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If such a farmer’s brother, the shopkeeper, making that income, kept his daughters 17 hours a day at housework, with only intervals for meals, and refused them any education beyond r -j: ,<» .--,,1 writing, end avoided cam p B .y, and denounced culture and de -6 ;; Z.itici, he would be declared a bad -oit o! curmudgeon, and the clergy ma-, woulMve kite advm., aud tbe m ghbors would stir up u h daughters to rebellion. ®ljc VOL XI. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1884. NO. 48. SANDS' * PATENT TRIPLE FREEZERX The only Freezer ever made having three distinct motions inside the can, thereby, of course, produc ing finer and smoother Cream than any uthor Freezer on the market. 300,000 in USO. Catalogue and Price List Hailed upon application. WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER CO., NASHUA, N. H. HIE SHERRY WE BRtNR. Something Hint llivnl* t»e Fnmo is Pofaoue of the Bc.rghts. A cable dispatch states that, the Lou don medical papers are making an out cry over a new species of poison, which they iv-sert is making sad havoc with the stomachs, if not the lives English men. It is called sherry, and is manu factured at Hamburg out of alcohol, sugar, water aud common table salt. “Pshaw! we can beat that hollow,” said an artistic mixer of beverages in a New York wine room, on Ire.ing shown the cable dispatch in question. “Why, some manufacturers in tins city can turn you ont sherry that h is more poi sons to the thimbleful than you would find in a den of rattlesnakes. Oils and ether? Why, they can supply you with an unlimited variety of them in some o' what is called the genuine article or choice old brands of sherry. There tire acetic, butyric, chloric, nitric and sul phuric ethers, and even the bead can be manufactured by the aid of alum, alka lies and acids.” “Those who ship sherry,” said a dealer m American wines, when questioned ou the subject, “know how to drug and fix it for the American market and have it pass off as genuine. Very seldom one bottle of what conld be honestly called the real article ever reaches these shores. As in liquors, tobacco, caustic potassa, red pepper, aqua fortis and oil of vitro! are frequently to be found, so in some brands of sherry there are ingredients which the wildest stretch of the imagina tion never would conjure up.” “I recollect some years ago,” said a pharmacist, “there was a manufacturer in Chambers street who was detected using lead eoated vats in the manufac ture of sherry. The English medical authorities would have something to add to their denunciations of sherry if they t h»d the American adulterations mixed j with those of Hamburg.” ■"‘Almost as bad as the poison of the Borgias.” “My dear sir, if the poison of the Boi gias were in the market to-day they would likely be used as flavoring ex tracts for sherry and other wines. Their vaunted potency would be of no avail at the present period. They would en counter poisons used in the manufacture of our wines which would make them appear utterly insignificant as curtailers of life. Even electriidty is biought into requisition so tone up some wines.” “How is that?” “By plunging into a wine vat two pla tinum plates connected with the poies of a battery. I tell you that some of the w'neof the present day is fearfully aud wonderfully made.”— New York Tele gram. Had Regular Habits. A New York merchant called at the office of a brother merchant, and said:— “A young man named Smithers has applied to me for a position. Was he not in your employment at one time ?” “Yes, sir; Mr. Smithers was in my employment for several months. His knowledge of business is truly wonder ful, but what excited my admiration most of all was his punctuality.” “Ah ! I’m glad to hear he is puno tuak” “Yes, sir. His punctuality in coming to the store one-half hour too late every morning is really wonderful. He is also very regular* in drawing his salary in alvanceoutof the cash drawer when nobody is watching him.”— A<estin Siftings. Cbilobkn. Miss ~.ve, who, tor sev er..! ■ ears, ba- been active in providing Louies in Canada fur English children, has tn five years pi' trni«ferred 2,100 •a .. r ehildrer, Wu<. >.o >-p.-rt<-Y as doing t.< i' tin" wli • ■' iiuber •I ni Can- -O- —— "Have you given electricity a trial for your complaint,Mrs. Fisker?’ asked a friend, as she took tea with the old lady. “Electricity?” said she. “Well, yes, I reckon I has. I was struck by lightning last summer and Love out of the window; but it didn’t t ._ein to do me no aprt of good,” EMMONS, McKEE & CO., SUCCESSORS TO EMMONS. EARS & CO. 87 STREET, Q-A.. Clothtag, FurnisHng Goods, Hats tad Men’s fiao Shoes. Our stock of Men’s Wear this season excels anything ever shown in Rime. We want every man in Cherokee county to give us a call this f ill an 1 we will save you time and money. This may seem like big talk, but our immense stock, bought at extremely low prices, warrants us in making broad asser tions. Ours is tee only establishment in Rome where is sold everything worn by the MALTG SKX MATS! OR BOY. For Good Goods, Correct Styles and Seasonable Prices, we are ACKNOWLEDGED HEADQUARTERS. A careful comparison cannot foil to convince you of this fact. We will appreciate a call. EMMONS, McKEE & W, Men's and Boys’ flu'fc, 87 Broad Street, ROME, G i. MN MO UY’S HALO. Sometimes when heart is weary with the strife I Os life existence in this world below, \ radiant beam of sun with treasures rife Fort oasis the shadow w th its gladsome glow. ’ Perhaps a gentle touch of lips so sweet \'Ll drive the burden from my soul away, And render life again fondly complete, An t brighten up the sorrow of the day. Maybe the memory of some tender hand ‘ [.aid on the weary brow in time ago,” Will still the murniurings of grief’s command Into serene and peaceful ebb and flow. Lightly the shades will rest upon my heart, When mem’ricß fond of days gone by, With all their gentleness and joy impart A glory like some halo from the sky. A THANKSGIVING SONG. Behold the leaves are seer and dead Wi ere late were summer’s flowers; And storms and clouds arc overhead Instead < f summer showers. Come close, good comrades; hearts so warm Would cheer a bleak November; And while we praise our winter Arcs, Sweet summer we’ll remember. So with one voice of eager song Make our sincere Thanksgiving, That while we’ve memory or hope Life is full worth the living. Mrs. T. W Dewing. THE BRAVESr AND CRUEST. “I declare I feel as light as a bird,” Stella Markham observed, as she stood j before the mirror combing out her soft brown tresses with the utmost delibera tion. “Your Canadian air is exhiliara- I ting, Nora. Winter in England means j fog, damp, and general disagreeable- I ness. Here it is the perfection of woath er. Quite too lovely, isn’t, it?” And Stella, who had gone ont to Mon. treat on a visit to her uncle —General Markham, commanding the garrison there—only a month before, gave a sigh of pleasure as she gazed out of the win dow at the glorious prospect being be fore her. Her cousin Nora sat at the window looking out upon the same view with perhaps as much of admiration, but hardly the same amount of enthusiasm, for she had been nearly two years in Montreal, aud the novelty was of course worn off in her case. “Oh, I don’t know !” she said with a covert smile of deep significance. “It one had two lovers always in attendance I suppose even a desert might be made tolerable.” A dead silence fell upon the room; then Stella went on placidly arranging several rows of ringlets over her fore head, wondering what had started Nora on the war path, but venturing no remark until her cousin said, with abrupt emphasis: “WLat do suppose will bo the end of all this, Stella ?” “Os what, pray ? Pnt it in plain Eng lish.” “You know perfectly well what I mean, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. You have no right to trifle with such men as Alan Douglas and Major Valcour.” “My dear Nora you are, without ex oeption, the most absurdly inconsistent person of my acquaintance.” “I do not deny that 1 have bad variou ittle affairs in my time, but I never car ried a flirtation beyond my bounds as you have done.” “Indeed 1” “l am really in earnest, Stella. I re fuse to be a party to any such perform ance; and if this sort of thing is to con tinue I shall leave you to end the affair as you see fit.” ‘’Dear me 1 what a fuss about nothing I I don’t think they intend to murder each 01h..r just yet.” “Perhaps not; but you knew they both love you devotedly, and why do you keep them hovering around ? You can’t marrv them both, and I doubt very much whether you intend to marry either.” “I