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7* ai Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal. BY STANFORD 4 COOPER. “Hidap—dnt in AH Tb»fs—Neutral in Netkinf.” TERMS $1.50 IN ADVANCE. VOL. IV. CUTHBERT, GA- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1884. NO. 36 NEW FIRM! HEW GOOES! LOWFBICES! JanirsG. Mathews, Proprietor of“THE EMPIRE DRY GOODS STORE,” Cuthbert. Ga.. is now receiving a large and well assorted Stink of FANCY DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. CLOTHING. HATS, HOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, SATCHELS, UMBRELLAS. Ac., which I offer to the trading public, at prices that deft competition. I solicit a lilitral aliare of your patronage, and will certainly it if von will onlr step into my store and see the many REAL HAK GAINS 1 am giving away daily. I was in New York at the time when money matters pressed down most heavily upon the people, and with the CASH in hand I knockeil down the best DISCOUNTS that could lie offered. I am therefore prejiared to give you PRICES that will tell the Good*. 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All advertisements due when hand ed in. -: O: - AVc arc still in tho (\>tton business and extend a hear ty invitation to all to Store Their Cotton With Us. Our long experience in the business enables us to guarantee satisfaction, and we proniisjp to save you money if you will let us handle ami sell your Cotton. .All-wejMik is a trial, and you will be convinced of this fact. Hefore selling your Cotton be sure to call on us and |>ost yourself as to prices. MISS PIPER’S PUPIL Miss Pandora Piper, teacher of music, who had hard work to keep soul and body together, but was not onbappy, because, as site said, she was never left without a new bonnet for Easier Sunday, and one black silk, somehow, al- ways lasted until sbe managed to a new one, received a very siagnlar note one morning—a note which bad been handed in at the door, the landlady's “girl" said, by an “olderly gentleman.” The epistle was envelo|ied in the costliest and mot richly dec orated envelope to lie procured for love or money anywhere. The paper, nearly as thick as card hoard, was to match. A coal of arms was in the corner, and the words below were as follows: Miss Piper: A person of neg 00 ^ nc ^ le< l edercashun is wishful to 50j be undcrtuck. Will kail at 3. Mister Sijoek. “My gracious!" ejaculated Miss Pandora; “he must have been neglected, tliat’s certain. I never saw anything like that before in ail my life! Fatally forgotten, I should say. Well, I wonder what lie can be like. He must be rich, I suppose. Poor people can't af ford such stationery as this. And a coat of arms, too! Shoddy, I suppose; but so that he’s respect ful, will - should I care for that? He will probably pay well, and life who could not play upon the pyanner. Begin with that and goon to spelling, which I in con scions that I sadly need.” It was not the usual course, but there was a serious and dignified manner about this neglected per son that made it impossible for Miss Filter to say so. Sbe men tioned her terms and set tlie hours for the lessons, and so skill fully emphasized the name of the instrument that Mr. Shger before his departure had begun to call it “the peearaw” instead of the “py- anner.” At the door, however he gave her s dreadful shock. “I wish, mam,” he remarked, “to begin with tunes.” Miss Piper was a conscientious little teacher, but she felt that there were |ieople in this world who must have their own way, and Mr. Sliger's first lesson con sisted of the “White Cockade." He hail a very good ear; he was anxious to iearn. From the “White Cockade” he went on to “Lite Let Us Cherish,” and poor guilty Miss Piper, who felt that the notes had very little to do with his performance beat time and counted. Meanwhile she found that leav ing education out of the question, the man was very sensible—that he was very kindly and amiable. Once corrected in the pronuncia tion of a word, lie never became a I’ve lost Anne Eliza Griggs hy j backslider on that question marriage, just as she was begin ' However, it was he who arranged I ning to take variations. everything, not his teacher. “Nora, I shall lie in if a new ' As other lessons were added pupil—a gentleman—calls at 3 ; the neglected person set the hours o’clock.” | IVir them: finally lie had six hours I Nora, who liked Miss Piper, a da}’. All the pupils