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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
Tbe Sews of the Two States Told in
Paragraphs.
An Athens Man's Terrible Fall.
Brunswick’s Colored Justice of the
Peace —New Investment Company
Incorporated at Brunswick—Thieves
Rob a Larder at Athens.
GEORGIA.
The new dispensary commissioners for
Athens have been elected by the council.
They are C. W. Baldwin. <i. H. Huhne and H.
R. Palmer. Their election gives eminent sat- j
iafacuon.
The Ida Wells committee of Englishmen i
was sent a tel. gram from Valdosta Thursday. !
It told ot the lynch.nr o' the negro mur
derer which occurred there the night neiore.
and Invited the committee to investigate the
lynching and the crime that led to it.
Buena Vista Patriot: A gentleman from
the upper part of the county brought some of !
the largest scuppernougs to town Saturday !
we have ever seen. He said he had a vine j
that covered a quarter ot an acre, and that
How there were at least forty bushels on it.
The iourth annual convention of the Wo
mans Parsonage and Home Mission Society
of the North < ieorgia conference, which has
just closed at Milledgevllie, was a very inter
esting one. There were at. out ttfty delegates
present and much valuable work was accom
plished,
Dawson News: M. L. Dixon, a prominent
citizen living near Richland, died Friday from
the effects of a fall received while having
s rate repairs made on his gin house. He fell
from a platform about six feet high, and in
the fall hit his head against a piece of timber
which produced concussion of the Oram.
George W. Truitt, the well-known Troup
county farmer, has gone to Atlanta, and will
seleot the a re which the cxposit.oa company
has offered him to show what can be done in
cotton planting on one acre of land. Mr.
Truitt will also determine the location of the
wonderful cotton palace which he proposes to
erect.
The following mortgages were foreclosed in
the United Stales court at Atlanta a few
days ago tty the Equitable Mortgage Com
pany of New York. J. M. Hambrick. Stock
bridge. Ga.. 52,865; Kate B. Smith. Powder
Springs, 82.472: John A. Baugh. Jr.. La-
Grange. $2,586. The mortgages were all on
land owned by the above parties.
Capt Charles Arnold Thursday placed the
new spar buoys received from the govern
ment in position on the Brunswick bar. The
white buoys are on the starboard side enter
ing port, and the green buoys are on the port
side entering port, 't he eight buoys are each
from 42 to 48 feet long and 14 inches in diarne
ter. The large anchors weigh from 1,7u0 to
1.900 pounds each.
Sam Ford 16 years old, barefooted, half
crying, stood in Justice Hitch's court at
Brunswick Wednesday morning to answer
the charge of stealing a goat and goat wagon
from J. B. Abrams. Sara denied the charge
strongly, but the evidence was too much for
him. and Justice Hitch sent him back to jail
in default of a SSO bond to await trial at the
next session of county court.
President Burbage of the Brunswick Light
and Water Company had a good force at work
this morning giving the artesian basins a
thorough cleaning out. All the water was
pumped out and the walls scraped and
scoured. The wells are now as clean as the
pebbly bottoms of a rippling stream. Presi
dent Burbage is exerting himself to keep up
tbs reputation of Brunswick's water supply.
Athens Banner: Capt. J. J. C. McMahan’s
pantry was minus a lot of meat, iard, sugar,
etc.. Wednesday monrng. tinier the cover
of the storm a bold thief had entered it and
carried off all he wanted. The footprints of
the thief could be discerned upon the floor,
and he had entered before the shades of night
had fallen. No further trace could be found
of the thief, as he had made good his escape.
Macon Yews: Capt Gilbert Dai Is. chair
man of the board of courtly commissioners,
stated to a News man that Bibb county now
has the lowest tax rate since shortly after the
close of the war. it is lower than Fulton
county’s rate, notwithstanding the city of
Ailinta pays 75 per cent, of Fulton’s taxes,
and supports its own public schools without
help from the county. The Fulton county
rato is sl.lO, and the people up there think it
retnarkaoly low.
