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^lias Special -li aTHESON,
Lir.os Bargains in Various
of Goods.
FINE BRESS GOODS,
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC.
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers' Tools, Wagon an 1 Buggy Ma
lerialj Locks, Blacksmith's Tools, Hinges,
Bolts, Djorsaml Bash.
—KVEHYTUINO IN THE—
hardware line,
COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE
AND WOOD WARE
ALSO
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA. CA.
BLAGKSMITftiNG,
Manufacturing HORSE-SHOEING,
and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
—AND
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
JARRETT & SON,
TOCCOA. GEORGIA.
m #mn HralM JR Ool.l Watch
Holt! for IOO. until lately
i Beet $89 walrO In the world
I perfect timekeeper. War
ranted. TIeevy Solid Gold
Hunting and gents' Cates. sizes, Both with ladies'
works
and esses of equal value.
One Person in each lo-
r caltiy r ran free,
together x ritli of our II Iotneliold large and val-
uabta Hn inc
9^} 5jgi|S ....... w woll tho These watch, samples, sve send as
as
J3 jpVce* and after you have those kept
In roar home for months arid shown them to
vrho may 1 littv* called, they become your own property. Those
»lio writ e at once can b« euro of receivin’’ the Watch
i»ml S pic**. We pay «H express, freight, etc. Address
K| IIlHOIt Co., Box Nl^roi tlaxU.MaiBC.
NEW FIRM.
M C ALL1STER & SIMMONS
Have Just Opened Up With LARGE STOCKS Of
MEAVY GBOCEBIE
Bought for Cash by tlie
CAB LOAD,
CONSISTING OF
MEAT, CORN, FLOUR, BRAN AND HAY,
*
Also, Large Stocks of
STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHIN G, Etc
We Carry a Full Lino Of
Stoves, Hardware, Furniture, Mattresses. Bed-springs
We Have Just Received
014-HiGKoM and White HICKORY.
WAGONS O
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CAR LOAD LOTS
m * mn »tii if§8i. twins
Our New Stock in this Line is Complete, Embracing all the Latest
Styles. We invite our Friends and Customers to call and ’Examine
our Stock before Purchasing elsewhere.
! FOH Having bought all CASH the above Goods
Wo are able to afford superior inducements to our Customers.
MCALLISTER & SIMMONS,
*LAVONIA, TOCCOA,
GA. GA.
1
E. P. SIMPSON
TOCCOA. CEORCIA-
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
FEEBLBee Engines*
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
G RISER SEPARATORS
Farmurs and others in want of either Engines or Separators, will
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 1 am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
■ OESTEY ORGANS.^
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Eva pointers. NYill have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines,
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be-
re you bill Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
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TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
ihe Underilgn d f» Prepared to Furnish MARBLE,
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LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT TjA W*
TCCC0A CITY, GA.,
Will practic ■ in t!ic counties of Haber-
•ham and Rabun **f the N' rthwcs’ern
Circuit, and Frankim and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be g V rn to ail business entrusted to him.
7 ial ” (: collection of debts will have spec¬
attention.
ASK FOR IT'.
THE SELF-THREADING
ELDREDGE
ii B j j
In it are com¬
bined the fin¬
est mechanic¬
al skill, the
most useful
and practical
elements, nnd
all known ad¬
vantages that
make a sew¬
ing machine
desirable to
sell or use.
ELDREDGE MFC. CO.
factory and Wholesale Office, Belvldere, Ilk
#7! Wabash Ave. t Chicaf/o,
30 Ii 'uad Street t New York*
Mites uraeiits
Of All Kinds nnd Styles from th« -
plsinest and lowest prices, up to the
m H elaborate and co^ly. Ad work
delivered, se: up and satisfaction guar
ar.tccd. C.dl at m >. yard, exnm'm
samples and icaru p. Ln 'ces 1 e r ore j.ur
chasing elsewhere. Address
L. I \ COOK,
TOCCOA, CA.
THE VOYAGE TO SLUMBER LAN El.
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She awa ^ on the sea of dreams,
This skipper with eyes of brown,
As th " fcrch iQ twilight gleams,
And 4 toe garnish sun goes down;
Her bark floats over the grimy town
To Slumberland and its silver sea;
The spotless folds of her slumber gown
Are no whit fairer than she.
There are angel birds in the warm, still air,
And the skipper laughs with her eyes of
brown,
As they sing to her old songs, sweet and rare,
While her liark billows up and down.
They sing of a prince of high renown.
