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HOMER. GA„, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 5 1800.
A LITTLE WILD APPLE TREE. ,
There’H a Little wild apple tree out in the pat
t urn,
Crooked and stunted and queer in its shnpe,
And it waves its long aims aa the Huimner
winda away it,
Aa if it wore trying its best to escape.
I havo never found fruit on ita grarlqtf. twist
ed branches;
Green moss clothes its trunk from its boughs
to its feet,
But it blossoms each spring with fcho best of
the orchard,
And, oh, but ita delicate blossoms are sweet!
On the north by the orchard the pasture 13
bounded.
There decorous npplo trees stand in straight
rows;
You can see that each tree has been carefully
planted
And feels it must carefully heed how it
grows.
But ’tis the wild tree that the “high hole” has
chobcn:
She found such a beautiful place for her neat.
The orchard is pleasant—l highly respect it—
But the lit lie wild apple tree ’tis 1 love best!
—Margaret Vandegrift in Youth’s Companion.
A RHINE STORY.
Tho Misses Ladford walked across
the road from the German station to
tho small hotol.
“And noV/, ” complained the elder
Miss Ladford, “Isuppuso we shall havo
more unintelligible argument at this
ridiculous hotel. Not a soul to speak
English or French, and”—
“Wo shall manage,” said her young
sister, hopefully. The porter carrying
their luggage pushed open the door, and
they stepped into a big, square room,
with a pewter covered bar at the side.
A few men were playing with grubby
cards in a corner. The proprietor
shuffled forward and took his pipe from
his month reluctantly.
“Bah!” cried the elder Miss Ladford.
“That’s uot German,” remarked her
young sister cheerfully. “Kellner, eia
zimmer. ”
If young Miss Ladford had known
tho German for hotel proprietor, she
would not have called him a waiter. It
was unfortunate, because the proprie
tor’s brow clouded at tho word “kell
ner, ” and he appeared to bo instructing
the porter to take the luggage outside.
The two ladies stared at each other dis
tressedly.
“Can Ibo of any use?”
“Mr. Wallis!” cried tho young sister
delightedly.
“Air. Wallis 1” remarked Miss Lad
ford distantly.
In a few words the young man ex
plained everything to tho offended hotel
proprietor; in a few moro words he in
formed the ladies that he, too, had ar
rived by the train from Berlin, and
that, finding the last train for Luxem
bourg had gone, ho had said a few
words —
“I am glad you did that,” said Miss
Ladford.
—and bad come straight across to
tho hotel. Mr. Mark Wallis further
mentioned that he had ordered supper
for one; while the ladies were up stairs
he would amend the order and make it
supper for three. A stout, apple faced
maid appeared and prepared to conduct
them stolidly up the broad wooden
staircase to their room.
[ “Mr. Wallis,” said Miss Ladford,
“we quarreled, I’m afraid, at Bai-
reuth. ’
“No, no,” replied the young man,
flushing. “Don't dignify our argument
to that extent. It was a mere difference
cf opinion.” Ho glanced at the young
sister, svbo was following the apple
cheeked maid.
“You made some unkind remarks in
your journal last winter about my play
ing, and I felt bound to tell you that I
resented those criticisms. We ‘ id been
good friends too. ”
“I tried to bo fair, Miss Ladford. I
had every reason not to be unkind.”
“Evory reason?”
“Every reason.”
She hesitated a moment and then held
out her hand.
“Shall we forget all about it, Mr.
Wallis?”
“It will give megreat pleasure,” said
the young man earnestly. And, being
in a foreign land where courtly acts can
be done without creating derision, ho
lifted her gloved hand and kissed it.
Such a supper party that night in the
bare boarded dining loom of the sleepy
little hotel at Kaitbaus, and such de
termination on Mark Wallis’ part to
propitiate Miss Ladford—so much gen
eral good humor indeed that the chromo
of the Emperor William on the walls
stared as though half inclined to assume
that the laughter approached leze ma
jesty. Even the apple cheeked servant
ibecaroe infected by the general gayety
and served the dishes with positive
cheerfulness, crowning the evening,
when supper was over and Mark Wallis
bad lighted a cigar and had said good
night, by remarking (as she took the two
pairs of shoes from the tired young wo
men and closed their door) in a confiden
tial whisper, “Jarring cross!” aud dis
appeared with the air of one who has
said a reassuring aud a comforting word
to English women in a strange land.