Madison Advertiser: These September
nights hive been divine A dewy freshness
seems to pervade the silent air. No mists
oosegred. no clouds nor specks, r.or stains
broke the serene heavens. In full orl od
glory the silvery moon divinely rolled
through the dark blue depths of eiher, her
rays casting a halo of beauty on all things
ea.thlj. bree es as balmy as the breath of
autumn roses and as sweet as the kiss of a
Madison giil make the atmosphere delight
ful and cause one to feelthat it is a pity to
lose the beauty of night by sleeping away tho
happy hours
Columbus Heraid: The farmers of Georgia
and Alabama, or at least the majority of
them, are not entirely dependent on the cot
ton crop this tear. Many farmers planted
oa.s. peas and corn very largely and are rais
ing meat of their own These same farmers
are also turning their attention to the hay
crop. Plenty of lino hay can be found cn ai
mosl any farm ripe for tbe farmer's blade.
There is more money in hay than there is in
5-cent cotton, llappy. indeed, are those
farmers who raise their own bread and meat
at home, together with good crops of oats
potatoes, peas, hay and the like.
Athens Banner: Monday night out at the
car shed of the Athens Street Railway Com
pany Asa Brown, one of the most efficient
workmen connected with the road, came near
losing his life. Mr Urow n had gone into the up
per part of tbe building to get a keg of spikes.
He was returning with the spikes when ho
lost hi- looting and fell to the floor beneath.
Iheke; of spikes which was quite heavy,
fell upon him. breaking one of his ribs and
bruising aim severely. His loft loot and leg
were badly sprained and bruised, and it was
WHh difficulty that he could walk, ills inju
ries, while painful, are not dangerous.
At Brur.swii k F. K. Twittv, attorney for
petitioners, has tiled in tho I’lmes-Advertlsor
o lice lot publication, the petition for charter
forthe Atlantic Investment Company. The
petitioner' are M. Isaac. VV. F Symons J s
ihomas H. E. Taylor. A. 11. Lane, E. J.
Allen J. It. Mason, it. S. Harrison, H S
McCrary. J. E. L htcan. F. 1). Aiken, J A
Carroll. VV. E. Burbage. A. J. C’rovatt, G. VV.
Coates. H. Kaufman and E. Hroiston Tho
capital stock is divided into 25,t shares
o'sloola-h. to ‘o matured by monthly in
Maliments of I ea-It The principal office
will he iu Brunswick, with I ranches at sneli"
otlu r points as may he desired.
Brunswick Times Advertiser: Tho Bruns
wick and Western and the Southern railroads
have lots of cotton shipments placed, apd tho
staple will soon begin moving in very rapidly.
The tirsi traps Atlantic shipments willie
ma le on the time British steamships now in
port -the Bellingham, Kosshire and North
Gwalla. The longshoremen are going a out
with cotton hooas in their belts and have the
promise of plenty of work at good wages.
The Head Line steamship Inihov. n Head
will he in in a few days for a full cargo, and
will be followed in about two weeks by tho
other Brunswick Terminal Comp nv s "char
tered ships There never was a brighter
prospect for a splendid season.
The employes of the Central railroad shops
at Macon have 1 pen made happy be uelng
put to work on eight hours time. For a num
ber of months pah’ ihe shops have Item run
on live hours or halt time, but owing to the
great increase of business and the consequent
increase of repairs to rolling stock, etc . the
management of the road has found it neces
sary to ii.c ease the number of hours of work.
There are aio#t 5i men emploied in the
shops and an increase In their hours end
per day makes a good difference. The out
look Is that tbe men will be put on full time
within a week or two and t eiore the w.nter
season sets In a great many more employes
of all kinds will be necessary lo carry on tho
business.
Th dimensions of the Cotton States and
International buildings are given as follows:
Manufactures , 216 by S7O feet; administra
tion Ml by Hub feet: minerals and forestry
so i.y 371, feet; electricity. VI by 250 feet arid
agricultural 160 by JOII feet. " The mauufac
lures building is to be put feet high. The
minerals and forestry building will have an
octagonal tower 100 feet high in the center.
1 lie electricity building will be two stories
high, with a lower 100 lest high in the center
T.ie agricultural building will also la' two
stories, with a tower 100 feet high. T heseare
the buildinrs whose plans have already been
accepted, other buildings will be provided
lor later, work on the manufactures build
ing will commence In ten dais.
