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VOL. XVI.
A«hin<* has com* o’er the spirit of our
dream,
WIIKREFOKKf
Our readers will observe that The
News this day awakes from Rip Van
Winkle slumbers and looks abroad
upon the activities'and interests de¬
manding its aid. It sees Toccoa in¬
creasing hi prosperity, and rapidly ad¬
vancing in population and wealth. It
observes the energy, enterprise and
pluck of its business men, contem¬
plates its present and future possibili¬
ties and realizes the necessity for an
erergetic, wide awake paper, hence
the change in the management, char¬
acter and size of the News.
Though Toccoa is one one of the
youngest of Georgia’s cities, it has
already passed its first thousand
population, and is steadily advancing
towards its second; it has fine church¬
es, good schools, ware house's, hotels,
substantial brick blocks, situatod at
the junction of two railroa Is; one, a
great trunk line connecting the large
citiea of the North with those of the
South; it is nearly in the centre of the
great Piedmont belt, destined to in¬
clude within its borders the most ex¬
tensive manufacturing industries in
the United States, some of which will
be within the limits of Toccoa and in
the immediate surrounding country.
* * * *
Toccoa is situatod near the borders
of two States, and is the business
centre of several counties in each
State, embracing some of the richest
agricultural lands in the South;mar.v
thousands of acres of these rich lands
are in virgin forrest, including im¬
mense quantities of the most valua¬
ble timber and beneath the surface
mineral wealth of untold and mi —
known value. Through tins country
fl >\v numerous creeks and rivers af¬
fording water power for many mills
and factories.
* * * *
It is the mission of the News to
aid in developing these vast resources.
It will labor to get farmers to come
frou the North, and? East,
West and South who will transform
these forrests into fruitful fields of
waving grain, grassy meadows, green
pastures, with herds of cattle feeding
on the hillsides and in the vallies, or¬
chards, vineyards, cosy farm houses
and bams, beautifying the landscape
in all directions. It will work to in¬
duce capitalists to erect mills,machine
•shops, foundries and factories of va¬
rious kinds and convert into useful
products the cotton, the wood and
immense materials which nature lias
so bountifully supplied; thus Toccoa
will be, not only the centre of trade
of a wide territory, but & territory
rapidly increasing in wealth and pros¬
perity, itself a constantly growing,
populous city.
While to promote the interests of
Toccoa, its best growth, interest and
prosperity, together with the country-
tributary, will be the great central
thought and aim of the News, still it
will not be confined to these narrow
limits; its field will include the inter¬
ests of the State of Georgia, and the
whole of this Sunny South land, in
some respects the fairest and most
attractive in all the earth. The News
will unite hand in hand with the ef¬
forts now made by the press all over
the South, in inviting immigration,
especially capitalists and enterpris¬
ing people to develop the wonderful
resources of this great country, and
assist in solving some of the difficult
financial and political problems with
which the Southern people are grap¬
pling. To this end the purpose of
the News is to circulate, not only
within, but beyond Toccoa and the
regions round about. It will seek
admission in distant homes in other
States and use its best endeavors to
induce capitalists to come and build
up manufacturing industries in Toe
coa, and farmers to make the country
around bloom and blossom as the
rose.
“I will also give mine opinion.”
“What is to be the politics of the
News?”
This question has greeted the edi¬
tor’s ears, and it is but natural that
people desire to know.
In the first place it depends on
•what one means by “politics.” Many
good people affirm that “politics” has
a demoralizing tendency. That too
TE>02ET TO NEWS, TOLJTICS, AGTICVL2UTE ANT GENE UAL TltOGTESS.
l>e a polititiun,one must needs consort
with trickery, bribery and wade in
the filth and slum, that political tac¬
tics and operations involve. Profes¬
sional politicians admit debasing in¬
fluences, ari l they warn ministers of
the gospel against entering political
arenas, breathing its tainted atmos¬
phere or soiling the vestments of their
s-acred office with the muddy pollu¬
tions. Many believe that politics
necessarily 1 eget unholy strife, bit¬
terness, envy, hatred, revenge; that
it means a fight for office and spoils;
th* struggle being to get the “ins”
out, and “outs” in.
