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TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
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There are nearly 200 patients in the
Nevada State Insane Asylum. In view cl
the small population of the State, tbit j
targe number is looked upon as a public j
calamity. i
Perorts from nearly 100 Consuls agiee
that the United States is receiving the
scum of foreign population, and that j
tponsible the steamship for it. ewners are largely re- j
The Detroit Free Press suggests that
“Africa for the Africans may be one of j
the slogans of the twentieth century, i
The Arab and the Ethiop make a hot
fighting mixture.
The Boston Musical lltrald proclaims
in stentorian tones that “America is as
yet unprovided with a nat’onul air pas
sessing the breadth and d gnity worthy
of a great coun ry.”
“Protection for American actors” is
the last development of tho movement
which has taxed foreign pictures, banne i
foreign clergymen and stopped the im¬
portation of skilled artisans.
A Mexican sorceress has predicted
that Mexico will conquer the United
States in 1890, and some of the Mexican
papers say that she is infallible. Mexico
will assume a big contract if it tries to
verify the prediction.
Charles Francis Adams, the distin¬
guished railway authority, is of the
opinion that railroads will combine in
the future, and we shall have several
systems of 20,000 miles or more each
under one management.
During the past year the net gain of
new churches iu this country was 6434;
of ministers, 4505, aud of members,
774,861. On an average, therefore, 17
churches were gained each day, 12
ministers and 2120 members.
Cattle rais : ng in the Northern Terri¬
tories is again increasing. Fifteen
thousand New Mexico steers have been
placed on Montana ranges and New’
Mexico stockmen say that they expect
to sell 50,000 cattle in that Territory
aext season.
The small but intolerable pest to farm¬
ers, the English sparrow, has been out¬
lawed in Canada, the President of tht
Ontario Agricultural Department having
given public notice that this destructive
bird is no longer under ilie protection of
the law, and that every person was at
liberty to assist in its destruction.
West Virginians were never ennrelj
pleased with the name of their Ftate,
alleges tho New York Telegram , and a
movement tochmgeitto “Kanawha” is
afoot. In a land where so many musical
Indian designations may be found, it
sliows a lack of taste, the Telegram
declares, to repeat the name of anothei
State with any modification.
Nearly 1500 women in this country
are commercial travelers, 21 6 aro
architects, chemists and assayists, 228
professional journalists, 320 authors,
2011 artists, 13,182 professional musi¬
cians, 519 Government clerks, 2434
physicians and surgeons, 75 lawyers, 165
ministers, 216 stockraisers, 56,809
farmers, and 154,805 teachers.
Their grotesque alphabet is making the
Germans a nation of near-sighted people,
states the Trenton (N. J.) American.
Defective vision is not only acquired,
but it appears to be handed down to
offspring. Cohn found over six per
cent, of elementary pupils in Germany
considerably myopic; while iu Antwerp
Dr. De Mets finds only two per cent,
slightly affected.
The Agricultural Department at
Washington is comp’ling a directory of
all active departments, boards, societies,
colleges, granges, fair associations, farm¬
ers’ clubs, fanners’ alliances and other
organizations devoted to agriculture,
horticulture, dairying, fruit culture,viti¬
culture, forestry, stock-raising in all its
several branches, fish-culture, bee-cul¬
ture, silk-culture and like industries.
Great as were the predictions made ot
the usefulness of the Brooklyn bridge,
the reality far surpasses the most san¬
guine estimates. During the year end¬
ing December 1, 18S8, thirty-three mil¬
lion passenger crossed the bridge and
the total .receipts were $1,912,254.82.
The bridge paid $150,000 to the two
cities and also made many extensive
changes and improvements out of its net
receipts. _
Recent ieports represent King Otho,
of Bavaria, as sinking deeper aud deeper
in his religious mania. He remains so
long in a kneeling posture as to be un¬
able to rise without assistance. He fre -
quently summons his priest to his bed¬
side at night in order to confess, and
exclaims to those about him: “You do
not know what sins I was guilty of yes¬
terday. I dare not close my eyes until I
have received absolution.”
The preponderence of foreign-born
seamen in the American navy was made
the special subject of discussion in Ad¬
miral Porter’s annual report some time
ago, and was then represented in the
light of a menance to the nation, In-
quiry among officers at the navy yard,
set on foot by the New York Times, in-
dicates that the Admiral’s report caused
much less sensation in the service than
among landsmen and civilians. Hardly
an officer could be found to agree with
the statement that the predoniinence of
foreign-born sailors was a menace to the
n.v y , and few seeded to thiok it a di,.
