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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
The railro#s own 211,000,000 acres
of land, which is in area larger than six
States the size of Iowa, Since 1861 no
lefhthan 181,000,000 acre* of land hav
oeen given to the railroads.
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The cost of warships is as follows per
ton: England, $151.25; France. $232..
2.>; Russia, $436.25; The price per in¬
dicated horse power is England, $151;
France, $280, and the United States,
$335.50,,
“Keep an eye on Africa,” exclaims the
Atlanta Constitution. “There some of th«
greatest battles and problems of the next
•century will be fought and solved.
England an l France may clash there
with a result far different from the meet¬
ing between Clives and Dupleixin India.
France and Germany, too, will some day
cross swords on the Dark Continent. In
thi3 age of steam and electricity it will
not take long to build up powerful white
colonics in Africa.”
Newspapers flourish in all Spanish-
-American countries. Mexico and Central
America arc full of them, and it is the
same way in .South America. Uruguay
k&s more newspapers in proportion to its
population than any country on the globe.
The. city of Montevideo has more daily
papers than London, and three times as
many as New York. Buenos Ayres has
fourteen or fifteen dailies, a large num¬
ber of weeklies aud several monthly maga¬
zines o/ high literary character.
“The Jewish labor organizations of
this city,” observes the New York Sun
,
“which have an enormous membership
and represent many trades, are the most
compact bodies of the kind in this
country. The officers are powerful and
enforce the rules with vigor. The
.’members are easily subjected to discip¬
line, respect authority, and watch the
proceedings closely. There is but little
wrangling in them. Nearly all of them
have been organized within the past few
years.”
“The music of the future,” says a
•composer of comic operas, “will be a
•blending of German and Italian, not one,
but both. Harmony is what the public
demauds. "We have not at present any
distinctive American music or school of
music. The only school we have are the
wainstrel melodies, the great composer of
which was Stephen Foster. These melo¬
dies embrace the ‘Suwanee River,’ ‘Old
Falks at Home,’ ‘Gentlo Annie,’ and
lotlicr well-known tunes. Beyond these
•we have developed no separate music.
Our music, like our race, must be com¬
posite.”
The Chinese who are now in Canada,
and who desire to get back to their na¬
tive country, are working a shrewd game
on the Unitci\ States Government, by
t
which they get free transportation to
China. They get themselves smuggled
iiuto the Uuitod States, reveals the New
sOrleans Delta, and then have some one to
cause them to be arrested for coming
into the country contrary to the Chinese
Exclusion act. Of course the charge is
proven, and they are sent back, under
provisions of the act, to China. They
thus beat the Government out of a free
passage home.
Au old man iu Manchester, England,
goes by the name of Gagadig Gigadab.
His original name was John Smith, but
many years ago be bagau to brood over
the possibilities of a mistaken identity
involved in such a common name, At
last what he feared so much actually
happened. One day the papers recorded
the capture of an accountant in a bank
for embezzlement, and through some
blunder of the reporter, the identity of
the embezzler was confused with the sub¬
ject of this paragraph, who was also a
bank accountant. Then and there he
determined to assume a name like unto
no other ever borne by mortal man. And
in Gagadig Gigadab most people will
agree that he has done so.
According to W. J. J. McGee, in the
Forum, every-day experience shows that
floods are not confined to greater rivers.
They affect as well the smaller ones aad
their tributaries, down to mill streams
aud even to storm runuels; aud the
smaller streams are so many that the
Aggregate effect of their floods is large.
Once or oftener during each decade a cry
of distress comes from Cincinnati, for
the basements of business houses built
-upon the flood plain are inundated, aad
the residents of the'city front are driven
from their homes by the prodigious
floods of the Ohio; once or twice iu each,
decade East St. Louis and the part of St.
