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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
OUR YESTERDAYS.
tmw my yesterdays go past,
A sinuous stream of souls of day*,
^Clad Rome forms, diversely; it seemed, in the vague haze
no shadows cast;
right hand held Its mirror fast,
Borne wreathed with myrtle, some
i bays,
And those that answer© 1 to my gaze
Showed _ me my memories as they passed.
Over a twilight plain afar
• Their blurred line faded out of view
Toward mountains mystic as the sea;
But, shining each one like a star,
The mirrors wherein I saw you
Gleamed backward through the dusk
me.
Edward L. White, in New York Sun.
Mrs. Darrow’s Poorhouse.
By LAURA J. RITTKXfTOUBE.
... T
' rs ‘ arrow » who was sometimes dis-
spect ully called “Old Bets,” hurried
rough the gate that led into her small
yar , and unlocked her door with un-
ener «y-
ie untied her rusty black bonnet,
carefully brushed away some imaginary
c ust, opened a closet door, took out an
o laGiioned handbox and deposited the
°T° et ln
I hen she folded her thin wollen shawl
neatly, put it in its proper corner of the
upper bureau drawer, and then replaced
her well-worn alpaca dress with a dingy
calico wrapper.
She was tall and thin, with a hard-set
face creased by innumerable wrinkles,
that made her appear much older than
ehe really was. Iler abundant dark hair,
thickly streaked with gray, was pulled
back tightly from her forehead* and held
in an unbecoming knot by an old “tusk
Comb ’ that had been her mother’s.
There was not a soft line in Mrs. Dar¬
row’s whole contour, and she seemed the
embodiment of angles and unyielding b
hardness. *
She was a widow, now. Four years
before poor old Job Darrow had meekly
mid not unwillingly given up the ghost.
In spite of the years that had elapsed
since then, people still talked of the h«rd
time ho had endured in his unhappy and
unlovely home, where only the barest
necessities were doled out to him, though
he was a skilled sober mechanic, and
earned good wages. His wife had per¬
sisted in putting the greater part of his
earnings iu the savings bank, lest he and
she should come to the poorhouse.
Bbe had nursed this fear of ending
her days in tho poorhouse, until it had
become a mama with her; and after her
husband’s death had given herself up
wholly to the notion.
No suffering or destitution could be
great enough to enlist her sympathy.
She worried the dealers from whom she
bought her scanty supplies by her “tast¬
ings,” which often amounted to nearly
ns much as her purchases; and by her
haggling, penurious ways and fault-find¬
ing.
On the morning of which I write, Mrs.
Darrow’s face wore an air of triurnpti.
Her eyes shone eagerly, and her thin lips
were as near a smile as it was possible
for them to be, after the long years in
which smiling had become a lost art to
them. As she hastily buttoned her
wrapper, the muttered to herself:
“i’ll settle the matter right now, I
guess. I’ll go over and drag it away be¬
fore they know what I'm up to, anil I’ll
get some tramp to cut it up for me as
Boon’s I can. I’ll give him the soup-bone
iu the cupboard, and that corn-bread,
since it’s so hard and dry I can’t eat it.
It seems like a shame to give that bone
to a lazy, good-for-nothing tramp, but
I’m afraid I’ll have to. Well, there's one
comfort about it—that pole’ll make
stove-wood enough to last me at least
three weeks, aud not cost me a cent,
either.”
At this point in her soliloquy she tied
a faded gingham suubonnet upon her
head and walked out of her house, the
air of triumphant satisfaction merging
into defiance. She crossed the street
and approached the house of her neigh¬
bor and one-time friend, Mrs. Rebecca
Johnson.
Directly in front of Mrs. Johnson’s
Bmall house a disused telepbone-pole was
lying. It had been blown down and
broken by a severe storm several weeks
before, and Mrs. Darrow had
looked upon it with covetuous eyes ever
since.
Morning, noon and night she thought
of the pile of stove-wood into which it
might be converted, until it seeemed as
if she could never really rest again uu-
less she possessed it.
This morning her grasping spirit had
urged ber to go to the and mauager of the
telephone exchange ask petmtsaton
to use the
To do her justice,it had cost her a hard
struggle to go. She was so grudging
herself that she felt sure he would re-
fuse and perhaps insult her; but in spite
of this fear, she at last plucked up cour-
age to go.
“Mr. Ingram, one of them telephone-
poles has fell down in our street—broke
in that big storm, you know. ’Taint
any account. aud it’s } dreadfully
in the way; do you care if I hire
a man to move it: she askei, ner-
vousiy.