And a princess ever so young and fair;
But where '^he princess liad ever a crown
Like the crown of her soft brown hair?
Comet h a storm over the silvery sea,
That ebbs on the dreamer’s land,
And the angel birds fade out to the lee
Of this singular slumber strand;
Is there a harbor by angels planned,
From all storms, whatever they be,
From the wicked faries of Slumberland
And the waves in its silvery sea?
Up, like a flash, comes the little brown head,
And the brown eyes only see
A billowy blanket of silk outspread
On an ocean of dimity;
But it’s fearlessly the skipper will flee,
With a soft little barefoot tread,
By the chart she learned on her bended knee,
To the haven of mother’s bed.
—J. P. Bocock,in Boston Globe.
MRS. GREY’S METHODS.
BY MRS. M. A. DENNISON.
You don't believe Mrs Grey is aChris-
tian. I am sorry to hear you speak in
that manner of so estimable a woman.”
decidedly, “Perhaps I should net have spoken so
but I think I have good
reasons for what I said.”
“But you certainly overlook tlie fact
of her usefulness in the church. Nobody
gives more liberally than she does. Only
last Sabbath, remember, slie subscribed
fifty dollars toward our minister’s salary
and in times of conference nobody en¬
tertains more liberally than she. I think
she’s a perfect prodigy of benevolence.”
“I dare say in such matters her lib¬
erality is unstinted; but, I was not think¬
ing of that. She is rich, I suppose—I
know she has kept that large store on
Marshall street for a great many years.
Suppose we call there—it is on our way. ”
The two friends, a Mrs. Abdy and Mrs.
Brown, walked on together until they
side came to an imposing store, where on oue
every conceivable kind of fancy
work was for sale, and on the other chil¬
dren’s garments, chiefly for boys—coats,
pants and caps—a large and costly va¬
riety. Mrs. Abdy and Mrs. Brown qui¬
etly stood on one side, for there were
several women at the latter counter—not
customers, it was evident, for they were
pale faced and shabbily dressed. A
showy looking girl with red ribbons in
her hair stood behind the counter, pick¬
ing out sorted bundles and passing them
over to these women.
“Mrs. Grey says you must take the
last batch home and make the button¬
holes over—she won’t have such work,”
said the girl approaching a tidy-looking
woman who turned a shade pale at the
asperity and supercilious manner of the
girl.
“I thought they w r ere done as good as
usual, said the woman with a tremulous
lip, “but perhaps not. Mary was very
sick, you see, and she always makes the
button-holes—she’s sick now. Wouldn’t
they possibly do?”
Mrs. Brow r n stepped forward and
caught a sight of the button-holes. They
were good, as neatly made as she would
have wished, w r ere the suit made for her
boy.
“No, they Avon’t do,” said the girl
sharply, pushing the articles toAvard her,
“You can leave them—but. you know 7
Mrs. Grey's rule—not one cent Unless the
Avhole is done to suit her,”
“And I only get fifteen cents for the
whole,” murmured the woman Avith a
despairing look.” the
“I’m sure button-holes are very
neatly done,’ said Mrs. BroAvn, hoping
that a word from her Avould have the
desired effect, “they would suit me, and
I am quite particular.”
“They wouldn’t suit a majority of Mrs.
Grey's customers,” said the girl with an
insolent side look at the impertinent
stranger as she considered her, “and this
woman is none too particular at anytime.
She often has to carry her Avork back,
and I’d adA'ise her to get a new pair of
spectacles if she can’t see better.”
“Dear Lord!” groaned the Avoman,
turning away, a heart-broken expression
darkening her pale, pinched features—
shrinking almost from sight in her morti¬
fication and despair; she Avho had sih’er
threads shining amidst the dark gleam of
her locks—she with all the rich exper¬
ience of maternity—with all the heavy
care of the world's neglect and poverty—
Avith all the scars of a hard, long fight
with temptation, privation, disease and
sorrow upon her, flippantly shamed by a
pert, mindless, brazen girl of seventeen,
Mrs. Brown’s check Avas scarlet—but the
poor woman had' croAvded out and others
had croAvded in.
A good-looking, coarse woman threw
down a bundle; it was examined and
passed. The girl took from a small box
one piece of money and handed it to her.
The woman stared at it, rubbed her eyes
—looked Avith a puzzled face at the girl,
and then exclaimed:
“Why don't you give me the rest of
the money?’’
“That’s all that's due,’’ said the girl,
“make room.”
“But I tell you there were five shirts
at twenty-five cents apiece.”