Louis standing on the Mississippi al¬
luvium are flooded; from three to five
times in each decade the trails-Mississippi
traffic at Dubuque is stopped because the
flood waters submerge the railway tracks
and extinguish the locomotive fires, and
no year passes without records of dis¬
aster in dozens of towns and villages
built on the flood plains of smaller
streams. And the flood not only works j
destruction directly; it sows the germs
of malarial and enteric disorder? by which |
human life is shortened.
IF WE COULD KNOW,
Whither do oar footsteps tend?
More and more we yam to know,
As life’s shadows longer grow,
And the evening hoars descend;
And before ns lies the end.
When the door shall open wide,
And behind us softly close.
What to our expectant eyes
.Will the future life disclose?
Shall we see a morning break,
Fair and fragrant and serene,
Seeming like the blessed dream
Of some unforgotten eve.
Shall we walk in gladness on,
Under smiling skies of blue,
Through an ever-deepening dawn,
Into wide fields, fresh and new,
Meeting those who came before,
Knowing each familiar look
And each well remembered tone,
Though so many years had flown,
Since each other’s hands we took,
Saying farewells oler and o’er.
Shall we talk of earthly days,
Speaking low, with bated breath,
Of the awful mystery
Of our human life, and death;
Shall we wonder to recall,
How our hearts were prone to fear,
How wo scarcely dared to hope,
In any heaven, so fair, so near?
Ah! if we could only know,
As the shadows deeper grow,
Whither our swift footsteps tend,
As th ay surely near the end!
—Katherine S. Mason, in Boston Courier.
A PAIR OF DUCKS.
r.Y W. II. ATKINSON.
Four years ago my father indulged in
the luxury of a summer residence upon
the shores of Lake Erie, and, wind and
weather permitting, it was my daily cus¬
tom, soon after breakfast, to swim out to
the waterworks “crib,” about one mile
from our house. At the crib—a soiid
stone structure encased in stout wooden
piles—I generally rested for a few mo¬
ments prior to starting on the return
trip.
One morning, as usual, I was sitting
upon the low, convenient ledge formed
by the ring of wooden piles, dangling
my bare feet into the warm water, which
was as still and smooth as a mill pond.
The lake was so quiet that not so much
as a tiny ripple washed the water-worn
crib, aud for all there was the harbor of
a great city only three or four miles dis¬
tant, the stillness was perfect.
Suddenly I heard the sound of much
splashing, followed by the previous still¬
ness, broken only by the trickling of
water.
I knew in a moment that some cne had
joined me at the crib, and that on the
other side of the octagonal structure a
swimmer, equally as hardy as myself,
was resting and cooling his heels. I
thought I should like to see the fellow
who could swim a couple of miles alone
just for the fun of it, so I plunged into
the water and propelled myself half way
round the crib.
“IIow—dy!” I said, as I hoisted my¬
self beside the pair of bare legs, which I
soused considerably, owing to losing my
hold of the slippery timbers. My mind
was centered for the moment in the ef¬
fort to gain a firm seat, but as I received
no reply to my salutation, I thought to
myself that the fellow must be surly, or
shy, or tired.
“Tuckered out are you?” I inquired
in that cheery, free and easy style which
oDe is apt to adopt when the bounds of
conventionality have been passed, and the
individuality and social status which go
hand in hand with a suit of clothes and
terra finna have beeu temporarily aban¬
doned.
“Have I the honor of your acquaint¬
ance, sir?” came the reply in the form of
a counter question, uttered in a voice as
rich aud clear as a silver bell but also as
cold and cuttiug as a blast from Hudson
Bay.
Great Scott!
By this time I was comfortably and
safely seated, and I turned my head to
behold a girl perhaps niueteea or twenty
years old. I will not attempt to describe
that girl: I should only disappoint my¬
self and weary the reader; but as she sat
there in that fresh summer morning, her
wealth of hair coiled into a knot upon
her uncovered head, her shapely neck
and arms glistening in the sunlight, sbe
seemed to me more thau beautiful.