If this be “politics” then the Mews
desires to be counted out. If on the
other hand, politics means good gov¬
ernment, good laws, both State and
National; a fair, equitible and just
treatment of all the States alike, by
the Federal Government; an equita¬
ble distribution of the National funds
and patronage among the States with¬
out discrimination; equal rights and
priviledges to every citizen before
the law, in short, whatsoever brings
the greatest amount of good to 1 ; the
greatest number of citizens, whatso¬
ever tends to the highest welfare of
all,and promotes the best^interests of
tha State and nation; if these things
be politics, then the News will be a
lively politician.
The News accepts tho decision of
the war, that all the States and Terti-
tories are firmlyJunitedJn one strong
nation; of which the Federal Govern¬
ment is the head. It leslieves that
the Constitutional powers of that
government are ofjsuch a character
that all States must obey its legiti¬
mate authority.
The News likewise believes that
there are limitations to the Federal
power; that tho severalJStates have
rights over which the General Govern¬
ment has no control, and with which
it cannot interfere. Inasmuch as the
limitations of Federal authority are
not clearly defined or understood, it
will bo thegprovince of the News t>>
investigate these limitations and in¬
form its readers. The people of the
entire country should know the Con¬
st! uticnal limits of the general gov¬
ernment and be able to say: “Here¬
unto shalt thou come, but no farther.’
■* * * *
This is tho more important at the
present time, as many have vague
apprehens : ons that the incoming ad¬
ministration has power to interfere
in the government of the Southern
States, or enforce measures detri¬
mental to the interest of these Statos
or the citizena. The News will con¬
tend that the president or congress
has no such power or authority; that
the experiences during the re-con-
structior. period are impossible under
our government, except in cases of
revolution.
The News makes a distinction be¬
tween politics and political parties.
The one involves principles of gov¬
ernment and political economy; the
others are organizations of citizens
who adopt or reject formulated prin¬
ciples in “platforms,” nominate and
support men for office, endeavor to
pass laws in harmony with thoir doc¬
trines and influence and control gov¬
ernments State and National. Many
believe parties are necessary in gov¬
ernment by the people. Of the two
groat parties of our nation, the Dem-
cratic party is beyond all question
the party of the white people of the
Southern States, and the News joins
hands with the other papers of the
South in sustaining that party in all
laudable efforts to defend the rights
and advance the interests of the
Southern people. While it will earn¬
estly do this, yet it reserves the right
to criticise and oppose measures it be¬
lieves to be detrimental to the inter-
terests or prosperity of our citizens.
In particular it will sustain all meas¬
ures for the good of Toccoa, Haber¬
sham county and the State of Geor¬
gia, and will stand by and uphold the
the officers in the faithful
of their respective duties.
Capk John Milledge. State libra-
nian, is sending to each of the 137 or¬
dinaries of Georgia, a copy of tho
last Georgia reports and statistics of
the last session of Congees.
Romt is to have a new rolling mill.
The Toccoa News. t
TOCCOA, GA., FRIDAY, JA 11 1889
.
OUR COUNTRY.
A colored RomanXJatholic conven¬
tion met last week in Washington,D.
C., the first of the kind in the history
of the world. They called upon the
President in a body, who shook hands
with each, and gave them encoura-
ging words.
The Electric Refining Company is
gigantic fraud. Henry C. Friend has
swindled confiding capitalists out of a
quarter of million of dollars and fled.
During 1888 there were 1,079
mercantile failuresf^the liabilities
averaged £11,509. During the last
week in December there were 387
failures, the highest number ever re-
corded in this same period in this
Florida fruit growers are h a ppj }
the railroads have reduced the rates
on oranges, the crop is heavy and the
orange growers are
The jute trust is dead; cotton bag¬
ging has fallen since the new year 2
cents and is going lower.