No less than thirteen cotton manufac*
turing plants, employing a capital o'
nearly nine million dollars, are to be
found within a radius of ten miles 1
around Augusta,Ga.,operating, in round
nu “ lber ’ 1*0,000 spindles, . 6000 looms, j
and employing 4800 hands, the annual
pay list amounting to about one million j
dollars. According to the report these
mills consume 75,224 bales of cotton,
and the annual product is $5,444,828.
The attempt, by a Norwegian named
Xonsen, to explore Greenland, has re-
sulted in fa ij ure . T]ie interior of that
continent is found to be very high land,
nine thousand teet elevation on an aver-
age, and the home of intensely cold
gtorras at all seasons of the year. Only
a very small section of Greenland, near
the coast, is habitable by man, and even
this were better left to desolation until
more desirable parts of the earth’s sur¬
face have been brought under man’s
iominion.
Says the Philadelphia Ledger: “Four
or eight years of well-requited service,
requited in money, In power and honor,
does not seem a sufficiently long time
to warrant a pension adequate to
preserve to the end of life the state of
the White House. Nor doe3 the as¬
sumption that a President may not,
without loss of dignity, retire to private
life upon a modest competence, which
wili compel simple living, seem a wholly
satisfactory one. No President was ever
less respected by his countrymen because
he did not retire from office a very rich
man.”
A curious race war has broken out in
Charleston, S. C., according to the Bos
ton Cultivator. The monopoly of the
colored washerwomen has been threat¬
ened by the invasion of about one
hundred C hinese, who have established
laundries in various parts of the city.
The Chinese do their work by combined
capital, using steam and the best laundry
machinery. They are thus enabled tc
underbid the colored women, who, as a
rule, work alone with only the most
primitive methods for cleaning clothes.
Unless the latter improve their methods
they will be driven out of business, but
this makes improvement certain.
A despatch from Washington to tht
Pittsburg Commercial Gx e'te gives the
following highly interesting information:
The United States Fish Commission if
engaged in the greatest speculation on
record. From an investment of $1.13 in
four years it produces the equivalent ol
$1000. This is how it is done: Thus
far this season, for example, 876 jars ol
whitefish egg3 have been taken on Lake
Erie. The average cost to the Govern¬
ment is $1.13 per jar. Each jar holds
160,000 eggs. In a good season 99 pei
zent. of this take could be hatched out,
but, allowing for a loss of 80 per cent.,
which would be phenomenal, the re¬
maining 20 per cent.wdll produce infoui
years 80,000 pounds of fish, worth at a
low 7 estimate five cents per pound, oi
$ 1000 .
The ma’ority of deaths from lightning
occur in the level, open country—trees,
villages and thickly built-up towns and
cities, by their projections in the air,
serving as conductors and thereby pro
tecting the inhabitants from direct
stroke. The loss of life annuallj
throughout the world is very great. Ir
European Russia, from 1870 to 1877.
no less than 2270 were killed by thii
cau e. In Austria, during thc sarrn
time, 1700 persons w'ere likewise killed.
In Prussia, it is reported that seventy
persons are annually killed. Ten thou¬
sand persons are reported as having beer
struck during a period of niue and
twenty years, with 2252 deaths in
France, while in the United States,
during 1870 alone, 202 deaths from
lightning were recorded.
Medical science now aims at the pre¬
vention of diseases by a study of its
causes and the removal of them. There
can be no doubt, remarks a metropolitan
paper, that the worst of infectious dis¬
eases cau be prevented. The truth ol
this is a matter of common history. II
yellow fever, Asiatic cholera and other
virulent diseases can be averted by due
sanitary precautions and sporadic cases
kept within their limits by preventing
favorable opportunities for their spread,
who can doubt that infectious diseases
of cattle may not be equally controlled ?
They cannot clearly until the requisite
means are taken. Hence, along with the
slaughter of infected herds some meas¬
ures looking to the causes direct and
indirect must be taken and slaughter
alone considered only as a temporary
relief.