“And I tell you they A\ere only five
cents apiece,” Avas the frowning reply,
“pretty profit we should make to give
twenty-five cents for those little things.”
“You deceived me, then,” cried the
woman, her anger rising, “for I distinctly
asked you if they were twenty-five cents
apiece, aud you said yes. Why there are
four rows of stitching in the bosom.”
“Won’t you ple-ase to make room?’’
asked the girl, impatiently.
“Not till I tell you Avhat I think of
you, cried the woman, “for you are a liar
and a cheat. Thank God, I'm not de-
pendent upon your work for my living,
and I pity them that are, that’s all. You
may cheat the poor widow and the
orphan, but you Avon t cheat me again.”
The girl only curled her lips, for a
pale, pinched woman who had been
waiting some time now eagerly crowded
up to the counter.
“Oh, please put me in her place, I'll
be glad to work for anything if only I
can get it to do. She choked doAvn the
tears and absolutely trembled in her
eagerness (and her hunger I have no
doubt) from head to foot.
“Oh ves. you can have it—we can get
plenty to take them at that price and
thank us in the bargain,” said the girl,
heartlessly, pulling down another bundle.
Mrs. Abdy now inquired for Mrs. Grey,
and was ushered into the show-room,
where a portly woman stepped forward
much surprised and pleased—and learn¬
ing that they had come for a call she im¬
mediately ushered them by means of a
stairway into her private parlor, a splendid
room furnished with every luxui^ the
heart could desire.
“And how are you, Mrs. Abdy—and
you 3Irs. Brown? It’s'4 great while since
I have seen you in a church, isn’t it?”
“My children have all been ill,” re¬
plied Mrs. Brown, quietly.
“Oh! I thought something must be the
matter. If you are anything like me—I
never let trifles interfere with my church
duties. I believe I have been when oth¬
ers would have wrapped themselves in
flannels and gone to bed—I have that
much affection for the courts of the
Lord’s house. And what a heavenly ser¬
mon we had last Sabbath, Mrs. Abdv.
I have thought of it all the week. I do
think we ought to be thankful to the
Lord for sending us Brother Drewson.
His -words are indeed sharp as a two-
edged sword.”
During a confidential tete-a-tete, Mrs.
Brown managed to give a hint at what
she thought the wholesale impertinence
of the girl in the shop toward the work
people.
“Oh, Delia’s sharp,” said Mrs. Grey,
with a gratified little laugh, “that’s why
I keep her. Do you know I pay her ex¬
tra for that very quality? I assure you
it's the most terrible thing to deal with
these shop women. They shirk and sham,
and tell all manner of lies to get excused,
and do their work abominably at the best.
\ oit’ve no idea what a trying business it
is on that account. If it didn’t pay me
pretty well,” she added, complacently,
“I'd give it up to-morrow. But Delia,
dear me, she's a perfect treasure—knows
just how to deal with that sort of people.
Y"ou see there’s no getting along with
them I assure you, unless you’re right up
and down with them.”
Mrs. Brown’s heart ached as she
thought of the neat,grave-looking woman
with her quivering lip and silvery liair,
stabbed to the very quick by that coarse,
unfeeling creature behind the counter.
asked ‘ ‘Is this girl—a—professor of religion ?”
Mrs. Brown, with some hesitation.
“Why, no,” replied Mrs. Grey, turn¬
ing red; that’s all I have to try me. Delia
is honest and all that, but I don’t think
she has found a hope. She is with me
now, however, altogether, and I trust
that I may be the means of her salvation.
Do you believe Brother Drew wull get
well?” she queried, shrewdly changing
the subject.
“Now what do you think of Mrs.
Grey?” asked Mrs. Brown, as the two
friends gained the street..
1 ‘I’m afraid she is sacrificing he rreligion
on the shrine of Mammon,” was the re¬
ply. “I have always thought so very
highly of her, I can’t bear to change my
opinion. Still I have seen with my ow T n
eyes and heard with my ears what I would
not have believed as hearsay.”
“One of our church poor lives here,”
said Mrs. Brown, as they turned into a
lonesome street lined with poor houses
that were filled with poor tenants—“shall
we call upon her?” Mrs. Abdy signified
that it would be pleasing to her, and they
entered the creaking door of one of the
tallest houses, where, after toiling up
three pair of wretched stairs they came
to a room in which a thin, pallid Avoman
sat, making caps at the rate of sixpence.