were dis who often gave her little presents ' missed but one. The spelling and who kept on an up|ier shelf of ] lesson, the lesson in geography. Celebrated Pratt Gin, which is the host Gin made. We sold over twenty-fi hundred dollars worth of these Gins last season, and we take pleasure in referring you to any of our numerous customers. If you want a First-Class Engine, Saw Mill, or any kind of Machinery, call and see us and get the most favorable prices and terms. Thanking you for a liberal patronage in the past, we are, Respectfully, J. M. REDDING & CO. July 31 3m. CURB 'liausnsss.Sick Headache. Torpv 'vet and Ben/els, Indigestion ■s£e£eia : Sour Stomach, Spleen rtigo. Bad Breath, lialariz .undice, and and Enric, ? Blrwd with out nauseating th imach nr weakening the system h'se; lto 2Beans on going to hen vo ■amfietaRn 4 f - ; ; Pn p«. Id by Druggists ST UGTTIj, M For Sale by .1, W. Stanford, Ciubbert. Ga. jun© JtHJm, Wm. d. kiddoo, A1TOKXEV AT UW. Cuthbert, On. MTT’ll-N, practice at any place in the ? T State bv special contract. tf. V. R. THORNTON, DENTIST CUTHBERT, GA. o iFFK'E over 1» West Side Public I-. Dunn's store. square. febJ7-lv i BOLT’S DTSPEPTIC ELIXIR flic only known remedy that will cure every case of Dvspepsia or Indigestion. It has been tested in hundreds oi eases and has never failed in a single instance. It lias been very successful in Liver Complaint, Constipation, Jaundice, Headache, Acidity or Heartburn, Chronic Dysentery or Diarrhea, Heart Disease, Etc. with indigestion. T..r,.id Liver, or Constipation, it is a safe and certain . ttre. \\east lit M hi rit s and ASTHMArit sto try the remedy and they will be convinced that thev are not mcnrable dt.iea.ios. Tins medicine in composed of purely vegetable remedies. Symptoms of Dyspepsia or indigestion, loss of appetite, loss of flesh, a feeling of fullness or weight in the Stomach, occasionally nausea and vomiting. Heartburn, Acidity, flatulence, sick or nervous headache, Dull pain in the head, with a sensa tion of Heaviness, or Giddiness, Irregularity of the Bowels, sometimes Constipated parties who have been cured by the Elixir: |)r. I*. K. Holt, Emm, Ala.: Hatcher's Station. G \.. October 18th 1883 DkakSib -I have been troubled with indigestion and nervous headache for the last fifteen years. During that time I have •uttered a great deal tvith periodical attacks of headache. Having exhausted mv own skill and tried the prescription** of a great many physicians. I was induced to try your Dyspeptic Elixir. You sent me a bottle about the middle of Marc’s last /md I am happy to inform you that I have not suffered from these periodical attacks * * cured. I can eat any ami everything without material iniurv. I have been since. My indigestion is almost if not a spec* with y< entirely cured. I can eat any and everything without material itijurv. I have been a practicing physician for thirty years and have ever been opposed to proprietary medicine^ You kindly furnished me with the formula for the Elixir, and' on ex- Terir g from indigestion • Elixir, for it is almost , . . ... - ...... .v ... my practice. I would have complied i > our request, made when I saw you last, but thought it best to delay in order to be thoroughly convinced as to its cura tive |»roperties. Very truly vours. * £. 1*. DOZIER M. D. I*, i*. I can t afford to l»© without the Elixir. I will have it in my house let it cost what it may. E. 1*. D. Dr. F. R. Holt, Eufaula. Ala. Comptroller General's Office, Atlaxta, Oa., July 9th. 1883. Df.arMr—I am pleased to report that l have t*een entirely cured of indigestion, bv the use of your -Dvspeptie Elixir." I was induced by a friend to try it after having tried almost every remedy known for mv disease, without the slightest effect. 1 took only three small bottles of your medicine before I was entirely well. I suffered several years, and although it has been three years since I used your preparation, I have had no return of it. Yt * * i'ours trulv, \V. A. WRIGIIT. Comp. Gen. State of Ga. r z „ , v4. Office of thk Srcc.er MAsrFAcmti^G Co.. ErFAi L.