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JIOMEII, GA„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 27 1898.
THE BURIAL OF GINGER JAM EG.
A apfell I hod to wait
Outside the barrick gate,
For Dinger James was pasain out aa T waa
paK-in in;
’E was only u recruit,
But l give ’tin the solute,
For fc'Vl never git another chance of givin it
ag’in!
'E and little brains, I’ll sweat,
Beneath 'is ginger 'air;
*lapersonal attraetions*-well, they wasn’t very
largo;
'IS was fust in ev’ry mill
An a foul mouthed .cur, but still
'Te'll forgive ’im jill ’U drawbacks-*’© ‘us tak
en ’i3 discharge.
• ’E otic*' j’ot fourt< on days
For drunken, idle woys.
An the colonel said the nasty things that
colonelseomelimes say;
'E oslled 'im to ’is face
The regiment's disgrace,
But the colonel took 'is 'at. off when ’o passed
'im by today.
For days ’o used to dwell
Inside a guardroom cell,
Yrhero they put the darbies on 'lm for a ’owl
lli iuivage Tn*ute :
But na by the guhrd Ns wont
They gave 'im the present;
The little bugler sounded oil the “general sa
lute. ' ’
The band turned cut to play
Poor Ginger James invny,
'la captain and 'ia company camo down to see
’im off,
An thirteen file an rank,
With three rounds each of Monk,
An 'e rode down on e. carriage, iiko a bloom in
city toff I
’E doesn’t want no pass;
'E's journey in first class;
'la trav’lin rug's a Union jack* which Isn't
bad all;
The tune the drummers play,
It ain’t co very gay,
But a rather slow selection from a piece that's
known as “Saul.”
*~lLdgar s Wallaco in London Chronicle.
ALASTAIR’S CROSS.
“Rise up and come out now; it’s a
bonny night for us indeed—and for tho
work that’s afoot, lan Ban.” Tliuh a
voice cried aloud from the midmost of
the silent group c£ cragsmen and fisher
Jnen that stood waiting dourly round
the fast shut door cf lan Mac Alastair’s
cottage, perched, like a gull’s nest, on
the ridge of tho steep and shining bench
at Roneidshay. “Make haste, man,
make haste, aud come along with your
self. It’s tired waiting here we are.”
“Aye, aye, it’s ready and coming I
em, Macdonald, but hasty work is aye ill
work, and I was saying a bit prayer in
an erra minute here; that was all.”
The door swung open now, and the
speaker came out into the half light
that a sullen mocn gave as she slipped
fitfully from cloud to cloud in tho
windy sky. A handsome man, this fair
lan, with eyes as blue as cornflowers,
and a yellow beard that the wind was
tossing all ways at once, but just now
bis eyes were darkened and his face set
with the same stern purpose that made
dumb the crowd of kinsfolk and neigh
bors around him. “Come out, Aias
tair!” he called, and a tall slip of a lad
came out and stood waiting by his side.
His father had given him a strain of
Danish blood as well as Celtic, and his
mother had been kindly Irish of the
Irish. But Alastair Mac Alastair favored
neither fair lan nor dark Aileen, for
isia eyes were of tho sea’s shifting color,
and tho soft hair Under his fisherman’s
cop was a dusky red. His eyebrows
were of tho darkest, and against tho
sunburn of check aud chin his lips
showed curiously colorless, and in odd
contrast to the sturdy men and strap
ping lads around him was his extreme
slenderness of build, in spite of the
rough blue clothes which seemed almost
to hide him.
“I am boro, ” he said, Bpoaking in
Gaelic, as ho stepped to his father’s
side, “and the time ia hero, lan Mac-
Alastair says. And what do you want
of mo, neighbors?”
“Go down to the beach, Alastair,”
his father said curtly, and the boy
obeyed silently. When their feet were
ankle deep in water, lan Mac Alastair
spoke again. “Did you pray before you
slept tonight, Alastair? Yes? that’s
good. Strip now. ” His sou lifted won
dering eyes to lan’s gloomy face, but
obeyed silently, and presently some ouo
muttered a verse of an old speil song
that changed the wonder in Aiastair’e
eyes to comprehension.
Naked hands and naked feet aro all that the
Gen liac need of;
Naked, oh, the sou! must go that the ninth
wave has creed of!
Naked heart, for the stars to sift, raked limbs
for the tide to drift
Out from tho shore, to come no more to the
hoartia that the spirit has heed of.
