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It. W. H . NEAL,
A TTO R XF. Y A T /, A IP,
AND NOTARY PC B 1.1 C,
THOMSON, GA .
TTT ILL practice in the Courts of
YV McDuffie aud adjoining Counties.
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THOMSON* GA.
IST Will practice in the Augusta. North
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Thomson, On.
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(The Itlcfufe Otleelilij Jompl,
VOL. VI.
To the AflUcted.
■ IN CALLING THE PUBLIC ATTENTION
TO THE
Indian Compound
COUGH MIXTURE
FOR the cure of CONSUMPTION and
all diseases of the LUNGS and
THROAT, I say that nothing surpasses it
for ('olds and Coughs, and can be taken
from old age down to the cradle with impu
nity, and without danger. But the proses
! sional world is so full of Ambiguousness
| and Egotism, that anything put before the
public as a safe and reliable Remedy for
certain diseases is scoffed at and pro
nounced worthless aud a humbug. I say
try it before you condemn it, as I will give
you the name of even* herb, Ac., that it is
composed of. which you can examine at
your leisure : Yitellus Ovi, Amygdaius
i Persica. Mel. Pinus Palustins, Andromeda,
Arborea. Arctium Leppa, Inula llcleuAim,
Marrubium Vulgare, Autemiaria Symphy
tum, Duichwaehsener YVasserdost, Ceplia
lanthns Occidentalis, Symphytum Offici
nale
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tree street. ATLANTA, GA., where it can
be had in any quantity. If any one usiug
it will say that it has done them no good,
return the bottle aud get your money re
turned. S. T. RIGGERS, M. D.,
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For sale by Dr. A. D. Hill, Thomson, Ga.
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JUST received a lurce lot of Spring and
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YVo only ask inspection before you spend
a dollar for anything in our line.
A. J. Adkins,
THOMSON, GA.
Tlw Duke of Cannon.
rphis thorough-bred TENNESSEE BULL.
1 whose pedigree is we ll esiablishcd iu cl
can be traced back through the purest stock
for many years, is now standing on my
plantation four miles North-east of Thom
son, near the old White Oak Campground.
He possesses fill the qualities of tlie finest
blooded stock in the. land, is three years
old, of dark brown color, weighs about fif
teen hundred pounds, a model form, per
fectly gentle and well disposed.
I am prepared to take care of cows sent
from a distance at reasonable rates. A
number of his calves may be seen at the
residences of Messrs. T. Jb YVest, YVm. 11.
Johnson, and others. Price of season
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POETICAL.
[The following beautiful poem, on the
recent sad death of young Millard Seals, by
Mrs. Bryan, of the Sunny South , is one of
the gems of Southern poesy, and an honor
alike to the head and heart of the gifted
authoress :]
MILLARD SEALS.
BY MARY E. BRYAN.
‘•The good die first.
And they whose hearts are dry as summer
dust
Bum to the socket.”—Shelly.
—o —
Tlia year was at its fairest. Spring had
touched
The verge of golden summer, and the earth.
Wearing her crown of red June roses, danced
Along her glowing path to sounds of joy,
YY r hen, sudden as the scathing thunder-bolt,
Fell the dire blow that crushed out hope
and joy
From the fond hearts that loved him.
Far across
The gay. green eaith, flashed the electric
words,
Laden with power to scathe. The found
their goal
In the two breasts that beat with thoughts
of him—
The only one, the absent—fancying
Ilis blyte and innocent joy—the elastic
spring
YVith which his spirit rose, freod from
restraint.
The dust and toil of the hot town, to meet
His brief, bright holiday beside tha sea
He had so often dreamed of, but whose
waves
Flashing in the June sunshine, bright and
wild.
His eyes might never look on.
Dead in June!
Dead it his life’s sweet June, while bright
years stood
YVaiting to bless him—while Fame plucked
her bays
For bis young brow, and Love called low
and sweet
From hiding myrltes—•while a hundred hopes
Swelled to rich elfioresccncc- while not far
Stood deep-eyed Wisdom waiting to anoint
From kingly chrism the brow her hand had
touched
Thus early to far riper thought than dwells
Behind unfurrowed temple-s.