Lemuel >m th the newly elected justice of
the peace tor the i:<s6iti dlstr.cl, at Bruns
tf ick will not receive his commission as soon
as he world like to have It It is ull on no
count of the maun ers who presided at tho
the day of his election. Gov l-’nr-
Iht.n has returned the paiiers containing Ihe
Ist of voters, tally sheets affidavits, etc., to
L.. - ry A?, urt “"' 1 Ulu > urc now In his pos
ai KSUin ihe governor stated Ih.lt the papers
that the. Sr.Vi**J -ly ‘'repan '1 and signed and
umt tniy will httvn to t correctly prepared
J*"?? th* Communion judge
iwv foi ‘l\i eU al l l ‘‘ ordll,ur > * '* m, e'l burn
uwy lor bin comuiibßiou iio beemed Ui*p
pointed when told that tt had not been re
ceived and says he w ants to begin grindlug
out his idea of justice as soot as possible
Banner: Sam Budgel and Sarah Bu Igcl of
Athens ar# the respective names of a com
bined ticket once drawn in the lottery of mat
rimony. But it seents that the result of Ihe
drawing was not absolutely a satisfactory
safeguard nga nst the usual discord and
family fusses so incidental to people of dif
ferent temperaments when living And the
neighbors were annoyed very much by the
din and racket ot a free tight In which dish
pans and household utensils ftgutel and
curses and oid talk abounded. A case was
made against the husband and his Honor
Mayor OT’arrell listened to the cause of the
trouble, and after a severe lecture on past
misconduct, atul advice for their future Le
ltavior, imposed a (lne of F> and cost on
the erring husband, because he had started
the fuss.
FLORIDA
The Fort Meade Pebble has issued a large
special edition, il.ustrated des rlptive of the
horticultural and agricultural resourcs of
this section, and will mail them free any
where on application.
At Okahumpka, although there has been a
number of new buildings erected with n the
past few mauths. there are not enough vet
to supply the demand. Every building at
present vacant has already been engaged for
the winter.
E. J. Carter, of the banking firm of Charles
A. Baldwin A Cos., of New Yotk has com
pleted a deal with Charles L. llucki obtain
ing possession of that line of railroad running
from Ellaville, ou the Florida Central and
Peninsular to Hudson on the .Suwannee. Tno
new purchasers of the road have in contem
plation an extension which w ill open up a
magnlticent extent of country.
At the recent state school teachers' exam
ination at Callahan tlfty-eight applicants ap
peared. Of these six males and twenty eight
females were white; two males and twenty
two females colored. There were eight ap
plicants for first grade certificates. Of the
whites thirty-two passed successfully; of tho
colored, fourteen. The percentage of suc
cessful ones was much greater than a: the
previous examination.
At Manatee the rainy season seems to be
over, closing without a gale. Orange picking
will soon begin. One carload will oe sent this
week. The fruit Is beginning to color a little
in the early hammock grove* Tne crop is
light, butjof very fine quality. Lemons are a
full crop, and very bright and fine. Rice has
all been harvested and made a tinfe crop.
Gardeners are planting seed and making pro
parations for winter gardening. They expect
to plant several thousand acres in "cabbage
and tomatoes.
When passengers come in Jacksonville on
the Savannah. Florida and Western railway
from the north their first impression of the
' Land of Flowers'’ cannot but be a favorapie
one on aocount of the park at the depot. This
park was started a short while ago ny (’apt.
Ward of the depot police force, and is a very
attractive flower garden. Capt. Ward has
secured some rare and valuable nlants, and
Is jealous of them. For one plane a cactus,
he h is been offered sls. hut would not accept
it. Cotton plants are In blossom, and a large
geranium bush is in full bloom
E. H. Dea Kyne of Gladstone. N. J.. wrote
to a business Arm ;it Jacksonville Wednes lay
asking them about th prospects for a steam
ship line to Nassau. He stated that he hail a
large ami line steamer, the co mtorpart of the
old St. Johns, that he would like to put on the
line here if sufficient inducements were of
fered. He thought that $15,000 to $20,001) m
bonds ought to be taken here to aid the
project, i’he letter was turaed over to the
secretary of the board of trade, who rep.ied
stating that there was a good field here for
such an enterprise, but that the parties them
selves must work it up as, while the business
men here would doubtless well support it, no
bonds would bo taken to aid it.