There are eight well known institu¬
tions for the blind in New York city,
and a visit to any one of them is sure tc
be full of surprise and interest to thc
caller. For one thing, he will be shocked
to see how many blind children then
are. People who have studied the mat
ter say that about one in every 1000 o:
the country’s population is a ’dieted witl
blindness. In mining regions, where
accidents abound; in extreme northerr
latitudes, where the glare of the sun re¬
flected from the ice and snow dazzles thc
eyes; or in desert regions, where tht
sand gives off a terrible reflection, tht
ratio is higher; but one to 1000 is about
the general average. The proportion ol
blind under ten years old is seven per
cent, of the whole number of blind; be¬
tween the ages of ten aud twenty-five,
the ratio is about fourteen per cent.; and
between twenty-five and fifty, about
thirty per cent. The rest are over fifty
years old. Only a small proportion are
actually born blind. The disease gen¬
erally comes on slowly, or is suddenly
brought about by accident. The work
af educating the blind, it has been
found by experience in New York insti-
»nmoatproSUbl,
AT SUNSET.
Below the world’s dark forehead now
The sun in changeful glory sinks;
The young moon dips her silver prow
In that gold wave—lo, dimly blinks
The herald of the quiet eve!
And through the rhythmic silence fall*
The throb of vesper hymns, that leave
Yon distant wood which night enthralls.
And while the solemn trees at prayer
Chant low their mystic litanies,
An awful majesty they wear,
Like prophets of eternities!
Unheedful of the clamorous world,
Or, mindful thus of its dark stain,
With reverent hands of peace upheld,
In pleadings for its heavy pain.
Swift stalks devouring Darkness forth
In giant shapes; and Twilight pale
A ields ber meek reign ’mid dying mirth,
While heaven begins her starry tale.
And through the tender even-song,
The last low accents of the day
Blend with the far-receding throng
Of joys that passed us on the way.
—Lulu Curran , in Youth's Companion.
A DUKE IN DISGUISE ,
BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy,
was in the habit of throwing off his
court costume at times, and in various
disguises going forth to seek such ad¬
ventures On as might present themselves.
itorm, one he occasion, being overtaken by a
took refuge in a small house
just on the ontskiits of the city of
but Bruges. The house was neatly furn>shed manner!
still in a plain, inexpensive
The door was opened by a matronly look-
ing dressed woman, to whom the Duke ad-
his petition •
“My good dame, I have been suddenly
overtaken bv the storm—will you in
your kindness, allow me to tarry with
you until it Is over;”
“With pleasure” was the reply
“Yet, as there are those who go about
with evil designs 1 should feel the more
tioa.” willing if I knew your name and condi-
“You may judge from my dress,’’said
the I uke, evasively, “that I am a merch¬
ant, and for my name, you may call me
Philip Frendrau.”
“Do you do business here in Bruges?
Methinks I have never heard of that
name.”
“Here and elsewhere. My business
calls me to different parts of the King¬
dom.”
“ i ou should carry on an extensive
business, then?”
“So. so,” said the Duke. “At any
rate, I manage to gain a comfortable
support, i ou are a widow?”
“Alas! yes, sir. My husband died a
year or more since.”
“Have you any children?”
“One—a son of twenty-one.”
“What business does he follow?”
“I fear he will never fotiow any.”
“And wherefore not :”
“Because, sir, lie is at this moment
violently in love, aud his suit does not
prosper.”
then?” “I he lady does not smile upon him,
prou4. “Not so” Vho said the iXT’be widow n bliud littlo
not to love my Henry ^’ but it is the
father who ob ects.”
“And what-is the ground of his ob-
jection?”
“He is wealthy and we are not ”
“Perhaps he'hil ks ^ vonr son " a fortune
hunter
“He knows better- Lrhisevil but the tfees worst of
it is, that, but pm my *
son wouid be as rich as himself ”
“Ha!” said the duke, growing more
attentive. “I et me know how that is
if you have no ob ection.”
“You must know then, fair sir, that
M. Gaspar and my husband were part-
ners up to the time when my husband
died. They were engaged in a pros-
perous trade, and were both thought to
be rich—equally so, for both expanded began with
the same capital, knd he as
much for living as we. But when my
poor husband died suddenly, and left M
found Gaspar to settle up his affairs, it was
that only one-tenth of the whole
establishment belonged to h:m, ’ while M
Gaspar claimed the rest. ’
‘‘And did he give no explanation of
this great difference.”
“None.”
And “Humph! this must he looked into.
now he declines your son’s suit?”
“Yes.”
