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HOMEII, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, > 1898.
THE BURIAL OF GINGER JAMES.
A Bpell I had to wait
Outside tho barrick gate,
For Ginger James was yussln oat as I was
pas-yin in;
*E wiis only a recruit.
But I give ’ini the salute,
For I’ll never git another chance of givin it
ag’inl
’E'd little brains, I’ll mvear,
Eencath ’is ginger 'air;
Tsperfior.nl attractions-^well, they wasn’t very
largo;
’E was fust in ev’ry mill
An a foul mouthed cur, but still
\sTe’il forgive ’ini all 'is druwbucki—’e ’as tak
en ’is discharge.
’E once got fourteen days
For drunken, idle wnyß,
An the colonel said the nasty things that
colonels sometimes say;
’E called ’im to ’is faco
The regiment's disgrace,
Bat the colonel took 'is 'ut off when 'e passed
’im by today.
For d.tys ’e used to dwell
Inside a guardroom coll,
Where they put the darbies on ’im for a 'owl
in Huv?ge brute,
llut as by the guard, ’e went
Tliuy gave ’im the present;
Tho little bugler sounded off the “general ea
lute.”
The band turned out to play
. Poor Ginger James away,
’ls captain und ’is company came down to see
'im off,
An thirteen file nn rank,
With three rounds each of blank,
An ’e rode down on a carriage, like a bloomin
city toff!
’E doesn’t want no pr^s;
’E’h journey in first, cloas;
’ls trnv’lin rug’s a union jack, which isn’t
bad at all;
Tho tune the drummers play,
It ain’t eo very gay,
But a rather slow selection from a piece that’s
known a “Saul."
—Edgar'HVallace in London Chronicle.
ALASTAIKS CROSS.
"Rise up anil come out now; it’s a
bonny night for ns indeed —and for tho
work that’s afoot, lan Ban.” Thus a
voico cried aicud from tho midmost of
the silent gronp of cragsmen and Sshor
men that stood waiting dourly round
the fast shut door cf lan Mac Alastair’s
cottage, perched, like a gull’s nest, on
tho ridge of the steep and shining beach
at Ronaldshay. “Make haste., man,
make haste, and come along with your
self. It’s tired waiting here we are.”
"Aye, aye, it’s ready and coming I
am, Macdonald, but hasty work is ayo ill
work, and I was saying a bit prayer in
an orra minute bore; that was all.”
The door swung open now, and the
speaker came out into tho half light
that a sullen moon gave as cho slipped
fitfully from cioud to cloud in tho
windy sky. A handsome man, this fair
lan, with eyes as blue as cornflowers,
and r. yellow beard that tho wind was
tossing ali ways at once, but just now
his eyes were darkened and his face sot
with tho same stern purpose that made
dumb the crowd of kinsfolk and neigh
bors around him. “Come out, Alas
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 tho
Irisn. But Alastair Mac Alastair favored
nc .her fair lan nor dark Aileea, for
his eyes were of tho sea’s shifting color,
and tho soft hair under his fisherman's
cap was a dusky red. His eyebrows
were of the darkest, and against the
sunburn of cheek and chin his lips
showed curiously colorless, and in odd
contrast to tho sturdy men and strap
ping lads around him was his extreme
slenderness of build, in spite of the
rough blue clothes which scorned almost
to hide him.
“I am hero,” he said, speaking in
Gaelic, as ho stepped to his father’s
side, “and the time is hero, lan Mac-
Alastair says. And what do you want
of me, neighbor.-:?”
“Go down to tho beach, Alastair,"
his father said curtly, and tho boy
obeyed silently. When tboir feet were
ankle deep in water, lan Mac Alastair
spoko 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 silontly, and presently someone
muttored a verse of an old spell song
that changed tho wonder in Alastair’s
eyes to comprehension.
Naked hands and naked feet are all that the
sea has need of;
Naked, oh, the soul must go that tho ninth
wave lias gveecl of!
