled with the costly and beautiful gifts which she has received during her career—testi monials of homage for her matchless jiowers. They say she has seven solid silver services—one for each day in the week.—Cleveland Leader. The silver mills of Montana represent an investment of $20,000,000 and mining machinery as much more. Tbe Japanese A tea ship that recently arrived at Portland, Ore., had on board a very pe culiar lord, called the Japanese tumbler. It has a habit of jumfiing from its perch, turning a somersault and coming down on the perch all standing; and this trick it win perform dozens of times in suc cession, till beholden deem the bird de mented. It is conMAerabiy larger than a canary and of rather pretty plunwge, hot not namh in tbe musical line.—Hew Otdeans limes-Democrat. An .Eccentric Millionaire. Stories are told of jiersons who have shown their contempt for sujierahounding wealth by lighting their cigars with hank notes (jiossibly they took the number beforehand i: and maniacs have been heard of who have shod their horses with gold. Following up these examples in a some what more extensive fasliion. a St. Peters burg millionaire has just had the walls of liis .smoking room adorned with a sehi tion of the Link notes of the world. After all. the fantasy may not be so costly as it looks. Jfost continental coun tries, as well as America issue hank notes of very small denominations; and so long as the more valuable issues were used bat sparingly it would be jierfectly jiossi- ble to jiajier the walLs and ceiling of a fair sized room with bank notes for much loss than would be needed to be exjiended u j ion pictures or frescoes.—St. James’ Gazette. Mixed Sensations. The scarlet sound of the trumjiet, the chocolate voice of the contralto, the Whistler symphonies of color and jier- fumes in the major and minor modes are notliing new. hut small Tommy hit ujKin a transposition from the domain of one sense into that of another when they gave him an emulsion of codliver oil, the other day. “It doesn't taste very liad. does it?” asked the ring of kinswomen who had gathered around, adjuring him to “take it like”—like several sorts of heroic beings. “No.” said he, trying to renew the sensation caused by its passage over liis tongue, “n : no! It taste like a bronze kid slipjier—with a squeak in it.”—Bos ton Transcript. Let everybody blow theirhoms, but’you will make a m'stake’if you fail to come to us for any of tiiese goods. Blankets from 85i: to $15.00. 10 per cent, low er than any house in Georgia. Comforts from 50e to $3.50 and $4.00. Now these are big-values, and we won’t deceive you when you come. DRESS GOODS. A fearful reduction in everything we have in the way of Dress Goods. We have a heavy stock, a superb selection, choice material, and we in tend to surprise everybody who will come and look at them. New Evening Silk in great variety. New Silk Cord and Buttons to match for evening trimming. The handsomest line of Holiday Millinery ev6r brought- to Atlanta. Gr O VES New Kid Gloves in all colors, 50,65,75, $1 and $1.50. Our $1 Gloves are guaranteed. TABLE LiHVEIKTS. We will save you 25 per cent, on these goods. New Ruchings. New Collars and Cuffs. Big drives in bleached and unbleached Domestics Good Prints at 3 and3>£c. Prints at 5c, cheap at 7>^c. SHOES. We are ahead of our own purposes in Shoes. We run more men and have more Shoes and sell more Shoe3 than any house—than any two houses—in Atlanta. Shoes for everybody and Shoes cheap enough to open your eyes. 1. 1 WGIBITY & CD. THOMPSON BROS. Bedroom, Parlor and Dining Room Fnrnitnro Big Stock and Low Prices. PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS, WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL CASESl eplfi-1* /^■Orders attended to at any hoar day or night. THOMPSON BROS Newnan. t*a. E. VAN WINKLE & CO. Manufacturers and Dealers in Wind Mills, Pumps, Tanks, Etc., ALSO Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses Oil Mills, Etc, 1 frphrtV"* The Real English Holly. The real English holly, with its white berry, is not to be found in America ex cept in a few isolated cases in the warm Carolinas. Another so-called holly, with a red berry, grows in various parts of the country.—Boston Journal. Gjpsnm Plains of New Mexico. A striking feature and resource at Dona Ana county, New Mexico, is its gypsum plains, forty jniies long and thirty miles wide. The mineral exists in the form of jujwder, and in places is “piled in drifts twenty to fifty feet in height,” and which, from a distance re sembles banks of snow. It is valuable as a fertilizer for wheat fields.—Cor. Cleve land Leader. CONSTRUCT Public and Private Water Works, "Railroad Water Supplies, Steam Pumps, Pipe and Brass Uoodi. Kend.lor Catalogue and Prices. E. VAN WINKLE Sr. CO-. 52-13 Box 83, ATLANTA, GA. g. g. McNamara NEWNAN MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS. ISON & McNAMARA. -DEALERS IN- MARBLE&GRANITE MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND HEADSTONES, TAB LETS, CURBING, ETC. fV’Special Designs, and Estimates for any desired work, furnished on application. HEWHAN, GEORGIA..