In the whole course of my existence I
have never been accused of bashfulness,
but I think I may be pardoned that for
some moments I felt completely 'flabber-
gasted.’ Gradually, however, my senses
returned, and it slowly dawned upon me
that I ought to say something.
“Pardon me,” I stammered, “I never
expected—thatistosay—well,vou ‘here know,
this is a surprise. I come oul every
day, myself, but this is the first time J
ever met anybody—and a lady, don't you
see—er, pardon me, I hope I aui not in
_trudino?” “Oh,”°ishe
said, as she kicked up an
extra large shower of spray with her
foot, “pray don't burden me with your
apologies. Y*ou addressed me so famil-
iarly that I thought we must have been
acquainted, and if that were so I had
forgotten the act.”
“No. unfortunately, I cannot lay claim
to a previous acquaintance,” said I, but
added, as my normal cheek .asserted it-
self, “though I do not see why it should
not date from to-day. If you do not ob-
ject I am certain I shall not. My name is
Dilwvn John Dilwvu ”
“But I do object,”'she said, quickly.
“I ought not to have come so far, but
having got here I am a little afraid to
start for the shore without a rest. I saw
you coming, and. at first, thought of
taking to the water. But I argued that
I had as good a right to this side of the
crib as tdu, and as I had ub reason to
ieave. I stayed. But I kuow nothing of
you, sir, and you know nothing of me,
rnd I object to such informal introduc¬
tions—indeed, I shall not introduce my-
•elf at all. Now if you are a gentleman.
you will return to your side of the crib.”
“Then you will not allow me to ac¬
company you to the shore?”
“Certainly not!”
“You might need assistance—you say
that you are tired.”
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, MAY 9, 1891
“Thank you, I shall do very well.
Of course after that I could stay no
longer, so splashed into the water and
paddled back to my old perch.
I had certainly received a set back and
been richly snubbed, but I resolved to
follow Miss Propriety, and, if possible,
identify her. So when live minutes later
I heard her dive into the water, I al¬
lowed her to gain about thirty yards of
headway and then started in pursuit.
The gill was a good swimmer, but I
was a better one.
It was very ea3v for me to keep up with
her, which I did, although I could tell
she was making for a point on the shore
nearly a mile above my father's house,
Presently I noticed that she was slack -
ening her speed, and once she merely
floated for a minute or two, evidently
that she might rest her limbs. But she
went on again, though she proceeded
quite slowly, and I judged that she was
very tired. She was still nearly half a
mile from land when she stopped again,
and raising her head slightly above the
water, called out, iu what was intended
for a shout, but which was in reality a
very feeble vocil effort—“Mr. Dilwyn!”
It was evident that the girl was com¬
pletely exhausted, so I made a spurt,
and a few rapid strokes placed me at her
side.
“Did you really hear me ?” she almost
whispered. “I fear I cannot make it
alone.”
“Can you keep afloat if you throw
your arms over ray back ? 1 can carry
you easily enough that way.**
“I think I can,” she replied.
“Then do so,” I said.
It cost me very little extra effort to
swim with the girl resting only a part of
her weight upon me. The arrangement
evidently relieved lier, for, when we had
gone about half the distance, she saidi
“It is very good of you, Mr. Dilwyn.
I think I can swim now.”
“Better not try,” I answered curtly.
“Tell me, then, when we reach shal¬
low water.”
When we were within fifty yards of
the shore uud in not more than four
feet of water, I said: “You are not like¬
ly to drown now, even if you should
have to walk.”
She loosened her hold of me, and,
floating on tier side, proceeded to thank
me profusely. But I was in a contrary
humor and borrowing the words which
she herself had used at the crib, I said:
“Pray do not burden me with thanks,”
and added, “you know I would have
done as mueh for one of the small boys
from the city—it is no particular credit
to be commonly humane.”
“Well,'’she said, iu a disappointed
tone, “let me at least tell you my name.
