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VOLUME XXII.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1887.
NUMBER )S
Our lives are albums, written through
With good or ill, with false or true.
A STORK OF CHARITY.
Truly a pitiful object was little Dan as
he sat flinching, half fainting in tlip bit
ing atmosphere.. Yet but half the story
was told by his tattered garments. The
ninclx'd and sunken features, the wistful
look of those blue eyes and the weary,
drooping attitude of that emaciated figure
needed no spoken language to explain
that hunger as well as cold had here an
unfortunate’ victim. The lad could not
have imen much over 10 years of age; his
face was fair and clean, its expression de
noting a manly disposition. For more
than an hour he sat there in front of the
store from which lie had been so merci
lessly driven forth, addressing every male
pedestrian with the short, business-like
interrogation; “Black yer boots? Only
three cents. ” He received no responses,
not even so much as a brief negative.
Some men who strode by in warm
“arctics" looked down carelessly upon
the shivering little fellow and smiled at
the absurdity of stopping in the streets to
have their boots bkicked on such a day.
Other- wondered why tlic lazy little
Urchin did not occupy liis time in the
more sensible vocation of selling news-
|ia|»-rs, and the proprietor of the store,
napjiening to look out of bis window at
tin- hurrying throng, caught sight of the
ragged bootblack and wondered why the
police did not take care of such a vaga
bond. At last there camo along one
young man more observing than the rest.
Up saw that the poor boy was sutfering
from cold and hunger and his heart was
tonehod. Stopping he said: “Well, little
chap, isn’t this pretty cold work for
you?"
“Kind’r. sir,” answered flip boy, as
with an effort lie dropped on his knees
and pushed forward his Ikix. “Have
your IsM>ts blacked?”
“No, T guess not." laughingly replied
file young man. “It is a little too cold
to stand out lieru."
“Black 'em quick, sir!" said the lfrchin,
looking appealingly up into the eves of
his long-waited-for customer.
“What is vour name?" asked the gen
tieman. paying no attention to the lox,
Which had Ix-on pusher] close to his feet
“Dan, sir."
“How long have you been sitting here,
Dan?”
“’Pout an hour."
“Why don’t you peddle .newspapers?
No man wants to get his Ixxits blacked in
the stn-cts such weather as this.”
“Please, sir, I iiain't got no money to
buy papers," replied the little fellow.
"Oh, tliat is t he trouble, is it? What
Would you do with 10 cents if I should
give it to you?” pleasantly inquired the
young man.' As lie said this lie drew off
one of liis gloves, unbuttoned his coat,
and .took out a well tilled pocketliook.
"1 would get something to eat,”
answered .Dan eagerly. ’
“Are you very hungry?"
“Yes. sir. but I don’t want nothing for
myself. My mother -ir sick, and there
ain't nothin’ in the houso for her.”
“Dint is too laid,” murmured the
gentleman sympathetically, as lie film
bled in liis pockets for some change—
there were only Dills in liis wallet. From
one pocket to another -went liis hand;
littleDan’s cyi's following each motion
with a hungry expectancy- until the
last jxH'kel had been searched, and no
coins could lie found. “Well, now, I
am sorry, iny little ‘man”—and a tone of
real regret gave emphasis to the words—
“hut I have nothing less than a £5 hill.”
Little Dan’s eyes became misty, and
there was a suspicious quiver alxiut liis
li|>s. But lie was not chickeft hearted
and was no Ix-ggar. The tears that
started were forced back, and the re-
bellious soli was choked, down. With n
determined toss of the head lie stood
erect and returned a simple “thank you,
sir." to the young man’s parting words.
“Am sorry, Dan, but I may see- you to
morrow."
For a few moments longer little Dan
lingered in the street, vainly appealing
to the jiassers by for employment. But
lie received nothing biit rebuffs and
harsh words. Two ladies, attracted by his
odd appearance, paused to ask him why
lie did not go home. “I want to earn
some money first.'’ lie teplied; “my
mother is sick,” The ladies exchanged
significant glances. "Too kid,” said
one to the other as they .walked sway,
“that children so young.should tie taught,
the. tricks of professional beggars." Soon
u policeman touched the half frozen boy
on the shoulder and hade him “move
on." and in obedience to the stern man
date little Dan picked up liis box and
wearily trudged away
IT.
“Starvation Hospital!" the place was
usually i-allil. It was one of those dilapi
dated and neglected frame tenements
which- swarm with human beings very
much as a wharf hole swarms with rats.
The building had been erected many
years before and used as a planing mill,
but when trade and business enterprise
departed from the neighborhood the old
structure was hastily altered into a cheap
lodging house. After awhile the place
was%eglected by its owner and permitted
to go to decay, anil each year it sunk
lower in the grade of human habitations.
None hut the most destitute could be in
duced to live there,. and yet its barren,
ill-kept rooms were always full.