don’t know that I do,” she an swered, but the color in her cheeks deepened somewhat, and she did not meel her cousin’s questioning glance. “Then yon are worse than I thought ■ hi were I” cried Nora, with righteous th. “I never would have beliercd -.i'li! i.f such wickedness. Stella. It’s a tin and a shame for any girl to act i i.s yop. have done I It's what I call con i temptible!” ■ “Is it, tbongh ? ’ she answered, with a I little embairajssed langh. “Don’t get in such a rage with me, Nora. It isn’t my fault that I can’t make up my mind I am sure I would be perfectly willing to oblige you by marrying one of the gentlemen, but I can’t, for the life of me, find ont which one tp prefer.” “You had better not have either if you've any doubt about it,” Nora said, bluntly. “Now you are going back to what you said before.” “I wish yon would have done with this trifling.” “Nothing was further from my thoughts,” Stella answered, so gravely that Nora said, in quite a different tone: “You are not in love with either of them, then?” “I—l don’t think I am. I believe I like Al— Mr. Douglas best; but the Valcour fortune and family arms quite balance my preference. So you see I am in a dilemma. Ah, there they are now 1 We had bettor put on our things before we go downstairs, hadn’t wo? What avfry great swell Major Valcoui’. <•0: cliniau is. I-.’s a hat>dsou[e sleigh, too.” Nora went to the wardrobe aud got out her hat and furs. As she pnt them on, preparatory to a rido with her cousin’s rival suitors, she vented hci feelings in the brief remark that Stella was the queerest girl she had ever met. The gentlemen were waiting for them in the sleigh at the front door, and it was not long before the robes were wrapped about them, and they were off at a rattling pace on the road leading out of the quaint old town. It was a clear, breezy day, but not too cold for pleasure, and the ice-boats— those swift-winged sleighs so common on the Canadian rivers in winter—were skimming over the frozen surface of the water like beautiful white gulls. To see those dainty little vessels, mounted on runners, cutting along over the ice nt a rate of sixty miles an hour, thrilled Stella’s venturesome soul with envy. “Oh, I wouid give anything in the world for a ride on one of those boats,” she cried, with girlish extravagance, and her speaking eyes followed the graceful novements of the trim little ice fleet. “Have you never ridden in one?' Eugene Valcour asked, in surprise. “No; but I have always wanted to. I should think it would be perfectly de lightful.” “It is,” Valcour answere 1. “We have a }>oat, Miss Markham. If you”— “Ice-boating is very dangerous sport," Alan Douglas observed, senten tionsly. “Yon may dive into an air hole, or capsize at any moment.” “So they say,” Valcour answered carelessly; “but I’ve been ont on the river scores of times, aud have nevei met with a single accident. It’s all in the management of the boat. I would not be afraid to take half a dozen ot people in the Victorine.” “That a man has escaped a hundred imes is no indemnity against possible ■l'eidentH,” Douglas said tersely. “I Yonldn't care to take anyone with mein he Victorine—certainly not a lady.” “Oh, I wouldn’t be a bit afraid !” -i. L'a cried. “Major Valcour, do take <■! lam dying to go 1” “I am perfectly willing to take you,” ire said laughingly; “only you must remise me immunity from prosecution :< case anything dreadful happens to you.” Alan Douglas’s face was overspread with a sudden pallor. “Major Valcour,” he said sternly, “I hope yon have no serious intention of doing anything so foolhardy.” The color rushed to Valconr’s face, and his eyes emitted an angry spark. “I am at Misa Markham’s seivicc,” he said shortly. “I shall take her if she wishes to go.” “Certainly I do 1” Stella cried. “If there is any real danger, it will only add zest to my enjoyment. I would like it above all things wouldn’t you, Nora?” “No, thanks !” her cousin answered 1 nervously. “I would rather be ex j eused.” I “What! are you afraid, too?” Stella exclaimed, with an accent that brought a resentful flush to Alan’s face. ! She might as well have called him a j coward. “Whether we are afraid or not, Miss 1 Markham,” he said with quick, cutting emphasis, “I feel it my duty to inform you that ice-boating is not a suitable sport for a lady. In the first