Nine telegraph cables connect Eu¬
rope and America which utalizes 113,-
000 miles of cable,
The^British steamboat, Montana,
which sailed from Baltimore Jan. 5,
with an assorted cargo, including 214
head of cattle was sunk and is a total
wreck. All the crew escaped except
Chief Engineer Robert M. Young,
who was killed.
Smuggling opium has been carried
on from Canadajfor sometime, and
has reached large proportions, $ 100
000 worth being brought across the
border yearly.
The Washington Post has been
been sold by Stilson Hutchki.ns to
Frank Hatton, third Assistant Post
Master General, and proprietor of the
Burlington Hawkeye.
The trustees of the Slater educa-
cational fund have filled tho. vacancy
caused by the death of Chief Justice
Waite, and Rev. Philip Brooks, by
appointing Chief Justice Fuller, of
the United States Supreme Court,
and Bishop Potter, of New York.
A meeting of the Southern Quar-
atine Confererence is to bo held,
March 5th, at Montgomery, Ala.
Delegates from all States interested
are expecteJ to be present.
The Attorney General of Pennsyl¬
vania has commenced suit against the
Western Union and Baltnnoro &
Ohio Telegraph Companies; the wric
claims that by reason of the sale of
latter company to the Western Union
its charter line and franchises were
forfeited to the State; also for the
same reason, the Attornev General
claims a decree of forfeiture and es¬
cheat of the property and francheses
of the Western Union in that State.
The total production of pig iron
in the United States during the year
1888 was six millions of tons; of Bes¬
semer steel rails, 1,350,000 tons. The
total importations of iron and steel
were 950,000 tons. As compared
with 1887, the consumption of pig
iron is believed to have fallen G50,-
000 tons, and of steel rails about
800,000 tons. The prices during 1888
were less than in 1887.
In the South, the capital invested
in new mining and manufacturing
enterprises in 1888 was $168,000,000.
There were organized m the South
3,618 new interprises against 3,430
in 1887 and 1,576 in 1886, a total for
three years of 8,623 besides hundreds
of small indus:ries. Cotton mills
have increased from 180 with 15,222
looms and 713,989 spindles in 1880,
to over 300 mills with about 38,000
looms and 1,805,000 spindles. The
value of cotton goods made in the
South in 1880 was $21,000,000, and
nearly $50,000,000 in 1888. In 1880
there were 40 cotton seed oil mills in
the South; now there are 100 with
$12,000,000 invested. The value of
the South’s agricultural products in
1879 was $571,000,000;in 1888 $800-
000,000. The value of live stock in
1879 was $391,000,000;in 18881575,-
000,000. The products of grain rose
to 625,305,000 bushels in 1888, an
increase of 200,000,000 bushels, and
yet some people say the South
not
Alton B. Carty, one of the proprie¬
tors of the Times, Frederick, Md.
was publicly cowbided by Joseph D.
Barker, president of the National
bank of Frederick. Carter had sent
to a Baltimore paper, rumor of a
swindling scheme in which Barker
had suffered a loss of $3,000*
Amelia Hives Chanler rode lately
in an ox cart through the country in
the vicinity of her home, Castle Hill,
cluding Va. distributing alms to the poor, in¬
$200 worth of warm blankets
*nd clothing i
GEORGIA.
The Georgia Southern road
to construct a large cotton compress
in .Macon. They propose handling a
great quantity of through cotton.
James Price of Oconee, d earned
that if he went to Athens on the sec-
ond day after Christmas that he
would fin } a 'draft for several bun-
dred dollars awaiting him. lie went
anrt found the dra't awaiting him ac-
cording to his bream’
A few days ago the renters on the
farm of Dr. Baker, on Pine Log creek,
Bartow county, found a collapsed
balloon that had just fallen from sky-
ward. It is’d cacti bed as a very pretty
balloon, ’ made of oilc.Uilk. measuring
in bight , about . 12 fcet . ; and , the , diam- ,.
cter is supposed to have been, under
inflation, about 5 feet
C. L. Eliott of Brunswick
valuable collection of forsign stamps,
passports,- foreign money, shinplast-
ers and many others curiostics, which
the lovers rf the curious like to gaze
upon. Hie collection of stamps alone
is valued at $600, and embraces every
known variety, most of which are old
and have long ago disappeared.