Naked heart for tho stars to sift, naked limbs
for tiie tide to drift
Out from the shore, to corno no more to the
hearth3 that the spirit has heed of.
When the murmur died, Alastair
raised his head and looked round on the
darkened faces with a flickering smile
on his pale mouth. “Is it todrown my
self you’ve brought me 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 month and
the useless hand among you, and my
red head bringing bad luck to your nets
all the summer. Only I’d take 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 we you.
We will be giving you a chance, though
not iu Ronaldshay.”
“Ronalsbay 1 know, ’’ Alastair said
quietly, “aud it’s glad I would be if
you would kill me here with your own
hand, lathor— No I ’ His band slipped
from his father’s shoulder, “Then have
your will and your way, lan Mac Ala
stair, I’ll not gainsay you.”
“There’s the moon,” lan said at last,
“now make ready.” Ho stooped and
dragged some dark object at his feet a
little higher up the beach, so that its
lower end only lay iu the sea. Alastair
glanced at it and saw th r, it was a tree
'trunk, weed covered and barnacle grown
with washing about in heavy seas.
Upon it a spar was lashed crosswise.
Alastair looked at it a moment longer,
then, in obedience to a gesture from his
fatten, laid himself down upon it with
[ his arms outstretched. Then Macdonald
I and another man stooped over him,
1 lashing his feet together aud then se
ouring his arms to the crosspiece just
above the elbows. Two stout ropes held
him by the shoulders and went over his
body, crossing on tho breast, and those
wore drawn so tightly that Alastair,
after enduring with clinched *>’• rh f:rt
minute, was forced to cry out. "Doreen
it,” lan MauAlastair said hoarsely, and
tho others obeyed.
“I am Safe now, ” Alastair said, smil
ing, as they drew back from him fora
minute. “Your knots are fast, Macdon
ald, and bo are—ah I” They had raised
the cross Upright now, and tho sudden
strain upon his overwrought nerves had
forced another cry from Alastair, but
the next rough movement ho tnro in si
lence, and it was with shut lips and
quiet eyes that he endured the sudden
casting out from their midst und smoth
ering splash iuto deep water.
“A boat will be picking you up may
be, but yos will not be corning back to
Ronaldsbay, Judas Mac Alastair I ’ Mac
donald shouted after him, but Alastair
called no nurse back, as Ihoso on shore
half expected. He did not even turn his
head to look at the shore, bat lay slill
upon his cross, taking with tho same
quietness the stinging cf tho salt spray
in his eyes and the tingling pain in his
bound limbs.
“Naked limbs—the sea has need of,”
Alastair whispered pres ntiy. “Doer, tho
sea want mo any more than tho land
does, I wonder? Oh, but it’s cold, cold!”
shuddering as one wave elder another
drove over his naked body. “Iwi.-i. t a
wind wouid rise; then I would got a
chance of drowning. Is that a mutter of
thunder?, I wish it were. Mother, are
you sorrowful somewhere for me to
night?” A nearer mutter of thunder
stopped his murmuring, and the next
hour laid another cross upon Alastair’s
burdened shoulders —the cross of per
petual tossing about from drowning to
life as tho big seas lifted him now and
now broke over him in a clatter of yel
low foam. When the stress cf the storm
went by, Alastair had fainted, hut pres
ently the splash ot some tossing wrack
upon bis naked breast brought him to a
knowledge of hunger aud coid and pain.
“The fish will he plenty next cast,
I’m thinking, ” Alastair gasped as he
tried to shake the drenched hair from
his eyes. “If only the sea won’t cast
me up at their very doors—or then they
will be thinking I'd bo coming back
again to haunt them. Is it coming loose
I am?” The rope had slipped from his
right arm, leaving it free, and the next
wave flung him against a sharp edged
rock, bruising bis free arm on the small
sharp shells that covered it. But Aias
tair clung fast to the rock, with a light
in his face that would not fade for all
the pain of torn flesh and nerves, and
presently he found what he was seeking
—a crevice through which ho could
thrust his fingers. When his hand was
fixed fast in the jagged hole, the light
deepened and softened in Alastair’s face.