She arose with r smile, extended her
thin hand, chocked dow*n a hard, dry
cough its she asked them to be seated,
and to excuse her as she must go on -with
her work, “for you see, I promised them
at five this afternoon, aud 1 work for
Mrs. Grey, of our church, She’s a good
woman, I’ve no doubt—only she don’t
knoAV by experience AVhat the poor have
to suffer, and that, perhapsj makes her
hard on us. But she pays me a little
more than she does the others.”
“That’s a sad case in the other room,”
she w 7 ent on, “a dreadful sad case. It’s a
Mrs. Acton, a widow woman, as good a
soul as ever I knew, and she’s a poor
consumptive girl to support, Maria sfie
works in spite of her weakness all
can; but this week she couldn’t seem to
get up strength. So Mrs. Acton she had
some nice work and had to make the
button-holes herself. She’s been longer
than usual about it too, and I daresay ac¬
tually wants the money to buy bread. I
Avent in to stay with Maria while she avrs
gone and the poor soul came back com¬
pletely crushed. She threw the Avork
down and burst into tears. Maria was
frightened, the and button-holes when her would mother all told
her that have
to bo picked out, it threw her into such
a fit of trembling and coughing that she
burst a blood vessel and now I suppose
the poor thing is barely alye. Mrs,
Grey’s a very hard woman sometimes, but
I don't know* as she w ould be if she knew
the circumstances—I hope not.”
Mrs. Abdy and Mrs. Brown exchanged
glances.
“If I was only able to do them button¬
holes,” said the poor spinster, hurrying
her own Avork, “but by the time I’ve
done with these, my eyes'll just be good
for nothing.”
“Suppose w r e call upon this poor wid¬
ow,” said Mrs. Brown, Aviping the tears
from her eyes.
“She’d take it kindly, I’m sure,” re-
plied the poor sister, into whose hand
Mrs. Abdy slipped something as they
parted, A\-ell rewarded by the quick look
of gratitude that flushed the woman’s
attenuated features.
Knocking at a crazy door, the two
were admitted into a darkened room,
destitute of carpet, almost of any kind of
furniture saA'e a large bedstead, on whose
thin mattress laid a form that seemed al¬
ready prepared for the grave.
“My poor child,” whispered the
grieved mother, as they went forward to
look at the sleeping girl, “the doctor
says she can’t last long.”
“I saw you in Mrs. Grey’s shop,” whis¬
pered Mrs. Bioavu. The woman started
—a red shame painted her cheeks for a
moment.
“O! did you, ma’am?” she cried, bit-
ing her lips; “did you hear how that
girl spoke to me? and I have been in bet-
ter circumstances. While my husband
lived I had plenty—while my bitter!” parents
lived I had everything. O! it is
she struggled against the tears, but they
would come; she hid her face in her
hands.
“Give me your work,” said Mrs.
Brown gently, as soon as she could speak.
“I will pay you now—take it home and
make the button-holes myself, and then
see Mrs. Grey about it. I am well
acquainted with her.and when she under¬
stands the ease I think it will be less
hard for you. Here is my card—send
somebody to my house to-night—I have
some little delicacies which !
sick.”
“God lfless you, madam—God bless—
you—and I know He will,” cried the
grateful woman. “I said a dreadful
things in my heart when I left Mrs.
Grey's, but indeed I don't want to feel so
even toward my oppressors. I trust He
will forgive me and own her eves and
touch * j
her worldlv heart ” 1
Mrs. Brown called upon Mrs. Grcv
c ruing rr fn 1M promise. . Am ; CQ cVx he » listened i
, .
coldly, and promised coldlv to do what j
she ^ could_but oh' n .as is the t lit nnor poor widow widow
.
. . .
had said—in spite of her profession — her
cnanues—ner charities_her guts oifts to to those those who who needed needed *
n °t—oh. that worldly heart.. how it stood J
in the way of many a poor soul's wel-
fare!
Strangely indeed upon the ears of such
must fall the words of our Lord: “Pure
religion and undefiled before God and
the Father, is to visit the orphan and the
widow in their affliction and to keep him¬
self unspotted from the world .’’—Yimka
Blade.
A Monarch of the Air.
The king bird is a monarch of the air.