Rev. A. 7. Jarrell, of North Georgia
conference, relates the following rem¬
iniscences of his soldier daj’s: * On
my return from the army I was caught
in Sandersville, Ga, with Sherman s
forces jj 'possession of the town. I
w:i8 cl*plain and had on tho straps
a taken capta^p— my effort rank, Ilad I been
in an to elude the enemy
I would have been sent to a northern
prison ; so I thought it best to keep
quiet. The federal officers made Ihier
headquarters in f.hc house whore I
staying, and. soon finding out that I
was only a prcaciierJ did not molest
but talked’freely with me. The pri¬
vate soldiers seeing that I was in
company with the officers, of course
made no attempt to interfere with my
freedom, After the-federals had de¬
parted the ground was everywhere
strcwiijwith corn. Some one, deplor¬
ing the waste, remarked that it was a
pity it.’The the pigs were not turned upon
answer came quickly ‘ : Tea. '
. but . where , are the pigs/ „ T It , is • sa.e to
say that Sti• rman’s people left no
sliotes inv_their wake, and the re-
mark, indicating the general destmc-
tion, had a touch of pethos, as well as
humor.—Soldiers in battle almost in-
variably . , , shoot , too , high. . , , Ocean „
Pond, Fla*.—the first engagement in
which I took a part.—I noticed that
the bulK-ts were lodged in the trees
from th* height of four feet up.
Most of the ammunition is thus
waited. Very few arc calm with the
shells whistling around, and the ex¬
citement is the probable cause of the
bad marksmanship.’'
Columbus has a new public school
building for boys costing $25000.
Cartersvillc is bojtning. Cap¬
italists have lately invested there sev
cral hundred thousand dollars form d
iron and steel companies are erecting
furnaces and rolling mills and at one
bound this point becomes 5the great
steel center of the South. Real estate
has advanced more than half a mill¬
ion of dollars in the past four months.
Louisville, Ga , has a railroad pas¬
senger coach factory and lately
turned out its first coach.
Prohibition has carried in Oconee
county by 300 majority.
Atlanta citizens are laboring to
establish an ineberatc asylum in
Georgia•
E'l-.l a Smith, ot Fannin County,
died last week in the Fulton county
Atlaata, where he was serving a
three months sentence for making
moonshine whiskey • \
The Legislature added as school!
tax one half of one mill to the tax for
1S89, and one mill for 1S90, this
makes 32 cents on one hundred dol¬
lars for 1888. and 34 cents on one
hundred dollars for 1890,
The Pvi sion for maimed Con¬
federate soldiers are about doubled
hereafter. -
Mrs. Sallie Twig- of
hss been appointed to a $1,800
turn m the ...... interior department at
W ashington.
Jula Wvly, of Atlanta, has been ar¬
rested on suipieion ef being con¬
nected with the Hawes wife and chil
rea murder case. The two brothers,
John and Jule are ia prison suspect¬
ed of taking partin that crime.
E. T. Ruuisey* ef Hartwell, killed
three wild turkeys at one suot. The
three weighed thirty*nina pounds.
RAILROADS
The trouble between the “Q” rai*-
ro ** d company and the strikers is en-
? e,,t an * m,cal > le l,RV,!, f?
off Thifc great strike cost the com .
panjr $3,000,000.
qq, e Kansas City, Memphis & B?r-
mingham R. R. are running reclining
chair cars free from Birmingham
*° Kansas
The railway mileage of the coun-
was increased last year by no less
laid i vi*- in ’ ail u the f forty-seven 6W tF states ^ C * wer and ?
territories except two-Rhode Island
and Nevada.
The Northern Pacific R. R. Co., has
been stealing enormous amounts of
*"" b er (romth ' «overnmont A ...it
has been , entered against tho Lompa-
fop j,5 j(X x),000.