When the murmur died, Alastair
raised his head and looked round on tho
darkened faces with a flickering smile
on his palo mouth. “Is it to drown my
self you’ve brought mo here or will you
do it, lan Mac Alastair? I’ll lift no fin
ger to stop you, for long have I been
knowing I was the needless mouth and
tho useless hand among yon, and my
red head bringing bad luck to your nets
all the summer. Only I’d taka it kindly
if you would do it quickly, friends—be
cause it’s bitter cold it is waiting here. ”
“ You shall not be waiting long, Alas
tair,” lan said heavily, “and neither
will you drown yourself nor wo you.
We will bo giving you a chance, though
not in Ronaldshay. ”
“Roualshuy I know, ” Alastair said
quietly, “and it’s glad I would bo if
yon would kill me here with your own
hand, lather — No'’ — His hand slipped
from his father’s shoulder, “Then have
your will and your way, lan Mac Ala
stair, I’ll not gainsay you.”
“There’s tho moon,” lan said at last,
“now make ready.” Ko stooped and
dragged some dark object at ht3 feet a
little higher up tho beach, so that its
lower end only lay in the sea. Alastair
glanced at it and saw that it was a tree
trunk, weed covered and barnacle grown
with washing afoot in heavy seas.
Upon it a spar wa3 lashed crosswise.
Alastair looked at it a moment longer,
then, in obedience to a gesture from his
father, laid himself down upon it with
his arms outstretched. Then Macdonald
and another man stooped over him,
lashing his feet together and than se
curing his arms to the crosspiece just
above the elbowß. Two stout ropes hold
him by tho shoulders and went over his
body, crossing on the breast, and these
were drawn so tightly that Alastair,
after enduring wi!h clinched tooth for a
minute, Was forced to cry out. “Loosen
it,” lan Mac Alastair said hoarsely, and
the others obeyed.
‘‘l am safe now," Alastair said, smil
ing, as they drew bach from him for A
minute, “Your knots are fn-t, Macdon
ald, and s>.,iro —ah!” They had raised
tho cross upright now. And tho sudden
strain upon his overwrought nerves had
forced another cry from Alastair, hot
tiro nest rough movement he bore in si
lence, and it was with stmt lips and
quiet eyes that be endured the sudden
casting out from their midst and smoth
ering splash into deep water.
“A boat will be picking you up may
be, but you will not becoming back to
Ronaldshay, Judas JlafAlastair!” Mac
donald shouted after him, but Alastair
called no curse back, as those on shore
half expected. Ho did not ovon turn his
head to look at the shore, but lay si ill
upon his cross, taking wit!', the same
quietness the stinging of the suit -pray
in his eyes and the tingling pain ia his
bound limbs. •
“Raked limbs—the sea has need of,”
Alastair whispered presently. “Does the
sea want me any more than tho laud
does, Iwondor? Oh,'but it’s cold, cold!”
i shuddering ns one wave after another
drove over his naked body. “X wish tho
wind would rise; then I wouid get a
chanced drowning. X- tin a mutter of
thunder? I wish it were. Mother, are
yon sorrowful somowhoro for mo to
night?” A nearer mutter of thunder
stopped his murmuring, and the next
hour laid another cross upon Alastair’s
burdened shoulders—tho cross of per
petual tossing about from drowning to
life as the big seas lifted bim now and
now broke over him in a clutter of yel-
Idwfoam. When the stress of the storm
wont by, Alastair had fainted, but pres
ently the splash of somo tossing wrack
upon his naked breast brought him to a
knowledge of hunger and cold and pain.
“The fish will ho plenty next cast,
I’m thinking, ” Alastair gasped as he
tried to’ shako tho drenched hair from
his eyos. “If ouiy the sea won’t cast
me up at their very doors —or then they
will bo thinking I’d bo coming back
again to haunt them. Is it coming loose
I am?” Tho rope had slipped from his
right cm, leaving it free, and tho next
wave flung him against a sharp edged
rook, bruising his free arm on tho small
sharp shells that covered it. But Alns
tair clung fast to tho rock, with a light
in his faoo that would not fade for all
the pain of torn flesh and nerves, and
presently ho found what ho was seeking
—a crevice through which ho could
thrust his fingers. When his hand was
fixed fust in tho jaggod hole, the light
deepened and softened in Al.’istaif'sfaee. :
“This is good, this is better,” he
whispered, “than the open eea, and still
this will not hurt my own folk, for this
rock is not Ronaldshay. * * * Kind,
kind, after all, are yon, sea o' mo, kind-- |
or than I dared hope you’d bo.” And I
now a big wave lilted him softly an 1
turned him over on his faco, still an
chored to tho rock by his right hand.