It is Lucile—”
But I gave her no chance to finish. I
considered it a good opportunity to “get
even,” so exclaimed loudly, “No, do not
tell me. I object to such informal in¬
troductions.”
And, with that, I swam away toward
my home.
More than two years passed away,dur¬
ing which period I did not again meet
Miss Lucile, although I speedily discov¬
ered her patronymic. At the end of that
time I saw the young lady at a neigbor-
hood rqpsicale and was formally intro¬
duced.
Alas! within half an hour I put my
awkward loot iu it, by referring (inno¬
cently enough) to the more than informal
reception which she had accorded me at
the crib. She was especially angry in
that a local wag stood sufficiently near
to overhear and drink in every word
which I uttered, so that much to the dis¬
gust of both of us, we were, thanks to
him, ever afterwards known along a few
miles of the Lake Front as the “pair of
ducks.”
It took my fair would-be despot a
month to recover from her huff, by which
time I was “huffy” myself.
So it has been—the same old story ever
since. Whenever I have felt good and
gracious, Lucile has invariably been angry
or sulky; while, whenever the young
woman has been disposed to smile, I have
persistently refused to bask iu the sun¬
shine of her kindly glances. For two
steady years we have played at cross pur¬
poses—a big but rather tiresome game of
bluff and huff, and yet (strange paradox!)
I have loved Lucile, I have ever been
the girl’s ardent admirer and willing
slave. That is to say, I would have beeu
her willing slave had she permitted such
a state of affairs when I happened to be
iu the humor.
V wecK s ago I seriously offended
'(‘he other duck. I was certainly in
*he wrong and behavea like a perfect
hrute. It took about nine days for me
to discover this fact, and I then wrote a
u °I e profuse apologies, tender re-
grots, etc.
The note ' n ' as returned to me unopened,
as I half expected it would be. But,
three or four days afterward, I received
a Penitential letter from Lucile, which
m y state of mind just then would per-
“it me to look upon as nothing less than
feminine hypocrisy of the basest sort,
^ took my heavy stub pen and dipped
it , deep down into my red ink. Across
the first page of Lucile s letter I scrawled
"Too late. Lpoa the second page I
wrote “Rats.”—Over the third I scrib-
h*ed •■Cuestnuts And upon the fourth
*nd last page I printed, m neavy Old
English text “Farewell,
then I returned her letter to Lucile.
' T a3 s ‘ raw - I i;vas morally
certain . that I “A-number-one
was, au
foo ‘5 ar, d I felt tolerably sure that Lucile
' vas uot far behind me ia the same
ca t a g°ry-
Between Lucile and the temperature
( Jt was Ju ;- V :md the thermometer stood
at eighty-three degrees, about two a. m.)
I passed a wretched, sleepless night.
When I walked down to the lake at six
o'clock I had arrived at a very logical
conclusion, namely: I could not live
with Lucile; I could not live without
Lucile; ergo—I had better die right off.
Down in our little bathing house we
kept, for prudential reasons only, a
large bottle of brandy. I took this bottle
and deliberately emptied its contents on
the pebbly beach. Then I tore from my
note book a fly leaf, and with my pencil
wrote as follows:
“I have live! a fool’s life: I will die a fool's
SaSSSS swim 1 s
to as far as my strength will carry me,
when I shall sink to rise no more.
John Dilwyn.”
“6.35 a. m., July 10th.”
This document I thrust into the empty
bottle, corked it up and fluuj it as far
as I could into the lake—morbidly im-
aginmg, as I did so, the head lines ol
tne newspapers when that bottle should
be recovered :
“A story from the dee Pi The mys-
tery of John Dilwayn at last Solved,
e ^ c -”
I donned my bathing suit, but sat in
the hut, perhaps half an hour, buried in
deep meditation, before I entered the
water and struck out.