“On the score of his poverty?”
“That is what he says.”
“And is the daughter really worthy of
i his love?”
“Richly, sir.”
“Then she cannot take after her
father ”
“She is in all respects like her mother,
who was a lovely woman, but M. Gasper
treated her harshly, so it is said, and she
died, at length, of neglect.”
“Do you know whether M. Gaspar has
hisdaughter?” any particular alliance in prospect ‘ for
c o no now, but I hear ne has
sworn-m fact he told my son so the
otherday—that he meant to secure one
° yo un ? l0rd? of the court for her. ’
“Ha! . he is ambitious ; and yet there is
n.ore than one that would prove lut un-
worthy of her,if she is really as beautiful
and attractive as you sayF’
Louut it uot, s ;r; she is aa that I have
told / oa '
“And your s 0 u-where . is . , he? , T I should T ,,
like to see him, and if I take a fancy to
him who knows but I may advance his
8ul 4 “He t T l . . the road,
is even now coming up
He wd be here in a moment.”
The Duke kept his eye fixed upon the
door through which there presently
entered a young man of fine form and
handsome features, but the last were
overcist by a gloomy expression. He
entered the room with a downcast air,
and did not even glance at the strang -r,
but threw himse.f wearily upon a settle
in one corner, and buried his face in bis
Henry, „ sa:d ., , his . mother, ,, “do ,, you
not see our guest?
He lookea up snghtly, and nodded,
saying:
“He would find me but poor company,
mother. 1 had !>e-t ,eave him to you. ”
“But be is interested in you, an Qj
thinks he m ght he p \o i in your suit. 2
“Have you told him the story?”
“Tcs.
“Then he will that it . is hopeless,
see
unless he shows me how I can multiply
our present wealth by tea. ’
“Perhaps M. Gaspar can be brought
to terms otherwise,” suggested the Duke,
composedly. “There hope of that,” said
is no
Henry.
“Possioly I may bring some argument
to bear upon him that you know not of.”
“You do not know h m as 1 do. He
is ahaid man aud cares only for money,
He has (heated me out of my right, and;
fcecause I am poor, he wouid reject my
suit.”
“Yes; I understand all that, but still,
I am not d scouraged. I have thought
of a plan which I could wish to discuss
with you in private. My good lady,”
he continued, turning to the mother,
“couid you furnish me with a private
apartment for aa interview with your
son? It may be that we can devise a
plan.” “Willingly, and heaven bless
may your
good wishes even if you do not succeed.”
Ushered into a private room, the Duke
changed his manner, and said, in a dig¬
nified tone:
“My good friend, it is well that we
should, at the outset, understand each
other. Would you know who I am.”
“A merchant, I judge, from vour
attire.”
“Itsuits me to be considered such, but
I am not what I seem.”
“Who, then?” inquired the youth, in
wonderment.
‘I am your sovereign,” said the Duke,
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in a dignified tone.
“What! Philip of Burgundy?” ex-
claimed Henry, dropping upon one
*
k neet
“Even so; but arise, I call for no
homage, while in disguise, and you must
still address me as if I were a merchant,
Tell me, do you now consider your case
as so do hopeless!”
“I not doubt your power, my Lord
Duke.”
“Spare titles. Call me only sir. With-
out deta ling my plan, I will merely say
that it will require you to go back with
me to court, and as soon as the storm is
over, we will start. You can render
some excuse to your mother, but take
care not to tell her the truth.”
“You shall be obeyed’’said the youth,
bowing.
* * * * *
, The merchant, Gaspar, _ seated . , .
was in
,. "wehouse, h.s mind intent
promised upon a
conteta b plated venture which
to e lucrative, when his attention was
attracted by the entrance of a page,
nchl Y dressed in court livery, who ad-
? anced toward him, and said, inquir-
:
“I* this M. Caspar?”
It is, replied the merchant.
“ThenI have a missive for you,” said
tbe , P a g e -
“Prom whom do you come?”
“From the court.”
“And your missive?” said the mer-
chant, surprised.
“I s from the Duke.”
Herewith, he presented a missive, di-
recting the merchant to accompany the
messenger, as the Duke desired an inter-
view with him. Gaspar was surprised
and perplexed, hardly knowing whether
to leel gratified or apprehensive at the
sudden summons.
“K now you why I am summoned?” he
asked of the page.