%, Ala., July 4th. 1883. This is to certify that mv wfte. Mary J. Hightower, suffered for six years from indigestion and enlargement of the liver; *' * 1 ‘ 1 * * ' it as an experiment— was immediately and regained her appetite, rs had resulted in con- H1GHT0WEK. ^ ErFArLA. Ala.. Mav 1st, 1883. Holt— Dear Sir: A n«»ut five years ago I was taken with a violentcough with enlarged liver and constipation. I grew and W4»r*e until it was almost impossible for me to lie down and sleep at night for 18 months, owing to the severity of t lie cough. The only way I could sleep was in a chair, my head resting upon a pillow on a table. Was treated hy two differ physbinni*.and tried a number . .i Patent Medicines, all of which did no g«»od. After having despaired of ever getting well, my wftiMumsulted you hy letter. You sent mc^two liottles of vour Dysj>eptic Elixir; in less than three days I could lie - •—> •— 1 ’ 1 ‘* * — * * ’ detl it to *a great m JOHN F. KEHOE. It*. W*»rsc elown ai»<l sh«|> as well as I ever could in my life; a few l*otties cured me perfectlv. I have recommended it to a great num ber of persons and never knew ft to fad to cure in a single instance. Yours truly, My. W, II, Md-ciidon, of liflUchers station, *0ljrs Dr. Holt's Dyspeptic Elixir cured him of indigestion. I* *1 »• 1 , , ErFArLA. Ala.. May 1st, 1883. * °*‘ r Dyq»cptic Elixir cure*! mV daughter of Dyspepsia of a very aggravated form of twelve months era! of the best physicians in the county, who failed to benefit her. Dr. Holt— Dear air: Your Standing. I hat! tried sev SAlLTC BYALL BUY A XT GRIFFIX, White P»nd. Go. April )0-ly. Iit r dost.-t some soolbiog balsam which she was always ready to apply to the poor girl’s awkward fingers, which were always beir.g cut or burnt or pinched in some- thing, gave an amiable grin and offered to polish up the grate when she had a minute, “aee-ing a stranger was coining.” The morning wore away. Two little girls had gone through their exercises and a heavy lady who took lessons in vocal music had nearly hurst a blood vessel in en deavoring to gain a certain high note, which was the object of her ambition. Miss Piper had been mound the corner to give a lesson there and over the way to see to anoth er pupil’s practising. She came home in a hurry, nr ranged her hair saw that the lit tle parlor was neat, and awaited her gueat with feverish anxiety. At last he came. Nora showed some one upstairs and there entered at the door an elderly gentleman of benign ap pearance, dressed in the la'.est fashion, hut not without regard to his age, who, bowing low, re marked: “I hope I am not late, mum. I know your time must be very valuable." “I am sure I only wish every body was as punctual,” said Miss Piper. “It is exactly 3 o’clock.” “You’re very kind, mum," said the gentlemaD, seating himself, as Miss Piper motioned him to a chair. “I’m an oldish pupil, I suppose you think; but I’ll ex plain. I think I've explained in my note, but I'll explain again. I’ve been neglected, not from any unkindness—for my mother did the best she could for me—but we were very poor. I don’t wish to mention the humble position I've always occupied until a year ago, when somebody came from England and bunted me up. Moth er was dead, poor dear! hut this ia how it was; Father was very- rich and up in the world; mother was a housemaid. He married her, and his mother was furious, and mother couldn’t atand it. She ran away; she came here, and lived an honest, hard-working life. It was only when sbe died she told me my name was not Noggins, but Sliger, and that she had written to my father, or got some lawyer to write, and he was dead, too, and 1 came into the property and left the bumble po sition I won’t allude to, and— well. I’m rich, but I don’t know anything, and before I go to England I want to be educated. You understand?” “It’a a very laudable ambition, Pm sure,” said Miss Piper. “I usually teach music, but, of course, I can undertake the En glish branches.” “Yes, mum.” replied the gen tleman, hastily, “I want to begin with music—the pyanner. I have never known any one in high tiic lesson in history, followed each other. All the weekdays were bis. Poor Miss Piper had no power to say him nay. lie paid well, lie treated her with actual rever cnee; but the last pupil went when lie elected to copy some very- flat “flower pieces” which Miss Piper had executed in early youth and call this a lesson in painting. He had all her week days at last. He certainly had improved in pronunciation, hut Miss Pi|«*r felt herself to be a humbug. What they really did was tospend the day together exactly as he chose. Playing with educational books, thumping the piano, daub ing bristol board with impossible flowers, scrambling through the lessons, in French, of which Miss Pi|ier had