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TO BE GIVEN
To Name To be Drawn From Box.
Horse, Buggy and Harness
Commencing M0NO21Y, SEPTEMBER 14. every customer will have deposited in a
Sealed Box, with each pair of Shoes bought for CASH, a card bearing his or her name. One of these!
cards will be drawn by a party selected by the contestants and to the name thereon will be awarded
the
HORSE, BUGGY AND HARNESS
Buyers of SHOES have everything to gain and nothing to lose by purchasing from us all their Footwear. You get shoes of Highest Quality at the Lowest Prices and of Standard Makes only.
No Job Lots, Rejections, Odds and Ends, Bankrupt Stock, Fire Stock or other junk. '
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Call at Store or Telephone 566, for Full Particulars About Horse, Buggy and Harness.
WE HANDLE SUCH MAKES AS FOLLOWS:
Fo? Men—Johnston & Murphy, $6, $6.50 and $7; Slater & Morrill, $5 and $5.50; The Co-operative,
$4 and $4.50; T. D. Barry, $3.50; Marcy Bros. Co., $3, $2.50 and $2. *
For Ladies-—Smaltz, Goodwin & Co., $4 and $5; Lindner’s, $3.50 and $3; Hoge & Walden, $3 and II
veral leading manufacturers of Shoes for a
$2.50; Sherwood Shoe Co,, $2, and the product of several
Girls and Boys. Prices range from $1 to $3.50.
GET YOUR NAME IN THE BOX.
LESTER-CLARK SHOE
516 Cherry St.
Phone 566.
MACON, GA.
A WALKING GALLOWS
The Horrible Deeds of Lieutenant
HepensteH-
HANGED MEN FROM HIS' NECK
This Hsr.cisomc but Drutcl Giant of
tho Wicklow Militia Was the Most
Cold Dlcoded and Eccentric Execu
tioner That Has Ever Existed.
Among Hit* examples mid records ol
British 4.;,•ninny (luring tin* terrible
year 179S there Is none more exfrnor
Ginary, according lo a writer In an
English .magazine, than that of I.leu
tenant IMwiml lie; *- stall. ItuVwn by
the nlckrame o! ".in* warning gal
lows;” f<v i ;i, h lie icrtainly was, lit
orally an 1 prat-:’.-ally.
This ini', minus Individual, who laid
l oon brought up ns an apothecary I"
Dublin, obtained a commission In the
Wicklow militia. In which’ he attained
to the rank of lieutenant In lie
was a man of splendid physique, about
six feet two Inches In height and
strong and broad in proportion. Refer
ring to this handsome but brutal giant.
Sir Jonah Barrington in his memoirs
states:
‘'I knew him well and from his coun
tenance should never have suspected
him of cruelty, but so eokl blooded and
eccentric an executioner of tho human
race never yet existed."
At the outbreak of the sanguinary re
bellion, when the common law was
suspended and the stern mnrtlal va
riety flourished In its stead, Lieutenant
Hopenstnll lilt upon tho expedient of
hanging on his own back persons
whoso physiognomies he considered
characteristic of seditious tenets. At
the present day the story seems almost
incredible, but It Is a notorious fact,
revealed by the journalism of the pe
riod, that when rebels, cither suspected
or caught red handed, were brought be
fore him Hepcnstall would order tho
■cord of a drum to be taken off and
then, rigging up a running noose,
would proceed to hang each In turn
across his athletic shoulders until the
victims had been slowly strangled to
death, after which he would throw
down his load and take up another.
The “walking gallows” was clearly
both a new and simple plan and a
mode of execution not nearly so
tedious or painful ns a Tyburn or Old
Dailey hanging. It answered his
majesty’s service ns well ns two posts
And a crowbar. When a rope was not
at hand IlcpCustnU's own silk cravat,
being softer than an ordinary halter,
became a merciful substitute.
In pursuance of these benevolent in
tentions the lioutumiut would frofjaeut-
ly administer an anaesthetic to bis
trembling victim—in pther words, he
would first knock him silly with a
blow. Ills' garters then did the duty
ns handcuffs, rfud the cravat would be
slipped over the condemned man’s
neck.