The good citizenship committee of the
Young People's Local Union of Jacksonville
met Wednesdav night at the Congregational
church, and laid out a plan of campaign to he
inaugurated against the evils which prevail in
the city. A platform was adopted, as follows:
"It is our aim to suppress evil and remove
temptation. We believe only moral men
should occupy legislative and judicial posi
tions. We believe men should vote as they
pray. Asa Young People's Social Union we
will favor good government and citizenship,
independent of parties, and will endeavor to
arouse and cultivate public opinion, and will
seek to have our youn g men ally themselves,
as individuals, with organizations opposed to
evil." The committee will report to the va
rious church societies, and will decide what
is to lie done.
Thursday at St, Augustine about fliteon
heavy cases were hauled from the depot and
desposited in the grounds of the cathedral
These boxes contained the marble altar which
is lo take the place of the present blessed
virgin’s altar in the cathedral. ;Mr. Dradd.v
of the firm of Draddy Bros of Italy and New
York, assisted by an Italian marble worker,
began unpacking the boxes. The altar
Is in several hundred pieces, end it will take
the men at least two weeks to cement the
pieces together and complete the erection of
the altar. Much of the tine masonry work on
tne altar, which is of white Italian marble,
was done in Italy, but some of the plainer
work Was done by Draddy Bros, in New
York The altar will stand about fourteen
feet high and ten feet wide, and will contain
one main altar and three sub-altars. In the
center will be placed a beautiful statue of the
Virgin Mary lour and one half feet high.
The altar will be one of tno finest in tho state
when completed, it is being erected at a
cost of 12,-0 1.
The board of public instruction at Jackson
ville met Wednesday and received the exam
inatlon papers of the public school teachers
from the grading committee. The loard
made public the list of those who passed the
examination but refused to give their per
cent, amt grading. This was done, as the
board said, to prevent embarrassment on the
part of some teachers who ranked lower than
others. The percentages, however rule
righ. especially in ihe city schools. There
were forty nine white applicants, and of these
forty six passed. State Superintendent
Sheets law Is not considered favorably, the
result being anytning but satisfactory. Some
ot the ablest teachers in the county, whohave
been engaged in the profession for years, and
who an men and women of excellent educa
tion. have utterly failed to pass the examina
tion. Most of them made averages above
the 87 per cent, mark, lu' their failure to
pass above 6) per cent. In every grade ac
counts for their failure to secure first grade
certificates. Some lost their papers on one
branch, and, of course, will have to stand
another examination.
THEY boirT Ad.,.
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THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1894.
Sit
l“Oiuir Friends”
Says Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "are the
tnile-slones whereby we measure our
progress through life."
Do you want to be somebody? If you do.
there is no time to lose. This is the
age of " Go/" The man who does not
know things will be as surely left In the race
•s a horse who starts with a bucket of
water In his Interior department. Your
friends will be sorry, but they can not stop
to wait for you. There Is no middle course.
We must go forwarand or
crisis of life, the man
Who Hesitates
Is Lost
How to succeed—that is the great question.
The most important thing is to know
what you want to do. and then do it well.
No half-measure.
Whatever your business, trade or
profession, make yourself master of It.
No useful knowledge comes amiss. Study
the practical part of your business first and
ornament your mind afterward. But you
will say: I work hard; my salary Is small;
I have no room nor money for a library
wherewith to educate myself, and no tima
for lectures or lessons.
Now Listen:
If your room Is only six feet by four and
your income the smallest, you can furnish
It with the best library In the world at a cost
that will surprise you by its insignificance.
That library consists of one work only.
But that one work covers the entire held of
human knowledge. It is a work worthy to be
your guide through life. It is the new
up-to-date edition of the Great Encyclopaedia
Britannlca. and if you are a subscriber to
The Constitution you can have it as your
own by the simple saving of 10 cents a day.
Write for application blank.
The Constitution,
ATLANTA. GA.
Call and see samples at the local office,
101 Broughton street, Savannah, Ga.
OLD MAN FROM GEORGIA.
He Looked Like a Hayseed but Could
Tell Good Stories.