I had left the shore nearly a mile be¬
hind me, and, I must confess, was be¬
ginning to wish that I had not launched
that bottle with its despondent declara¬
tion. In fact I faltered so cdnsiderably
in my suicidal resolve, that I deter¬
mined to halt at the waterworks crib
and . reconsider ., the ,, situation. .. .. o So T I
shaped my strokes accordingly.
I was very near to the low, clumsy
structure, when an intensely familiar
voice shouted to me across the few yards
df water:
“Don’t you do it, you great stupid.”
I straightened up in the water aad
gazei toward the crib, and what do you
suppose I saw? Weil, I beheld the
‘other duck’ perched on the top of one
ingly of those old piles; grinning a distract-
aggravating feminine grin. Worst
of all, in one hand she held that bottle,
while with the other she displayed the
scrap of paper containing my startling
statement.
But I positively refused to change my
written programme Unless Lucile would
then and there promise to be my wife,
and furthermore, agree to remain in an
amiable frame of mind to the end of the
honeymoon.
She made both promises and kept
them to the letter. We returned home
to-day, and lire minutes before I com¬
menced this fragment of autobiography,
I left that ‘other duck’ in the first stages
of a three weeks’ sulk—simply because I
want to keep house in a flat while she
insists on boarding at a hotel. But as
we are not very near Lake Erie, I cannot,
at present, foresee a speedy solution of
this latest difficulty .—-Yankee Blade .
To Summer in Death Valley.
J. H. Clery, a mild-mannered, blond-
moustached young man who has been on
United States Signal Officer Connor’s
staff in the Rialto building, has left the
city to become a desert-dwelling her¬
mit. Mr. Clery goes to California—to
Deatli valley—and in Death valley he
will dwell six months in solitude abso¬
lute.
Death valley is in the southwestern
portion of the California desert. A more
utterly desolate spot there is not on
earth. It is the bed of a dried sand lake
forty miles long and twenty miles wide
and surrouuded by steep hills. There is
absolutely nothing there except sand and
alkali and blistering heat; for Death
valley is said to be the hottest place in
the land. Shade there is none, the sky
never clouds, and the mercury seldom
or never goes belov/ 100 degree. Even
the breezes come like furnace blasts,
laden with scorching bits of sand. If
there is any water to be found in the
valley where once was a great lake far
below the ocean level, it is strongly im¬
pregnated with alkali, and there is not a
living creature in the district save rattle¬
snakes and scorpions.
Sixty miles fro-n the railway terminus
at Keeler the signal service hermit will
journey into this blistering desolation
and set up his tfmt. Here for six months
or more he will observe the phenomena
of the desert now unknown to man. He
will study the sand blasts, keep record
of the temperature, ascertain the exact
level of the valley below the sea, watch
for rainfall—not a drop has fallen, they
say, in twelve years—and tabulate all
these things for the benefit of scientists.
In the same desert, but practically as
far removed from one another as if in
the Sahara, will be three other solitary
investigators. The signal service hai
long desired to collect facts concerning
this region unknown and unpeopled, but
has not wished to order any one to un¬
dergo the dismal task of exploring it.
The present investigators are volunteers.
Mr. Clery goes about his task as
cheerfully as if he were going on a sum¬
mer outiug. He knows nothing of the
details of the arrangement except that
food will be brought him from Keeler.
“And what will you do for water?”
asked a reporter as Mr. Clery prepared
to set out for the depot.
“Indeed I haven't the slightest idea,”
was the reply. “I suppose they will see
to that for me .”—Kansas City Times.
Influenza aud Children’s Growth.
A systematic course of observation of
the growth iu weight of the children ia
the Deaf Mute Instititution at Copen¬
hagen has been kept up for seven years.
Among the most striking results is the
fact that the principal increase takes
place in the fall months. Last fall (1889)
the influenza appeared in Copenhagen
toward the end of November. Six ol
the professors of the institution were
attacked, while no pronounced cases
were developed among the pupils, At
the same time, for four weeks after the
23d of November, the weight of the boys
increased only two-filths as rapidly as it
had done in the corresponding weeks of
the previous year, while the girls gained
nothing. It is supposed that the vita-
force that usually went to increase of
weight was for this occasion used up in
relisting the germs of the disease.—
Popular Science Monthly.