Oh, rare soul!
So sweet in thy young wisdom, yet so frank
In boyish mirth, so pure in thought and act.
So deep in thy instinctive sympathy
YVnst thon but lent us here to show how full
Os rarest harmoi y can bo the thing
YVe call our frail and fallen humanity ?
A thousand hearts beat low and sad to-day
For thee, fair spirit, that passing like the
rose,
Leaves the world sweeter for thy lifo. Foud
ears
Oateh sUU (ho silver echoes from thy lips,
That eloquence had touch- with and
rnoS'od
To high, heroic themes. Not lost, not lost
To earth is thy bright life; it is but drawn
Behind the cloud of death; and when high
thoughts,
Like winds of upper ether, part the cloud,
Thy memory shall shine out as bright and
blessed,
And blessing, as the typic ray that fell
YVitli sudden bursting through the gloomy
mist
Upon thy pall, as vailed in snowy flowers,
’Tvvns lowered to the resting place of all
Time’s tired children—Earth’s deep, quiet
breast.
A NIUHT OF TERROR.
This night, which will dwell in my
memory with vivid distinctness while
life and reason are left me, was in Octo
ber a long while ago. I was at that time
a telegraph operator stationed at a little
town upon the Grand Trunk line of rail
road.
Mine was by no means a model place
of residence. There were beer-gardens,
drinking saloons, and gambling-houses,
out of all proportion to the more respect
able shops and residences ; we had two
arrests of counterfeits, and there was
scarcely a day passed that there was not
a brawl among the ruffians around us.
Still, there was a school, and a timid
blue-eyed woman had come to teach
there.
How long an unprotected woman
might have lived there I can only guess,
for Alice Holt had been there but three
months when she consented to walk into
church with mo one day, and walked out
my wife. This was in July, and we had
occupied a pretty cottage nearly a quar
ter of a mile from the telegraph office
since our marriage.
Reing the only man employed in the
telegraphic business in the town, I was
obliged to remain constantly in the
office during the day and part of the
evening, and Alice herself brought mo
my dinner and supper.
There was a small room next to my
office, with a window, but only one door,
communicatidg with the larger room.
Here Alice had fitted up a dressing-table,
and mirror, wash-stand, and some
shelves, where she kept pepper, salt and
pickles for my office repasts. The two
rooms were on the secong floor of a
wooden building that stood alone.
With this necessary introduction I
come to the story of that October night,
and the part my blue-eyed Alice, only 18
and afraid of her own shadow, played in
it. I was in the office at about 7 :30
o’clock, when one of the railway officials
came in, all flurried, saying :
“Stirling, have you been over to the
embankment on the road to-day?”
Tiie embankment was not a quarter of
a mile from the office, on the east side.
“No ; I have not.”
“It was a special providence took me
there, then. One of the great masses of
rock has rolled down directly across the
track. It will be as dark as a wolf’s
mouth to-night, and if the midnight up
TtD'Vnbl Gms 21. 1373,
train come* without Vnruiug, there will
be a horrible smash-up.”
“It must stop at PostviUe, then,” I
replied. “I will send a message.”
“Yes. That is wlist I stepped in for.
The down track is elqpr, go you need not
stop that train.”
“All right, sir.” •;
I was standing at the door, seeing my
caller down the rickety staircase, when
Alice came up with iFv supper. It was
hot and I was cold, sc I drew up a table,
and opening can and Jiasket, sat down to
enjoy it. Time enough for business, I
thought, afterward. .*4 I ate we chatted.
“Any message to-day!" my wife asked.
“One for John Martin.”
“John Martin ?” Alice cried ; “the
greatest ruffian in the neighborhood.
What was the message?”
“Midnight truae-it?*
“Was that all ?” ,
“That was all. Mr; Hill has just been
in here to tell me theje was a huge rock
across the track at the embankment, so I
shall stop the minnigt train at Postvilie,
The passaugers must wait a few hours
there, and come on iu the morning after
the track is cleared.”,
“Have you scut that message, Rob
ert ?”
“Not yet. There la plenty of time.
That train does not smell Postvilie till
half-past 1 i and it is iuot yet 8. Yes, it
is just striking.”
