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PAWIERis.
A Husband's Experience of ilie Grecian Bead.
[From the New)York Democrat.]
I wish to say what I know about the
pannier , in order, firstly, to display my
knowledge ; secondly, to prove that mar
ried men are specially qualified to write
fashion letters; and lastly, that I way
have the pleasure of talkiug about my
w ife— a nd myself; and also because lam
in a state of some apprehension in regard
to her, and with the sympathy of the
public.
I will state, as a preliminary, that my
wife is, or has been until lately, a good
enough sort of a woman, in proof of which
I will remark that every morning, with
out fail, she retires into our right hand
closet for devotional purposes, never
emerging under ten minutes, unless, in
deed, the baby should cry. Not many
mornings ago the ten minutes had elapsed,
but no Maria came forth. I thought of
her especially that morning, for I stood in
need of a button ; but being a good hus
band, I waited patiently till she should
come out. Five minutes more, and no
Maria. “ The dear woman,” I thought,
‘‘she is praying for me as well as herself.
I need her prayers, so let her go on, and I
will wait.” I picked up the newspaper.
Five minutes more, and no Maria. Just
then the clock struck, the baby woke and
began to cry. Two minutes more—three
minutes—four minutes —the baby crying,
and no Maria. In a minute more I thought
of a great many cases of sunstroke,
apoplexy, heart disease, and all manner of
things. Surely something had happened.
I should have fainted if 1 had sat still, so
I rushed to the closet and found Maria,
not at her prayers, but—well, by that time
’twas all over, ’twas fixed. She was red
in the face, to be sure, but she rushed past
me to the baby. But 1 saw her as she
rushed, and then I did faint—nearly. I
I could say nothing—she had gone mad,
and had put on one of the pillows. I looked
at her and she was quieting the baby in a
highly rational manner. I looked all
round, but saw nothing uncommon, for
she was sitting down with her back to
me. But I had seen her very distinctly as
she went past me, and I said : “ Maria,
what is the matter?”
“ Nothing, my darling, nothing.”
“Nothing, my dear?” I said. “Have
you just said your prayers, and tell me—
me, nothing ?’*
She was conscience-stricken, but like a
true woman, did not yield. She replied,
with a force of argument which was strik
ing, “ ’Tis not anything, ’tis only a pan
nier. I mu9t be fashionable, you know.”
I said nothing; my grief was also too
deep for words. I simply said, “Maria,
I am waiting for a button.”
I would have waited till she was asleep
that night, and could have seen all about
that pannier, or could have waked up be
times next morning ; but I could not w T ait.
My business was pressing, but I let my
business wait. I walked down Broadway,
looking out for one of those windows in
which all sort 9 of feminine fixtures are
displayed, and assuming an expression
which I intended to be both paternal and
maternal—in short, endeavoring to look
as much like a “family man” as possible—
-1 went in and asked to see a pannier.
A dozen were brought me—some of wool,
some of cotton, some of whalebone and
some of other things. Some had stitches
running up; some had stitches running
down ; some had stitches going the other
way. On the whole, I liked the whale
bone ones the best, because they were
the coolest, and less like to bring on spi
nal complaint, thereby inducing the
Green Apple—l mean the Grecian Bend
nothing like giving a thing a good name,
though I think any respectable Greek
would have run a mile at the sight of any
such thing, Finally, such was my state
of sadness that I could eat no lunch, al
though thereby I would have somewhat
economized, had I not felt in such need of
spiritual consolation, that 1 spent double
the amount in another way. I had in
deed, cause to be sad, for the thing had
come home to me, but on mature reflec
tion, I resolved not to scold, because, in
the first place, it would do no good. A
compromise, however, has been effected
between us to the effect that I will let the
pannier alone, provided that the bend,
which I am positive was unknown to
the Greeks, be not instituted—for that,
neither I nor any other man of spirit will
tolerate.
TIIK ELECTION IN INDIANA.
Close Contests in Ilia Pam.
The coutest for Governor in Indiana is
so exceedingly close that it wili probably
require the official canvass to determine
the result. It is likely that there are not
500 votes difference between Hendricks
and Baker on a total poll of 375,000.
We have had in our history a number of
such close contests. In 1849 Marcus Mor
ton, Democrat, was elected Governor of
Massachusetts by a majority of one vote
over Edward Everett and scattering, the
law requiring a majority over all to elect.
The vote stood for
Morton .*. 51,034
Everett and scattering 51,033
Majority 1
In 1544 Henry Clay carried Tennessee
for President against James K. Polk, the
Democratic candidate, by a majority of
113 votes out of a poll of 110,000. In IS4O
General Harrison carried Pennsylvania
for President by 343 votes on a poll of
288,000, and he was successful in Maine by
410 votes on a poll of 90,000. At the Sep
tember election in 1840 in Maine, Edward
Kent, the Whig candidate for Governor,
had 68 majority only over John Fairfield,
the Democratic nominee. In 1848 John
B. Wheeler, Democratic candidate for
Governor of Ohio, was beaten 250 votes by
Seabury Ford, Whig and Abolitionist, of
Geauga county. In 1850 Horatio Sey
mour, Democrat, was defeated for Gov
ernor in the great State of New York by
Washington Hunt, Whig, by a majority
of 250. In 1824 Governor Seymour was
defeated for re-election by Myron Clark,
the Whig and Temperance candidate, by
a majority of 354 only. In 1557 the contest
for Governor in Ohio was exceedingly
close between Salmon P. Chase, the .Re
publican, and H. B. Payne, the Demo
cratic candidate. On a poll of 300,000 Mr.