In one of the upper rooms, lighted only
by a small' and broken window, and ap
proached by a series of rickety stairways
and dark, vermin infested corridors, a
woman lav dying of consumption. "Want
and exposure had brought the disease,
and had nurtured it so assiduously that
■death seemed but to toy with its victim.
Tlie room was small and destitute of fur
niture; nothing save the low iron bed
stead. u|>on which reposed the emaciated
form of tlie dying, woman' was then 1 to
relive the barrenness of tlie apartment.
A bent anil broken candlestick stood
empty upon tlie broad wooden mantel
piece. The brick fireplace underneath
contained a bod of ashes—nothing more.
Through the broken window the wintry
hlnsts came at.will, and found a passive,
unresisting subject for their cruel sport
on the straw covered cot.
The sound of shuffling footsteps in the
corridor arwised the woman from her
lethargic state, and caused her to turn
her head eagerly toward the door as if
expecting some pleasant arrival. The
iron iamb yas lifted and the door swung
open, admitting the small figure of little
Dan. He advanced into the room softly,
placed his box on the floor at the head of
tha hit, nil, kiwiiny down upon it*
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leaned over and kissed the wan cheek of I W SSfSL’ P"***** 8 *? ?? 11
the invalid, saying in a low voice: “How | m my dlstrict > explained Mrs.
do you feel, mother?" The dying woman,
whiwe eves were fastened intently on the
face of her son, murmured, as with a
feeble motion she stroked his curlv hair:
“Poor little Dan, you have been unsuc
cessful”
-“Yes. bad luck to-day, mother," an-
swered tlie lad, endeavoring to speak
cheerfully, hut unable to suppress the
sob that struggled up from the tender
heart, touched to the quick at sight of
hig mother’s patient suffering; little
Dan’s lips quivered 'painfully for an in
stant, and then he gave expression to his
sorrow and suffering-bj a flood of tears;
“Oh, mother,” he cried. ‘■We'are starv
ing.”
The only response tliat came from the
lips of the agonized mother—herself
nearly beyond the natch of the tortures
'of hunger—was. “My pooy-ehiM!
poor child,” and encircling Ids neck wi$H
one arm, she drew him close to her and
sought to cover him with a turner of the
well worn blanket, which constituted
her sole protection front the blasts of cold
air tliat came through the almost glass
less window sash.
“No, mother! no!” exclaimed the lit
tle fellow, resolutely starting up from liis
kneeling posture and carefully replacing
tlie blanket over his mother, “you musn’t
do tliat. I am not very cold, and, be
sides, I can build a fire,” saying which
he drew from liis pocket a match and bit
of crumpled pa|>er, which he held trium
phantly liefore liis mother’s eyes. Then
he proceeded to demolish liis unprofitable
blacking box by kicking in the sides and
pulling flic pieces a|>art with liis hands.
Soon he had quite a pile of splinters, and
building them carefully over liis bit of
pajier on tlie dead ashes in the fireplace
lie set fire to them, and. a crackling,
cheerful blaze was the result. "Look,
mother, isn’t tliat glorious?" he cried,
turning eagerly to ri-ccivo liis mother’s
approbation, forgetful for tlie moment
of all liis troubles in the glowing heat.
• A sad, tender smile rested on the
mother’s face, anil she was alxiut to re
ply, when the door was pushed open and
a woman’s voice exclaimed: “Mercy on
us, what a place!"’ Two richly dresser!
ladies tlien crossed the threshold. It re
quired hut a glance to assure them tliat
they stood in the presence of sickness and
destitution. They were memlx-rs of tlie
Percival Square Church Relief society,
and a sense of duty had iin|x'lkxl them to
visit tlie old tenement building. Little
Dan advanced toward them, and with
instinctive ]x>liteness motioned for them
to draw nearer to the fire. “We ain’t
got no chaiys,” he said, “hut we are so
glad tliat you have come.” Mrs. Zeal
ous and Miss Prim exchanged deprecatory
glances, and tlie elder lady, turning to
Diui'h mother, inquired feelingly; “Are
you in great need of anything?”
“We have nothing, madam, but what
youseehere,” was tlie answer. “Neither
my son nor myself lias .tasted any food
since yesterday morning.”
“And my mother,” interposed Dan.
“is very, very sick.”
“This is suffering indeed!" said Mrs.
Zealous to her companion. “We must
do something to relieve these pobple.”
“Ido not want for myself,” said the
dying woman, “I shall soon lx- lxwond
the need of earthly care, hut my poor
lioy! please take care of him, ladies;
please keep him from want.”
“We most assuredly will, my good
woman, and we will help you also,” re
sponded Miss Prim, with some warmth.
“Mrs. Zealous, we must bring tin’s case
to the attention of tlie society without
delay.” - :
“Yes, it shall receive attention tlie
very first tiling to-morrow, and I am ex
ceedingly sorry that I have no fhnnge
with the. for I suppose you are hungry,
my little mail,” continued Mrs. Zealous,
placing her hand on Dan’s head.