Tho weight of tho cross on hi3 back
pressed him down an arm’s length, no
more, and then the sea that ho had
loved very gently took tho soul of Alas
tair Mac Alastair to itself.
At, long last fishermen from the is
land of Eday found him, still bound to
his cross.
Though they were afraid to take the
drowned lad aboard 'their boat, lest they
should sutler in their herring harvests,
they towed cros3 and all a more with
them and barfed cross and ail in their
windy hill graveyard, where lie thono
fow men t£ Eday that the sea has not
drowned*
And the story of Cross Alastair is a
woeful story in tho North isles to this
day.—Black and White.
Ills Regret,
“I regret to observe,” said Skilltcn,
“that there is to be .another yacht race
for tho America’s cup.”
“Regret? Why, it indicates that
England and the United States arc com
ing together again!” Faid Jones.
“That’s just it, ” said Skilltcn. “We
v/ere beginning to get along so nicely,
and now ail the old troubles will he re
opened. ” —Harper’s Bazar.
Indian Falla cs Shoplifter.
A Navajo Indian can rude more bulk
Within tho folds of his blanket than a
two bushel basket could hold and can
6uce<* -fully hide many stolen articles
before our eyes. Tho settlers along the
&;.u Juan and Animas rivers, during the
early days, had to put ail their stealablo
possessions in cue corner of their places
of abode and stand guard'when tho Ka
vajoes wore visitors, v> 's ea was a too
frequent occurrence. “Chinny ab-go!”
(meaning something to eat) was the tint
intimation . generally that an Indian
was near (perhaps a half dozen). They
rarely exceeded half a dozen in number,
as they, like the American hobo, had
learned tbat smaller numbers stood a
better show to get something to eat.
One day- in A. R. Lincoln’s cabin, on
tho south bank of tho San Juan river,
throo bachelois were partaking of their
evening meal when a Navajo with a
glass eye walked in. All tried to watch
the Indian’s movements, but he had
managed to get several articles under
hfs blanket and would have been
detected had not an accident befallen
him. A hatchet which slipped from one
of tho folds in his blanket foil, and the
sharp blade cut a long gash in the calf
of his leg. The Indian looked to the
roof of the cabin as if wondering where
the hatchet had fallen from, but the
blood spurting from the open gash be
trayed him. His blanket was shaken,
and a butcher knife, miner’s candle
stick, several candles and a package of
tobacco, all belonging in the cabin, foil
on the earthy floor. —Durango (Gel.)
Wage Earner,
•
H I>ci Not lU;oognir. Whey.
Tho sporlol correspondent of awe!’,
known h'M.. ;s paper furnished e most
eat" factory iaogh awhile ago fur
friend of hit; who lives up In northern
Now York state, and he doc- net kuow
It yet. He uadcone op the unto to visit
some mill or outer, and tho before men
tioned friend volunteered to drive him
over to his destination Now, white the
special correspondent has a wonderfully
general fund of information ho knows
liltlo about the country, nn<l when they
worn passing a largo cheeiso factory he
exclaimed: ‘‘Why, there’s a creamery!
Just wait a miuufo while I go In and
get a drink of buttermilk. ”
With this ho jumped out of the car
riage and entered the building. My
country friend says that whey is not
pleasant to take and that even the pigs
won’t eat it. But when tho special cor
respondent askt.d for buttermilk the
t>eople in tho factory gave him a big
glass of thin, adduces liquid, which ho
swallowed down at a draft. The driv
was then continued. Tho special corre
spondent seemed to bo very thoughtful.
Ho finally exclaimed in his explosive
fashion:
"Well, Smith, I don’t know what
breed of cows you raise up bore, but
that was the darudest buttermilk l over
tasted. ” —Paper Mill.
Two Stops at a Tl.tio,
Ono evidence c? tho ever hustling char
acteristics of the average New Yorker ia
; shown on the (stairways of the np town
| station of the elevated railroad at Park
i place and Church street. Tho steps of
these stairways are covered with rub
ber, but every other step has largo iron
rings imbedded lu tho rubber.
This was caused by tho fact that the
New Yorker is never content to wait
even one minute for a train, and that
when ho hears ono approaching as he is
at tlie foot of the stairs he will rush up
tho stairs two steps at a time boning to
catch tho train.