Mr. Ingram looked up somewhat ab-
sentlv. lie was very busy at that mo-
ment, and a good deal worried over the
complaints of poor telephone service,
with which he ha 1 been besieged since
the night of the storm.
He looked at Mrs. Darrow. her shabby
but clean dress, her thin, restless hands,
her many wrinkles,and the sight touched
his heart.
“Oh! you mean another one of those
broken poles, do you? In your way is
it? Certainly, madam, you can have it
xemoved if you choose. I should have
had it done myself, as soon as I got
through repairing damages. I shall be
glad to have it disposed of, 1 in sure,
Good morning, madam! '
And so, before she fairly realized it,
Mrs. Darrow had been bowed out of the
Her . did ... not A upbraid v ... her , for
conscience
having given him to understand that the
pole in front -was in ef her her way, neighbor’s when It was really
house across
the street. She even indulged in a sly
chuckle, as she thought of the chagrin
that would fill Mrs. Johnson’s heart
when the pole was taken away.
What mattered it if her neighbor real¬
ly needed the pole for stove-wood? She
was not responsible for Becky Johnson’s
poverty. So, reasoning with herself,
with cautious steps she approached the
coverted pole and attempted to lift one
end of it.
But she had either overrated her
strength or underrated the weight of the
pole. She could hardly stir the heavy
piece of wood.
In the midst of her efforts Mrs. John-
son happened to glance out of the Win-
dow, and saw Mrs. Darrow trying,as she
supposed, to steal the telephone-pole in
broad daylight.
Now the very next morning after the
storm, as Mr. Ingram passed her house
inspecting damages, Mrs. Johnson had
asked him to give her the pole, and ha
had cheerfully given it to her; but he
had forgotten all about it in a moment
afterward—a fact which Mrs. Johnson
did not know, of course,
Accordingly, when she saw Mrs. Dar-
row vainly trying to drag the pole away*
her wrath arose at once.
| daughter, “Kate* Kate!” “come she here called quick! to her There’s stout
j Betsy Darrow going I’d to drag off our tele-
phone-pole, and just hired a man to
come and cut it up to-morrow! Run out
and take it away from her? If it wa’n’t
for my rheumatiz, I’d go myself,and give
her a piece of my mind, too. Hurry up,
can’t you?”
Kate hastily wiped the dishwater from
her hands, ran out of the house, and be¬
gan to reproach Mrs. Darrow.
“What are you comjng here and try¬
ing to take away our telephone pole for?’*
she said, excitedly.
“ ’Taint your telephone polel Mr.
Ingram gave it to me,” retorted Mrs.
Darrow.
( t Well, of all the—the—whoppers,
that beats ’em,” said Kate. “Mai ma!
here’s Mrs. Darrow saying Mr. Ingram
give her the pole, when we can prove he
give it to us!” she screamed out to her
mother.
At this apparent falsehood on Mrs.
Darrow’s part,Mr3. Johnson's indignatiou
overcame her fear of physical pain, and
she hobbled to the door in response to
her daughter's call.
“Betsy Darrow, you know’s well as
you’re a living woman, that Mr. Ingram
never give that pole to you in his born
days. He give it tome, and don’t let me
see you touching it, much less trying to
haul it away,” she called out, augrily.
“You go set down again, Becky John¬
son. J reckon I know what I’m a-doing.
This pole belongs to me, and you and
Kate and all your kin aint going to keep
me from taking it.”
“Well! if that don’t beat all! I guess
we’ll see whether yon take that pole or
not. Kate, set down on it!” commanded
Mrs. Johnson.
Kate sat down on the pole, laughing
derisively as Mrs. Darrow strained and
tugged till her naturally pale face be¬
came purple in hue.
“Keep on a setting, Kate!” urged
Mrs. Johnson; and Kate obeyed, till
from sheer exhaustion Mrs. Darrow gave
up the unequal contest.
“Kate Johnson, if you don’t get up
off that there pole, I’ll have you arrested,
sure’s you’re alive!” she threatened.
But Kate only laughed the more, and
settled her hundred and fifty pounds
more firmly on the disputed pole.
“I don't think any policeman is going
to meddle with me for setting on my
own ma’s property,” she said, spiritedly.
“’Taint j T our ma’s propertyl I tell
you it’s mine, and you’d better get up
this minute, before I drag you along off
the pole into the yard,” said Mrs. Dar¬
row, as she gasped for breath.
Finding that threats were futile, she
seized the long, slender upper section of
the pole and began to drag it across the
street.
Seeing this, Kate sprang up and pulled
the pole from her enemy with such force
that she fell in a heap under the pole, on
the ground.