“Y’es’m, party hungry,” answered the
boy, with a look full of disappointment
and grief.
“Well, keep up your courage.” cheer
ily responded Miss Prim, after she had
searched her portmonaie in vain for some
money, “we will come to-morrow and
bring you something.”
Little Dan made no reply. I/mg suf
fering had made him patient and brave.
As the two missionaries of organized
charity descended tlie rickety stairs to the
street lie silently crept to liis mother’s
cot, and. kneeling on the floor, wearily
laid liis head beside hers oil the pillowless
straw tick.
m.
■The meeting will please come to or
der," calk'd the dignified matron who
officiated as president of tlie regular
weekly meeting of the- Percival Square
Church Relief society.
■At our last meeting, ladies." spoke
the president, “a resolution was adopted
providing for a systematic plan of char
itable work. The. oily was divided into
districts, and each member of this society
: assigned one district, with the under
standing that she should confine herself
to that particularly defined field of lalxir.
We are now assembled for the purpose
of listening.to your "several reports, and
to art upon whatever recommendations
may lx> made concerning tlie appropria
tion ami expenditure of money. Die
first thing in order is tlie reception of re*,
ports from those ladies to whom districts
were assigned."
After a brief pause Mrs. Precise took
tlie floor and read from her gold lxiund
tablets some memoranda concerning half
a dozen poor families tliat she had vis
ited. She asked for ail order on tlie
society’s treasurer for £20. to lx 1 ex
pended in tlie purchase of food and
clothing. Die appropriation was unhes
itatingly made.
Mrs. Goodheart, a gentle faced lady,
next narrated a touching incident of
poverty and distress tliat had come under
her observation the day before. She had
thought,lx-st to relieve tlie sufferers with
out drawing on the funds of tlie society.
Mrs. Closefist asked for £2 to buy a
pair'of shoes for her washerwoman’s
little girl. The ladies exchanged signifi
cant glances, hut no one voted against
tlie -appropriation.
Mrs. Quicktempqr regretted that im
perative- social engagements had pre
vented her from giving any attention to
her district, but the next week she hoped
to he able to devote almost entirely to
the good work.
••Mrs. President,’’ said Mrs. Zealous,
••Miss Prim and myself took the liberty
yesterday of encroaching upon Mrs.
Quicktemper’s territory, and we found
oue of the most- deplorable instances of
human suffftjjigSttiat can be imagined.”
and the lady proceeded to describe in
minutest detail tlie visit of Miss Prim
and herself to the home of little Dan.
••Did you not do anything for them?”
anxiously inquired Mrs. Goodheart. after
the recital was finished.
‘ ‘Ahem—well—no. Nothing more than
to try and -cheer them up. Y ou see, I
had no change with me, and then I
thought it would be better to bring the
Zealous.
‘ ‘And yet you say they were starving, ”
said Mrs. Goodheart, in a tone of gentle
reproof.
“Y’es, they were very destitute," an
swered Mrs. Zealous, shortly.
"I would like To inquire, Mrs. Presi
dent,” said Mrs. Quicktcmper, with
some show of feeling, “if it was not ex-
plicitly given out at the last meeting tliat
each lady must confine her work to her
own district?”
“It was. ” politely replied the presiding
cfficer.
“And yet Mrs. Zealous and Miss Prim
deliberately intruded upon my district,”
said Mrs. Quicktemper, glaring angrily
at tlie offending ladies.
“We luul canvassed our own districts
most thoroughly, ’ ’ exclaimed Mrs. Zealous
and Miss Prim in unison, “and we”
' *^tt thoroughly, no doubt,” inter
rupted Sir.. Quicktemper, coldly.
"I don’t understand wliat you mean,"
answered Mrs. Zealous, with spirit.
“Don’t you, indeed? Well, I hope
you will understand me when I say tliat
I am capable of attending to my own dis
trict.”
“Y’ou have not, it appears, troubled
yourself alxiut your district up to the
present time, my dear Mrs. Quicktem
per.”
“Y’ou force me to remark, my dear
Mrs. Zealous, that wliat I do, or what I
do not do, is no concern of yours.”
“Perhaps not,” indignantly replied
Mrs. Zealous, “but when I see people
starving"
“Well, you didn’t help them any; did
you?”
“No; I”
“Then, wliat are you talking about?”
“Mrs. Quicktemper, I had always
thought you to lx- a Lady.”
“I have always known you to boa very
officious person. Mrs. Zealous.”
“Mrs. Quicktemper, you are a very im
pertinent woman.”
“Mrs. Zealous, you are a meddlesome
old thing. I can’t hear you.”
“I do not wish to have any further
talk with you." said Mrs. Zealous, striv
ing to keep calm.