place, the i boats are mere skeletons, and the only way to accommodate oneself to them is to lie down flat in the stern. There are no seats, no cushions, nothing—in fact, there are only the barest ribs of timber > to hold on. No lady can ride in one without real discomfort, and—not a lit tle discredit to herself.” “What do you mean to insinuate, sir?” Valcour exclaimed angrily. “I insinuate nothing,” Douglas re plied cooly. “I state the case withou' equivocation.” Then he turned to the coachjnan and said in a low tone: ,> “Stop here, please! xiadies, I am obliged to leave you. Good morning, Major Valcour 1” “Drive on I” Valcour cried as ho mut tered something under his breath. Alan Douglas had leaped lightly out of the sleigh and, lifting his hat, began to retrace the road back to Montreal. “Well,of all the pretty exhibits lever did see 1” Stella exclaimed with a look of scorn. “He was afraid we’d ask him to join us,” whispered Valcour. “He needn't have disturbed himself.” “Tbe idea of a man of his age being so superlatively cautious 1” Stella added derisively. “I call that downright cow i nrdioe.” Valcour was, of course, not ill pleased to find his rival in disgrace; but Norn looked back at the retreating figure of Alan Douglas with a different feeling. “You will take mo, won’t you, Major Valcour ?” Stella asked coqnettishly. To which Valcour, of course, replied hat he would take her anywhere she vished to go. “We might go this afternoon,” he laid reflectively; “the iee looks pretty «>nnd, and there’s a fine breqze blow ing.” “Yes, yes! do iet ns go this after noon I” Stella urged eagerly, And so it was arranged. The Victorine.. a splendid little ice yacht lay just off the landing. Valcour had provided cushions and robes for her, but Stella was somewhat surprised to learn that Alan Douglas hod come pretty near the truth. They had met him on their way down to the river, but he passed jn with the slightest of f irmal salutes. “Is there no one else going with us?” Stella asked in surprise, as Eugene Val cour tucked the robes about her, and seated himself in a half-reclining posture at In r side. “No,” he answered with a smile. “1 can manage the boat myself, and the Victorine is so small there is hardly room for more. Besides,” he added in a lower and more tender tone, “would not another person be de trop T You are not afraid to trust yourself with me?” “Oh. no 1” Stella answered with heightened color. Then the sails caught the wind as it went whistling by, ana away they sped over the smooth, glittering surface of the ice. Lviug in the stem of the boat, Stella looked up at the clear blue sky, aud out at Hie snow-clad mountains which skirted their path on either side. Every obje t she fixed her eyes upon appeared to vanish as if by magic. The boat seemed to skim through tbe air. Even the express train which came bowling along on the east bank of the river was left far in the rear. The wind fluttered Stella’s hair, and fanned the color in her cheeks into a bright flame; her eyea sparkled with en joyment, aud laughter fairly bubbled to her lips. “Isn’t this perfectly splendid ?” she cried for the sixth or seventh time, as the Victorine circled and tacked in a lively breeze. “There is another boat making this way,” Valcour observed. “It must be a poor sailer. With only one man in it, it ought to have passed us long ago.” Stella watched it for awhile, and then lay back in the stern of the Victorine with her eyes closed. “She is catching up with ns,” Valcour ' exclaimed presently; but Stella was not t he least bit interested in the chase. “I feel as if I were drifting away into dreamland somewhere,” she said; and then she felt a firm hand held softly • over her own. This brought her to her senses; she opened her eyes with a start and found Eugene Valcour looking down at her with an expression she could not mis take. “I wish we could go drifting on this way for ever,” ho said passionately, “yon and I, darling.” For the moment his hold on the rud der had relaxed, and he forgot that con stant vigilance was required of him. “Look out 1” was the clear ringing shout that came from the boat in the rear, but it came too late. The Victorine had bore down upon one of those treacherous air-holes. In an instant she had capsized, and both Stella aud Valcour were straggling in the wafer. A cold