Mrs. Darrow felt that her opportunity
had come; so, while Kate struggled to
ari-:e, she seized the large end of the
pole, and in one mighty effort succeeded
in lifting it from the ground.
But her strength was not sufficient to
bear the weight, and the pole fell upon
her feet with such force as to crush
them both very badly.
She uttered a sharp cry, and sank down
so sick aud faint that she could scarcely
hold up her head.
“I reckon you’re tickled nearly to
death, Beckj Johnson, senee jou see me
sitting here like a rat m a rap, crippled
for life very likely, all for trying to get
what rightfully belonged to me. But if
you think I’m going to holler and faint
and cut up as some women would, you're
much mistaken," she said, defiantly.
The next moment she had dropped
over in a dead swoon.
By this time Kate had come to her as¬
sistance.
“Oh, ma! she looks as if she’s dead!
c a n to Mr. Sanders to come quick! He’s
digging a cistern in Walter's backyard.
I’m afraid to fool with the pole any more;
I might hurt her worse than ever.”
With great excitement and feelings of
pity, not unmixed with tie thought that
Mrs. Darrow was receiving her just de-
serts, Mrs. Johnson obeyed.
Mi\ Sanders came, and in a few minutes
the unconscious woman was laid on Mrs.
Johnson's best bed.
“'Taint worth while to carry her home,
There's nobody there to take care of her,
and ghe’ll need lots of taking care of be-
fore she's through with this, I reckon,”
g 4 id Mrs. Johnson, her warm heart be-
ginning to swell with sympathy, as she
looked at the white face that had been so
dear to her in her girlhood.
Then followed days and weeks of suf-
fering; days in which Mrs. Darrow was
a helpless, irritable burden, bemoaning
her fate that a surgeon had been called,
and that the time had at last come when
she was going straight to the poorhouse.
Kate was her patient, tender nurse,
bearing silently all her fault-finding and
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, JULY 11, 1891
penurlousness. But Mrs. Johnson's
spirits boiled hotly within her, until at
last her indignation reached a climax.
“See here, now, Betsy Darrow, I’ve
took just all I’m going to from you! I
look at you and wonder sometimes if
this can be the sweet-tempered, merry,
free-hearted girl I used to love more’n I
loved myself. If you’d ’a’ died before
you grew into a cross, stingy, mean
woman, no more like that sweet girl was
than a wild ro3e is like a cuckle-bur, you
would have been fit to meet your good
bid mother, and we could all have loved
Bessie's memory. Do you remember how
we used to call you Bessie, then, instead
of ‘old Bets,’ and how you put your arm
! around m3 stood in pretty
as we your
room in the old farm-house the day you
was married, and Said you’d never quit
loving me as long's you lived? And you
talked of the good you was going to do
for ethers-, of church work and Sunday-
school, And such like. Yet here you lie,
with your life as bare and ugiy as a
wora-out field. No* it doesn’t even
amount to’s much ! s that, because the
old field would warm up when God’s suu
shined on it, and the birds might light
on it, and the posies come up and cover
its w-orthless blotches. But you, Betsy
Darrow, w-hat is there warm or sweet or
of use to others about you?”
Here Mrs. Johnson paused as if to give
the sick woman a chance to defend her¬
self, but as no reply came, she began
again:
“The Lord has been good enough to
give you plenty of money* and you've
been piling it up in the savin's-bank for
years, to keep from going to the poor-
house, and after all you’ve got there I
Yes, this i3 a kind of a poor-house you'ra
in now, but Kate and I are happy iu it—.
or we would bo if it wasu't for your
grumbling; And you’re in a powerful
poor-house when you’re at home—a real
mean poor-house, too, where there aint
even comf table victuals, nor fires* nor
anything else worth living for. I ’low
you can’t find a poor-house worse than
you're own; the law wouldn’t permit it.
So the time has come for you to spend
some of the money you’ve been a-hoard-
ing. I can’t buy the delicate, nouvishin*
food you need* though you’re welcome
as tho air you breathe to the best I’ve
got, if it was only fitting. So you’re
got to open your heart and your pocket-
book* and buy jellies and soups and
and fruits and oysters, and wood enough
to keep roaring hot fires, ’cause that
telephone polo is burned up, and I
haven’t money enough to buy more. And
if you’re afraid Kate and me will get
some of the benefit, you can be carried
over home. But whether you go or stay,
you’vs got to buy the things you need!”
Mrs. Johnson said this with such firm¬
ness and so much with the air of loviug
authority that she had used to her friend
in the old long ago, that Mrs. Darrow
felt a queer upheaval within her heart,
and a sudden rush of sweet memories of
the dear, glad, innocent days of her girl¬
hood.