Mystery of the Jumping Beans—Flynn
Could Pick the Winner Against the
Field, but the Pricks of Conscience
Were Too Much for Him—A Shabby
Yankee Trick to Victimize the Un
tutored Sons of the Forest—A Queer
Race During the War—Why the
Sandwich Man Got Mad.
From the Washington Post.
The old man from Georgia was a merry
old wight, with the looks of a hayseed,
but with a suspicious twinkle of mischief
in his bright eyes. A crowd had gathered
in the cigar store adjoining the Post.
The enterprising proprietor was exhibit
ing a collection of “jumping beans from
Mexico,” popping up every now and then
like pafehing corn on a red-hot stove, or
doing the glide waltz, in a shallow paste
board box under the influence of some
mysterious power of nature.
He had struck his pace, had the merry
old wag from Georgia, and he was mak
ing tin best of his opportunity, for he was
talking to an audience that was ready to
listen to him.
“Them beans grow in Mexico,” he be
gan glibly, “but we're now raising ’em in
Georgia by tile bushel. You wonder how
they git around so lively, don't you? Well,
listen. There's an insect inside of every
one of them ar beans. Just pick it up
and look at it. There's no hole visible
through which the insect could have got
inside. It’s just as it grew on the plant
-no fake about that, not at ali; but just
the same, as 1 been tellin’ you, there’s a
worm inside of each of them beans that's
doin’ all the jumpin'.”
He gazed around the circle of faces to
mark the effect of his explanation, and
apparently satisfied that there was no one
present to dispute him he struck into the
scientific feature of the phenomenon.
“This animal lays its eggs in tho blos
som of the plant ou which this here bean
grows. By and by the blossom turns into
tho lruit and tho little worm that conies
out of the egg lives on the meat of the
bean inside. When the bean falls off tho
meat grows hard, the worm keeps growin’
stronger and hollows the kernel by feed
ing on it. When it devours all the meat
it just bores a hole through the shell and
comes out.
HE TELLS A STORY.
“Now. I want to tell you a story about
this jumpin’ bean business which I could
easily back up with a stack of affidavits.
“Down in my town in Georgia there
used to live a fellow named Flynn. Ho
was a curious kind of a man; alwavs bet
tin’, bottin’on ever, thing in sight, like
Jim Smiley. One day he proposed to start
a ruunin’ race between any number of
these here jumpin’beans, and offered to
bet $5 he could pick the winner. Well,
all the boys backed the field, and thar was
•85 in the pool whon the race com
menced.
“The boys picked their beans and put
’em down on the table where a large
w hite shoot of paper had been sprgad,
with two circles drawn with a lead pencil,
a big circle for tho outside stretch and a
little circle in the middle for the startin’
base. That fellow Flynn didn’t put down
ltis bean. No. sir. lie Just kinder care
less-like hold it in his hand while they
was drawin’ the distance lines and fixiti’
the preliminaries. When everything was
ready each man put his ho4u in the small
circle, and Flynn he put down his. Thou
the word was given, and tho bovs began
to watch w hat Flyr.n's pick would do.
“By and by,” continued the loquacious
old party,’ there was signs o' life ; the
beans begun to turn over and jump
around Then the boys see they’d made
a mis’.ake in not puttin' Flynn's pick
under a handicap; for, would you believe
it, that particular bean hopped clear out
of the outside circle m three hops' Flynn
he cabbaged the money and walked away,
smilin’ knowingly to himself, while the
other fellows hung their heads and
showed they felt kinder mournful, fur
they wai wonderin' how Flynn eould
have picket! the winner
"Me tried to eaten ’em after that again
on las little game. ‘You lakes your
choice.' said he. ‘and I takes what’s left
and will bet you to m.v little bean can
beat the field.’ Hut a burned child shuns
the fire, and noboJ.v in that crowd wanted
any more of his money, though he used to
work it on strangers with just exactly
the same result, i. e.. rake in the shekels
on his sure game.
“For a long time everybody wondered
how Flynn worked it, but he was too
cute evpr to tell. But finally Flynn he
fell sick. He was prowin' worse, when
one day I called at his house to pay my
respects. His wife told him 1 had called,
and he asked her to lead me to his bed
side. He looked pretty thin and cadaver
ous. did Fl.vna. and he held out a bony
hand and stroke In a faint voice.