Small of form and swift of flight, he
ruffles up his feathers and attacks the
mighty hawk with as little fear as he
would a harmless robin. He sounds his
warning rattle as he swoops toward some
feathered rival, and twists and turns,
driving his strong bill into some vulnera¬
ble part, and keeping up the warfare
until he tires of it. Near Spruce cabin
a big speckled hen is busy with a chirp¬
ing brood of little chickens. The mother
has a vagrant spirit, and persists in roam¬
ing out of the barnyard and wandering
in the outlaying fields with her fluttering
family. A few days ago a hawk came
down from the peak of Goose Pond Moun¬
tain, and swooping upon one of the little
chicks rose into the air with it, leaving
the old hen in a state of squawking ter-
ror . The hawk, to show its fearlessness,
flew with great deliberation toward a big
oak, with the evident intention of de¬
vouring its prey upon the stalwart
branches. A dark speck came out of the
tree, and with many a dart and curve
rose high in the air.
The hawk recognized it as the king
bird, about the only bird that is capable
of filling him with fear, and making him
swerve from his course and halt in his
masterful flight. He showed his fear by
increasing his speed and turning about
as though to retreat. The king bird
pursued his upward flight until he could
look down upon the broad back of the
hawk, and then, like an arrow from its
bow, he shot down and lit upon it—a
fluttering bit of concentrated rage. The
hawk darted, poised and swooped, but
that mite upon him clung, jabbing its
bill again and again into the tender flesh
near its wings. The pain was too great
to bear, and so he folded his powerful
wings and dropped like a shot toward the
earth. But the king bird was not yet
weary, and he swiftly followed, fighting
all the time like a demon. The old lien
had been an interested spectator of the
fight, and when she saw the hawk de¬
scend she spread out her wings and flew
heavily toward him to tight him away
from her young. But the hawk was too
wary to permit her to reach him, ami be¬
fore he had dropped within the range of
her power of flight lie spread out his
wings again and shot upward.
The chicken which he still held in his
claws, small as it was, hampered him a
trifle, and he dropped it when near the
earth and devoted all his attention to
ridding himself of the little tormentor
that was still fighting him with claws
and beak. He sped away to his moun¬
tain home, and was nearly there before
the king bird ceased his attack. The old
hen ran with many an encouraging cackle
to its injured little one that was lying, a
downy ball, upon the spot where the
hawk had-dropped it. It was still alive,
but it died the next day from the wounds
in its back made by the hawk’s claws.'—
Neib York Sun.
Stories of the Shall.
The Shah of Persia, when he visited.
Europe in 1873, tvas said to be forty-five
years of age, whence the humblest stu¬
dent of Cocker will conclude that he is
now sixty-one. When he was only forty-
five he was slim, had bright eyes,and was
a good rider. He has notv taken to spec¬
tacles, and is said to be comparatively
obese, though, according to the latest re¬
ports from Berlin, he preserves “most of
the characteristics of youth.” A roman¬
tic story used to be told in reference to
his first marriage, which recalled the in¬
cidents of King Cophetua and the beggar
girl. bright He was riding in the country when
his eyes were attracted by the
smiling beauty of she a peasant girl, laboring, and
as labored in the corn field.
Her he made his wife, or, at least, one of
them; and he regarded her until her pre¬
mature death with exceptional affection.
A grandfather of Nasr-EddDin,when heir
apparent to a throne he never lived to as¬
cend, had British officers of rank attached
to his army in war time, and his father
was placed on the throne by similar
agency; His great grandfather Fath Ali
Shah was, during a reign of thirty-nine
years, constantly in personal communica¬
tion with Europeans, and especially with
Englishmen. Nasr-Ed-Din may be sup¬
posed, therefore, to have inherited to¬
ward us a friendly disposition; and when
once it is understood that he is to keep
elear of Herat and not in any other direc¬
tion to yield too much to Russia, there is
no reason why the best understanding
should not exist between this country and
Persia .—London Life.
Merchant Princes Who Eat Candy.
“You would be surprised,” said the
man behind the counter of a Chestnut
street confectionery store, “at the num¬
ber of wealthy men who buy candies of
various kinds to nibble during office
hours. One banker, who is worth al¬
most a million, buys five cents’ worth of
peppermint almost every morning. That
is his usual limit. A prominent editor
invests the same in cocoanut candy and
eats it with as much relish as any school
girl. There is a drygoods merchant near
Eighth and Chestnut streets who invests
the enormous sum of one cent in a plain
mint stick, wrapping it up carefully in a
piece of paper and carrying it carefully
in his vest poeket .—Philadelphia In¬
quirer.
A Juvenile Locomotive Bnilder.
A sixteen-year-old boy named Walter
A. Stanley, who belongs to East Lexing
ton, Mass., has constructed a miniature
locomotive, complete in every detail,
which is run by steam over a small track
about twelve feet long. The dimensions
of the locomotive are: Length, 33 inches;
height, 5 3-4 inches: drivers, 3 inchest
cylinders, 1 l-8th inches; weight, 16
pounds. It is said the boy const rncted
the engine without any assistance.