“My master is not in the habit of
the communicating brief to me his secrets,” was
and unsatisfactory reply.
At length they reached the audience
chamber of the Duke, and the merchant
was aunonnead. t liilip was seated upon
a throne at one end of the apartment,
Gaspar bent his knee.
“I suppose you are surprised at my
summons,” said Philip, abruptly.
the Gaspar acknowledged that such was
case.
lain told that you have a beautiful
daughter,” sad the Duke, after a brief
pause.
“I am willing to leave you to decide
upon that point,” said the pioud and
ambitious father, in whose breast a wild
hope arose that the Duke nYglit seek her
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“I . to trust to testimony,”
am willing
responded Philip. “I have to tell you,
then, Gaspar, that a young man, in whom
I am interested, has conceived a passion
fo F J ' 0 ur ^tighter, and would fain re-
ceive , her hand in marriage.”
“A court gallant,” thought Gaspar.
rrs roudi y. “It is the very thing I have
e een longing for.”
“Have you any objection . to the alii-
ancei ” queued the Duke, “or are her af-
fec t ’ ons engaged?”
i ..ay, my ! ouE ’
^ ut m ethink8 I have ,:eard of an at-
^ , aotimea t between herself and a certain
man ;
, quite broken up,’ said Gaspar,
is
, “He unworthy of her. ”
was
“Them you have nothing to object to
thy . alliance 1
“May I inquire who is the young gen-
F-ernan?”
“Is it not enough,” said the Duke,
haughtily, “that it is one in whom I
take an interest.”
“Yes; certainly,” responded Caspar,
hastily, fearing to offend the Duke.
“How much aie you willing to give
your Philip. daughter as a dowry?” asked
‘C ne half of all that I possess,” said
Gasper, who, though covetous, was
ambitious for h s daughter.
“It is enough. 1 wish the marriage = to
take place to morrow. ”
“To-morrow! Eo soon’” repeated
Gasper. “I fear me-you know young
girls are full of whms- that my
; ter may ob ect She may fancy that she
loves tho other young man.”
“*end her immediately to the palace,
and the lad es, of the court shall so pre-
sent unto her the advantages of this
union, that I warrant me a 1 her scruples
I will vanish as the morning dew.”
“ Ifc ^ be done” said Gasper, how-
in g-
“And mind yon breathe . , no word to
her of the purpose for whi h she is called
: to court.
“I will obey your Lordsh p in . all re-
spects,” sa d Gasper, glad :o have the
| task would of be persuasion, troublesome, which taken he foresaw off his
bands.
D 0 ’ th " n ’ f You are h.ddon. Fend
your daughter , to me forthwith, and be
in attendance yourself to-morrow at
twelve to witness the marriage. ’
Gasper bowed profoundly and hastened
; borne, his heart swel ing with exnlta-
| Don, at what he considered the prospec-
tivc greatness of h:s family.
“V or who knows,” he thought, “but
that the Duke will ennoble me, when my
daughter is wedded to a noble of the
court” and he privately decided o urge
upon his daughter, at a proper season, to
use what influence she might be able to
bear upon Philip for the attainment of
this highly desirable result.
* ' *
“.My presence required at court!” ex-
claimed the be .utifui Constance, as her
| father communicated the Duke’s mes-
i sage.
' “Yes, daughter.”
my
“And wherefore?”
“That 1 know not; but a3 Philip is
fond of beauty, he has, perhaps, re -
solved to make you a lady of the court.”
“I know not whether that be de-
sirable.” said Constance, the thoughtfully;
“but I will at least obey summons.”
“ ; ood.” thought the father, well sat-
isned. “I would give something to
know whether the Duke will be success-
; ful in accompliihing what I have not
been able to do—reconcile her to giving
up Henrv Du i ont.”
The next day, mindful of his engage-
1 ment, Gaspar took his way to the palace
j to his wish daughter’s wed’ing. who is
“I ! knew to be the bride-
groom,” he said to himself. “It may bs
De C’ourcy, or again, young Beaumont.”
Entering the palace, he was again ush-
ered into the long audience room. A
; curtain concealed from view the lower
end. There were present bes:de him-
seif, many noble lords and ladies at-
taehed to the court, and his heart
swelled when he considered that all this
pageant was assembled for his daughter’s
bridal.