“Nor 1 with you, madam.” saying
which Mrs. Quicktemper, with flushed
face and snapping eyes, changed her seat
mid turned lier hack upon the unfortu
nate subject of her ire.
“Ladies! ladies! pray cease this angry
altercation,” appealed tlie president.
“Y’ou forget tliat our work Ls of a Chris
tian character. ”
Mrs. Zealous apologized for her heated
language, hut said tliat she could never
forgive Mrs. Quicktemper, for tlie insult
she had put upon lier.
Mrs. Quicktemjxir tartly replied that
she desired no forgiveness, and it being
apparent to tlie members of tlie society
that the t wo ladies could not be recon
ciled, a motion to adjourn was put and
carried. Action in the case of little Dan
and his mother was deferred until the
next meeting.
It was snowing, and (lie blustering
winds laid piled the white drifts liigh in
the streets. Die warmly clad ladies as
they were driven rapidly to their homes
in their robe filled conveyances forgot—
“THE KING’S DAUGHTERS.”
Women Wbo Organize, In Bands of Ten,
Tor Doing Good Work.
The New York World calls attention
to the fact that there is in the American
metropolis a society of women known as
the King’s Daughters, which, despite its
royal title, is a very democratic organiza
tion. It was begun by ten women who
felt an impulse to do same organized re
ligious work and objected to the tram
mels of a big, unwieldly society. So
these ten met at the house of one of their
number less than a year ago, elected a
president, adopted a motto, a watchword
and a badge, consisting of a tiny Maltese
cross suspended to a bit of royal purple
ribbon.
The society has grown very large—not
added to the original group, but organ-,
ized in other brandies of ten each—and
the strange sight is seen sometimes of *
woman at the counter of a shop, seeing"
tlie purple ribbon on the breast of the
woman who serves her, extending lier
hand cordially and saying. “I also am a
daughter of tlie king. ” The original ten
have formed the nucleus of a general
society, and are known as the Central
Ten. To them perplexing matters are
referred, but the organization is very
elastic, and eacli little group carries on
its own self chosen work in its own
way. One of the tens decided to visit
tlie sick children in the hospitals, and
chose that as their work. A number of
them, various tons hiking turn, visit the
hospitals and regularly assist in the insti
tution. also bringing dolls, picture books
and toys for the little ones. One ten lias
undertaken to tearh a class of poor work
ing girls to sew and cook.
Ten society girls with trained voices
call themselves a Musical Ten, and sing
in hospitals and at charitable concerts.
One branch calls itself tlie Sliut-in Ten,
consisting of invalids who have been con
fined to the house for years; another ten
devote themselves to these invalids and
endeavor to bring light and joy into their
lives, corresponding with them, visiting
them, reading to them and teaching them
ail sorts of fancy work to lieguile their
tedious lives. Some branches devote
themselves to home and foreign missions,
and there have been tens formed in
boarding schools for their self improve
ment. Girls prominent in society liavo
joined themselves to the King’s Daugh
ters. finding an outlet for their surplus
energies and room for wlmtever their
special taste dictates.—Detroit Free Press.
LOVE’S PREFERENCE.
A Paris Tenement House.
There is an immense number of rooms
in tlie building, and the horde of con
stantly changing tenants is never so
great as to occupy mucli more than half
of them. Then rent is placed so high
tliat tlie poor people cannot afford to tako
advantage of the numerous compart
ments. But the whole population is like
a colony of brothers. If a tenant falls
sick liis room is at once invaded by all
liis neighbors without exception, as many
as can get in, who bring the support of
their slender resources, who prescribe for
liis ailments, who divide their soup with
him, and in every way possible show
Love likes not laughter all the day.
Kor would one like the year all May;
For pensiTe look* oft Love doth oraie.
And likes his mistress sometimes grave;
And though it dim a lovely eye.
He chides her not if she do cry. a
Love likes to soothe a trembling maid
Until her sobs and tears are staid;
For then he thinks she's not all art.
But hidden keeps a gentle heart
—Francis Sterne Palmer.
Electric Headlights Not Safe.
“It is my candid opinion,” said an en
gineer on the St Paul road, “that elec
tric headlights on locomotives are not
feasible. The Pyle invention, which is
looked upon with mare favor than all
others, is this: The arc is maintained at
the same point, or the focus, by making
the lower electrode a stationary copper
fed, while the upper positive electrode
consists of the usual .carbon, and is regu
lated by suitable mechanism. It is
claimed for the invention that tlie arc is
not only kept at a constant focus by rea
son of the stationary and non-consuming
negative pole, but by means of a steady
ing and guiding arm, embracing the
electrode near the arc, all lateral play or
vibration is prevented* and the arc is
maintained laterally in a fixed position.