Antiquity of th« Glove,
No article of attire has more of inter-
est in its associations and history than
gloves; for whilo the interest attaching
to most other'garments has been mainly
that tached of utility, varied to and gloves wide has spread been at-
a sym-
k 0 ^ 8 ” 1 , giving them an exalted place
linking them with many curious
observances, regal, ecclesiastical, miti-
tarY and social,
^he f glove lias been the emblem of
rM I X> ,„ XV er pr au n , ‘ °S r « P™ lir nt ;* y, v of nf Nation defiance and ,
subjection. , . ,. Lands and personal prop-
ertv were once conveyed J bv the delivery y
of f glove; „i the authority of . -
provinces a „ . „ attested by kings over
glove; kings was invested presenting a
barons with do-
minion the by bestowing gloves; on the favorite one
of kinglv and many eoclesi-
asticnl and legal ceremonies could only
ne performed with white gloves, the
emblems antiquity of pnritv. of gloves is
The very great;
they doubtless antedate history, for the
earliest literature alludes to them, and
they have boon known and worn from
the earliest ages of which we have any
kpcmMge. Homer, intl.e "Mm 1 '
describes Laertes, the farmer-king, the
lather of I’lys cs, in liis retirement:
•jWhiie gloves secured his hands to
shield them irom tile thorns. Xeno-
plum jeers at the Persians for wearing
gloves as a protection have from tlie cold;
not only did they umbrellas being borne
over them in surnmer, not content
with the shade of tho trees and rocks,
blit in the winter it is not sufficient for
tliem to clothe tlieir heads, and their
bodies, and their feet, but they have
coverings made of hair for their hands
and their lingers. In their earlier days
the Greeks and the Homans scorned
such effeminacy, but at a later day, in
the time of Pliny, described the uncle of that
lively historian is as traveling
with an amanuensis “ who wore gloves
upon his hands in winter lest the sever¬
ity of the weather should make him lose
any time ” in writing.
from time immemorial the glove has
had a legal significance in oriental
countries in tho transfer of property,
just used as the “bind “God’s-penny” bargain” in was the formerly
to a west. A
disputed passage in the Old Testament
—Until iv. 7 and 8—reads: “Now this
was the manner in former time in Israel,
concerning redeeming and concerning
changing, pluckod for off to lfs confirm and all things; a
man s/we, give to his
neighbor; Israel.” nnd this was a testimony agreed in
It is now commonly by
scholars that tho word dme should be
rendered glove, for in the Chaldaic para-
phrase the word is rendered “tlie ease or
fc./Vering of tho right hand;” ami ae-
eepting this view, it appears that among
the Israelites tho passing 1 of a glove was
the method ,, i of . transferring , , • property
Later the glove, as a pledge or emblem
of conveyance, came into use among tlie
Romans, whose ancient law held prop-
erty to have passed with its literal
transfer, or of part of it, into the hand
of the purchaser; and the glove, doubt¬
less ns a matter of convenience, took the
p’aco of and symbolized this actual
transfer.—[ The Haberdasher.
Stupidly Conservative Venezueliana.
Tlie native farmers of Venezuela plow
with a crooked stick with one handle,
just as the Egyptians nothing did in the days of
Mosos, and can induce them to
adopt the modern two-handled steel af¬
fair. They simply can’t do it, and they
won’t. General Guzman-Bianco, who
tion was always labor-saving favorable to the introduc¬
of machinery and
methods, at one time attempted to en¬
but force lie the use compelled of improved implements,
bad was to give it up as a
job. Tlie productiveness of the re¬
public might be enormously increased,
as Guzman realized, by enabling one
man to do the work of two, or six, or
ten, for the great drawback is scarcity
of labor; but the peons are stubborn,
more stubborn than stupid, and will in-
Bist fathers upon did, (l'Ung everything grandfathers just OS their
and tlieir great
for that matter. It is the same spirit,
the same insistence to innovations, that
causes them to backs ship their coffee instead and
sugar upon the of donkeys
of the railroad; that requires the pay-
tnent for produce in coin iust ad of
checks, and causes that coin to be hid¬
den away under an old stump or a
crack in the roof instead of being de¬
posited in a bank to draw interest and
increase the circulating medium.