Asa result tho < levatcd railroad ofii
oials noticed that tho rubber matting on
every other step was wearing out twice
as quickly as the rest. For a long time
they pondered as to tho cense, and ono
day Manager Fransioli solved tho prob
lem. To know was to act in his case,
and the steel ra-enforoed rubber now
lasts if anything longer than the or
dinary me t 3 ca the other steps.— New
York Son.
Vlctc.r iTue° In Ezlle.
I live near the sea in a house built 60
years ago by an English privateer and
called Hanteville House. I, a represent
ative of the people and an exiled sol
dier of the French republic, pay droit
do p'oclago every year to the queen of
England, sovereign lady of tho Channel
islands, ns Duchess of Normandy aud
tr y feudal suzerain. This is ono of the
curious results of exile.
I live a retired life hero with ray
wife, my daughter and my two sons,
Charles and Francois. A few exiles
have joined me, and wo make a family
party. Every Tuesday I give a dinner
to 10 little children, chosen from among
the most poverty stricken of tho island,
and my family and I wait on them. I
try by this means to give this feudal
country an idea of equality and frater
nity. Every now aud then a friend
crosses the sea and pays mo a visit.
These art: our gala days. I have some
dogs, some birds, some flowers. I hope
next year to have a small carriage aud
a horse. My pi rniary circumstances,
which L .and been brought to a very low
ebb by Die coup c otat, have been some
what improved by my bock “Lev Miser
ubiea” I got up early, igo to oo.i early,
I work a” day, I walk by the sea, I
have a sort of nr.rural armchair in a
rock fer writing at a beautiful spot
called Firmain bay, X do not smoko, I
eat roast beef iiko an Englishman and 1
drink beer like a German, which docs
not prevent tho Espana, a clerical news
paper of Madrid, from asserting that
Victor Hu > does not exist and that
the real author of “Los MiscrabW is
called satan.—Letters of Victor Hugo.
Growing Old.
He—Carrie, you don’t seem to care
so muoh for me as you did when we
wero first married.
She—As for that matter, I don’t
think so much of my hat as I did when
I got it jast before Easter. —Boston
Transcript.
1 11 OJS’ESSIDN'AI. CARDS
J L, HERONS
Attorney at Law,
II oilier, Gn>
attention given to all business placed
in my lianas
N. HAKDEN‘‘M.D.
West of Public Square,
liOMBR, GA.
Telephone at office.
J a SAM DAcv i.EL, M. D.
jjg£r*OFFiCE East of Public Sqap.e ;
HOMER, GA.“
T)R. W. G. SHARP,
MAY3YILLE, GA.
fqry-'Qtlico over Wi C. J. Garrison’s Store.
‘ ‘ '
Am Un.-arcnln Diava-e.
There io uc dixoaoe fcore uncertain In Its
stare than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
Le symrt'jir.i! of no riro cases agree. It ia
therefore moat liiSoEit to make a correct
diagnosis. No matvsr how severe, cr under
- catdiefe-uise dyspepsia attacks you, frowns’
Iron Bitieri. wilt cure it. Invain&Ye in ail
(Itacse* of the stomach, blood and nerves.
Uic,was’lron Bitters ii cold by ail ttraiers
Tho Kind Voir if.vo Always 150 a d which has been
hi use for over ,‘tO years, has bom the s' 'nature of
has been -e ~<i. his per
/Y* y f sonal supervision sir.co .-fs ii uiey.
Allow no one to deceive y< n this.
AH Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes .> hi'-t •' ’ -
pertinents that trifle with amt endanger* the . ealth oi
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTOR IA
Castor:a Is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
tind Soothing- Syrupy. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverish mss. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teethh.-g- Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flat: wy, It as miil.-f'es Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, givin-- healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panace .—The .Mother’s Friend.,
genuine CASTOR IA always
jp Soars the Signature
The Kind You Have Always Bought
!n Use For Over 30 Years.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY.
I| n tp 1 jii |jn |s w |j|i.
Headquarters tor Higli-g’rade goods
atLowest JPe-Icon*
Otu new goods for FALL and II INI '• .11 are here. Our large store
roomes are literally hl.oilfiom b< tom to bo’tom to top. Our slock is the
most complete ever brought to Gainesville, embracing everything needed for*
mail, woman or child.
|NliGrt orojjg and low prioPs
There are no two classes of men whose interests arc nearer the same
than the fanner and the merchant. When 'he fanner prospeis the merchant
prospers, and when crops are s’ it and cotton low ihe merchant is effected bv
the blow the same its the farmer Kealizin; thm to be 1 fact this season we
have selected o ir stock and made our prices to suit the times.