We have been experimenting with a
view to adapting the electric light to lo
comotive headlights. It has already
caused us one smashup, the presence of
the dynamo machine on the footboard of
the engine, having had the effect of de
moralizing the timepieces of both engineer
and engine. The locomotives themselves
became magnetized and contrary. An
other thing against the adoption of the
electric light on trains is that it will make
engineers nervous. You never heard of
lightning striking a train of cars running
at full speed. No amount of argument
could convince an engineer that an elec
tric light in front of his engine would
prove anything but a menace to his train
in a thunderstorm. Most locomotive en
gineers are superstitious, and they look
with suspicion upon any kind of tinkering
with the present mechanism of the iron
horse.”—Chicago Herald.
fortune 1 attribute to the increase ot
knowledge concerning health habits, the
indulgence in simple food, the bath and
judicious exercise.”
“Did Vou sleep well?”
“Until toward tlie end. Dio great
sense of responsibility disquieted my
mind, and I lost sixty-three pounds in
weight. When I started I weighed ISO
pounds, when I returned I was only 117.
The nervous activity was such tliat I
could not sleep—no, not even after I had
paced for hours outside the camp, in the -
hope of wooing it by fatigue.—Herald of
Health.
themselves true friends. Among them is
all save one—the picture that Mrs. Zeal-1 one who is a permanent tenant. He is a
ous had so faithfully painted of poor Dan
and liis dying mother in their attic room
Tliat one was .
IV.
“Put down that basket, John, and
kindle a fire.” Mrs. Quicktemper spoke
in a voice low and tremulous with feel
ing. and as she glanced alxiut tlie cold
and darkened room she shuddered at tlie
thought that human beings should be
ol iliged to dwell in such a place.
John, the coachman, used as he was
to scenes of privation and suffering, nuit
tered, “By jiminv, this place ain’t fit for
a dog to live in!" And a dog. accord
ing to John's reasoning, could live al
most anywhere.
The appearance of the room has not
changed since the visit of Mrs. Zealous
and Miss Prim tlie day liefore, save that
the tempestuous winds had driven the
snow in I lirongh t lie broken window and
covered the rougii board floor with a cold
white mantle. Dio little iron cot in the
comer was partly concealed by tlie fast
falling shadows of the approaching night.
Even there, too. tlie snow had found its
way and nestied in queer little drifts
rtlxmt the outstretched human form on
the cot. At the head of the lied knelt
little Dan. liis face pillowed upon liis
mother's bosom and his thick browncurls
radiant with glistening snowflakes. No
sound was heard, not even tlie breathing
of the two unconscious figures in tlie
corner. The wind outside had died
away, and the snow fell lightly and si
lently into tlie street below.
“Hurry. John, and get up a gixxl
blaze!” spoke Mrs. Quicktemper. And
John with in- foot cleared away the snow
from the fireplace, and on the ashes of
]xxir Dan’s Ixix soon had a bright, roar
ing fire. The sparks danced merrily
alxiut. and formed a striking contrast to
the shifting snowflakes outside. The
glimmering light chased the dark shadows
away, and revealed distinctly every ob
ject in tlie apartment. Mrs. Quicktemper
stepped forward with outstretched hand
to awaken the sleeping objects of her
bountiful but tardy charity. A gesture
from John, wlfose quick eye had in
stantly iii the light read the fate of
mother and child, caused her to pause,
and with blanched cheek and tearful
eyes slie heard:
• Too late, mum—they lx» dead."—
New Y’ork Times.
young actor afflicted with cancer. For
two years lie has lain on his bed in this
building, his sole income being an an
nuity from an actors’ relief fund,
amounting to ten francs a month.
In tlie winter there lias usually been
tlirce francs added for the purchase of
fuel, but the fund is low this winter,
owing to numerous cases demanding re
lief. and he gets no more than his regu
lar ten francs. He is visited every day
by liis fellow tenants, who share with
him tobacco, soup, wood and even
money. He composes songs, designs and
writes, and at this time is devoting his
attention to preparing a humanitarian
volume, in which lie will demand that
all the cannons in the world be melted
and cast into shovels, and tliat the gov
ernments shall use the money uselessly
S[X‘iit for wars to buy provisions for tlie
needy. Now and then a tenant does not
appear. After several days some one in
quires:
"Where is such a one?”
“At the morgue.”
The women make the sign of the cross.
The men look at each other furtively, as
if to say: “Who knows whose turn it
will be next?”—Paris Letter.
A STORY OF ANDREW JOHNSON.
Keoieily for lice Stings.
Dr. G. 0.’. Fmser. of Randolph. G.
says: “Seeing different remedies recom-.
mended for lx>e stings. I wL-h to say that
I have tried alkalies, soda, ammonia,
liquor pottassa, honey, rub with an onion,
bruised toiiacco. etc., and with thirty
years’ experience can say that a small
amount of oil of cinnamon, applied with
a small straw, end of knitting needle, or
small splinter, is worth more than all the
rest. Use only a little, for it will blister.
—American Medical Journal.
Fire Department Horses.