“Better send it, Robert. If there
should lie ail accident you would never
forgive yourself. Send it, while I put
some clean towels in the wash-room, and
then I will conic and sit with you till
you can come home.” (
She went into n„mi ns
she spoke, taking no tyglit, but depend
ing on the candles bnliiing iu the office.
1 was rising from my seat to send the
telegram, when the door opened and four
of the worst characters in the town, led
by John Martin, entered the room. Be
fore I could speak, twy threw mo baek
in my chair, one held a revolver to my
head, and John Martin spoke :
"Mr. Hill was hero to tell you to stop
the up-train. You will not send that
message. Listen. The rock is there to
stop that train—put there for that pur
pose. There is $50,000 in gold in the
train. Do yon undersl md ?”
“Yon would risk all the lives in the
train to rob it!” I cried horror-struck.
“Exactly !” was the < _>ul reply. “ ne
fiftli is yours if you ki'i* back the. mes
;v TV- .vx;tc*hvd
the way along 1”
I saw the whole diabolical scheme at
once. If the train came it would be
thrown off the embankment and easily
plundered by the villiaus who would lie
in wait there.
“Come,” Martin said, “will you join
us ?”
“Never !” I cried indignantly.
“We must force you then. Tie him
fast 1” *
1 trembled for Alice. If only my life
wore at stake I could 'have borne it bet
ter. But even if we were both murdered
1 could not take the blood of the passen
gers in the train upon my head. Not a
sound cams from the little room as I was
tied hand and foot to my chair, bound
so securely that I could not move. It
was proposed to gag me, but filially con
cluded that my cries, if I rffade any >
could not he heard, and a handkerchief
was bound over my mouth.
The door of the wash-room was closed
and looked. Alice stood undiscovered,
then the light was blown out and the
ruffians li ft me, locking tho door after
them.
There was a long silence. Outside I
could hear the step of one of the men
pacing up and down, watching. I rubbed
my bead against tho wall behind me,
and succeeded in getting the handker
chief on my mouth to fall around my
neck.
I had scarcely accomplished this when
there was a tap on the inner door.
“Robert!” Ahce said.
“Yes, love! Speak low, there is a
man under my window.”
“Are you alone in the roojn ?”
“Yes, dear.”
“I am going to Postvilie. There is no
man under my window, and I cau get
out there. I have six long roller towels
here knotted together, and I have cut
my "white skirt into wide strips to join
them. The rope so made reaches nearly
to the ground. I shall fasten it to the
door knob and let myself down. It will
not take long to reach home, saddle Se
lim and reach Postvilie in time. Don’t
fear for me. When you hear a hen
cackling under my window you will know
I am safely on the ground.”
Little Alice ! My heart throbbed heav
ily as I heard her heroic proposal, but I
dared not stop her.
“Heavens bless and protect you,” I
said, and listened for her signal. Soon
the cackling noise tokl me the first step
of her perilous undertaking was' taken.
It was dark, cloudy and threatening a
storm, and, as nearly ns I could guess,
close upon 9 o’clock. SI e had to go six
miles, and I could only wait and pray.
I was too much stunned even yet to
realize the heroism of this timid woman,
starting alone upon the dork ride through
a wild country with a storm threatening.
Nino o’clock! As the bell of the
church clock ceased to strike, a rumble,
a flash, told me a thunder storm was
• •coming lapidly. Oh, the long, long
minutes of the next hour !
Ten o’clock. The rain falling in tor
rents. The thunder pealing, lightning
flashing! Alice was so fraid of lightning
Often I had held her, white as death,
trembling, almost fainting, iu such a
storm as this. Ilail she feared to start,
with the storm in prospect, or was she
lying somewhere on the wild road over
come by terror, or perhaps stricken by
lightening ?
Eleven o’clock. The storm was over,
though the still night was piky black—
| no sound to cheer me, none to make the
hideous suspense more endurable. A
! boat of possibilities, like frightful night
| mares, chased one another through my ;
I tortured brain. • j
| Would the next hour never pnss ?
| Once the clock tolled midnight, all was
j safe.