Whenever he had nn unusually pow
erful victim to do with. Ilepeustall
took a pride in showing his own
strength. Willi a dexterous lunge of
his body the lieutenant used to draw
up the poor devil’s head ns high as his
own and then, when both were cheek
by jowl, begin to-trot about with his
burden like a jolting cart horse until
the rebel had no further solicitude
about sublunary affairs. It was after
ono of these trotting executions, which
had taken place in the barrack yard
adjoining Stephen’s groeu. that Uep-
penstall acquired the surname of “the
walking gallows." He was invested
with It by the gallery of Crow Street
theater, Dublin.
At the trial of a rebel in that city
tho lieutenant, undergoing cross exam
ination, admitted tho aforementioned
details of his method of hanging, and
Lord Norburv, the presiding Judge,
warmly complimented him on his loy
alty and assured him that he had been
guilty of no act which was not natural
to a zealous, loyal and elDcieut officer.
Lieutenant Ilepeustall, however, did
not long survive bis hideous practice.
He died In 1804. Owing to the odium
in which he was universally held, the ,
authorities arranged that his funeral
should take place secretly, while a
Dublin wit suggested that his tomb
stone would be suitably inscribed by
the following epitaph:
Hero lie the bones of Hepenstatl,
Judge, Jury, gallows, rope and all.
WEIGHT OF A HORSE.
Grand Jury.
A Slight Difference.
The globe trotter was telling about
the wonders of India.
“Tho scenery In sorno portions of the
country,” ho said, with enthusiasm, “is
incomparable. Par, far away, the
mountains pile up toward the sky, and
stretching off to them are bonutlful
valleys, while close at hand you can
get in sight of a man eating tiger”—
“I beg your pardon,” Interrupted’an
eager listener, “but did you say inside
of a man eating tiger or In sight of
one?”—New York Press.
Bad Guesses Made by Men Unskilled
In Horseflesh.
Many people, even among those who
frequently make use of horses, have
little idea what nn ordinary horse
weighs and would have much difficulty j
to guess whether a given animal stand
ing before their eyes weighed 500 or
1,500 pounds. Yet they would have
no such difficulty with a mini and prob
ably be able to guess. espo<“ally if titty
were good Yankees, within ten or twen
ty pounds of his weight. The govern
ments of Europe have long been pur
elmsing and weighing horses for the
military service and transferring them
from carriage or draft employment to
the various branches of cavalry and
artillery. The animals are ordinarily
assigned according to weight. Tho
French military authorities Oral that
nn ordinary light carriage or riding
horse, such as in the United States
would bo called a “good little buggy
horse.” weighs from 300 to 400 kilo
grams—say from 800 to COO pounds.
Such horses ns these are assigned to
the light cavalry corps. The next
grade above, which In civil life passes
ns a “coupe horse,” or carriage horse
of medium wcigl't, ranges in weight
up to -ISO kilograms, about 1.050
pounds. Tills horse goes to help mount
the cavalry of tho line.
Next come the fashionable “coach
horses" of persons of luxury, which
weigh from 500 to 580 kilograms, or
from 1.000 to nearly 1.300 pounds.
These horses go to serve the purpose
of drill for the cavalry belonging to
tho reserve military forces. Above
thqse there are still two grades of
heavy horses. The first are those used
fflr ordinary draft purposes and are
commonly found drawing the omni
buses of Taris where such vehicles
are still in use. These weigh from
1,100 to 1,500 rounds. The heaviest
horses are the Clydesdales and Pcr-
eherons, which are oxen in size and
strength and which weigh from 000 to
800 and sometimes even up to 900 kilcv
grams-that is, from 1,300 up to near
ly 2,000 pounds. None of these Per
cherons of tho heaviest weight are
used in the military service, but some
of the lighter ones are employed for
draft and artillery purposes.-Buffalo
Commercial.
t.7rand and Traverse Jury drawn
for next term of court.