Die life of a horse in the fire depart
ment may last as long as if he were em
ployed at any other kind of work. The
most trying period or time is the first
year. More department horses die dur
ing tlieir first year than in any other.
Die excitement kills them. Diey cannot
get accustomed to the hurry and liubbab,
the flames, the smoke and the general
uproar with which they are surrounded,
and they die, as men often die. from
fright or worry, superinduced by the
excitement. Some horses, though. last
for years. The work is not much; they
have as a rule only short runs, and the
periods of rest are longer than in the case
of horses employed for ordinary draft
purposes. If it were not for the excite
ment there would be no reason why they
shouldn't last longer in the fire depart
ment than elsewhere. , '
1 shall never forget the first time John-'
son drew his pay as brigadier general
and the time he had of it. When the
paymaster entered the office I said to
myself, “I have seen that face before,”
and all of a sudden it flashed upon me
that I had heard the voice and seen the
man before me, now clad in Federal uni
form, play “Nick of the Woods” and the
Idiot Witness,” and other real old blood-
and-thunder, stern-winding curdlers dur
ing that time in my life when I preferred
‘Jack Sheppard” to the “Hunchback."
and I was not mistaken, for the pay
master was none other than Mr. William
M. Fleming, the Jibbenaiosay of the old
National theatre, of Boston, in 1854.
Neither the governor, Browning, nor
myself had ever seen a pay account be
fore, so Maj. Fleming explained to John
son all about his pay proper, commuta
tion for fuel, quarters, allowance for
three horses, etc.
The dialogue between the paymaster
and Johnson lasted nearly an hour, and
concludedabout as follows: “But, major,
I haven’t purchased any coal; there’s at
least 100 tons right under where you are
standing, and it is all mine, or as much
of it as I want to use. I have the best
of quarters across the way that I have
confiscated, so to speak, and my only
expense is for gas.” “Y’es, but you don’t
seem to understand; governor, that you
are allowed a certain amount of money
for quarters, fuel feed for horses, etc.;
but if you get any of these things, or all
of them, for nothing, so much the better
for you. Y’ou are just so mnch in—
don’t you see? You are not only en
titled to it, but you most receive it and
sign for it.”
“Well, major, you are very courteous
and very plausible in your explanations;
but all hell can’t convince me that I
should sign for and accept money for
fuel and house rent and horse feed that
I haven’t spent money for, and which
I get for nothing; and I’m just simply
damned if I’ll do it. ” And he never did,
and Fleming counted out his brigadier’s
pay to him, minus commutation allow
ances, and retired from his presence a
highly disgusted and badly demoralized
ex-tragedian with the words con
founded fool on his murmuring lips.
Some time afterward I met Maj. Flem
ing, and he said: “Well, they may say
what the please about old Andy, but
there’s one thing certain, he’s dead on
the square.”—Ben C. Truman T
American Women, and Men.
It is a frequent fashion to proclaim the
general worthlessness of American women
from the animal standpoint. Diey lack
the breadth of back and the massiveness
of limb observed in lands where wives
plow with the ox and daughters delve in
tlie mines. Die American woman looks
after her household, rears her children,
makes happy a husband for whom she is
much too good, and in her old age takes
joy in manly sons and womanly daugh
ters. It is Blander to call her incompe
tent, or say that she falls short in the
measure of duty, when compared to the
women of other lands, whose strength
she has, but whose grossness she lacks.
Just now the fashion in talk has
changed. It is the man who is the weak
ling, and who Is hurrying the nation to
extinction. There is a craze for big bi
ceps and abnormal calves. In all of
which there is considerable nonsense and
some wisdom. Statistics show that in
America length of life is increasing. Men
are as healthy and as happy and as capa
ble as a hundred years ago. Some strip
lings may go out of life in a cloud of
cigarette smoke, but they are not drag
ging the nation toward extinction, and
some of sound body will be left to bury
the dead, in spite of the croakers who
seem to think this continent is develop
ing into a graveyard.—Omaha Herald.
Russian Scientific Discoverers.
For four or five years past Russian
scientific men liave been stationed at or
near the mouth of the Lena, carrying on
first the work of one of the circumpolar
stations and then engaging in the ex
ploration of the delta and of a part of
the large region eastward. They have
made a number of interesting discover
ies, and scientific zeal lias been richly re
warded even in this apparently desolate
country. In the region where the pole
of greatest cold is situated, these explor
ers have collected 400 kinds of plants,
numerous paleontological specimens and
a large mrailxr of insects and other in
vertebrate.
Among the mountains that divide the
Lena from the Y’ana basins Baron von
Toll obtained six specimens of mountain
sheep. He lias made a special study of
the fauna of the sea coast, and the latest
news from him was that he was going
with a party of natives to find a mam
moth which a recent land slide had re
vealed. An important feature of the
work of this party lias lieen tlie complete
exploration of the large Y’ana river from
its headwaters to the sea, including two
of its affluents.—New York Sun.