I was drenched with a perspiration
wrung from me by mental agony one
hour, chilled with horror the next. No
words can describe the misery of waiting
as the minutes dragged along. In the
dead silence a far-off sound struck a
thrill of horror to my heart, far exceed
ing even the previous agony. Ear, far
away a faint whistle came through the
air. Nearer and nearer, then the distant
rumble of the train growing more and
more distinct.
Tho midninght up-train was coming
swiftly, surely, to certain destruction !
Where was my wife ? Had the rufliiaua
intercepted her at the cottage? Was
she lying dead somewhere upon the wild
load ? Her heroism was of no avail,
but was her life saved ? In the agony
of that question the approaching rumble
of tho train was lost; far nr re did I feel
tho bitterness of Alice dead than the hor
ror of the doomed lives the train carried.
Why had I let her start upon her mad
errand ?
I tried to move, aud writhed in impo
tent fury upon my chair, forcing the
cruel cords to tear my flesh as I vaiuly
tried to loosen even one hand. The
heavy train rumbled past the telegraph
office. It was an express train and did
not stop at my station ; but as I listened,
every sense sharpened by mental torture,
it seemed to me that the speed slackened.
Listening intently I knew tiiat it stopped
at the embankment, ns nearly as I could
judge. Not witli the sickening crash I
expected, not preceding wails and groans
from the injured passengers, but gradu
•wllyaijd’n -.uefaHji- A iiKiinenf more and
I heard shouts, the crack of firearms,
sounds of some conflict.
What could it all mean ? The minutes
were all hours till I heard a key turn iu
the iloor of my prison anil a moment
later two tender arms were round my
neck and Alice was whispering iu my
ear:
“They will come in a few miuntes,
love, to set you free ! The villiaus left
the key in the door 1 I thought of that
before I started, but there was a man at
the front watching. T crept around the
house and I saw him, so I did not dare
to be seen.”
But have you been to Postvilie ?”
“Yes, dear.”
“In all that storm?”
“Selim seemed to understan L He
carried me Rwiftly and surely. I was
well wrapped iu my waterproof cloak
and hood. When 1 reached Postvilie
tlie train had not come up.”
“But it is here 1”
“Only the locomotive and one car.
riage. In that carriage were a sheriff, a
deputy sheriff and twenty men armed to
the teeth, to capture the gang at tho
embankment. I came, too, and they
lowered me from the platform when the
speed slackened, so that I could run in
here (mil toll you.all was safe 1”
While we spoke my wife’s fingers had
first untied the Land kerchief around
my neck, and then, in the dark, found
some of the knots of the cord binding
me. But I was still tied fast and strong,
when there was a rush of many feeet
upon the staircase and in another mo
ment light and joyful voices.
“We’ve captured the whole nine 1”
was the good news. “Three, including
•John Martin, are desperately wounded,
but the surprise was perfect ! Now, old
fellow for you !”
A dozen clasp-knives at once severed
my bonds, and a dozen hands were ex
tended in greeting.
As for the praise showered on my
plucky little wife, it would require a
vi hi me to tell half of it.
The would-be assassins and robbers
were sent for trifll and sentenced to pou
al servitude.
Alice and I left for a more civilized
community the following year. But be
fore we went, there was an invitation
sent to us to meet a committee from the
rai road company at Postvilie. We ac
cepted, had a dinner ; were toasted aud
presented with a silver tea-service, as a
testimonial, irorn the passengers upon
the threatened up-train, the company
and railroad directors in token of tlieir
gratitude for the lives and property
saved by my heroine.
-
The Phenomena of Death,
Dr. Frederic B. Marvin gave to the
Liberal Club last evening a physician’s
view of death, his subject being ‘The
Physiology of Death.’
The history of death embraces three
i periods, the fabulous, the superstitious
! unil the philosophical. The fabulous
i period was in mythological times, in
j which death was personified as the god
■ (less Mors, the glance of whose eye was
! fatal ; the superstitions era was that long
per,ml in which death was regarded an
an instantaueous change ; a stroke that
came and cut oil' life from the whole body
at oTice. Ours is the philosophical age.