“ 'Bill.’ says he, ‘I don’t know but I’m
pcin’ for to die. There's somethin' on my
mind that's been a-worryin' me. It’s that
bean racin’ trick.’ lie looked up into my
face with his big, buruin’ eyes, and
coughed in a hollow sort of’ way two or
three times to clear his throat.
“ ’Well, Flynn,’ says I, ’it’s true that’s
a mighty queer sort of a game, and you've
got me for 55; but by-goucs is by gones.
Don’t you worry about that.’
“ ‘That’s very kind of you, Bill.’ he
whispered, ‘but I think I’d feel more
ready to meet my maker if I let out how
I worked the trick.’
“ ‘Under them circumstances,’ says I,
‘go on and relieve your mind, Mr. Flynn,’
for I was myself a little curious how he
had managed to do us on tho race.
“ ‘lnsideof every one o’ them beans.’
said Flynn is his hollow voice, ‘is a in
sect—a sort o’ jack-snaper.’
“ ‘Yes,' says I, 'that's well known.’
“ ‘Well, Bill, if you hold one o’ them
beans in your hand a little while real
tight like, the bug inside warms up, and
the heat of your hand acts like a slug o’
whisky does on you and me. Tho bug
he cits hilarious and begins to jump
around twice as lively as ordinary, and,’
here his voice sunk into a deep, hollow
whisper, ‘you takes the pot.’ ”
The crowd that was congregated in
front of the counter thought this a pretty
good story, and laughed heartily, which
seemed to do the old man from Georgia a
world of good, for he ehuffkled merrily to
himself.
He finished the story by adding that a
marked change set in as to Flynn, and
that worthy was so much better in three
days that he sent for him and implored
him for God's sake not to give the snap
away.
A MEAN THICK, INDEED.
"That’s a pretty clean trick,” said the
narrator, “but it don’t come up to a cold
deck I knowod a man to ring in on a lot
of unsophisticated red Indians on the up
per Missouri one time. It was just after
ration day, when the Indians had plenty
of everything to eat and considerable
money. Along comes a regular down-east
yankee with gun cartridges enough for
5,000 or 0,000 rounds, and planks himself
down on the river bank. Indians is
mighty curious, and soon the unsophisti
cated red children of the forest wanted
to know what he was goin’ for to do.
Says he:
“‘1 understand vou noble red rangers
of the field and mountains is pretty sure
rific shots, but in me you behold Keekless
William, the dead shot of Shasta, and for
money 1 can beat any dusky warrior of
the glen shootin’ the spots off a bulls
eye.’
"Havin’ addressed the benighted chil
dren of the settin’ sun in them words,
which they well understood from long as
sociation with educated cowboys, he
pointed to a stump in the river, a consid
erable distance off, and proposed to give
up a silver dollar every time he missed
it. provided any man who shot against
him would do the same. The conditions
were to be that if the bullet struck the
water and caused a splash it was a miss,
but if there was no splash it was a hit,
and the dollar went Hi the winner.
"Well,” continued the old man from
Georgia, with a suggestive smile, “that
was too good a thing for them dusky scalp
raisers to let go by. They jumped right
into the middle of his little gamewi.h
both moccasins, and for four or five days
there was tne liveliest amount of banging
you ever hearn tell of. The red rovers
of the hills were pretty good marksmen,
but that ’ar Yankee never made the wa
ter splash once, and when all the car
tridges was shot away he had all the
mdney there was in the party and was
smilin’ a contented sort o’ smilei to
himself and saying nothin’.
“There was one noble red chief among
them untutored savages as had a heap
more sense than he let on. He took that
yankee man aside and says to him:
“ ‘See here, stranger,’ says he, ‘how in
the name of the Great Manitou did you
hit that stump without ever makin’ tbe
water splash once?’
“ ‘Noble red man,’ said the yankee, ‘I
see that you ain't made of gunny sack
material, but genuine loom-spun butter
nut. Civilization has touched you with
its transforming wand, and your fallow
mind is awakenin’ under the genial glow
of advancin’ thought. Civilization is a
little devious, but it’s certain and sure.