“You’re pretty hard on me, Rebecca,
but I guess I deserve it. I never thought
before what a regular poorhouse I was a-
living in all the time, while I was saving
and pinching to keep from going to one.
“Aud—and Rebecca,” she said, paus¬
ing tenderly over the name by which she
used to call her friend, “do you think if
I begun clean over again and tried to
live as a woman ought, that God could
forgive me and love me again?”
Unmindful of her rheumatic limbs,
Rebecca dropped upon her knee3 by her
guest's beside, and with a great sob put
her arms around the lean, long neck.
“Oh? I know He would, Bessie—He’ll
make you all over again, if you only let
Him.
She kissed the wrinkled face, as the
old-time love that so long had slumbered
burst into life again.
“Seem’s like you’ve been gone all
the^e years, and just come back, dear
Bessie she whispered.
‘I fee. s if I had been having a long,
miserable nightmare, and s if you just
come and waked me. Rebecca, you
don't want to send me home now, do
you? I sha’n't be so cross to Kate after
this. Somehow it made me feel bitter
and jealous to see how much you loved
each other, and how happy you was,
even if you was poor. And I was meau
enough to think you was glad I got hurt
with the telephone-pole.”
»0 Bessie 1 how could you?” inter-
rupted Mrs. Johnson.
“But I was though, and I wished I’d
npver seen the old nolo- and nnw here T
a m thanking the Lord for letting it smash
me into your house. My mother used
to say:
Go , mov . s in a ravst: > r ious wav *
His wonders to perform.
„ He osed thal blesseJ „ ld tele / ioM .
, t0 ch a my J hearl aad br ng 3 me
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bow ld T
youth's ‘ Companion J
Vitality of Seeds.
Whether seeds can or cannot preserve
their vitality for lengthened periods de¬
pends as much or more on external than
inherent conditions; and it is more and
more a tendency cf scientific belief, that
under some conditions a seed which would
lose its vital power in a year or two, may,
unde imSpKte ^yier conditions, continue vital for
an questioH period. It is still a mooted
whether the “mummy seeds”
which people who travel in Egypt bring
home with them, have really been in ex-
isteace for a couple of thousand years,
or are the skillful work of impostors
which abound in the classic land as well
as in our own. It is said that so skill-
fully is the imposition practiced that the
mummy wheat can be made to roll out ot
mummy wrappings even before your eye 3 .
But uadoubtea lasts are accumulating,
showing long life in unexpected in-
stances. Under ice sheets, plants as
wpll as seeds, will live for years. A re-
markable instance occurs, ia connection
with a species of cypress, a native of Cali-
forma. Coulter, a collector in California,
had his herbarium in the Glasnevin Gar-
dens, near Dublin, and twenty-one years
after a seed was taken from a dried sped-
men which produced the living plant.—
New Tori Independent. ,
THROUGH DIXIE,
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome Of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
Thb statue of Stonewall Jackson at
Lexington* Ya., will be Unveiled on July
21st.
The East Birmingham (Ala.) dummy
line has been sold under a foreclosure of
mortgage to James E. Webb and Henry
C. Tompkins;
The body of Mrs. Julia jacks-u Chris¬
tian, daughter of Stonewall Jackson, has
been placfed in the crypt in the vault at
Lexingtoh, father. Ya., bteside her distingui bed
As a result of the Celebration of the
Fourth in San Francisco, the Centenary
M. E. church and four hands me resi¬
dences were totally burned. Loss,
$100,000.
A number of railroad men, whose
homes are in Albany, Ga., were caught in
the Moses Bros, bank failure in Mont¬
gomery, Ala., Monday. Some of these
lose their all.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: The
twenty seventh annual meetiug of the
Tennessee State Teaclnrs’ Association
convened Tuesday morning on Lookout
mountain.
A telegram from Raleigh, N. C., says:
Grand Sire E. Busbee is a little more
restless, but no chauge. The paralytic
features are improved. The grand mas¬
ter of the state is in attendance on him.
Sa’es of leaf tobacco on the Danville,
Va., market last month were 3,000,000
pounds; sales same month last year,
1,300,000; sales for nine months,
32,616,836 pounds, an increase this year
over last of 11,281,644 pounds.
A cyclone is reported as having
passed through M.dison, Miss., Mon¬
day morning. Several buildings were
demolished and considerable damage was
done. No further information is obtain¬
able, as the wires south are all down.
A Raleigh dispatch says: Governor
Holt, on 1 uesdav, decided he would wait
only a few days longer for the balance
due the state of the direct tax fuud. If
further delayed, he would issue warrants
for claims iu full as applied for.