“He improves on acquaintance,” re-
marked Miss Ladford.
“Who, dear?”
“Whv, Mr. Wallis, of course.”
“Oh!”
“I disliked him extremely when I
met him at first.”
“llecansa of that notice?”
“That was the principal cause.”
“Musical critics, ” said the younger
lady casually, “have a hard task to per
form.”
“And some of them hardly perform
it. But I’m quite sure now, dear, that
Mr. Wallis did not mean to bo unfair.”
Miss Ladford went on argumentatively,
as though trying to persuade her youn
ger sister to abandon an indefensible po
sition in tho debate. *‘ So much depends,
A lice, oh the point of view in these
! matters. Mark Wallis being so strong
j a Mozart worshiper, you see, he natu
! rally enough”—
i “is Mr. Wallis going by our train in
the morning?"
I ‘I hope so,” said Miss Ladford.
“Von have chnuged yonr opinion,
ALL WOMEN
Should know that th
“Ohl Time” Jlcmcdy,
5 la the befit for Pnom!* TnvcbU*. all
'.'Tcgnlaiitioß:n FemaleOrsrans. Should he
, taken for Cfrau*e oi Life and before CklU-Birlb.
: :v,ntei*3 “OV4 Raw” Pciwedies have btood the
A3st for twenty years.
.'•{ado only by Hew
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Fo’ - sale ami Recommended by
R. TANARUS, Thompson, Homer, Ga.
dear, about him? I’m so glad.” Alice
Ladford kissed her elder sister affec
tionately.
“A woman who doesn’t change her
opinion,” Slid Miss Ladford dogmatic
ally, “is as tiresome as one who never
changes her hats. I don’t know which is
worse. ’ ’
It seemed that everybody in the little
hotel awoke early the following morn
ing. At 6:30 tho round cheeked maid
came up with coffee and rolls, and these
they had near to the opeu wimlow that
looked on the square in front of the sta
tion. Miss Ladford, in admirable spirits
and enjoying now tho whole adventure,
saw Mr. Mark Wullis below and re
marked to her young sister thatsbe sup
posed she had better go down in order
to make sure about the Luxembourg
train. Alice Ladford cordially seconded
this resolution and said that shu for her
part w ould rather stay up stairs and
write.
“Train doesn’t go till 8,” said Mark
Wallis cheerfully. “There’s nothing to
see at Kartbaus, so I thought of having
a look round. ”
“I am tired of sightseeing,” re
marked Miss Ladford. “This will havo
all the charm of novelty. May I come
with you?”
“I want you to.”
“Doesn’t matter about a hat, dees it?
Nobody knows us.”
“Nobody knows us here,” he agreed
lightly. “In town we are of course im
portant people. At least you are Critics
don’t count. ”
They walked down the principal lane
jf tho village. The sun was in its
pleasantly decorous mood, less obtrusive
than it had been, but showing neverthe
less a polite attention. Two stout ma
trons at their doorways remarked to
jack other confidentially that she was
older than he, and after some haggling
decided that there was a difference of
live years.
“Nearly everything happens for the
beet in this world,” said Mark Wallis.
‘lf that train had not been late last
night, it would have been long perhaps
before I had a chance of making my
Deacc with yon.”
“I cannot permit,” she said quaint
ly, “any reference to a former discus
sion.”
“Asa matter of fact, I particularly
want to be on good terms wiih you,
Miss Ladford. I haven’t many enemies,
and I do not want to think of you as
one of them.”
“I believe,” she-said quietly, pulling
i blade of grass as they walked along,
“that we are going to be very excellent
friends. ’ ’
“I’m so glad I” he cried honestly.