Tlie workingmen, the mechanics,
know nothing of labor-saving machin¬
ery. All the timber and woodwork for
house-building is dressed by hand,
iliero 18 not such a tiling as a planing-
mill or a sash factory in the whole conn-
try, and all the furniture and
work is made the same way. You will
always * find locks placed upon the door-
CftSUlgS . ancl i tlie 11 BOCiiCt 1 i. for a* a tlie i 1 OOlt m.
screwed upon the door, and tlio locks
are invariably upside down. \V lien
call attention to it you are told that it
18 . tlie custom , Of * ii the country. i iv, When a
house is being erected, whether it is
one story or two, the solid walls are
first 1 aised to their full height, and
then holes are chiseled out to admit the
ends of the rafters and Embers for tlie
floors. It never occurs to tlie builder
that an easier way would be to set tlie
timbers in the walls as lie lays the
bricks.—[Chicago News,
A Pot Illusion Dispelled.
One often reads pathetic stories of pet
ids that die simultaneously with, or
shortly after, tlieir child owners.
sounds pretty, but the simple prose of
the matter often is that the owners in-
fected the birds. Canaries and other
songsters will catch scarlet fever, m* a-
sles, dipththeria, or almost any other
human disease, and if left in the sick¬
room they are almost sure to be infected.
Pet cats and email dog*, too, are often
sacrificed in the same way, and in the'r
case there is also the risk that they will
go out and disseminating become the unwitting disease. instru¬
ments of
An authentic silver dollar, of the Con¬
federate States, in valued by coin col¬
lectors at f 1,000. Only a few were
coined before the Confederate mint ran
out of silver.
*1* * 1 * * 1 ** 1* ri - * ri* ri - * ri* ’b ’b BfiA £ *i* *{• *!* 'i 1 m.Vn •i* ’I* «rt.f> *£* * 1 * *i < ,- i* "t* *£•
The man who has invested lrom three We oSer the want' wirrlc*
to five dollars in a Rubber Coat, and *1 (not style) a garment that will keep
•t his first half hour's experience m B m x mm& MUM him drv in the hardest storm. It is
* storm finds to his sorrow that it is Bmt B called TOWER'S FISH BRAND
hardlv a better protection than a mos- Wj'm |_ g “ SLICKER. - a name funUlar to every
Quito netting, not only feels chagrined w * m Cow-boy ail over the land. With them a
at being so badly taken In. but also a SLffM B fB S* ■ the only perfect Wind and Waterproof
(eels if he docs not look exactly like mm Coati* “Tower's Fish Brand .Slicker."
Ask tor the ** FISH BRAND ” Slicker BS ta** * andtake no 2D Simmon' other. If St., your Boston. storek tee Mas*. per
dots not havetheFisH *I**I**i !”i* bkanp. 5 *ij* send I**I* for descriptive I'*i *I'*I**I catalogue. j**s I**^ A.J.Towt.r._ I'*I** ^* I* I**i* I *^ *I ^"*I ****^ _
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Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Phy sicians.
Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the
taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists.
I usiness College
Bomk Kfcpinff. S?TCTTT.T.P. W
A wholesale coffee firm in New York
is represented by a woman drummer*
She was formerly employed in the store;
but proved to be such a good judge of
coffee, that the firm 6ent her out on the
road. She carries her samples and takes
orders the same as her male competitors,
and often succeeds in getting orders
where they have failed.
The Bret Tentlmoolal
\ et published for any blood medicine is thd
guarantee of themaBiifttcttirero of I>r.
ricrc <J's Ooiden Medical Diecorcry, which
warrants that wonderful medicine to benefit
«reare in ail eases of those disease* for which
* s JP^ im meaded, or money paid, for it wilt
be rWurntd. It cures all diseases arising
from torpid livir and impure blood and their
names u re leyion. All Skin, Scalp and Scrof-
m^Vs^t-rh^
drwidiseases, “discovery” arc among those in which tlu>
effected marvelous cures.
w,™ everythin* else fails. Dr. Sag Vs Ca¬
tarrh Remedy «ures. 50 cents, by druggists,
^TT llil >' to a Ia,e tremry statement the
u
states is about $1,410,000,wx).