NOTE 1 i±E SPECIAL Flil'JES GIVEN BELOW
SILKS, SA'j INS VELVETS, ETC.
Beautiful black Taffetta medinm
weight, regular width all silk, Worth
65c, at 59c
ll , r- : k TnffctU, full 24
ini hes vide vorth regi lai 20c at, 75c
p.xtrv heavy black Tafk ttn, full 24 in.
wide, sells elsewhere at $1 per yard
only 85c
BLACK ANT COLORED WOOL
DRESS GOODS.
Ten pieces or Broadcloth, 54 incites
wide, extra heavy, bauliful fin: h. .t?l
Fifteen pieces Ladiesclota. very heavy
all wool 5 i indies wide, worth ‘.isc to
75c pci yard, our price 50c
Tweniv pieces Ludieaclolli, all wool,.
full width, worth 50c, only 35c
20 pieces Woolen Brocades, full 46 ini
wide, 40c, only 20c
10 pieces of Novelties, 40 inches Wide
worth 25c, at 16c
20 pieeios double width Dress Goods
worth regular 15c, at 10c.
Our line of black Dress Goods em
braces every style and weave desired
including Henriettas, Serges, Cash
meres Diagonals, Wide Wales, Whip
cords, Beffgnhucs, Noveldea Ort-yons,
Sroadeltvlifi, Ladiescicths etc ranging
in price from 10c to 200
CLOAKS, CAPES and JACKETS
In Ladies’and C. 1 >•&..’* Wrap we
feel confident that we can please you
Our $2 Flush Cape 01r.net bed pli
cated elsewhere for less than ®3 50
Extra heavy, latest style Plvsh Capes
all sizes worth regular $5 50 to &G CO
our price $3 85
Conic to see its. Polite attention and conirteovs treatment to cvryone
FULL LINE OF BUTTERICK PATTERNS A WAYS ON HAND
tSUMr. J. R. BOONE makes lus office with ua
J. E, MURPHEYCO.,
Dean Building, Corner Main and Washington Streets,
Phone 118 GAINESVILLE, SAa
i # S5 lili tj £i
t-llre bflitnisness, dyspepsia, headache, ccr.stt
pation, sour stomach, indigestion are promptly
cured V.y Hood’s Pills. They do their work
easily and thoroughly. * f| S
Best after dinner pills. p H 9 €5
25 cents. All druggists. Shi S* I v'i .
Prepared hy C. I. Hood a Cos., Bow-ell, Jlass.
Ths only Pill to taka with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
NO. 3L
MILLINERY.
In Milliner] we loud. Our stock is
the largest and most up to date to bo
found in Gainesville, If yon desire
•tnytbii-g in the millinery line it will
be to your interest to call.on us, as
here you will find everything needed
from a 25<£Sailor to a $25 French pat
tern Hat. Special inducement to eut
of town merchants in tins department
CLOTHING ANT HATS.
High grade Tailor made Suits
Our fine suit!. *r-..- made by ub ectti
brated Schloss Bros, of Baltimore.
The most modern m designs and the
most pc-i feet fitting clothing on 'he
market. O.ir styles embrace every
thing v.'ishsd for in single b roasted
Sacks, double breasted Sacks, Cuta
ways and Prince Alberts
The largest and best assorted stock
of Boys’ Clothing in town, From a
nobby little suil to 1 fit a tot of three
years to a youth of eighteen. Large
stock of Old Pant for children, and
boys and men,
HATS AND CAPS,
[
For any zile Load and nny sixe purse,
Her:; you can find anything you want
from a 15c Cap to the celebrated John
B Stetson Hat as high as $6
CN FURNISHING GOODS
i line in Collars, Cuffs,
is -c kv- Slnrtß Lsnndried and ua
iaundried, Iloseiy, Colton aurt \ 00l
Underwear for men and boya always
.0 be found here at the very lowest
prices
liuch in Little
Is espeoialiy true of Hood’s P: ’■>, >r no medi
cine ever contained so great c rive ptrssr In
so small apace. They are hok ".cdiciL-;
eliesv, always ready, a!- s s a
ways efficient, always sat- s M j a
Isfactorj; prevent a cold B B I 58
or fever, cure ail liver His,
tick headache, Jaundice, constipation, eto. aso.
The otuy Pills to take with Hood’s RarsaparitJas