One of the most daring and successful
robberies ever committed in Nashville,
Tenu., was perpetrated at noon Friday,
when $8,000 "worth of diamonds were re¬
moved from a show case in E. Wigger’s
jewelry store, on Union street, without
the robber being seen. A pal of the rob¬
ber engaged Mr. Wigger’s attention while
the robbery was committed.
The following dispatch was received
at t* os Angeie j , Cal., Saturday night,
fro 3 G. W. Durbrow, superintendent
salt works at Salton: “An I ndiaa I seut
out from Volcano Springs has returned.
His st tement settles the qu-s'ion of the
water coming Lom the New river coun¬
try. Water is coming into the sink at
Salton through Cavoresco creek.”
A Jackson, Miss., telegram says: Un¬
der the new constitution of Mississippi
voters are required to be registered lout-
months before the next election. Regis¬
tration closed on the 3d instant. While
fu.l returns from all the counties are not
in, it is certaiu that for the first time
since the negro became a voter that the
majority of legal voters of the state are
white.
Early Sunday morning a fire, originat¬
ing in a cottage on Hogan street, adjoin¬
ing Itjen’s grocery store, at Jacksonville,
Fla., destroyed nearly every building in
ihe block bounded by Hogan, Ashley,
Laura and Church streets, The fire
spread rapidly from the cottage to a row
of low wooden buildihgs on the south,
and from there to Hartiidge’s livery sta¬
bles, all of which were destroyed.
Ga1ve8 . on> T ex., was visited Sunday
by 0 ne of the most terrifficstorms known
in years. It is impossible to estimate
* be damage to shipping and other prop-
erty along the coast. Waters from the
gulf are and in the streets, and many ware-
houses buildings in the neighbor-
hood of the docks are flooded. The
telegraph wires are prostrated, practi-
cally cutting off all communication with
out.-ide points,
The stockholders of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company met at
Louisville, Kv., Monday, and ratified the
purchase of the Kentucky Central rail-
road, the increase of stock of the Louis-
v ^ e au( * Nashville company to $55,000,-
900, and the acceptance of the company’s
Pr°P ortioa of additional issue of Nash-
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis stock,
^ ke 6 tock represented was 368,416
shares, and all were cast for the propose
tions named,
The Pine Hill, Talladega county, Ala.,
Alliance has adopted resolutions boycot¬
ting coffee until the article can be bought
at “liviug prices.” The resolution was
passed at the meeting of the alliance last
week and each member present voted in
the affirmative when the question was
put. They say they will no longer pay
25 and 30 cents a pound for coffee, but
will go without it. They argue that it
can be sold as cheap now as it was five or
hx years ago when ten pounds could be
bought for a dollar,
An order was issued from headquarters
in Atlanta Thursday by General Gordon,
appointing Colonel George Mooreman, of
New Orleans, La., adjutant of tbe
United Confederate Veterans, with head¬
quarters in New Orleans; Colonel J. F.
Shipp,* of Cliattanoog i, Tenn., quarter¬
master general of the United Confederate
Veterans, with headquarters in Chatta¬
nooga. These officers are appointed on
the staff of the commanding general, and
will immediately enter upon their re¬
spective duties.
Electrocuted.
A dispatch from Sing Sing, N. Y.,
Bays: The killing of the four murderers
—Slocum, Smiler, Wood and Jugiro
done Tuesday morning. Slocum was
, ^ ! .14, vV ood "j’ met Smiler his doom was put at toueath .39, an
*1 at o
"was > t . o c oc . e
fn KpmTrflpr’s
execution eleven month® a^o with va-
rious improvements and higher voltage.
Death in each case was instantaneous aud
painless.
SUSPENDED PAYMENT.
A Montgomery Bank Pails for
Half a Million.
Moses Bros.’ bank, at Montgomery,
Ala., and suspended j.ll payment Monday «v rn-
mg, real estate, personal property
and in bills of exchange It. have been included
t e issgnment to A: %iVer. R. B.
Snodgrass their and S. M. Levine. fhef ray
assets will amount to more than
the r liabi iti s. Neither figure can yet
bb ftppfoxima’ely estimated. The failure
liabilities is due to' the stfingg ct of money. shout Their
are sad to be half a
million high for dollars. integrity, The firm Stantisvirj believe
and few
that there is anything ugly about
the suspension. Each individual has in-
eluded his hodie, d:l real estate and per¬
sonal property, The in the schedule of a-
signments. failure was a blow io
the people of the city. Nearly evtry la¬
boring imtn, clerk and sewing woman in
Montgomery, who was trying to save
moiny, had deposits in the suspended
bank. Among the depositors nife hun¬
dreds of negr es, who have deposts
ranging dred from five or ten to fifteen hun¬
ol‘ two thousand dollars each.