1 The lecturer had experimented on
dogs, to discover the order of time in
which the senses die. To one dog he
gave arsineous acid. The second died
instantly upon his introducing a needle
into the medulla oblongata; and the
third lie bled to death. In the last, the
order of death was, sight, taste, smell,
hearing, touch, which established the
fact that the senses disappear in the
same order as they do in sleep.
The tinman body is an aggregation cf
cells. Life is the segmentation of these
colls ; death their disintegration. Each
cell dies for itself. Every moment cells
are springing into life. Every moment
cells are dyirg. Our bodies are composed
of these little points. Take them away and
there is nothing left of 11s but the con
necting shreds. There are dead cells in
your body, and when you are dead, there
will for some time e ntinue to be living
ones. We shall at some time be resolved
into carbonic acid, water and the mineral
elements.
The whole surface of our globe, said
the speaker, has been dug over 228 times
to bury its dead, even not reckoning the
long age of the world which is given it
by modern science, and we inhale, we
feed upon elements, the very atoms that
have been living human beings before.
The dead, lie continued, live again, and
we g:-eet them in the perfume of the
city, in the light flaks- of the snow, in
tiie thousand leaves of the forest.
Death, the Doctor says, is painless.
There is no moment in our lives in which
molecular death is not going on in us.
The last words of a multitude of persons
indicate that mere disintegration is pain
less. To die of cold, nftor the first ago
ny is over, is a luxury. So is drowning.
The smile of death, the placidity of
death, comes to all features after the rig
or mortis. That is over in three days.
—i\ r . r. ISun.
Eyes.
N° branch of science has been so
thoroughly mnstlml as optics. The
principle of vision must he essentially
the sun < in ail eye?., but they differ re
markably, according to the habits of the
anima'. Birds of lofty flight, as the
condor*, eagles, vui it res, an-I carrion
seeking prowlers of ih? feathered race,
have tele? • pic visions and arc thus ena
bled to look down and discover their un
suspected victims. As they approach
noise’es y from above, the axis of vision
changes—shoriening, so that they can
see as distinctly within one foot of the
groun 1 as when at an elevation of one
mile in the air.
The fact explains the balancing, half a
mile above a still pond, watching for
fisli. When one is selected, down the
savage lmnter plunges the focal axis va
rying always as the square view is elon
gated by a curious mrfscular arrange
ment so as to see far off again.
Snails have their keen eyes at the ex
tremity of flexible horns, which they
can protrude or draw in at pleasure. By'
windiug one of these rour-d the edge of a
leaf or stulk, they can see how matters
stand on the opposite side.
The hammer-headed shark has its
wicked-looking eyes nearly two feet
apart. By an effort they can bend the
thin edges of the head, on which the or
gans are located so as to examine the
two sides of an object the size of a full
sized codfish.
Elies have immovable eyes. They
stand out from the head like an apple,
exceedingly prominent. Instead of smooth
hemispheres, they have an immense
number of facets, resembling old fash
ioned glass seals, each one directing the
light to the optic retina. That explains
why they cannot be approached from any
direction without seeiug what is coming.
Salaries of Circus Riders,
James Bobinson, who is generally be
lieved says the New York Sun, to he the
most dashing and finished bare-back
rider now in the ring, has six liueiy
trained horses, and Charley Fish who
ranks next to him in.this Hue, has four
or five. The Melville brothers, three of
them, have six horses for their several
acts. Frank is a very fine pad and
George a bare-back rider. So the list
might be extended almost indefinitely
In one respect there is a gain to tho gen
eral excellence of the profession, as it
enables performers not only to bring
their horses into higher training for
their special lines of business, but. into
more thorough accord and understanding
with themselves, au element the impor
tance of which is fully understood by all
equestrians. But the performers them
selves grumble that their salaries have
not increased in proportion with the
added expense to them and the lighten
ing of the burdens of the manager. They
are only employed less than half the year
on an average, but during all the other
portion must maintain their horses and
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them in training at their own cos 4 /
Still they get very comfortable pay.-
| Jams Bobinson gets $239 per week for
himself alone, and last season got £450
j for himself and two boys. Charles Fsh
! gets about $250 ; tho Melville brothers,,
: sllsO, Dockrcll and wife, S3OO. These’
| :lr '\ of course, the largest salaries for
equestrians, who are the best paid per
sons about a circus below the grade of
proprietor but it may be said that the
general pay of pad riders runs from SBO
to SIOO per week each, and of bare-back
riders from SIOO to S2OO, according to
their individual excellence and populari
ty and the necessities of the manage
ment.