As the clock sounded, the curtain
rose, and displayed upon a raised dais
the bridal party. Gaspar glanced anx¬
iously at the bridegroom. What was hn
dismay when he re ognized Henry Du¬
mont, richly dressed. The ceremony
commenced, but such was Caspar’s be-
j wilderment, that he did not think tc
i interfere, and the twain were declared
husband and wife,
i “Let the bride s father come forward,’’
proclaimed the herald.
| table, Gaspar whereon advanced he found mechanica’ly awaiting to hi.« o
signature, an instrument conveying one
half his goods to Henry Dumont,
“I will not sign it,” he said, hastily.
“Would you rather have it wrested
“ om }'°u:”
j “But is that justice!” said Gasper,
! sulkily.
“It is just that he who defrauds
should make restitution, ’ was the stern
re Pb r - the
Gaspar seized pen and affixed his
signature. The consciousness of guill
made him a coward.
and Kee( ^is ? ^ bc krxde said that lived Henry happily Dumonl and
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prosperously, under the favor and pro-
tection of the Duke Philip, and the
former received, in course of time, a de-
S rce of nobility in return for the faith-
ful services. Lightly did he attribute
a11 bis prosperity to the lucky chanct
which led to his meeting a Duke in Dig
guise. — Yankee Blade.
A Corn l’alace For Paris.
Iheplanfora corn exhibit at the
Paris Exposition is receiving a good
deal of attention on the Produce Ex-
change, where designs for the “corn
paiace” to be shown at the Exposi ion
have been displayed for some days. The
supervision of the exhibit will be under
I the control of the agricultural depart-
meat ol the American Commission, ah
though it is expected to raise the $- 0,-
000 estimated to be needed to meet the
expenses by subscriptions. The exhibit
will include a pavilion,the roof,columns,
and chimney of which will be built of
the corn fodder, aud the interior and
exterior will be covered with the corn
stalk and ear. A good deal of mosaic
work w.th corn grams of varied colors
and a number of figures and emblems,
ad of corn, will be shown,
From an American k tchen, equipped
with American ranges, cooks w 11 dis-
tribute free of charge all the known
preparations of corn as an article of food
m the A. shape of bread, samp, puddings,
etc short * competent man will deliver
lectures every hour on the u«es oi
p orn > the way of preparing and cooking
h, and its geneial health!ulnoss at an
article of diet. Pamphlets netting forth
the same lacts in English, French and
j German For the will exhibit, also be its distributed. promoters that
say
the use of corn as food is hardly appre-
dated at all in Europe, and that if the
; stood,-exports possibilities of the grain were under¬
of it from this country
would quickly be increased manyfold,
To introduce corn to the people of Eu-
ro P e I s tbe great object of the exhibitors,
who say that Germany last year bought
us-ouly 2,638,167 bushels of grain and
4 *)3 barrels of cornmeal, while France
t0 ? k »"* h"S.7t» 80 h “ r '
| yels of meal. East year the total export
j ls P u fc onl y L<0 per cent, oi the pro-
duction . in this country,
A iate letter from the Department ol
Agriculture says: “There is not a rail-
rou( i juuning through the great corn
belt of the United States, not a Producd
Exchange at one principal corn and ex¬
port centre that is not especially and di-
rectly interested ns a beneficiary in thu
WOI ' k - If earned out as you propose it
will enhance the value of every acre ol
,r |i ^ti, ‘ ! C ( , f XA ^“ \ s P aco W: ;f1 1 ei .
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7 ’ a t ’° 113 jCU ‘ 1 Eecuref .
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, Prussian Economy
j I he traditions ,... of f the ,, Prussian „ court, j
! a | an d clvl1 scrvlce > favor ari :
able and , even severe parsimony. Ac
| ! ?' C ™ “‘ aa lnd f'™ ^ \cn generation when he had who d late ed
A p f 0
Le,.rt to ( speim it, He coa.U not, he
6a ‘ J ’ § et lbe c hlU °! ear y P ovsrt y out
oi h s 'ones. , russia is the same sue
never forgets her poverty of origin; she
cu.m, into the cate o. imperial unance
the Brandenburg traditions of economy.