It is estimated that the amount due
depositors is between $3&0*QG0 and
$500,000.
The members of the firm have surren¬
dered everything they poss s*, personal
and real, without any claim for exemption
or dower being put in by the wives of
the married members.
WHERE THE MOXEY IS.
The failure is a topic of gossip aid
wide spread consternation among the peo-
pie. It has leaked out that some of the
bankers met a few nights ago offering
their aid in a sub tantial manner, but the
offer was not accep'ed, the amount being
but about one hundred thousand dollars,
while the liabilities as estimated are neat
if not over half a million. It will take
the trusstees some time to ascertain with
any degree of accuracy the true state of
affairs, there being parhsps over over three
thousand depositors ranging in sums from
two dollars to many thousands.
ANOTHER FAILURE.
A Montgomery dispatch says: E. H,
itiauss *fc Co., lft:ge furniture dealers
old out Tuesday in >i n ing to pfeierrt d
cr ditors. Among the number are Strauss
& Sons, of Jackson, Mi s., aud Mayer &
ion, ef Cincinnati. The firm also ran a
rectifying house, which was sold to the
same parties. Strauss & Co. owed Moses
Bios., who failed Monday for $20,000.
. he purchasing creditors represent at in
debteduess of $45,000.
AND YET ANOTHER.
Another telegram states that the Bank
of Commerce, of Sheffield, Ala., closed
its doors Tuesday morn ng, having as-
igued. The failure was caused by the
f .ilure of Moses Bros.’ bank, in Mont-
gomery, as the two banks w-ere closely
allied. The assets and liabilities are nc*
vuown.
AN ALLIANCE MANIFESTO
Which is intended to Raise the
Price of Wheat.
A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says:
The FarmirJ Alliance is about to
df rtake the experiment of organizing the
tarmers of the country upon a scheme of
cotnpolling the payment of cor .er juices
for the 1891 wheat crop. AncffUid
manifesto has been prepared with great
secrecy and will be placed m 'he hands
of every member of the Farmers’ Al l
a part o°r alUf hT£h]T and inducing
his friends aid neighb.ni to do the
same ur.ti such a time as the necessities
of consumers at home and abr .ad
will force tbe payment of prices sat sfac-
tory to the producers. The various
farmers’ organizations have a member-
ship of nearly six mill on, and all o!
them are expected to fad in line with the
Alliance, and to induce others not mem-
bers of any of the societies to do the
same. The circular is practically of the
relative force of an order from Goinpers
and PowderJy for a general labor stake,
the farmers being drilled up to an appre-
ciation of the overwhelming ad-
vantages of co oper .tion. Tiie cir-
cular is lengthy and sets forth with
elaborate statical detail the fact that
the farmers °f America have be n
skinned out of $300,000,000 in three
years through the machinations of the
short sellers, that Europe has the short-
est wheat and rve crop of the cetx .ury,
and tuat conditions The arc providential directed
for a trust. farmers are
to resolve that a minimum price
of $1.35 in New York is moderate
and conservative, and that they p edge
themselves not to market their wheat ai"
lower prices and then only sparingly and
under the direction of state commit¬
tees constituted lor the purpose of keep¬
ing posted as to supply and demand, and
siroug reasons are urged for the belief
that this policy will sjon elevate prices to
the desired limit. The move is likened
to a strike with the difference that the
workingmen lo-e money every day the
strike lasts wdiile the farmer makes money,
and that the outcome is always doubt¬
ful with the workingmen while in this in¬
stance with the farmer it is certain. In
the body of the circular is a letter from
Professor G. B. Dodge, government sta¬
tistician, estimating the crop of 1891 at
seventy-five to one hundred million
ba-hels, under the “absurd” 600,000,000
bushel bear estimate with a possibility of
125.000,000 bushels less. This is Dedge’s
first estimate of the crop. The circular
is decidedly sensational iu its signifi¬
cance.
A DEFAULTING SHERIFF.
He Bought Cotton Futures with
Tax Money.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Ark.,
says: Developments fully confirm the
report of the defalcation of Sheriff War-
field. Thursday afternoon his family
packed up all their effects and left for
Memphis The actual $25,000, shortage will be
in the neighborhood of ma le up
of state tax, school tax and levee tax. It
will be a total loss to the bondsmen. In
addition to this, advices from L ttle Rock
sa*y he is short $30,000 on his settlement
of last year. It i* state 1 thit Warfield
lost heavily in cotton futurrs during the
pa-t tew month-. The people are very
bitter against him » n 1 every effort will
be made to capture him.