had a quarter from a Swiss gentleman. For a long time she was alone on Sunday and usually went to the Methodist church to which she belonged; but Mr. Sliger soon altered that. He began by asking her whether they had “these ves|iers of theirs the neighborhood. The church going (if it M chnrcbj finished ’em. You’re of age this long while, my dear; yon ought to know bow to behave; lint I can't countenance Una. I shall pat np the bill. Oh, oh, oh. Pandora, that it should come to this!' Puor Miss Pandora! As her friend and landlady- walked out of the door with her handkerchief to her eyes, she stood motionless an though turn ed to a pillar of salt. She saw just how this repair of neglected education must appear to her small circle of discarded pu|rffs, and (Hi a strong dealre to drown herself or jump out of the window, or turn on the gaa or take a box of matches in her tea, and she might actually, it seemed to her afterwards, have died of mortification, but that the gong at the front door, pulled violently at this moment, startled her, and Nora, running up. wrapped in a waterproof cloak, for she had been making preparations to goto bed, announced: •Mr. Sliger. r ‘He can’t come up,’ said Pundo ra, ‘at tint hour of the night.’ ‘No, miss; he asks for you to come down,’ said Nora. Pandora went down. Mr.' Sliger was at the door. ‘There’s a teleseo[>e at the corn er,’ he said; ‘ something going on in some star or other. I believe. Get a bonnet and shawl, and 1. come ami have a peep. It will be you despise me for my ignorance or not, hot if you don’t, why I want yon to take me for your pu pil lor life—to marry me, you know, Pandora. Will you?’ It was a dreadful thing to do in such a public |4sce, but Pan dora Piper felt that she was going to faint—the room grew black. She held oat her hand for the glass of water. Most of it was spilt upon the front breadth of her new black ailk, but that which passed her lipa revived her. Then a tweet soft sense that there was no more trouble for her in this world crept into her heart and ahe smiled np at him. ‘It was in my mind the first day I came,’ he said. ‘I had seen you often through the window when you gave lessons to tiiat little girl at Bell’s. I used to watch you with my o|>era glass. I felt sure you were just the wo man for me, and every lesson you gave me proved it. 'I shall - learn everything from you—goodness as well as spelling. Oh, say 'Yes!' I want you! 1 want you! She said ‘Yes.’ Mrs. Grimm was sifting np for her, pale with wrath, when she re- turned; but Pandora took her by lioth hands, and said: ‘You won’t turn me out until after my wedding day, will you. dear? You'll let me be married here. It's next week. Mr. St. Leger won’t wait. You sec we will have to go to England and a lesson in astronomy for me j live on the estate. And, after all. Yon can explain it, you know same terms as the other lessons.' Pandora without a word obey ed. The door closed after the two, leaving Mrs. Grimin staring at Nora. ‘That's the capsheaf,' said the lady. *Shall I sit up for them?' asked Nora. ‘No.’ said Mrs. Grimm. ‘I will.' Meanwhile, Miss Pandora and Mr. Sliger peeped through the telescope and saw the rings of Sa turn, which SI r. Sliger supposed to be phenomenal and temporary, and which were explained by- Miss Pandora to be fixtures, and then adjourned to an ice cream saloon of much elegance. This, indeed, was desperate dissipation, Miss Pandora aai j to herself, as she sat lieforc the cut- glass goblets on the damask cloth, and saw the water splash from the little fountain in the centre into the acqnariure and over the glossy plants, all reflected in the long mirrors. However, what did it matter? Site was already -talk ed about,' turned out of her lodg ings as a person who bad gone wrong. Sbe would k .eplhis mer ry moment to remember when she had put an end to all by saying at the Cathedral on Sunday j to llie neglected pupil that she morning?” And when she in- - could no longer impart instruc- ’ tion to him. struvted him that “vespers” were in the later part of the day, said lie would call for her. Accordingly she went to ves pers at the Cathedral in the af ternoon and after that regularly three times a day to different churches. It was then that the landlady- thought it her duty to call. She appeared in Miss Pandora Piper’s apartment at the awful hour of 10, majestic in her crimp ing pins, and with a very serious countenance, and was welcomed in with a smile by the little music teacher. •Good evening, Mrs. Grimm,' said she. ‘I haven't had a call from you for a very long while.’ •No. Miss Piper, you havn’t,’ said Mrs. Grimm with emphasis. He was ordering every indiges tilde luxury- on the bill of fare, the diamond on his little Anger flashing like a small sun. obse quious waiters bobbing aimut be hind them. He looked kindly at her, and asked her if she liked this or that. He was as simple as an old baby; as kind as an old lady; ar.d he was a nice pleasant- iooking man ‘All over! All over!’ she said to herself. *1 might have known what a wicked world tbia is, and how ill it thinks of innocent things. Why might not I go on teaching him forever without harm?" People were coming in from concerto, from the theatres; ta bles were filling; but theirs be- You couldn t expec. me to call tween two columns beyond the after such carryings on.’ j f olin tain, was very quiet. ‘Why, what do you mean, Mrs. Grimm?’ ejaculated Miss Piper. •Can you ask, Pandora Piper?’ answered the landlady in her <lee|iest chest note. ‘The whole neighborhood is talkin' about you.’ ‘About me!’ screamed Miss Pi per. ‘You and that man,’ said the landlady. ‘My pupil, Mr. Sligerf sobbed Miss Piper, now fairly in tears. ‘Your pupil? Don’t tell me,’ said Mrs. Grimm. 'Miss Pando ra Piper, I shall be obliged to pal up a bill for my second floor. You've got to go.’ ‘Oh, oil, oliT cried Pandora. ‘Can you tbink any barm of me? Wliv, you could come in at any moment. Nora ia in and out ev ery now and then. Such a re spectable elderly gentleman, and such a correct person as I am f ‘It isn't me. Pandora,’ said Mrs. Grimm, quite melted. ‘It’s The waiters were gone to exe cute Mi. Sligeffe behests. Sud- iteuly he turned to her, and took a letter from his pocket. ‘Miss Piper,’ he said, ‘read that.’ Pandora opened the missive and perused it. It was from a firm of lawyers, sjieaking in plain terms of Mr. St. Leger as a gentleman, and a man of honor and fortune. ‘I got'em to give it to me,’ be said, ‘to show you.’ ‘I iid not need it, indeed,’ said Pandora, sadly. ‘And this is the way your name is really spelt? St. Leger! It’s a beautiful name.’ ‘It sounds a little curious to me,’ he said. ‘Mother wrote it Sliger. I never knew, bat you see, I’m all right. They never took me without a character when I went for a place in the poor times, and I couldn’t expect you to take me without a character, either. I—I don*', know wkcUtcr a poor little teacher needs no great preparation.' ■Scrvaula and diamonds, and a country house, ami a city house, and everything heart cooid wish,’ Mrs. Griinm says, in telling the story. It’s like a romance. And Pandora, happy with her good, simple husband in her new surroundings, often thinks so her self. “The I.Uile NsiUrhrrr;.” There are very few who do not know of this little hush growing alongside onr moilntains and hills ; but very few realize the fact that the little purple berry, which so many of us have eaten in most every shape, there is a principle in it having a wonderful elfW-t on the luiwels. Dr. Bigger*’ Hnek lelierrv Cordial is the GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY that rc stores the little one teething; and cures DiarrluEa, Dysentery and Cramp Colic. For sale by all druggists at 50 ceuts a liottle. Be a Lady. Wildness is a thing girls cannot afford. Delicacy is a thing which cannot tic lost and found. No art can restore to the grape its bloom. Familiarity without regard, is de structive to all that makes woman ennobling. “The world is wide, these things an- small; Thev may be nothing, but they are all.” Nothing? It is the first duty of a woman to be a lady. Good breeding is good morality. Awk wardness may* be ineradicable. Baslifuluess is constitutional. Ig norance of etiquette is the result of circumstances. All can be con doned, and do not banish man or woman from the amenities of their kind. But self-possessed un shrinking snd aggressive coarse ness of demeanor may lie reckoned as a State prison offense, and cer tainly merits that mild form of restraint called imprisonment for life. It is a shame for women to be lectured on their manners. It •s a hitter shame that they need it. Women are the umpires of society. It is they to whom all mooted points should be referred. To be a lady ia more than to be a prince. A lady ia always, in her rights, inalienably worthy of res ided. To a lady, a prince and peasant