Can tlie Magnet Cure the Dumb ?
Dr. Charcot of the Salpetriere hospi
tal has been continuing with considerable
success his experiments on hysteric and
hypnotic patients. Having satisfied him
self as to he possibility of transferring
paralysis, nervous contractions and cata
leptic systems from one patient to an
other, he next 6et to work, in conjunction
with his able assistant. Dr. Babinski, to
apply the test to hysteric dumbness.
It is a well known fact in medicine that
people afflicted with' hysteric epilepsy sud
denly become .tongue tied and remain so
for many years. . A' female patient
afflicted in this manner, but who was
otherwise of. robust constitution, was
placed 'back to back with a woman
who had been a long time cataleptic.
By means of the magnet the dumbness
was transferred from one patient to the
other with the same qpgularity that
marked the experiments in paralysis.
By continuing the experiments Dr.
Charcot hopes to be able to completely re
store speech to the tongue tied patient.
The same experiment was repeated with
male patients and with the same prom
ising results. ’It would, of course, be
premature to call Dr. Charcot's wonder
ful studies pre-eminently successful in
their immediate results as exemplified by
the strange experiments which have been
made at the Salpetriere, but no one can
doubt that, like Claude Bernard’s in an
other field, they open up a vast vista in
pathological and physiological science.—
London Telegram.
Necessity of Right Brestlifog.
Breathing through the open mouth is
practised for the most part only by
“civilized” men. The alxirigines of our
country, and savage tribes elsewhere, al
ways keep the mouth tightly closed and
breathe through the nostrils.
Nature is a wiser teacher than fashion,
for the primitive method of breathing is
the best one on every principle of
hygiene. There is danger of severe in
jury to tlie bronchial tubes anil to the
delicate vessels of the lungs, in jiassing
from the warm air of a house to an at
mosphere in the neighborhood of zero, if
the air is taken directly into the lungs.
By passing it through the nostrils the
chill is removed, and the shock from tlie
sudden change escaped.
If the modem germ theory of the
origin of infectious disease is true, breath
ing through tlie nostrils is one of nature’s
safeguards. The hairs, which line tlie
ontrance to tlie nostrils, may arrest tlie
germs floating in the air and prevent
their passage to the lungs, and conse
quent absorption by the blood. Parents
ought to teach their children early to
breathe only through the nostrils.—
Y'outh’s Companion.
Mrs. Southworth's Road to Success.
Mrs. Emma D. E. Nevitt Southwortli
stumbled in a way upon her. popularity
as a novelist. Intellectually,, lier work
lias never been above mediocrity—it
may have been below—but it lias
brought in far more money than if it
had been finer and stronger. Tlie aver
age novel-reader is neither fastidions
nor critical; his sole desire is to be stim
ulated and to occupy time, and extrava
gant, improbable commonplaces will
serve to this end. Mrs. Nevitt, having
been married at 22, was deserted by lier
husband after bearing him two chil
dren, and thrown entirely on her own
resources. She taught school in Wash
ington, D. C., and tried to eke out sub
sistence by making manuscript. It was
hard to tell which of these two arduous,
wearing employments produced the
less.
She suffered and toiled until “Retri
bution,” a story she had written for Die
National Era, was issued in book form
and unexpectedly had an extraordinary
sale. It relieved lier necessities and
demonstrated her ability to provide for
herself by means she had not antici
pated. Since that day—a period of
thirty-seven years—she has turned out
sensational tales at the rate of two or
three annually, which have been de
voured by the multitude and ignored by
tlie discriminating. Dieir titles sound
like newspaper headlines, and prepare
the reader for the highly spiced banquet
that has been prepared. Although near
70 now, she continues to torture inno
cent maidens and create impossible vil
lains in consideration of good-sized pub
lishers’ checks, and in pursuit of a vi
cious habit of rioting in ink. “Retribu
tion” was the commencement of her
luck—the addition of butter and honey
to her bread.—Chicago News.
Locomotives for the Transcaspian.
Much interest lias been excited among
engineers by the construction, under di
rection of tlie Russian government, of
some locomotive cars of a special type
for the Transcaspian railway, and built
so as to meet two difficulties, viz., the
waterless character of a large section of
the line, and the insignificant .ordinary
traffic. To meet the former the locomo
tive car is provided with tanks contain
ing sufficient water to last seventy miles;
and, as the waterless ' stretch from Mi-
chaelovsk to Kazantchik is about fifty
miles in length,- this supply is
amply sufficient-under any contingen
cies that. may occur. Witli regard to
the second difficulty, the locomotive is
constructed with a car connected to it,
and capable of conveying eighty pas
sengers. The locomotive car is warmed
by the exhaust steam from the engine,
by which arrangement an important
economy in the consumption of fuel re
suits.—New York Sun.
ATLANTA, GA.
