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^ H Person* r'Til—m imi >1—1 n The Neman PUBLISHED ETEKT TUESDAY. A. B. CATES, Editor and PaMUker. tckis or scsscairios : Ono copy one year, in advance 11.50 If not paid in advance, the terms are $2.00 a year. A club of six allowed aa extra copy. Fifty-two numbers complete the volume. WGOTTEN ft CATES, Proprietors. WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION. TERMS:—>1.50 per year in Advance. 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* m PUBLISHED ETEKT TUESDAY mas i*r inmauna One Inch one year, $10; a colam one year, $100; less time than three mouths. $1.00 per inch for first insertion, and 5# cents additional for each eubeegB—I in sertion Notices in local column, ton cents per line for each insertion. Liberal arrange ments will be made with those advertis ing by the quarter or year. All transient advertisements mast b paid for when handed in. Announcing candidates, Ac., $M itrictly in advance. Address ail communications to A. B. C’ATE.S, New nan Ga leaned over and kissed the wan cheek of I W SSfSL’ P"***** 8 *? ?? 11 the invalid, saying in a low voice: “How | m my dlstrict > explained Mrs. do you feel, mother?" The dying woman, whiwe eves were fastened intently on the face of her son, murmured, as with a feeble motion she stroked his curlv hair: “Poor little Dan, you have been unsuc cessful” -“Yes. bad luck to-day, mother," an- swered tlie lad, endeavoring to speak cheerfully, hut unable to suppress the sob that struggled up from the tender heart, touched to the quick at sight of hig mother’s patient suffering; little Dan’s lips quivered 'painfully for an in stant, and then he gave expression to his sorrow and suffering-bj a flood of tears; “Oh, mother,” he cried. ‘■We'are starv ing.” The only response tliat came from the lips of the agonized mother—herself nearly beyond the natch of the tortures 'of hunger—was. “My pooy-ehiM! poor child,” and encircling Ids neck wi$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. . 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