s*horte«r. Quickest and Beat,
The Chicago, Rock Island a PAcmfl
in kansa-. Colorado and the Indian ».5 ?h"S5SS Territory,
II s 80 I ' I J*,. VB YHbulk l^ub°and\"Srn express trains bare
Memphis, si
ern J points, running through without chance to
m.y'co^n^t wilu tVainfo? Sd"
^ veiling alt Leke, lines, offerjnR a choice of route* tv
0«den, Helena, Cortland, 1 , 0 s
man Palace Sle-uers of ^^a/c^h^Pull! and Free Reclining
imjmmS S SI.* 1 ! 9 ' leading ^S?h all ^WeSfStJ,'^fort competit'rs in gplen-
nnd luxurious enjoyment. If gni K to Denver
Knd ,
£ock° viTKan^Citvf and °you win
never f! y royret wri it. to For 6. D. further Bacon, information ap,
or e tion. A*'t Faaa.
ii” h p™n£.Tra K "FrawSit
oh p w a
®fhSt... Lou'u Mof Chattanooga, 8 Aat 1<W lenn., b'orth or r. Third ,s. 6. Hough,
' ’ yu, st.
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Sarah lieriihardt.
b coming to America, and groat will be the
enthusiasm aroused amongst her admirers.
But, we have our own bright star, Mary Ander¬
son, ti ho will continue to bear off tho palm in
the dramatic, as dots Lucy Hinton in the
groat tobacco world.
AVe recommend “Tansill's l*nneli” Cigar.
Sa8t Rheum
Often causes great agony with Its intense Itching
au<l burning. Hood's Sarsaparilla, tho great blood
puriiler. cures salt rheum aud all sklu disease*, it
thoroughly cleanses, renovates and enriches th*
bio^t I. Give it a trial.
“After t;.» failure of three skinful physicians to
® ure m - v of salt rheum.^i tried Hood's snrsapa*
rll,a 0I ive Ointment. I have now used four
box<># of Ointment and one and a half bottles of
s “ r ;' a I>arlll ^ nn ^ boy u ;° ““ •PPearances com.
pletely , cured. He Is now four vears old, and baa
bocn aflIlcted Mnce he WM 8lx w ,..
b . sakdbmon, 56 Newhaii street, Lowell Mam.
HOOCI L( .. S S^f&SpSrilld
Sold by all drusKists. $!; six for$S. Prepared only
by c. 1 . hood & co., Apothecaries, Loweii, Mass.
IOO Po ses O ne Dol I a r
OatarrufI Ely’s Cream Balm
WILL CURE
> ’ Biilm into each nostril. Me]
- . HKOS.,56 Warren 8t.,N.Y.
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Press and two Hay Presses.
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Book on Special Disease* free.
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detention from business. Endorsed by the loading
phyeiciacs of the United States. Write for circulars.
Dr. O. E. McCANDLISS, Atlanta, Ua.
Office 30% Marietta Street, corner Broad.
THE HARVEST IN TEIASv
(IPad. .More cotton tlmn can be guth-rod i r .,rli«fof
YOU make ' $l00b*ntZ m-n^ndLady^nti d»vot*
— . ......; ...... wanted who cm their
entire time toth* bu*lree». npire timo m*y also be
employed profitably. G^od agents pXTa'o.^ToI* prompt y prompted
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a horse and give their whole time to the hwslnew.
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son a co., ioo* Main st., Richmond, y*. n.
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out paio, ®<x>k FUEE. of par*
tlculars neat
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Ati-ata, ftitt. Ol &co &/i VYoltcbaU bt,
HOME JSSSSsffSfiaSft rasar:
'i I thorough 1 y taught by MAIL. Clruuian free.
Bryant - » College. 437 M&iu St. Buffalo. N. V.
W&Q AH HOUR coj SJtk ,*& “Krof?firl
medical RichY.,
j FARMSLAWS ■ nniiiu cvrtu <t Buffett, 293 Broadway,
n. y.
ftiogue 4 GENTS i»ant-d. $1 an hour. Marsoall,Ljckport. &o new mrirtien. C«lx-
and sample lree.G.E. N. Y.
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PEERLESS DYES te.'XPS
m I pre«crlb« and fully only *i»-
dor«o Big 4w as the
W TO c«re«in 5 dayS.^H specific of thta disease. for the certain cur*
1 ta^
nraoteeA ao. G. H. LNGRAHA M.M. V .
7* cioNBtriMuc. Amsterdam, N. Y.
Kf 4 only by ?ba XVc Lave sold Big (i for
e j lmi Chwp is*l y>. many yea n. and it ha*
CiRCinn*ti,lj — fa'-tion. given the best «f
aM*. sSlk. J ■ CO..
Ohio. D. it. DYCHF *
Chicago. 111.
TrsAe JsatIi'ISI.OO. Bold by Druggists.
A. N. U •Ttiirtv-s ven, ’89.