Bore Three Names in Twelve Hours.
At Springfield, Ohio, Lizzie Ryder,
sweet sixteen, loved Barton Tavenner.
Being under age, she was adopted by Mr.
Osborn, with whom she had lived from
babyhood, and her name was changed to
Osborn. In the evening she became Mrs.
Tavenner—bearing three distinct family
names in twelve hours .—New York Wit-
GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Interesting? Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
} fr . A . 1T . St toI co , ]cclor of Fan .
n in counts, is short with the state and
county about $2,000. His bondsmen
will make good the deficit.
Carrollton will soon hav 3 a cotton seed
oil mill and guano factory; $29,000 ha*
been raised for it, and the remainder,
$20,000, will be subscribed at once.
The wheat crop of Carroll county is re¬
ported to be fine, better than for "several
years past. Farmers are lip with their
work, notwithstanding the bad winter.
cided A ferro-manganese furnace has been de¬
upon for Rome. A number of cap¬
italists have the matter under serious con¬
tabhshed templation, and the furnace date. will be es-
at an early
The Gtbrgia Pacific is arranging a
schedu’e to go % into effect on May 10th,
by which th time from Atlanta MettU
phig will be - the sbortest ever made . In _
stead of nineteen hours, as at present,
but fifteen hours will be required for the
trip,
Governor Northern has offered a reward
of $100 for the capture of Eli Napier, tvho
murdered Joel M. Holmes in Clay county
recently. The county officers wrote the
governor that Napier had escaped into
dll Alabama, but a reward of $100 would in
probability lead to his arrest.
Forsyth goes for public schools by a
vote of 136 to 26. The citizens are re-
joiced beyond measure. They feel that
Forsyth has at last placed itself in the
line of progressive and increasing pros¬
perity. citizens They look for an influx of solid
that will before long double the
population of the town.
Colonel Tip Harrison is still tugging
away at the applications for -widows’
pensions, which arrive in increasing
numbers daily. There are 1,800 appli¬
cations in up to date, and it is now quite
certain the total number will not stop
short of 4,000, and then the legislature;
which only provided for the payment of
600, will have to provide some means by
which all can be paid, or there will be a
long and loud cry of disapproval from
one end of the state to the other.
State Chemist G. F. Payne makes pub¬
lic the following card through the At¬
lanta Constitution: “I have had recent
inquiries from a distance in regard to the
gypsum deposits in this state. Know¬
ing that your valuable paper stands ever
ready to give the heartiest aid in any de¬
velopment of the resources of the state, I
respectfully kind request that you will be so
as to call the attention of the own¬
ers of be such deposits to this their matter, that I
may able to secure names and
addresses.”
No definite decision has been reached
as yet as to the disposition of the female
Convicts of the penitentiary. Some time
ago, it will be remembered, the lessees
went to the governor and talked over
with him the matter of the disposition of
these convicts. They all agreed with
the governor’s idea of the necessity of
the separation of the sexes in the peni¬
tentiary; but, as stated at the time,
those lessees, who have operated the
broom factory, have lost money by it—
$2,000 the first year and $1,900 the
second year; and they are iu something
of a quandary as to what they shall do.
There is a spot in Haralson county over
which the shadow of an evil angel seems
to rest, and which is blackened by the
curse of Cain. On this spot, six trage¬
dies have, from time to time, been com :
mitted—six human lives have been blot¬
ted out forever. It is remarkable that
these tragedies all occurred within a ra¬
dius of a mile and a half, near the old
Piney Woods Hardshell church, which
was built about sixty years ago. Elder
Robert Speight dedicated the church,
and has been pastor sixty years. The
cemetery at Piney Woods is the largest
in Haralson or adjoining counties, and
the graves of the six murdered men and
all who were killed accidentally can be
found there.