33. S». ISIMPSOM 9
TOCCOA, CEORCIA
And Manhinorj Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
PmmiM&B Engines 9
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Sailer Senarators & Shirt Mills
Farmers and others in want of either Engines or separators, wrn
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. J am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
•xiESTEY ORGANS.!*-
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Tresses, Com and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock ol
White Sewing Machines.
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be*
ore you buy. Duplicate uarts tf machinery constantly on band.
A Beard Seven Feet Long.
Henry C. Cook, a tailor of this city,
sa J s a letter from Connecticut to the
Chicago Tribune , has probably the long¬
est beard of any man in the world. It
is seven two or three inches
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cook’s beard.
his dark Mttle store in this ancient town
he labors methodically, iu the old-time
kisureiy way, fora certain line of old-
fashioned customers, cronies of his, who
a i e as taciturn and unobtrusive as him-
Be lf. He has scissored and basted and
gewed a snug little fortune for himself,
and all the time the beard kept growing
]dsure!v and unobtrusively. After the
’
beard had become more than two feet
,0B 8 Mr ’ Cook tucked i4 in f ide his * hirt ’
a °d R grew even faster m there But it
80 completely out of sight that even
after lfc had become as long as it is, his
intimate friends never suspected
that the ambitious but retiring beard
was growitig fame for its possessor,
Finally, one day about nine years ago,
the little tailor trotted up two long
flights of stairs into the photograph
rooms of his friend, Mr. Laighton,
squared off before a camera, yanked a
great wad of hair out of the bosom of
his shirt, made a deft twist or two at it,
a nd lo! a hirsute cascade flowed to his
j ce t. ]yi r . Laighton was astonished, but
p U p ed the trigger and the camera
did the rest> At the time the £, photo .
raph was takcn the beard was 0 gix
feet six inches long; ° ’ it has grown seven
• gh ht incheg sin
Qr e
i six ’
Mr Cook 3 between ty f and seven _
t \ h&g & ^ wr nkled ^ dark
face, » and it .. . not , 1 known that , , he
is ever
^ as S1C ^* ^ 1S thick,^ luxuriant hair
j sas black as a crows wing, and there is
bardly a silver thread in either his hair
or beard,
A Zulu Dainty.
Mealies ate the chief food of the
Kafirs, but they rejoice at an occasional
opportunity I J o‘f feasting off a tough
* if .. ., , has died from
“trek . ,, ox—no matter , it
natural causes—albeit their glimmering
of religious superstition forbids them the
use CZT' i 00d " They
we should, loathe eating f a snake, but, on
tbe other hand, their fancies for certain
tidbits run in a curious direction. One
afternoon a spray of glittering green fol-
iage is brought to me, from waence are
depending the most enormous caterpil-
lars I have ever seen in my J life, as thick
thumb . , and , twice . . v long iat, * *
as my as
green fellows, studded with small, spar-
kling scales. The little Zulu girl from
whom they had been obtained wept be-
cause “we had taken away her food.” I
flatly declined to try a caterpillar or
two, whereupon a native eagerly selects
a couple of the finest, pinches off their
tails, manipulates glove-fashion the wrig¬
gling creatures one within the other,
frizzles them before the fire, and finally
daintily devours the nauseating morsel
with the lingering enjoyment of an Eng¬
lish schoolboy eating a fine Iresh straw •
berry.— Blackwood'* Magazine.
Mice in the Sheep’s Wool.
A Mercer County (Penn.) sheep far¬
mer was amazed to see a black spot trav¬
eling up and down the back of one of
his sheep a few days ago, and upon in-
vestigation found that three nests of mice
•were snugly ensconsed in the sheep's
wool. The same state of affairs existed
in the wool of three other sheep in the
herJ. The a.imal, did „<* seemto mind
the presence of the mice at all.— PhilndcL -
phia Record.
Mr. Cook is a small*
wiry, withered mac,
only five feet, six inches
tali, as the tail of his
beard, when he lets it
fall In frontof him, trails
about ....... two feet the
on
ground, He did not
let the beard grow so
long in order to excite
curious attention, but
was indifferent about it,
or, as it choose to keep
on growing, he just let
it grow. It is c ovr over
thirty years old, a water-
fall of dark, silky hair.
What notoriety it has
brought to him is very
distasteful to Mr. Cook,
who is one of the quiet¬
est, most retiring men in
the world, never bother¬
ing his head about any.
in life. In
NUMBER 27.
RICHMOND 4DANVILLE R- R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed chedule of Passci^&er
Trains. In Effect May 3 lst, I89L
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12.