“Indeed, I hope that we shall be some
thing more.” She did hot look at him,
and he went ou. “Do you know, Miss
Ladford; I feel very much the want of
companionship at home? I’m almost 28,
but already I am beginning to dread
the possibility of journeying through
my life a lonely traveler. Twenty eight
is not too young for a man to marry, is
it?”
She shook her head and put her hand
for a moment to her throat. Her
thoughts went back swiftly to her first
and last proposal. Dear, dear, what v
long time ago that was—nearly ten
years ago, she feared! Bhe reinembored
bow she had refused the offer because
sbo had an idea that it would bo foolish
io say “ Yes” to the first. And since—
Miss Ladford remembered this with a
tittle sigh—there had not been a second.
“What I mean to say is,” said Mark
Wallis, with nervous enthusiasm, “that
the time comes to every man when he
meets someone he roaily likes. If he
misses that chance, it is quite likely
that an exactly similar opportunity
may never occur again. And, although
it may appear very sudden to you, Mies
Ladford, it’s not really sudden, you
know. ”
The poor blade cf grass was getting
terribly maltreated. For a self possessed
person, Mize Ladford appeared singular
ly tremulous. She found that when she
lifted her eyes from the ground the neat,
little cottages danced
“I think —I think we had better re
turn,” she said hesitatingly. “Wo
mustn’t miss the train, and we ought
not to keep my sister waiting.”
“OH, Alice won’t mind!” he said
cheerfully.
“She’s .a dear girl,” said Miss Lad
ford, endeavoring to regain her self pos
! session. “Although sho’B my sister, I
; have never quarreled with her.”
“She can keep a secret too.”
“When you know her better, Mr.
Wallis, yon will find that she is quite
unlike me. That is why we get on so
well together, I think. I don’t like to
| think that I shall eser have to say good
I by to her.”
>■ “It won’t be quite saying goodby,”
urged Mark Wallis. “You see, a honey
moon” —
“We must talk about it," she inter
rupted shyly, “when we meet in town.”
'. “I wQuld rather know now,” luj said.
“Until we reach Luxembourg, thon.”
“No, no, ” be said good humoredly.
He took her hand and placed it on his
arm. “I must know now. Your sister
will be anxious.” Her hand trembled.
“Point of fact, Miss Ladford, I want
Alice to marry mo as soon as we get
back to town, if you don’t mind.”
Tho way seemed very long hack’to
tho little hotol, and the sunshine ap
peared strangely blurred. Nevertheless
Miss Ladfoid, like a sensible woman,
said no word until she reached the
Bahnkof, where her pretty young sister
was waiting. Then she went up to her
and kissed her.
“I—l don’t mind,” she said unstead
ily.—W. Pett Ridgs iu Woman at
Home.
A Providential Kncape.
In “Manitoba Memories” Rev.
George Young relates an experience of
his boyhood which, he says, formed tiro
turning point in his caroer and led him
eventually to choose the life of a mis
sionary iu the north land.
Early one stormy morning when 1
was a boy, says Mr. Young, I was feed
ing the cattlo in the basement of a sta
ble when a terrific windstorm struck
the building and crushed it liko an egg
shell. Hearing the orash of the falling
and breaking timbers, I fell on my knees
iu terror and began to pray.
In a moment, as it seemed, the storm
passed and stillness prevailed. I was
completely encompassed by tho broken
timbers and tho mows of bay and grain
which bad been stored iu tho upper part
cf the tarn. I was in utter darkness,
too, and at first completely dazed. Find
ing myself unharmed, however, I recov
ered my senses and began to dig into the
hay to escape.
After along struggle I worked myself
free from the bay and stood iu tho midst
of tho wreck.
It was afterward ascertained how
- rowly I had escaped being crushed
to death by the falling timbers. Had I
been standing at the moment I must
have been killed. The space wherein I
had knelt was about a yard square and
the only place where I could have es
caped instant death.
Much was mado cf my remarkable
escape, which I have always regarded
as a direot interposition of Providence,
and in consequence I have devoted my
ti£s to the Master’s service.
THE SHIP’S RUDDER.
Its Two Parts aud the DilTerewe In ttfl
Strain That Comes Upon Them.