You have come to me to gain knowledge,
and you have come to the right source. 1
take a fatherly interest in you. Promise
me, dusky warrior of the glen, that
you'll not betray mo and will let mo git
away with the money I’ve made out of
this here shootin’ match and I will tell
you.
“The red warrior agreed to this,” con
tinued the old fellow, “and the Yankee
told him the secret.
“ ‘When 1 load my gun,’ says he, ‘be
fore slipping in the cartridge I just twist
the lead out of it, and then the bullet
can’t make a splash in the water.’
“He didn’t tarry around there; hut two
days after he was cornin’ past the same
spot by steamboat and there was about a
inilliou red men on the bank shootin’ at
that identical stump, and that noble chief
loomed up bigger than any r of the rest. It
was snowin’ silver dollars and he was
rakin’ 'em in faster than the Israelites
did manna in tho wilderness. Such is the
influence of practical civilization.
"That same yankee.” continued tho old
Georgian with the hayseed cast of beauty,
"turned up in Achison a short time after
ward when the Missouri was overflowin’
its banks and the raging torrent was car
rying down stream whole houses and any
amount of timber from the lumber camps
up north. He put an advertisement iu
the papers callin’ for 1,0)0 darkies that
wanted work. He hired about 200 tQ go
out on the river and haul the floatin’
lumber to shore, agreeiu’ to give 'em half
of all they caught.”
The old party glanced around and saw
ttiat he was still holding his audience by
the spell of his tongue.
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oj race that happened during tho war. A
Kentucky and an Indiana regiment was
quartered close together and the hoys
used to go from camp to camp, social like,
to play cards and pass the time that was
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draggin’ heavy on their hands. It wasn’t
possible to keep clean, you know, and all
sorts o’ livin’ thiugs got among the men.
You’ve hearn of the army graybackf
Well, try as they might to keep ’em out
they would come in, and it finally got to
be a standin’ joke among the men That
Indiana regiment captured one one
day, and as they hadn’t nothin’
better to do they made up their
minds to train it and challenge the Ken
tuckians to a race. They fed that ar Mr.
Grayback like a horse, and when they
thought they had him in a good condition
they made overtures to tho Kentucky reg
iment for that race. They said they had
an animal that could beat any Kentucky
thorough-bred the other side could put
up. That kind o riled the Kentuckians
and they jumped at the challenge. They
brought outan animal of theirown raisin’
that looked leau and hungry, like a line
bred .racer, and they thought they had a
cinch on the purse.
“Well, the race came off at the ap
pointed time. That Indiana animal put
straight for the wire; he wasn't lookin’
for anything on the roadside; all he cared
for was to travel. But that Kentucky
animal, he began to browse around, lookin’
for something to appease his appetite, lor
he was hungry as all git-out; and so,
while he was rustlin’ for grub and skir
mishin’ for blood, the Indiana animal
passed under the wire and distanced
Kentuck.
“Them Kentucky fellows thought it
mighty queer, and was mighty sore over
the loss of the purse. They got to puttin’
their heads together and lixiu’ things to
win their money back. They found out
where the Indiana fellows were keepin’
their animal, and they one night up and
stole it. They led it to their camp, and
without sayin’ a word they crossed that
’ar animal with some of their own stock.
Then they secretly returned the Indiana
animal, and waited. In due time they
sort o’ quiet-like challenged the Indiana
crowd to another race, which, of course,
was accepted, and a big purse was put up
and the race run under tho same auspices
as the first one.
“It was a neck-and-neck race for a
while, but Kentucky blood began to tell
and the Indiana fellows was the worst
lot of losers you ever see. They never
pulled off another race against Kentucky.
A PYTHIAN INCIDENT.
“Say,” exclaimed the oid fellow, sud
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thought, “that reminds me of something
I saw during the Knights of Pythias en
campment here two weeks ago. A nice
lookin’ old gentleraau was passin’ along
the street, dressed in a long black coat
and a plug hat. and with gray whiskers
on his face. Somebody seemed to have
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uniform—l guess ho must have been front
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“‘Youdurned old moss-back,’he hol
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got sense enough to see I'm carryin’ this
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which tho proprietor gave him, and left
the store.
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