Atlanta merchants are kicking against
the enforcement of an ordinance passed
at a recent meeting of the city council.
The ordinance, which is to prevent the
obstruction of sidewalks, provides:
“That no person occupying any store,
stall, shop or other place of business,
shall obstruct the sidewalk in front of
the place the so occupied by him, or the view
from street to or across the sidewalk
by .placing .goods of any kind on or over
the sidewalk, or allowing such goods to
remain on or over such sidewalk longer
than is really necessary to get the goods
or other articles into or away from such
places of business in receiving or deliv¬
ering such goods or articles. ”
Hope for tlie Macon and Atlantic.
The light of hope dawns on the Ma¬
con and Atlantic railroad, and this line
may soon be out of the hands of the
receiver. This is one of the roads that
the Macon Construction Company under¬
took to build, and spent about $1,000,000
on the work of construction. It was
proposed to run it deal from Macon has to Savan¬
nah. A great of work been
done on it, and if Macon now subscribes
only $180,000 the road wil be completed
at a near day. The Macon and Savannah
Construction Company was organized
with a capital stock of $1,000,000, of
which the Macon Construction Company
agreed to pay $500,000. The ballance of
stock was subscribed in Savannah, New
York and other northern points.
Quite a Difference.
Captain I. Hermann has in his posses¬
sion an interesting relic of twenty-five
years ago. It is the bi l of sale of five
bales of cotton made by Guilmartin &
Co., of Savannah, for I. Hermann & Co.
Four of these bales weighed 1,807 pounds,
and sold at 41 cents, making a “mixed.” total ot
$740.87. The fifth bale was
It weighed 495 pounds and was sold at
35 cent", $178.25. The five bales brought
$194.12. Ihe internal revenue tax was
2 cents per pound, or $46.04, and the
storage, weighing, insurance, commis¬
sion, etc., added to the revenue,
amounted to $77.44, leaving a net balance
of $836.68 for the five bales. The cotton
was sold on the 28th of September, 1805. and
Quite a difference in the price then
sow.
The Alliance Lectnrers.
The district lecturer-! of the Farmers
Alliance will be selected May 6th. On
E, !»„ SIMPSOW 9
TOCCOA, CEORCIA
r. i Ml
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
Peerlkss Engines 9
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACT
Geiser Senarators & ShiHe Mills
farmers anti others in want of either Engines or separators, wm
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. ] am alw> prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
°<ESTEY ORGANS .!* 1
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Eva porators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines,
McOnnick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be-
ore you biky. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand#
that day, district, fci Some representatives point in each cohgrefl^ all
sional from
the county Alliances in the district will
meet and choose a lecturer for the dis¬
trict. On the 13th the district lecturers
will hold a meeting in Atlanta, to form¬
ulate plans for their work and to advise
with each other, in brdet that all the
county Alliances may be instructed in the
same way and unanimity of thought and
purpose prevail throughout the state.
“Never before in the history of the Alli¬
ance has it been so thoroughly
orghhntetV’ i snjrs Colonel organization Livingston, that
“and kuoiv of ho
in all its branches is so perfectly con¬
nected. Ah uie lecturers, Irons tile 8;»t«s
lecturer to the sub-alliance lec urer, in¬
struct the members in the purposes of the
order, without any jar or conflict of
opinion. Durirg the iutotner grand
rallies in will be held at a number of plaoea
the state. The rallies will embrace
nine or ten counties; prominent alliance-
men from the eavt and west will be pres¬
ent and deliver addresses. Among them
will be Jere Simpson, of Kansas. Harry
Tracy, of Texas; Dr. C. W. Macune, of
Pi cS dent Polk, from the east—perhaps
both—and other noted alliancemen. The
good to be accomplished will be real'V-e that
southern members will better
that their fellow alliancemen of the
east and west are working with them
to accomplish a common purpose.”