anil frightful plunge was all that she remembered till hours had passed, and she found herself lying in bed, while Nora chafed her wrists and temples with alcohol. “Thank God 1” >ra cried, fervently, as Stella opsned her eyes. “Tell Mr. Douglas she is safe.” “Where is Mr. Valcour?” Stella asked, feebly. Nora’s face flushed indignantly. “At home 1” she answered, shortly. "Fie has behaved shamefully, Stella. When the boat upset, he just left yon to drown, and tried to save himself. If it hadn’t been for Alan Douglas you wouldn't be here now.” “Did Alan s,»ve my life ?” asked Stella, temulously. “Yes. Oh, he has acted like a hero to-day. He saw you set out, and felt so fearful for your safety that he took an other k boat aud followed you. He was right near at hand when the accident oc curred.” Stella hod nothing to say just then; but when evening came she mot Alan, Douglas face to face. “I sent for you,” she said, holding out her hands to him. “I owe you my life, Mr. Douglas.” “You owe me nothing,” he interposed, hastily. “You make it very hard for me,” sh<- said, looking down. “If I may not offei you my life in payment for a debt, will you accept it as a gift ?” He looked at her incredulously for » moment, and then he caught her band with passionate eagerness. “Stella,” he cried, “you cannot mem that, after all ” “I have made up my mind to muff you,” she answered shyly. “I cannot accept such a sacrifice,” h<. said, with a sudden revulsion of feeling: “this is gratitude.” “No, Alan,” she whispered, nestling in his arms.; “it is love. Won’t you be lieve me when I tell you so? I thiuk I ought to know.” “How can I believe you ?” he said, and yet he folded her to his heart; “my life, my love, it is too good to be true I” “I have done with such injustice,” she murmured penitently; “can you for give me ?” “I can forgive yon now,” he answered rapturously. Aud so their peace was made. It was a year after they were married that Nora c .me to make them a visit in England. Mention of Major Valcour’s name paved the way to a free discussion of the foregoing episode. “I think,” Stella then remarked, with conscious pride in iier husband’s worth, “that true courage must always have in ii a strong admixture of caution.” What to Take.—The Journal of Inebriety gives the results of Dr. Napier’s inquiry into the nature of diet, the object of which was to solve the question of how far certain foods en couraged or prevented the craving for drink. He concluded that macearoni, beans, dried peas and lentils antagouiz in a marked degree the desire for alco hol. In the treatment of alcoholism, farinaceous foods should be used in pref erence to all others. To Fbighten the Cbows Away.—The Ti umansbiirg, N. Y., Sentinel says : A sensation was created in Kelloggs i i dle, Cry nga County, on the discovery : < ? a rebel flag flying in a corn field ot Rev. Mr. Cross, an Episcope j i .mister, who came North after the war. i i ■.. beaded people of the town dec'ared •■I hi “unrepentant rebel,” aud ordered ■ take it down. Mr. Cross said hi pni it up to frighten the crows away. NOTES AND COMMENTS. At Kidderminster, England, the sew erage outlet was made within five feet of the town well, and yet after 500 cases of typhoid fever they had to get a doctor down from London to tell ’em what the trouble was. It is said that the Astors, of New York city, alone own 3,000 houses, all of stone and iron. The lowest rental they get is 81,500 per annum and the highest $50,000, which some of their enormous down town houses bring. American canned fruits once had a ready sale over all Europe. Some manu facturers began to play snide with their goods and now some countries won’t buy the goods at all. How much better it would have been to be satisfied with a good thing. At the session of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio a resolution was adopted declaring it to be the opinion of the body that the selling of intoxicating drinks is a Masonic offence, and should disqualify any one from initiation into or affiliation with any Masonic lodge. An Italian Admiral has invented a shrapnel shell for the 100-ton guns; at thirty yards from the cannon’s mouth it bursts, throwing forward seventy-five smaller projectiles, which in turn burst, strewing in fan-shape a thick shower of bulls and fragments with terribly de structive