A Leap Year Scene.
They stood together in the < ntry be.
neath the hall lamp. “Then, Henry,”
she said, in a low voice, wherein were
blended determination, melancholy and r
“you refuse my suit?” “Yes, Ella," be
leplied, in accents that were firm, though
the speaker’s voice trembled. “ladmire
you ; I will he a brother to you, and
watch with pride your conrse through
life, and if ever trouble should befall you
there will at least be one friend to whom
you eau come for succor ; but I can nev
er, never be your husband.” “It is not
because I am poor, Henry ? For, oh, if
that were all, I could toil gladly from
morn till night for yon, aud strive and
win a home for you, humble it might be,
but our own.” “It is useless to attempt
to induce mo to change my determina
tion. Though I am but a poor weak
man, I can never, never change my mind.”
“Then, cruel young mnn, so fair, and
yet so false, farewell. To-morrow you 1
will sec my mangled remains on the lec
ture platform, and know that it has beeß
your work But it will be too late,” and
clasping him to her bosom in a wild em
brace, she fled out into the outer dark
ness.—C/i icar/o Tribune.
Canine Sagacity.
An interesting example of the exorcise
of reason on the part of a dog is publish
ed in the Philadelphia Medical Times,
The. incident happened some thirty years
ago, aud is told as follows :
“A man named Cosgrove, the keeper
of a low tavern near the railroad station,
ha I his arm broken, and came many
times to the office to have the dressings
arranged. He was always accompanied
by a largo most, feroeions-looking bull
dog, that watched me most attentively,
mid most unpleasantly to me, while
bindng'ng his master’s arm. A few
weeks after Cosgrove’s case was dis
charged, I heard a noise at the office floor,
ns if some animal was pawing it, and, on
opening it, saw there this huge bull-dog,
accompanied by another dog that held
np one of its front legs evidently broken.
They entered the office. I cut seven 1
pieces of wood, and fastened them firmly
to the leg with adhesive plaster, after
straightening the limb. They left im
mediately. The dog that came with
Cosgrove’? dog I never saw before nor
since.”
The Mule.
The mule is the most unhealthy ani
mal in the world—unhealthy to have
around you.
He is continually possessed of a yoarn
ing desire to stretch himself—especially
his hind legs.
We have known this yearning to make
trouble in several families.
Ho is also possessed of a great healing
power.
No man ever sees a mule kick him.
Tho man is usually seized with ob
scured visions just at that juncture.
We have seen a man get np after a
mule had kicked him (very rarely
though) and swear with both hands up
lifted that he didn’t believe the animal
had stirred a peg—he looked so immova
ble and unconcerned.
A mule is a very quick animal.
Great quantities of his substance lie
hidden away beneath his toe calks.
Asa great explorer, the male is equal
to Stanley.
When lie goes exploring for a man he
always find him.
The safest place to stand by a mule
does not exist.
He is the dynamite fiend of the four
legged kingdom.
The mule is a very headstrong beast.
He is likewise exceedingly heel-strong.
A Great Diamond Found.
The finding of a 150 carat diamond in
1 South African digging, is reported to
day. The value of the diamond discov
ered may bo judged from tho fact that
the great British crown jewel!, the Ko
hiuorr, weighed but 186 carats before it
was reent 111 1851. The Orloff diamond,
the great Russian jewel, weighs 195
carats, anil is as big ns a pigeon's egg.
The great Austrian diamond weigha 139
carats, and is of inferior form and color,
and held to be worth, on these accounts*
only $500,000. The biggest diamond
known, is said to belong to the Sultan of
Matan, om the island of Borneo, and to
weigh three hundred aud sixty-seven
carats, and valued at $3,500,000. The
South African diamond will rank fourth
or fifth among the precious stones of the
world, and the finder can now afford to
“lay down the shovel and the Up#.”