Examinations for the Railway
Mail Service include orthography,
reading addresses, coppying, pen-
manship,’ arithmetic letter writing
and geography of the United States,
especially the railway systems in
v liich the applicant resides. The agq
limitation are 18 and 35 ; honorably
discharged and sailors are exceptions
and may be examined without
A judgement has been rendered a
gainst the Richmond Danville Rail¬
road company for $5,000 f**r the acci¬
dental killing of Guissepe Mosco.
Gen. Alexander has been re-elected
President of the Georgia Central H.R-
Patrick Calhoun , general Counsellor,
Kissel <5* Co fiscal agents.
From the Atlanta Constitution we
glean the important information that
a great system of railroads, indepen¬
dant of the terminal System, is plan¬
ned for Georgia. The projector is
Mr. J. D. Williams, president of the
Chatanooga, He is Romo & Columbus road.
backed by strong capitalist.
The plan is to incorporate various
short roads already built, connecting
them by building new roads to fill
gaps, thus form one continuous sys¬
tem of uniform guage. The road is
Carrofton,and already built from Chatanoogt to
will soon be Columbus
thonce to Albany, Florida connecting with
the Savannah, & Western,
which will build a road from Quincy,
Fla., to Albany. This gives the sys¬
tem a direct route from Cincinnatti te
all points in Florida and to the sea.
A road will be built from Selina, Ala.,
‘hroueh Crrolttn lo AttonU; also
Carrol ton to Griffin; thence to
Monticello, connecting with the Ma-
con & Covington; also from Monti-
cello to Sandersville, thus reaching
Augusta. From Sandersville will re-
q u * re bu * a short road to Savannah,
h’ 1 ® tbls R ra,,d £3stem will connect
all the cities of Georgia and Florida
wlt h Cincinnati and the North-west.
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CONGRESSIONAL
The Nicaragua Canal bill has pass¬
ed the House.
Tho lumbermen of tha North-west
are opposed to the bill for reducing
the tairff on lumber $2 per thousand
feet; they claim it will ruin the lum¬
ber trade, as they cannot successful¬
ly compete with Canada.
Mr. Reed, of Maine, introduced a
bill to prevent filibustering. The
Senate tariff bill, disposed ail of 3-£ pages of the
amendments by deino*
crats rejected by a strict party vote.
The indications are that the resolu¬
tion affirming that the Government
of the United States must regard
with disfavor any connection of any
European Government with the con-
struction or control of any ship canal
across the Isthmus of Darien as inju¬
rious to the just rights and interest of
the United States and a menance to
their welfare, will be passed by Con¬
gress, and the European Govern¬
ment* notified accordingly.
The civil appropriations bill con-
tains the following for Georgia : $75,
Of'O to inprove the Atlanta barracks;
$3,000 to continue triangulations
from Atlanta to Mobile: $75,000 to
complete the public building at Sa¬
vannah*
Senator Riddlcberger presented res
olutions adopted by the State Grange
of Virginia asking congress to give
55 per cent duty on exported agri¬
cultural products.
A North Carolinian tells of a won-
derful tree in his State, at Clyde sta¬
tion, Haywood county. It was a pop-
Lr tree so large that it made plank
enough to build a Church 50 feet long
38 feet wide and 12 high, supplying
it with weather boarding, ceiling and
•''"rnig. From (lie sarno tre« a fence
Wa ’ three-quarters of an acre
around the church, and three bniTd logs
wer , , eft over> , ar „ e onough ,
another church of the same diminsions.
The ostrich farm at Fullerton, Cal.,
has 136 full grotfn birds.
At the inaugural of Gov Fleming,
Florida, .
there was the largest gather-
ever s«.en in Tallahasse. There was
a coluiQn of Union an Confederate
veterans, Which the including the regiment
Perryy both the outgoing Governor
Fleming * a d the incoming ^Gprernor
served, \
FARMERS.