bhe .s even proud of them. A touching
story in illustration is told oi tne Em-
peror \V llliam I. After pay ng a visit tc
l ^ C bo ” se °/. one of biS generals he com-
f, la r f d 011 b;s return i to his aide decamp
th at . bi^stcdy was diml - v . , i] f ht . e . d co ™' I
fctU^ed ‘^^^1 “ThT“' Sid S the ^ aidc'de-
! g betS “'S’ene ilglff bSrn?lS JhaiTthe LraUil^^hieh v ccffza^d m ives
a ^
your Va c the'l- y » .. X) - C11 U c e the other
’ » gaid mneror But a f ter a few
d y » tna , t he new lamps L went wron«
| ? ! \heSe-dJ nirr p t aad the Sm was ?ot {, od und‘i w
r t Se amn Lnhdfntial d valet of
the Emperor explained that it was all
his Majesty’s fault; whenever he left hi*
stn dy he turned the lamp low. The
aide de- amp £ ventured to point ‘Ve this out
j to the Kais .q have d it all my
ii;> \ »> wa , his rpnlv pc^,’ “When mother after ipn-i
w e e re very my never
i eft the room without doing it herself or
asking us to do it for her. I now do it
iu mC mory of her and of tho^e hard
time9 .» “Yes, vour Majesty,” was the
l { “it may / be done with colza oil, ’
bu t it makes nineral oi , smelL » .. The
burn colza oil again, 6 for I will not give
* the practi e 0 f my ^ life.” This is the
irit that 8tiU anim e s tne Hohenzol-
lerns and all their subordinates .-London
Telegraph J 1
A Sheriff’s First “Hanging-”
The feelings of a Sheriff when he has
his firat ba ? j bricks, to peform are varied
! Ex sheriff of Camden, N.
.
j | j -I in relating onfy his Sheriff experience, said:
was two weeks when
I bad my first hanging. Of-course, I
knew I had to perform mv duty, and it
i was constantly before me.’ The day the
hanging took place I remember very
well. In the court-yard of the jail there
were a great many well known men, and
i as I glanced to heart the condemned failed man on
j the sea'old my me. Lifting
my eyes to the window of my house I
saw my wife standing there: she was as
j ; pale as a ghost. By this time everything
j was in readiness, the cap had been puliei
over the condemned man’s head, and all
j j that was that to be would done was the the severing of
the rope cast man into
eternity. I picked I up the hatchet, and
then I felt as never feit before; great
beads of though perspiration it rolled from my
fotehead; was a cold day I
took off my hat, swung the -hatchet,
heard a scream, and knew no more until
I found some friend administering
whisky to me. My friends afterward
took me to a big supper, and this, o’lf'my per-
haps, helped to throw the scene
mind.”
Mrs. Freder cks said: “When I saw
my husband lift the hatchet I screamed
and then fainted. My husband after
this had several hemorrhages. I never
witnessed another ‘execution of a mur-
derer.’ ”—Brooklyn Standard Union ,
My Sweetheart*
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Oh, my sweetheart!
Not coy is she.
Each morning with
She gets in bed me.
She makes a little dash, dead,
And though I sleep as sleep the
Sue wakes me as she pounds my head
And pulls at my mustache,
And gives me many a shake.
“You dear o d uncle, wake!”
Then I move slightly, with a great pretense
Of drowsiness and dulljindi (Terence,
And then she gives another shake—
“You dear old uncle, wake!”
iind then 1 make* a sudden, mighty down beside start,
And laugh and draw her my
heart
(.Gulp down the thought that comes that Ira
alone —
Try to forget that one life's had it’s wreck).
And feel a soft cheek laid against my own.
And small, warm arms wound tightly round
my ne~.., ck
And it’s ‘‘Oh! and Oh!
1 love you so!”
And then I cuddle her and say how sweet
She is, and that I’ve half a mind to eat
Her bodily,and still it’s “Oh, and Oh!
I love you so!”
And thus we make great love,
Oh, my sweetheart!”
—Chicago Mail.
On St. Valentine’s Day.
k!
I 111’ lent
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m if
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Ah me!
Oh, But life life is is long; and Love is sw-eefc!
short when love we greet,
For life is then the most complete.
Ah me!
when Heigh ho! lad
’Tis a lassie loves a
That she must smile, tho’ she be sad:
For should she tell it—that were bad,
Heigh ho!
All me!
I.eve, were I bird or flower < r vine,
For you I’d sing or blossom fine;
Then—yo But—ah i would know your Valentine,
me!
— Demorost's Magazine.
A Curious Fish from China.
In the window of Mei Dee Wall’s store,
f n the lower Bowery, there is a curious
object that appears to be half
man and half fish. It is really a fish.