EA6TEWN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) ipsowwaiaooeao-i-i'-a-j 9 10 am
Chamhlee..... 8 43 am
Norcrors....... 8 58 am
Duluth........ 9 06 am
Hnwanse....... 9 17 am
Buford........ 83 am
Flowery Braucb 10 9 48 gm
Lula Gainesville..... 2 52 pm 11 am"
.... 3 14 pin 10 40 am
Bellton.. t i 10 43 am
Cornelia. 11 09 am
Mt. Airy.____ >m 11 14 am
Toaooa......... am
Westminster ...
Seneca........ 11 >m
Central. ....... 1 45 pm
Easleys........ am
Greenville..... 6 05 pni am
Greers...(..... V
Wellford.......
Spartanburg... 0 57 pm
Clifton
Cowpens ......
Gaffneys....... am
Blacksburg..... am
Gr.wer......... ata 1
King’« Mount’ll anl
Gastonia....... am
Lowell........
Bellernont.....
Ar. Char otte...... 9 10 pm am
SOUTHWARD. No. 37, No. 11. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 7 55 am! 1 55 pm 2 30 am
Bellemont..... ........! 2 18 pm 2 57 am
L Well......... ........ 2 28 pu> 3 08 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 41 pm 3 22 am
King’s Mount’n ........ 3 06 pm S 53 am
Gvov. r......... ........ 3 22 pm 4 f» am
Blacksburg .... ........ 3 33 pm 4 24 am
Gaffneys....... ........ 3 51 pin 4 43 10 am
Cowpens...... Clifton........ ........ '125 i 18 pm 5 5 15 am
........ pm am
Sparta’iburg... 9 55 am 4 43 pm 5 32 am
W Ilford........ ........ 5 11 pm 5 57 am
Green......... ........ 5 31 pm 6 16 am
Greenville...... 10 5C am 6 05 pm 6 47 am
Easleys......... ........ 6 33 pm 7 16 am
Central........ ........ 7 25 pm 8 10 am
Seneca......... ........ 7 53 pm 8 38 am
Westmin8 ! er.... ........ 8 12 pm 8 58 am
Toecoa........ ........ 8 50 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... ........ 9 25 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia....... ........ 9 30 pm 10 15 am
Bellton........ ........ 10 00 pm 10 43 am
Lnla.......... i 35 pm 10 02 pm 10 46 am
Gainesville..... I 57 pm 10 28 pm till am
Flowery Branch ........! 10 49 pm 11 31 am
Buford........ ........'ll 03 pm 11 46 am
Suwanee....... ........• Ll 17 pm 11 50 am
Duluth........ ....... II 29pm 12 12 pm
Norcross...... ........11 4? pm 12 24 pm
Chsmblee...... ........1154 pm 12 87 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 3 25 pm 12 3 0 pm 1 15 pm
Additional trams Nos. 17 and 18-Lola ac-
cominf>dation SS?580 daily except ffila Hnndav. leaves At-
p m, 8 18 pm. Return-
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 am, arrives Atlanta 8 55
am.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 dai’y, leave Lnla 10 05p
m, and 10 50 a m, arrive Athens 12 05 a m and
12 50 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 7 00 p m
and 8 30 a m, arrive Lula 9 00 pm and 10 30
a m. and
Between Toccoa and Elberton—Noe. 61
63 daily; except Sundav leave Toccoa 11 45 am
and 4 20 a m, arrive Elberton 3 3i p m and 915
Returninsr. Noe.60 aud 62 daily, except
Sunday, leave Elberton 2 45 p m and 5 45 am,
arrive Toccoa 7 10 pm and 915am.
io Pullman Sleeper between Atlanta and New
York.
On No. 11 no change in day coache* from
and^S? Wwhington between and Atlanta Southwest- and
e m Vegtibuled Limited,
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
th * r ^ ed oa ^ <? 1 «J Bti<k » :8 on, - r *
For detailed , information . to local . . ana
as
through time table-*, rate** and Pullman Bicep-
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
JAS - L - 1A *LOK, L. L. McCLE'KEY.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’L Div. Pass. Ag’t. Ga.
Waehin^ten, D. C. Atlanta,
W. H. GREEN. C. P. HAMMOND,
Gen’l Manager. Superintendent.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LA W«
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the countie* of Haber-
*ham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank!m and Banhi of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all hu*b>e*s entrusted to him.
The collection of debt* will have ►pen¬
ial attention.
«
The Exposition grounds at Chicago are in-
closed b v a high board £ence, and during tne
-
not Baker, present a pass contersi^ce l by President
of tae Exposition Directory.