The Georgia Mfelsta Grower*.
The recent meeting of the Georgia Mel¬
on Growers’ Association at Albany, was
one of the largest ever held. Delegates
were on hand from all parts of the melon
belt, from Macon to Quitman. The crop
is so much larger than ever before, that
the growers are anxious to perfect question means of
for its distribution. The
rates is already settled on last years’
basis of 8 mill per ton mile to Ohio river
points, and all that remains to be done
is to grow the crop and market it. A
committee was appointed by suggestion
from the different shipping points. This
committee meets in two -week. It was
stated that the southern railroads had
been notified by those north of the Ohio
river that unless the growers stopped
shipping unmarketable melons,the freight
rates Would be raised. In aome
cases railroads have to dump the
melons and lose the freight charges,
consequently they would have to raise
the rates to cover that loss. It was the
sense of the melon growers present that
a rigid inspection of melons by the rail-
roa ds at shipping points would keep bad
melons out of the northern cities, and do
much to prevent the markets from being
glutted. By a rising vote, the associa¬
tion pledged itself to ship no melons
under eighteen pounds, and adopted a
resolution requesting railroads not to r ac-
cept for shipment melons under eighteen
pounds, deformtd, sunburnt, green or
overripe, without the prepayment of
freight charges. The convention ad-
Hurned to meet in Albany on the 3d of
June, just before the shipping season
opens.
DISBURSING THE CASH.
The Amounts Paid Under the
Direct Tax Law.
The following payments have been
made by the treasury dep rtment up to
April 30th,under the act of March 2,1891,
to reimburse to states and territories, the
amount of direct tax levied under the act
of August 5, 1861: Arkansas, $156,272;
California, $208,247; Colorado, $22,190;
Delaware, $70,722; Illinois, $956,761;
Iudiana, $719,144; Kansas, $60,982;
Maine, $357,602; Massachusetts. $696,-
180; Michigan, $420,865; Minnesota,
$86,924: Missouri, $546,958; New Hamp¬
shire, $181,891; New Jenwy, $382,615;
New York, $2,213,331; North Carolina,
$377,836; Oh o, $1,332,026; Tennessee,
$892,012. Total, $9,282,636.
Caleb Andebsok, of High Bridge,
Hunterdon county, N. J., is the fmherof
an infant girl who promises to develop
into a profitable dime museum freak.
When she wa* born she seemed much like
other babies, except that her little pink
ears were covered with a very fine fuzzy
growth of hair. Since then this hair
hanf has grown until the long, silky locks
down nearly to her shoulders,
The hair is of a golden brown, and is
very soft and fine. Nowhere else on the
child's body is any similar the growth. Her of
head is covered only with amount
hair usual with so vouncr a babe.
Iowa Indians don’t want to accept cattle
an l farm implements in pay for their iands.
They say they thought they were to receive
cash when they agreed to the treaty.
NUMBER 18.
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JUst' U-\i4 OitaTACmi.
“Believe me, George dear, the fact
that you are not wealthy makes no differ-
ence in my love for you,” she Baid. “I
love you for yourself alone. I would
choose love in a cottage rather than a
union without affection in a costly man¬
sion.”
“Darling,” he said, “I am glad to
hear you speak thus. There is now but
one obstacle to prevent our marriage.” asked.
“And what is that?” 6he
P* “ a 1 oott can't age.”-|Bo»ton r.-me half ™°'$' Humi d, ™*°
PROTECTION OF POETS.
Pertman—I think something ought to
J>c done to protect poets ; they have a
time of it.
\ an Leer-W hat would you suggest ?
Pertman-They might be brought un-
der the game laws-only to be shot dur-
the spring pome and beautiful snow
season,
A DOWNTRODDEN PROFESSION.
“ Burglars seldom receive more than
a fifth of the value of. their booty from
those who purchase it.”
“Well, they needn’t kick. The own¬
ers of the property don’t get a cent. ”—
(Epoch.