effect. The Gaulois undertakes to pay a sum of 5,000 francs at the decease of any subscriber who may meet with his death on a railway or tramway, or by being run over by a vehicle in the street. A proportionate sumis paid for injuries. All that is necessary to do is to produce the last receipt for subscription. It pays a compensation to any purchaser of a single copy should he be injured or killed the day the paper is paid for. The Lawrence (Mass.) American re lates that a lady from that city while in Ireland last summer was asked by an elderly reverend gentleman whom she met in Dublin why it was that she was not married. '‘You wouldn’t ask that question,” said the lady, "if you knew the state of affairs in the city where I live. Why, there are seven ladies to one gentleman in that place.” “And why didn’t you get the one gentleman?” slyly asked the questioner. A bbdoubtablb brigand known as Camilla has for some time been the terror of the country around Ax, a town in the department of Ariege, France. The gendarmes are no match for this modern Rob Roy, who is a first-rate shot, a dead band at poaching, and as bold as a lion. One evening he posted on the letter box in Ax a notice: “I laugh at law. The whole of Ax shall perish by fire.” At the same time a fire broke out in the market place. They are telling this story in Wash ington about a youthful German diplo mat and a bright young American wo man with whom he was conversing at a reception, in the tongue of his native land: “Why,” said she, “don’t you speak English ?” “Oh,” said he, with much dignity, “I cannot think of speak ing it here. I learned the accent in London.” There was a moment’s silence, broken by the Teutonic declaration: “But I speak French also. Do you?” “Oh, yes,” said the young lady, “but I couldn’t think of using it to a German. I learned the accent in Paris.’’ A better purporting to give a de scription by an eyewitness of the execu tion of Mary, Queen of Scots, will be published at the end of the present year. It has been found in a manuscript book among the papers of Lord Eliock, the Judge, who died in 1793. The book is all written in one hand, apparently in the first half of the eighteenth century, and the account of the execution is a copy of a letter sent by special desire. Lord Eiiock’s father managed the affairs of the Duke of Perth and of other fam ilies devoted to the Stuart cause, and it is conjectured that the document is >i copy of a letter written by a member o one of these families. A Notable Duel. The death at Portsmouth, N. H., of Mrs. Mary Ann Barron, widow of the late Commodore James Barron, of tbe United States Navy, recalls to mind the celebrated duel of her husband with Commodore Stephen Decatur. Commodore Barron was in command of the Chesapeake when, in 1807, she was attacked by the British frigate Leopard, because of Barron’s refusal to let the English Captain search his vessel for British sailors. The Chesapeake was entirely unprepared for action, and after being riddled by the Leopard’s shot tor half an hour surrendered. Com modore Barron was tried by court martial aud cashiered, not because of any lack of bravery on his part, but be cause he had allowed the Chesapeake to be in such a defenceless condition. In 1818 he applied for reinstatement in the navy, but this was bitterly opposed by many officers, among whom was Com modore Decatnr, who was a member of the court-martial. This led to a long and bitter correspondence between them, and finally ended in Barron’s challenging Decatur. In the duel which followed both fell at the first fire. De catur died that evening, and Barron re covered only after many months of suf sering. His death occurred in 185 L Dr. Sohweningeb of Munich has dis covered a new mode of reducing th bulk of the human frame. It is, neve to eat and drink at the same time, bu to let two hours intervene. He has, i is said, cured Prince Bismarck of a ten dency to obesity in this way. Fat peo ple have now their choice between four systems. 1. The original Banting, which , consists of eating nothing containing [ starch, sugar, or fat. 2. The Gtermsn Banting, which allows fat, but forbids sugar or starch. 3. A Munich system, 1 which consists of being clothed in wo. 1 I and sleeping in flannel blankets instea I ; ' of sheets. 4. Not eating and drinking I at the same time.