Chase had but 1,200 majority.
In 1544 the result of the Presidential
election was determined in favor of Mr.
Polk over Heury Clay by a majority of
5,000 in the State of New York. VVithout
that State Mr. Clay was elected. In IS4S
the vote of the single Slate of Pennsyl
vania elected General Taylor for President
over General Cass, and in 1556 the vote of
the same State elected Mr. Buchanan over
Mr. Fremont. In 1536 the vote of Penn
sylvania determined the Presidential con
test in favor of Martin Van Buren. These
are the closest great elections iu our mod
ern political history.— Cin. Enq.
Rt'SKIVU THEORIES.
Genius and Spending Money—Questisat for all
People.
We find in the London papers the fal
lowing interesting letter from Buskin .
Sib: You terminate to-day a discussion
which seems to have been greatly inter
esting to your readers, by telling them the
“broad fact, that England is no longer
big enough for her inhabitants.” Might
you not, in the leisure of the recess, open
with advantage a discussion likely to be
no less interesting, and much more useful
—namely, how big England may be made
for economical inhabitants, and how little
she may be made for wasteful ones?
Might you not invite letters on this quite
radical and essential question, how mouey
is truly made, and how it is truly lost, not
by one person or another, but by the
whole nation ? For, practically, people’s
eyes are so intensely fixed on the imme
diate operation of mouey as it changes
hands, that they hardly ever reflect on its
origin or final disappearance. They are
always considering how to get it from
somebody else, but never how to get it
where that somebody else got it. Also,
they very naturally mourn over their loss
of it to other people, without reflecting
that, if not lost altogether, it may still be
of some reflective advantage to them.
Whereas, the real national question is not
who is losing or gaining money, but who
is making and who is destroying it. Ido
not, of course, .mean making money, iu
the sense of printing notes or finding
gold. True money cannot be made so.
When an island is too small for its inhab
itants, it would not help them to an ounce
of bread more to have the island turned
into one nugget, or to find bank notes
growing by its rivulets instead of fern
leaves. Neither by destroying money do
I mean burning notes or throwing gold
away. If I burn a five pound note, or
throw five sovereigns into the sea, I hurt
ns one but myself; nay, I benefit others;
for everybody with a pound in his pocket
is richer by ihe withdrawal of my compe
tition in the market.
But what I want you to make your read
ders discover is how the true money is
made that will get them houses and din
ners ; and, on the other hand, how money
is truly lost, or so diminished in value
that all they can get in a year will not
buy them comfortable houses nor satisfac
tory dinners. Surely this is a question
which people would like to have answer
ed clearly for them, and it might lead to
some important results if the answer were
acted upon. The ribbon makers at Cov
entry', starving, invite the ladies of Eng
land to wear ribbons. The compassionate
ladies of England invest themselves in
rainbows, and admiring economists de
clare the nation to be benefitted. No one
asks where the ladies got the money to
spend in rainbows, (which is the first
question in the business,) nor whether
money once so spent will ever return
again, or has really faded with the faded
ribbons and disappeared forever. Again,
honest people every day lose quantities of
money to dishonest people. But that is
merely a change of hands much to be re
gretted ; but the money is not, therefore,
itself lost; the dishonest people must spend
it at last somehow. A youth at college
loses his year’s income to a Jew. But the
Jew must spend it instead of him. Miser
or not, the day must come when his hands
relax. A railroad shareholder loses his
money to a director; but the director must
some day r spend it instead of him. This
is not —at least in the first fact of it—na
tional loss. But what the public need to
know is, how a final and perfect loss of
money takes place, so that the whole na
tion instead of being rich, shall be get
ting gradually poor. And then, indeed,
if one man in spending his money destroys
it, and another in spending it makes more
of it, it become a grave question in whose
hands it is, and whether honest or dis
honest people are likely to spend it to the
purpose. Will you permit me, sir, to lay
this not unprofitable subject of inquiry
before your readers, while, to the very best
purpose, they are investing a little money
in sea air? Very sincerely yours,
J. Ruskin.
Denmark Hill, July 30.
COTTON! COTTON!
Office Findlay Milling A M's a C 0.,)
Macon, Sept, llth, 1888. j
HAVING added to our establishment a Cotton
GlnnlDg and Packing Department, supplied
with both an Emery Cotton Gin and Condenser
and Gullett's .Steel Brush Gin, together with an
Improved Cotton Press—all propelled by .steam
Power, we are now prepared to receive Cotton
lor Ginning and packing (giving parties prefer
ence of Gins) on toll.
Cotton repacked, also.
For further particulars, terms, etc., apply at
Office of the Company.
GEO. W. ADAMS, President.