It lies on a wooden s f and and is about
ten inches long. It is of a dark, muddy 0
color Afc f , rsfc thc gi£? i lt j g startling .
Ti.o object lies on its stomach, with it.
] iea d sticking up. The body is that of
ft tish> bnt ri l,s are plainly discernible.
Down near its t-.il are the fins, which
somewhat resemble.those of a shark,
The arcus reach out seemingly h/nds, from
th6 longj Blim neck> Rnd tho or
rather claws, ore long and ferocious
lookinp T lie head at the fish could
easily be mistaken for that of a man or
a monkey. A pair of sunken oyes ara
shadowed by heavy white eyebrows, and
tho mouth is open far enough to exhibit
ft row of s i iarp teeth.
Wong He Choug, ona of the partners
of phe firm, sai.l that the fish was caught
in a stream in China and was dried and
B '* nt to °° unkr ?* -S hey neverthdea^ aro T ry
S ° JIinf? ^nt l0r w b arc ° eacb curiosities —* ev> 3 ork WorkL
XoTid$
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WILL SELL YOU PATTERNS TO
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In any Size wanted, from Two Inches up to Sixty four.
Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining,
Sign and House Painting, Varnishing, at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
He gives Agents an article with which they can make more money than they
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day. This is no Northern humbug. Inclose a two-cent stamp for postage,
you will receive by return mail free samples and full particulars oi the business.
I a'so furnish Gold and Gilded letters. Emblems and Graining Ccmbs,
Mortars and Pestles for Druggists. I furnish Wire Banner Signs, and make a
specialty of Post Boards for the country. Address
JOHN E. REDMOND,
PICKENS, S. O.
MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned, is Prepared to Furnish MAUBLE,
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Morphine and Its Victims,
In the case of the latest victim of the
opium habit whose martial inconsisten¬
cies have reaoned the courts, the key to
the unhappy made situation is found in 'the
statement “She by friends of the de¬
fendant : was a great sufferer
from neuralgia, and was dosed with mor¬
phine to relieve her of the excruciating
pain.” Who dosed her? Nine persons
out of ten wili answer “ Doctors.”
While it would be scarcely just to lay
the blame for the downfall of a beauti¬
ful woman at the doors of the medical
profession, majority it cannot be denied that the
of women trace their first in¬
fatuation for the insidious drug to the
prescription them which alleviate dear Doctor So-and-
so gave to pain. Doctors
do not err in prescribing a valuable rem¬
edy when it is necessary to do so; but
they err greviously when they do not
solemnly warn weak or self indulgent
women against the dangers which sur-
round its constant use. Druggists in¬
form us that the extent to which mor-
pliine is used by women in the well-to-
do ranks of life is perfectly appalling.
Such being the case, and the evil hav¬
ing been primarily brought home to the
medical profession, it is clearly the duty
of that profession to do its utmost, by
means of lectures, publications, and
private counsel, to point out the destruc¬
tion of soul and body which must inevit¬
ably follow a constant indulgence in the
opium habit. — Drake's Magazine.
lx TTicliigan last year ii east twenty-six
cents to produce and market a bushel of oata
and nineteen ceuts to produce and market a
busiiel of corn.
ROBUK'B HJUSE,
| TOCCOA CUT, GA. 9
i MRS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mrs. Roberts als has eh rge of tin
Railroad Eating II iso at Bowersville,
Ga. Good acc'Unm *aiious, good board,
at usual rates in firs’ class houses.
LEWIS DAVIS,
.4TTOPNEY AT LAW.
TCCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the X< rthwestern
Circuit, and Fraukl u and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spec¬
ial attention.
I REAL STATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In the Piedmont R .r ; on, Georgia. Also
Op-nge Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
Farms for sale in Florida. Address
J. W. ffccLAURY,
j TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don’t Fail to Call On
W. A. MTHESON,
Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS ROODS I
NOTIONS, HATS, ITS.
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬
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Locks, Bolts, Doors and Sash.
—EVERYTHING IN THE—
HARDWARE LINE,
COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE,
AND WOODWARE t
--ALSO -
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA. CA.
Grmtcidfemts
Of All Kinds and Styles from the
plainest and lowest prices, up to tko
moat elaborate and costly. All work
delivered, set up and satisfaction guar¬
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samples and learn prices Lefore pur-
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E. F. COOK,
TOCCOA, CA.