alike bow. The natural sentiment of man toward woman ia reverence. A man’s ideal is not .wounded when a woman fails in wordly wisdom; but if in grace, in fact, in sentiment, in delicacy, in kindness, site should be found wanting, he receives an inward liort. A Bear Kills a Bather. Gainesville, Fez., Sept. 20— This afternoon about 6 o’clock while a number of the cadets of llie East Florida Military College were bathing in the pool of H. M. Oliver at Orange Park a pet bear that was on the place broke loose and jumped into the pool and pur sued tbe boys, catching William Jefferies, alsiut 17 years of age, son off W. O. Jefferies, agent of the Florida Transit Railroad at Fernaadtna, biting and mangling biu| so horribly that be sunk to the. bottom of the pool dead. His parents have been telegraphed to. Tbe young man had only been in Gainesville two or three days. Tbe bear had to be instantly kill ed, he was so unmanageable. Pally PateT. Polly Putoff! vWasn^t that a dreadful name for a little girl to have? Of course it wasn't Iter real name—that was Polly Putnam— hut everybody called her by her other name, so it might as well have been the only one she had. Of course yon can never guess haw she came tr> have such a name. It was because she put off doing everything as long as she possibly could, and the conse qucnce was that very frequently she didn't do things at all. It any one sent a letter to the posloffice by Polly it was pretty sure tv be too late to go in the mail; if mamma wanted anything for dinner, and sent Polly for it, It was sure not to come in time to be cooked for that days's dinner. You can see what an unreliable little girl she was. “Oh, you can depend on TV.:y for one thing,” Uncle Will would «aj-, with a merry twinkle in his eye. “Yon can dc|iend on her puttin'.' off everything, but that is all j-ou can depend on.” And I am sorry to say he spoke the truth. “Fully, Polly f’ mamma would say in despair, “how shall I break yon of this dreadful habit?” Ever} body agreed that it would need a very hard lesson to teach her better, for it did not seem to be of the least use to talk to her. It was just three days to Polly’s birthday, and she had been won dering very much what her moth er and father intended to give her. There were lots of things that she wanted. She coiild'ut begin to count them up on her chubby fingers, but sbe didn't know which of nil tiiese she was going to get. She rather thought a music-box would be the nicest tiling of all, blit she was almost afraid to lio|ic for that. A man who went around selling them had brought some to the house, and shown them to her father ami mother, and Polly bad gone wild with delight over their pretty musical tinkle, but she was afraid they did’nt mean to get her one. “Folly,” mamma said that morn ing. “here is a letter that l want you to |>ost before school. So be sure to start early, sy you will have plenty of time.” “Yes’m,” answered Polly put ting the letter in her pocket, ami off she started. As she passed the school house ! she saw the girls were jumping rope, and she stopped “just a mo ment.” Then the bell rang, so she could not |>ost the letter then. At recess she took it out and look ed at it. Should she go then? She looked at the address on the envelope. It was dii ceted to some man in the next town. •Oh, i* hasn't got very far to S»,’ she thought to herself. ‘It will do if I post it after school.” After school she forgot all about it, and so tbe letter went home again in tier pocket. •Did yon post my letter, Pol |y? asked mamma, when Polly was studying her lessons that evening. Polly’s face grew very red, and she put her band in her pocket. There was the letter, and site drew it out and laid it on the table. ‘I will post it in the morning,’ she said faint!}:. ‘It is too late,’ answered mam ma. ‘The man to whom the letter is directed went away to New York Ibis evening, and I haven't got his address there. It really only matters to yourself, for it was an order for a music box for your birthday.’ •Oh. mamma!' exclaimed Polly, tears started to her eyes, ‘is it really too late? Can't I have one?* Mamma shook her head. “No. I don’t know where lie is now. It you had not put off posting the letter, be would have received it liefure be started, and sent the music-box. It is too late now.’ Wasn’t that a hard lesson? It cured Polly, though, and she has nearly lost her old name of Polly Putoff. Sbe forgets sometimes, of course because bad habits can’t be broken ns easily as they are formed, lint I tbink before very long she will conquer her old bah it of putting off.—Chris. Work. at The Captain and a Lieutenant of one of the companies stationed at Sitka in the first year of Uni ted States possession fell desper ately in love with the same beau tiful Russian. Stic was a most charming woman, with soft, mys terious eyes, a pale, delicate face, and a slow, dreamy smile t!-.at set the two warriors wild. All the garrison knew of their fierie riv alry, so marveled not a little when their old friendship appeared to be restored, and the two suitors started off on a hunting expedi tion together. One haggard man returned two days later and told that his companion had been at tacked anil gored to death bv an enraged lit i k in the forest. lie was gloomy and strange in his manner, and at nightfall went to the house of Lite Itussi -a lady to break the news of his rival’s death. The friends of tho lost officer talked the thing over, and sus pecting that a duel liad been fought, decided to go out the next; day and search for the body. In the morning the surviving rival was found dead in lied, with a look of agony and horror on his face. One story was that his victim had appeared to him, and he had died of fright and terror; the other was that, some unknown and subtle poison had been ad ministered to him i.i a cup of tea, and the official report ascribed his death to heart disease. Tiic body of the lost rival was found at the font of a steep hank on the shore of Indian river, where a tangle of ferns, hushes and grasses shaded anil almost covered the clear, still pool in which lie lay. His rifle lay near him, and a- bullet hole in the heart told the sad truth that his friends had sus pected. Ilis death was officially attributed to the accidental dis charge of his own rifle while hunting, and tinder these two verdicts the real truths were con cealed. The family of the Rus sian bcautv disappeared front Sitka in a few months, and the story had been half forgotten un til the recent opening of a path along Indian river recalled it to some of those who lived here at the time.—Sitka Correspondence San Francisco Chronicle. A Itrwad IMstiuctfim. The Colonel who lives in the South, was findiug fault with Bill, one ofliis hands, for neglect of work, and saying lie would have no more preachers about the place. They had too many protracted meetings to attend. "Bill ain’t no preacher,” said Sam, “He’s only a 'zorter.’’ “Well, what’s llie difference lie- tween a preacher ari l an exhor- ter?” “Why, you know, a preacher takes a tex, and den i.-e done gone stick to it. Bet a ’zorter, he ken branch.” The Mao -onian reports the following si nsaiinn: ‘A sensation occurred in the Madison Male High School last Monday by Prof. Binns attempting to correct. Lut- lie Penick.a twelve year old stu dent, wiio set upon the teacher with a knife, cutting several slits in liis coat. The infuriated youth afterward left tiie school, but was returned next day by bis father, who administered the punishment that liis teacher had failed in giv ing. Mr. T. L. Peniek, the father of the lad. is one of our most cor rect and prominent citizens.’ The Hartwell Sun gets oil this bit of level-headed advice: ‘The times are hard and so far as we are able to see are likely to re main hard. The oniy thing the |ieoplc can do is to practice the most rigid economy, hold a stiff upper lip, and work ahead with unflinching energy and courage. Despondency and croaking will not help matters.’ If there is any girl w ho doesn't like to pop the question even if it is leap year, she can get around it by asking her young man if he'd be willing to fill his name on her marriage certificate.—Yon kers Gazette. Epitaph copied in a French cemetery: T AWAIT XT HUSAAMD'. ‘10th October, 1820.’ And below: ‘IIeke i ax!* ‘7th Febnary, 1880.’ The king drouth is playing havoc with tbs sugar caoe crop of south Georgia. In Burmali, an editor receives elephants in payment for sub scriptions; in this country he doesn't; in a great many cases as soon as he starts a paper he has an elephant on bis hands. “Come back to bed, you old fool,” pleaded tbe gentle voice of Mrs. Mulberry. “That isn't eats; it's Emetine's new bean down in the parlor singing ‘Some Day.’ ” ‘Is man inferior to woman? 1 asks a correspondent. That de pends altogether on whether it is a married man or a bachelor.