“This is good, this is better,” he
whispered, “then the open sea, and still
this will not hurt my own folk, for this
rock is not Ronaldsbay. * * * Kind,
kind, after all, are you, sea o’ me, kind
er than I daicd hops you’d bo." And
now a big wave lifted him softly and
turned him over on bis face, still an
chored to the rock by his right hand.
The weight of tho cross on his 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 tho is
land of Eday found him, still hound to
his cross.
Though they were afraid to take the
drowned lad •oard tb art tat, lest tl y
should sutler in their hi .:mg harvests,
they towed cross and all ashore with
them and buried cross and all in their
windy hill graveyard, where lie those
few men of Eday that the sea has not
drowned.
And the story of Cress Alastair is a
woeful story in the North isles to this
day.—Black end Whits.
Ilia Regret*
“I regret to observe,” said S'.dllton, :
‘‘that tusre is to lie auotiier yacht race j
for the America's cup.”
“Rogret? Why, it indicates that
England and the United States are com
ing together again!” said Jones.
“That’s just it, ” said Skilltou. “We
wore beginning to got- along sn nicely,
and now all the old troubles will be re
opened. ” —Harper’s Bazar.
(ndiHei I’ailn us Shoplifter.
A Navajo Indian can hide more bulls
■within the folds of his blanket than a
two bushel basket could hold and can
successfully hide many stolen articles
bofoio our eyes. The settlers along the
San Juan and Animas rivers, during the
early days, had to put all their steaiabla
po. j :- ssions in one corner of their places
of abode and stand guard when the Na
vajoes were visitors, which was a too
fivyuent occurrence. “Chinny ah-gol”
(meaning something to out) was the first
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
learnt 1 that smaller numbers stood a
better show to get something to eat.
One day in A. It. Lincoln’s cabin, on
the south bank of the San Joan river,
three bachelors wore partaking of their
evening meal when a Navajo with a
glass eye walked in. All tried to watch
the Indian’s movements, but he bad
managed to' get several articles under
his blanket and would not have been
detected had not an accident befallen
him. A hatchet which slipped from ono
of the folds in his blanket fell, and the
sharp blade cut a long gash in the calf
of his leg. The Indian looked to ths
roof of the cabin as if wondering where
the hatchet bad fallen from, but the
blood sporting from the open gash be
trayed him. His blanket was shaken,
and a butcher k ife, miner’s candle
stick, several candles and a package of
tobacco, all belonging in tiro cabin, foil
on the earthy floor. —Durango (Col.)
Wago Earner.
n !>!<! Not I’fr.’.T'-- Whey.
The special c-rr ; a lent, of a Well
known : i furm.-hd r most
eafisfacr.;iy h awhile a, for u
friend of bin who lives up in northern
New York state, and he dees not know
It yet He bad gone up tho state to vißit
some mill or other, aud the before men
i. ,cd friend volunteered to drive him
over to his destination. Now, while the
special correspondent has a wonderfully
general fund of information ho knows
litflo about tho country, aud when they
were passing a huge cheese factory he
exclaimed: “Why, there’s a creamery 1
Just wait a minute while l go in and
get p. drink ci buttermilk. ”
With this be jumped out of tho car
riage and entered the building. My
country friend says that whey is not
pleasant to take and that even the pigs
won’t cat it- But when tho special cor
respondent nsked for buttermilk the
people in tho factory gave him a big
glass of thin, acidncns liquid, which ho
swallowed down at a draft. Tho drive
was t hen continued. The special corre
spondent seemed to bo very thoughtful
He finally exclaimed m his explosive
fashion:
“Veil, Smith, I don’t know what
breed of cows you raise up hero, but
that was the darndest buttermilk I ever
tasted.” —Paper Mill.
Tw o airj>s ut a Tlsr.c.