The farmers in Southwest Georgia
setting out pecan and pear trees,
and soon the country will be thick
Wltb nut a ” d orchards.
The farmers of Quitman, Brooks
count V. Ga., raise their own meat,
e orn, oats, syrup and sugar. Their
cottou is a surplus crop. Their bank
deposit is $60,000 and they are loan-
at 4 cent,
A meeting of Alliance men was
held in Columbus on the 5tl» at which
over onc hundrcd , . , dele , , S ates wcre P re9 ~
representing 6 couutica in Geor¬
gia and 5 in Alabama. Reporters
were not admitted, but it is under¬
stood that the meeting was for the
purpose of making arrangements to
secure supplies for the several Alli-
anees and secure capital to establish
a warehouse in Columbus to store
cotton. Committees were appointed
lo confer with merchants and capital¬
ists of Columbus and other places.
They publish the following advertise¬
ment :
“A merchant or capitalist, whose
financial ability justifies a business of
$250,000 to supply the Alliance trad¬
ing at Columbus, Ga. AH communi¬
cations strictly confidential. Address
John F. Tate , Chairman of Commit¬
tee, Ilatclieclmbec, Ala.
Mule Raising. —According to the
editor of the South this is the roost
profitable of <»toek industries the mule
is pccnli arly adapted to our climate
and all the varied industries of local
commerce, transpertation and farm
work he is superior to evry other do¬
mestic animal. The per cent, of loss
from any and every source will net 5
per cent, of the capital invested the
Mule is easily managed except that
one end of it is but seldom tamed.
To prevent the crows from pulling
up seed corn, take ab*ut half a pint
of tar, dissolve it asquiekly as possi¬
ble, put about six quata ot*com, stir
in oqc and a half minutes, then dram
off the water. Stir in a little Plaster
of Pans or some dry matter, which
separates the kernals one from An¬
other. Spread till it cools. One ad¬
vantage in tarring is. if a cold wet
Strom comes on after planting the
corn will not rot. The greatest ad¬
vantage is that you let crows cotne
into your field and if you keep out
all scare crows, they will destroy the
cut worms, without doing any injury
to the corn.
During the past year Mr. Henry
J • Anderson of Pslaski county, on a
five horse farm, made 75 bales of
cotton 1,100 bushels of corn 500
bushels of oats, abundance of peas
and potatoes, and saved 3000 pounds
of pork. His cott«n averaged 600
pounds to the bale.
Mr. E. P. Ward, of Elbert county,
has raised seven bales of cotton on 5
acres.
Insect Destkoyer. —“ According
to the views of the Vienna scientist
these new means to battle, even a-
gainst armies of locusts, against which
human power so far has been without
success, may prove efficient.
•Take 1£ ounces sulphate of copper
dissolved in warn: water, when dissolv¬
ed pour so much cold with it as will
sake 4 quarts. Then slack 3 ounce*
of lime and make this 4 quart:; mix
this together which will make 2 gal¬
lons of the mixture for destroying in-
s*cts and worms. A barrel of the
mixture may be kept in the garden to
be used when needed. U=se a garden
sprinkler in applying the mixture to
cabbages, cucumber and melius vines,
etc.”
South Carolina.
A Canal is to built connectin the
headwaters of the Ashley with K . o
river, which will save over 100 mi
in rafting lumber to Ciiarlsto
.
A company for the purpose was
organized away back in 1809.
Gov. Richardson did not approve
1
the Clem son bequest, consequently
the heirs of the great Calhoun still
hold thier property.
The phospbat royalty duo the State
for rock mined from navagable
streams was only $1,506 in Novem-
* «*• *<> in Novcmbe
1887.
Under the new pension law all
pensions henetofore granted are re-
yoked. County boards of examiners
are appointed to whom applications
mQ8 $ b 3 made. If approved, pen-
8ionerg 81 mU8t to tbc State guard
the pension will be granted
NO. 1.
FOREIGN. tn
-- «ct
The Panama Canal has about cop
lapsed and poor old DeLesscps is jjf
despair. US
The Pope has sent gifts to the I^ft
people and a message expressing
atTection and sympathy.