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TRAVELER'S GUIDE.
The following is a corrected schedule of
the various Railroads leading out of Ma
con :
CENTRAL RAILROAD—DAY TRAIN.
Leaves Macon -7 <X> a. m.
Arrives at Savannah 5 30 p. m.
Leaves Savannah —9 00 a. m.
Arrives at Macon —*> <0 J*. m.
NIGHT TRAIN.
Leave** Macon -625 r. x.
Arrives at Savanuah —J 10 a. m.
Leaves Savannah “ 20 p. m.
Arrives at Macon - -0 Sca. m.
CENTRAL TO AUGUSTA—DAY TRAIN.
Leaves Macon 7 UO a. it.
Arrives at Augusta 5 38 p. m.
Leaves Augusta 8 45 a. m.
Arrives at Macon 6 40 p. a,
CENTRAL TO AUGUSTA—NIGHT TRAIN.
Leaves Macon .6 25 p. m
Arrives at Augusta 3 13 a. m.
Leaves. Augusta .9 33 p m.
Arrives at Macon 6 55 A. Me
MACON ASD EATONTON—THROUGH TRAIN.
Leaves Macou 6 25 p. m.
Arrives at Mllledgevllle 8 58 p. m.
Arrives at Eatonton 11 00 p. m.
Leaves Eatonton -2 40 p. m.
Leaves Mtlledgeville 4 35 P. m.
Arrives at Macon 6 40 p. m
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILROAD —TO COLUMBUS.
Leaves Macon 7 25 a. m.
Arrives at Columbus 1 22 p. m.
Leaves Columbus... —l2 25 p. M
Arrives at Macon. 6 05 p. m
80UTU-WKSTKRN—TO ALBANY AND EUFAULA.
Leaves Macon 8 00 a. sf.
Arrives at Eufaula .5 30 p. m.
Leaves Eufaum 7 20 a. m.
Arrives at Macon - 4 50 p. m
Connecting with Albany Trains at Smith vil*
and Fort Gaines Trains at Cuthbert.
MACON AND WESTERN RAILROAD.
Day Train leaves Macon 7 45 A. M
Day Train arrives at Macon 1 30 p. x
Night Train leaves Macon 8 40 P. M
Night Train arrives at Macon 2 10 a. m
Day Train leaves Atlanta 7 55 a. si
Day Train arrives at Atlanta.. 2 00 p. m
Night Train leaves Atlanta 6 30 p. m
Night Train arrives at Atlanta 4 10 a. m
No Day Train on Sunday.
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD.
Passenger Train leaves Macon 3 00 P. M
Passenger Train arrives at Macon 10 30 A. m
GEORGIA RAILROAD—ATLANTA TO AUGUSTA.
Day Passenytr 'Drain.
Leaves Atlanta 5 00 a. m.
Arrives at Augusta 3 45 p. m.
Leaves Augusta 7 00 a. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 6 30 p. m.
Night Passenger IVain.
Leaves Atlanta 5 40 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta 8 00 a. m.
Leaves Augusta 10 00 a. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 7 40 p. m.
Day Trains only connect with Brancn Roads at
Union Point, Camak and Barnett.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves Milledgeville 5 30 a. m.
Arrives at Augusta 3 45 P. m.
Leaves Augusta 7 00 a. m.
Arrives at Mllledgevllle 6 20 p. m.
THECELEBRATED IMPROVED INSULATED
PLANCHETTE,
SCIENTIFICALLY CONSTRUCTED.
rpHE theory of Planchette Is. that It gathers the
X magnetism, or electricity, generated by those
who place their Angers thereon. This, when suf-
Acieut, gives au automatic motion to ihe instru
ment and pencil.
The Improvements consist—
-Ist. In the interposition of an insulating ma
terial or compound between the wooden tablet
and castors, which prevents the transmission of
the magnetism to the table on which the Plan
chette rests, thus charging the instrument In the
shortest possible time.
2d. In the construction of the stylus which car
ries the pencil, giving greater ease and smooth
ness of motion.
3d. The construction of the castors, reducing
the friction to the least possible degree, while the
wheel is from one-third to one-half larger than
in any other Planchette made, so that the instru
ment will obey the lightest impulse.
Planchette has sometimes been wayward, and
would not respond to the touch. The cause of
this has been its imperfect arrangement, manu
facturers paying but little if auy attention to its
philosophical or mechanical construction. To
those who have hitherto been disappointed we
would say, buy ours. In Us construction have
been fhllfllled all the. philosophical conditions
necessary to make it a success, while those be
yond the pale of science we have not disturbed.
This little instrument is a source of never fail
ing amusement —to the philosopher who specu
lates on the soul of things; the mystic who
wishes to unveil futurity; and the doubter who
is desirous of being satlsAed that there are more
things in heaven and earth than his philosophy
has dreamed of.
Childhood, youth, and age are alike attracted
by its marvelous movements. Every family
should have one, and that one should be of the
kind we offer, for they are not only the most per
fect Planchette in the market, but u much liner
article for the money than any other oAered tor
Price 51.50. For sale by
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aug22 Macon, Ga.
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