One evidence of the ever hustling char
acteristics of the average Rew Yorker ia
showui on cho stairways of the up town
station of the elevated railroad at, Bark
place and Church street. The steyis of
these stairways ore covered with rub
ber, but every other step has large iron
rings imbedded in the rubber.
This was caused by the fact that the
New Yorker is never content to wait
even one minute for a train, and that
when he hears one approaching as he is
at the foot of tho stairs ho will rush np
tho stairs two steps at a time hoping to
catch tho train.
Asa result the olovated railroad offi
cials noticed that the rubber matting on
every other step was wearing out twice
as quickly as tho rest. Bor a long time
they pondered as to the cause, aud ono
day Manager Frannioli solved the prob
lem. To know was to act in his case,
and the steel re-enforced rubber now
lasts if anything longer than the or
dinary mats ou the other steps. —New
York Sun.
Victor Ruf;o In Exile.
I iivo near the sea in a house built 60
years ago by an English privateer and
-ailed Eauteville House. I, a represent
ative of the people and an exiled sol
dier of tho French republic, pay droit
do poulage every year to the queon of
England, sovereign lady of the Channel
islands, us Duchess cf Normandy and
ray feudal suzerain. This is one of the
curious results of exile.
I live a retired life here with my
wife, my daughter and my two sons,
diaries and Francois. A few exiles
i have joined me, and we make a family
1 party. Every Tuesday I givo a dinnor
| to 15 little children, chosen from among
i tho most poverty stricken of the island,
! and my family and I wait ou them. I
! try by this means to givo this feudal
country an idea of equality and frater
nity. Every now aud then a friend
crosses the sea and pays me a visit.
These are our gala days. I have some
dogs, some birds, some flowers. I hope
next year to hove u c m •’ ci.-viage and
ai. irs ) My poo irctmilances,
which had l en .ht to a very !ow
: ebb by the coup d’etat, have beeu some*
! what improved by my book “Les Miser
: Abies.” I setup early, Igo to bed early,
• 1 v. rk ail day, I walk by the sea, I
hav c a sort of natural armchair in a
j rod: for writing .at a beautiful spot
I called Finnp.il! bay, I do not smoke, I
lent i-iast boef iike an Englishman and I
! drink bear like a German, which does
ant prevent tho Esnana, a clerical news
paper of Madrid, from a. sorting that
Victor Hugo does not exist and that
the real author of “X-c.n Miserebles” ia
called sataa. —Betters ci Victor Hugo.
Growing Old.
pie—Carrie, you don’t seem to care
so much for me as yon did when we
wero first married.
ghe—As for that matter, I don’t
think so much of my hat as I did when
I get it just before Easter. —Boston
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Fli OEESSIONA L CAIII),S
J. L. ™FTN3
Attorney at Law,
Homer, Ga.
Tomyt attention given-to all business placed
iu my bands.
n. harden* m. and.
WertottPuulic Square,
HOMER, GA.
Telephone at office.
J 4 SAM DANIEL, M. D.
(vf-office East oi' Public Sqarr .
HOMER, GA ~
])TI. W. G. SHARP,
MATS VILLI!, GA.
\ fgp-Offiee over W. C. J. Garrison’s Store.
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Ar, ’Cs.-.ertati; KSt-vr.se.
I Titers k: r.e diseiss mere uncertain in its
j y-ture than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
,bs symptoms of no two esses agree. It is
therefore most ditties! t to make a correct
tUsjjnoete. Ho matter how severs, or under
srhatdl*''.!isedy<ipepri* attacks you, Browns’
Iron Bitters will cure it- Invaluable in ail
diseases of i‘ro stoms-cli. I’oor arid nerves,
arowns’ Iron Litters in sold by all dealer?
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which lias been
in use for over HO years, has borne the signature of
- and Ids been made under his x>er
,//soon i supervision since its infancy*
Allow no one tp deceive you in this*
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex
periments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORS A
Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Props
ami Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago is its guarantee. 11 destroys TV orms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
The Kind You Me Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRUY STREET, NEWYOR**. CITY. .