Bombay, India, has the grandesl
railway station in the world.
There were a series of earthquake
shocks in Nicaraugua on the morning
of Dec. 30. Eight persons were kill¬
ed and building suffered considerable
The Emperor William receives
$750,009 as Emperor of Germany.
He lias in addition a large income as
King of Prussia., It is reported that
$350,000 more will be asked for.
The peasants near Donegal, Ireland J
armed themselves, fortified Uk
houses, destroyed bridges and blo< nt *
cd the roads to resist eviction. Gr—i
eminent troops and police appean I
on the scene to assist the baliffs ar |
there is war. The baliffs at first were
repulsed and officers were wounded
with pitchforks and stones. Finally
the soldiers were ordered to fire, and
the poor tenents surrendered. Num¬
bers arc lodged in jail.
jB? iffht jBUs*
Only a Question of Time —Ma¬
bel—There go Mr. Fledgeby and
Ethel Gibson. I heard they were
staged; are they?
Flossie—Not yet, but I think Eth¬
el intends that they shall bs.—N. O.
Times.
Mr. Nkwlyweb —My dear, what
is this procession passing through my
back yard? I thought the political
excitement was over.
Mrs. Newlywed —Why, lovey,
that isn’t a procession. It’s the hired
girl’s cousins coming to call on her.
—Burlington Free Press.
Landrum (real estate agent)— This
corner lot you may have for $100 a
front foot.
Bingham (prosperous)—Isn’t that
a trifle steep?
Landrum—Steep? tfie magnifficent sky No! Just look
at over this lot
that I don’t charge anything for.—
Yenowine’s News.
Miss La reside- You eastern worn-
en don’t seem to have the life and
energy our bet western girls have. Now
you can that I look out for num-
her one, and mean to get ahead if
there’s any show for it.
Miss Beaconstreet—That is a good
idea of yours—try to get ahead. You
have the feet already.—Terre Haute
Express,
Tiie Anarchist had just come hom
with a clean shirt on.
“Good heavens, Barlowskia!” ex¬
claimed his wife, sinking into a chair
“have you become a blood-sucking
capitalist and aristocrat? 1 ’
“No,” he said, “the shirt was w
present.”
“How does it happen that you hav¬
en’t traded it fof whiskey?”
“It was the saloonkeeper who gave
it to me,” he replied bitterly.—Chi¬
cago Tribune.
An exchange says that in the Arctic
regions,when a man desires a divorce
he quits the house in anger and does
not return for several day*. The
wife understands the hint, packs her
trunk and leaves. We can under¬
stand Eve packing her trunk and
leaves, for her wardrobe was leaves
and nothing else, but you can’t make
us believe that a woman could get a-
long with such flimsy clothing in the
Arctic regions. Even her aunt Arctic
scorn a wardrobe of that material.—*
Texas Siftings.
Mrs. Marigold (hostess at a fash¬
ionable reception)—Come, Mr. Swin-
burn, let me introduce you to Misa
Richgirl. We want you two to fill up
a set.
Mr. S. (hesitatingly)—I don’t know
that 1 care to be introduced to Miss
Richgirl. She seems to be so l.aught-
y, and all that, don’t ycu know; Fra
afraid she wouldn’t care to dance
with me.
Mrs. M.—Oh, don’t hav'elmy ,
fears
on that score, Mr. Swineburn. Miss
she riichgirl isn’t a bit particular whom
dances with.
Embabrassiso.——A.—-W h»t i»
* your prospective bride going to give
yOU on New y ear ' s ? ask ed a young
society B.—I man of his friend,
believe she is going to give
me and a * handsomely worked waich case
am * n a about
,, ' T , [ K .
*
haven’t been able to redeem it ye
you see I’ll be in sort of a cur
when she presents me with the w
case.”—Texas Siftings. M
Capt. Alexander.who has beery^
uty has colletor been ^transferred for the Ellvjay’di^ to his2|
istrict with hcalquate-s at