!liil!liii!i!lliiii!| III
pirmimitiniwMiffllf
J. W. Barksdale
E. W. Waller
J. D. New
M D. Mills
L. O. McBride
U. L. Armstrong
A L. Thigpen
T. J. Orr
II. J. Ivey
O. L. Rogers
John T. Cato
A. Chamlee
A W.J.Wood
R. B. Walker
W. T. Salter
F. J.
T. C. Adamson
D. L. Christian
J. Davis
J. S. Gibbs
'I'. Wnrthen
J. R. Burdette
H. M. King
A. Y. H. Jordan
T. J. Beck
E P Bedingfield
J. C. Hamilton
T. Wells Smith
.Tns A. Mobley
M. T. Swint
J. It. Henderson
Garbutt.
Traverse Jury.
R. L Edwards
Mark Newman
HR. Smith
A. L. Spicer
Archie Worn mack
J. W. Smith
I. W. Newman
N- S. Josey
Francis M. Jackson
O. P. Stephen^ v
Thus. It. Brooks
S. H. Hollis
Walter Stephens
Joseph M. Jackson
C. M. Duggan
John H. Taylor
Ben F. Chambers
J. C. Brown
All Bound.
A citizen of culture and poetic taste
went to a public library and asked for
Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound.
lie was rather taken aback w hen the
librarian replied, with great bauteUr:
“We don’t keep any unbound books
lu this library."
li, L. Lockhart
W. .T. Joiner Jr.
J. T. Burgamy
R. A. Sowell
E. L. Sheppard
It. 8. Wiggins
L. G. Shurling
T. T. Hattaway
John A. Kelly
W.«H. Franks
Andrew S Mathis
J. R. Hitt
C.T. Gibbs
R. F. Wood
Geo. Gilmore
E. H. Veal
E. L. New
Lonnie L. Garner
We Aim»To Make It Easy
I F WE CAN INDUCE one hundred of our citi
zens to save their surplus money, instead of
spending it for unnecessary things, we have
done this eountry a service that cun never be
measured. A careful SAYElt ot money makes a
valuable citizen.
We aim to make it ensy for you to get started
in the SAVINGS HABIT. We uim to keep you
posted as lo the good things that comes to the man
with money to ute, but above all things else, we
aim to give you un ABSOLUTELY SAFE place to
put away dollars for the future.
We again ask you to carefully inspect our new
Electrical System, installed by The American
Bank Protection Co., to keeu the burglurs out of
our vault, and if any of our friends have not seen
this system, bring Cu m in, and they will thank
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SANDERSVILLE, GA.
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We appreciate very much the little
items that some of our friends are
kind enough to send in to us. If you
know nnythfhg that would be of inter
est to the paper, let 11s hnve it, please.
Tribune and Herald Both 1.
Missed It.
The prodigal son wrote the old man
as follows: “1 got religion the other
dav. Send me $10.” But the old man
replied: “Religion Is free. You got the
Five-year-old Tommy was being put
through n test In numbers before the
admiring family one day at dinner.
Finally papa asked him the questio*:
that had proved the Waterloo of the
older children in-past years.
“Now. Tommy,” said papn, “how
many are two apples and three pears?”
“Five fruits!” promptly answered
Tommy.—Delineator.
wrong kind.’’
We exaggerate misfortune and hap
piness alike. We are never either" so
wretched or so happy as we Hay we
aye.—Balzac.
Printing of the highest grade
is done at this ofliet*. We have two
extra printers to serve you beside the
usual force.
WHY USE JOHNSON’S TONtC ?
here’s why:
At Cedartown, Ga., a man lost
a child with Typhoid fever and
saw nn advertisement of ours in
tho Christian Advocate and wrote
and asked us if the Tonic would
cure Typhoid Fever.
We Void him it would. Ho sent
for a hottlo for his second child
and it cured him.
Then lie wa« taken sick with
the same fever and the Tonic
cured him.
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buy and sell everything in the produce line.
Bring us your CHICKENS, EGGS, BETTER, POTATOES,&c.
Highest market price paid for everything.
We Sell for Cash |
We Pay Cash for
Only. |
What we Buy.
Your patronage appreciated. Give us your orcter§.
SANDERSVILLE PRODUCE COMPANY
TOM SUMMERLIN, Manager.
NEXT DOOR MODEL BARBER SHOD.
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