Ileadiuiirters ior goods
sit Irowesi Prices,
Out new goods for FALL and WINTER are here. Our large store
roomes are literally tilled from bottom to bottom to top. Our stock is the
n ost complete ever brought to Gainesville, embracing everything ueeded for
man, woman or child.
fcSliGrfc eropg and low prices
There are no two classes of men whose interests are nearer the same
than the farmer and the merchant. When the fainter prospeis the merchant
prospers, and when crops are short and cotton low the merchant is effected by
iho'blow the same as the farmer Realizing this to Lo a fact this season we
have selected o.r stock and made our prices to suit the times.
NOTE IHE SPECIAL PRICES GIVEN BELOW
SILKS, SAT INS VELVETS, ETC,
Beautiful black Taffetta medium
weight, regular width all silk, worth
Goc, at 590
Heavy weight black Taffetta, full ?A
iiichea wide, worth regvlar SOc at. 75c
Extrv heavy black Tafk-ttn, full 24 in.
wide, sells elsewhere at SI per yard
only 85c
black and colored wool
DRESS GOODS.
Ten pieces of Bruadcb th, 54 inches
wide, extra heavy, b .utiful finish, at SI
Fifteen pieces Ladiesciutn. very —ivy
ail wool 54 inches wide, worth Goc to
75c peT yard, our price 50c
Twcniv pieces Ladicsclolh, sli wool,
full width, worth 50c, only 35c
20 pieces woolen Brocades, full 46 in.
wide, 40c, only 20c
10 pieces oi Novelties, 40 inches wide
worth 25c, at 15c
20 pieeies double width Dress Goods
worth regular 15r, at. !oc.
Our line of black Dress Goods em
braces every style and weave desired
including Henriettas, Serges, Cash,
meres Diagonals, Wide W ales, Whip
cords, Bengalines, Novelties Creporis,
Broadcloths, Ladiescloths etc ranging
in price from lOoto 20c
CLOAKS, CAPES and JACKETS
lln Ladies’ and Childron’s Wraps we
fee! confident that we can please you
Our $2 I Cape cannot be dupli
cated els-• where for less than S3 50
Extra heavy, latest style Pivsh Capes
all sizes worth regular $5 50 to $6 50
our price I*3 85
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FULL LINE OF BUTTERICK PATTERNS A WAYS ON HAND
(ggj ’Mr. J. E. BOONE makes bis office with us
J.E, MUEPHEYCQ,,
Dean Building. Corner Main and Washington Street*,
Phone 118 GAIN ESV i LLE, GA.
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MILLINERY.
In Millinery we lead. Our stock 13
the largest and most up to date to be
found in Gainesville, If you desire
anything in the millinery line it will
be to your interest to call on us, &•
here you a ill find everything needed
from a 25c;Sailor to a $25 French pat*
tern Hat. Special inducement to out
of town merchants in thus department
CLOTHING AND HATS.
High grade Tailor mads Suits
Our line suits are m.de by the cele
hrated Schloss Bros, of Baltimore.
The most modern 111 designs and the
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■.>■ rket. Our styles embrace every
th . wished for in single breasted
Sacks, double ’breasted Sacks, Cuts*
ways and Prince Alberts
The largest and best assorted stock
of Boys’ Clothing in town, From a
nobby little suit to a tit a tot of tbreo
years to a youth of eighteen. Largo
stock of Odd Pant for children, and
boys and men.
HATS AND CAPS.'
For any sile head and any aixe purse.
Here you can find anything you want
from a 15c Cap to the celebrated John
B Stetson Hat as high as $6
GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS
The largest line in Collars, Cuffr,
Nwackwear, Shirts Laundried and on
laundried, Iloseiy, Cotton and Wool
Underwear for men and loya always
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[ prices
Much in Little
Is especially true ol Hood’s FiUs, for no medi
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