No Introductory Chat with our friends. There is no apol
ogy to offer for this, either, because this is a
BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENT!
And Don’t You Forget It !
CLOAKS AND WRAPS!
We can openly defy tlie whole state on these goods- We have an overwhelming
dock and will dose them out at wonderfully low prices. Die winter has only be-
.’un. The prophets and the “goose bone” all predict cold weather ahead. Come
i bile we can afford to give you timely bargains. Jerseys at very “low cut” prices
—away midci u hat they were earlier in tlie season.
KNIT UNDERWEAR!
Here lignin we are defiant, because nobody can touch us. Knit Underwear for
Ladies, Children and Men We do all the business of the town in this line, and
are not afraid of being touched liy factory prices. We liave liought out the facto
ries and are underselling them.
LOWEK YET.
On Flannels and Pant .Stuff, we are ahead of the closest Competitors. YVe 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 hero,
and we say it boldly. Cotton Flannels, from 5e to20c, immense bargains, and you
will not fail to say so 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 2-5 to 50c, sold last season at from 50 to 75e. New Cotton and
Linen Handkerchiefs in great variety, very low.
Let everybody blow theirhoms, but'yon will make a nrstakeYf you fail tocome to
us for any of these goods. Blankets from 85c to $15.00. 10 per cent, low
er than any house In Georgia. Comforts from 50c to $5.50 ami $4.00. Now these
arc big values, and we won’t deceive )-ou when you come.
DRESS GOODS.
A fearful reduction in everything nre 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. Tlie handsomest line of Holiday Millinery evtr
brought to Atlanta.
GLOVES.
New Kid Gloves in all colors, 50, G5,75, $1 and $1.50. Our $1 Gloves
are guaranteed.
TABLE LIIVEKTS.
We will save you 25 percent, on these goods. NewRuchings. New
Collars and Cuffs. Big drives in bleached and unbleached Domestics
Good Prints at 3 and 3>£c. Prints at 5c, cheap at 7j^c.
SHOES.
YVe 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
• ■pen your eyes.
B. B DOUGHERTY & CO.
THOMPSON BROS.
Bedroom, Parlor and Dining Room Fnmitoro
Big Stock and Low Prices.
PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS,
WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL CASES
New York’s Mail Statistics.
Die statistics of the. New York post-
office for tlie last year present some large
figures. More than 00.000.000 letters
were distributed through Ixixcs. and
more than 120,000.000 were delivered by
carriers. In addition to these, nearly 50.-
C00.000 postal cards were lioxed and de
livered.
More than 100,000,000 jiostago stamps,
nearly 20.000.000 stamped envelopes and
nearly 42.000,000 postal cards were sold
during the year. Die total weight of
mails handled in the postoffice last year
was qjftr 103 tons, or 48 ]ic-r cent, more
Ilian five years ago.—New Y’ork World.
Explorer Stanley’s Habits.
“What was the nature of the fare you
were able to procure on your way
through the country?”
‘ ‘Goat meat, Indian com cake, bananas
and milk.”
“Did voa drink any brandy?”
“The whole time, three and a half
years, I may have taken ten tablespoon
fuls of it.”
“What kind of food did you use?”
“Mutton, beef, gout meat,’ game,
sweet potatoes, pumpkins, bananas, pea
nuts, tea, coffee and milk.”
“Was your appetite always good?”
“Yea, lave when in fever. I was nine
months in the wildest parts of Africa
without a symptom of disease. This good
Popular Names In Loudon.
Die new edition of the London post-
office directory consists of 2.072 pages,
plus 322 pages of advertisements, and
contains 244,0110 name 5 . On each page
there are 10.000 letters, the number of
letters in the ‘‘Commercial’’ alone mak
ing a total of 7,080,000, and the weight
of tlie type used for tlie volume is about
twenty-fivo tons. Here isa small but in
teresting table which shows the difiieul-
ties of arrangement. Ill the new direc
tory there are 2,123 Smiths, 7.104'
Joneses, 708 Browns and 4C7 Robinsons.
—Pall Mall Gazette.
Preserved In Ice.
It is not long ago tliat a party of Arctic
seamen discovered an elephant imbedded
in an iceberg, and cooked some of his
flesh, although, according to science, tlie
carcass must have been there for some
thousands of years.—Brooklyn Eagle.
To evangelize 1,020,000,000 heathen
and Mohammedans, who are increasing
by natural birth at 1.000.000 a year, w«
have only about G,000 missionaries. .
The natives of Hindostan have long
had an instrument called the “rava.ias-
tron,” at first constructed in .a rude man
ner out of a hollow piece of sycamore
wood, but afterwards developed into a
practicable violin. The rudest of these
has two or three strings, and it Is played
with a bow. This was undoubtedly the
origin of the violin. Its invention is
attributed by Hindoo tradition to King
Ravana. who reizued in Cevlon.
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