The rudder of a wooden ship is com
posed of the stalk and the backing,
which are so joined together as to form
in effect a single piece. The complete
rudder is coppered, to protect it from
worms, and then, besides being practi
cally all in one piece, it has that ap
pearauce also. .
The stalk i3 the part to which are at
tached the pintles, or pivots, by which
tbe rudder is suspended and held ill
place, these going through eyes set iv
the ship’s stornpo3t. The stalk runs ny
through the stern of the ship, and to
its head is bolted a cap to which arc at
tached the ropes by means of which the
rudder is controlled. The backing is the
blade part of the rudder.
By far the greater strain ccmcs on
the stalk, aud the greatest strain of all
comes on the bead of the stalk, the
rudder head, where it is held. The
stalk is made of the wood most likely
to stand the strain, carefully selected,
sound, well seasoned oak, while the
backing is inado of sprnce or hard pine.
The stalk is of a single, solid, massive
piece, stoat a3 an oak tree and indeed
of the dimensions of a small oak,
something that a man can pin his faith
to, if he can • have faith in any wood,
while the backing or blade is, like
many modern wooden masts, built up
It would be difficult if cot impossible
to find trees that would yield planks
big enough for the purpose in a single
piece, and the bniit up backing, made
of pieces of selected wood, can easily be
made of ample strength to withstand
any strain that will be brought upon it.
As to the stalk, stout and solid as the
oak may be, the head may bo twisted
by the force of a tremendous blow from
a wave upon tbe redder, or, under the
repeated strains of long use, the head
may split, aud so make the stalk use
less. Then the rudder is taken out and
fitted with anew stalk. A suitable stick
is selectod and worked down to the
proper size and form, and very probably
the old backing is attached to it. The
life of a rudder stalk would probably
:bel2 to 14 years. The backing might
S last as long as the ship.—New York
Bun.
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex
periments that trifle with and endanger the health, of
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Castorla is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho
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The Children’s Panacea—Tho Mother’s Friend.
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Oui 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
most cbmpiete'ever brought to Gainesville, embracing everything needed for
man, woman or child.
SSliOrt cropg and low prices
There are no two classes of men whose interests are nearer the same
than tbe farmer and the merchant. When the fainter prospeis the merchant
prospers, and when crops are short and cotton low the merchant is effected by
the blow tbe same as the farmer Realizing this to bo ■; fr % this season we
have selected our stock and made our prices to suit the tin. -s.
NOTE IHE SPECIAL PRICES GIVEN BELOW
SILKS, SA lINS VELVETS, ETC.
Beautiful black Taffetta medium
weight, regular width all silk, worth
Gsc, at 590
Heavy weight black Taffetta, full 24
inches wide, woitli regvlar COc at 7Ec
Extrv heavy black Taffetta, full 24 in.
widei sells elsewhere at $1 per yard
only B£c
BLACK AND COLORED WOOL
DRESS GOODS.
Ten pieces of Broadcloth, 54 inches
wide, extra heavy, handful finish, at §1
Fifteen pieces Ladiescloth. very heavy
ail wool 54 inches wide, worth (55c to
75c per yard, our price 50c
Twenty pieces Ladiescloth, all wool,
full width, worth 50c, only 35c
20 pieces woolen Brocades, full 46 in:
wide, 40c, only 20c
10 pieces ol Novelties, 40 inches wide
worth 25c, at lie
20 pieoies double wirtli Dress Goods
worth regular 15c, at 10c. s
Our line of black Dress Goods em
braces every style and weave desired
including Henriettas, Serges, Cash
meres Diagonals, Wide Wales, Whip
cords, Bengalmes, Novelties Crepons,
Broadelo'hs, Ladieselolhs etc ranging
in price from lOe to 20c
CLOAKS, CAPES and JACKETS
In Ladies’and Children s Wraps we
feel confident that we can please you
Our $2 Plush Cape cannot be dupli
cated elsewhere for less than S3 50
Extra heavy, latest style Plvsh Capes
all sizes worth regular $5 50 to s>6 50
bur price $3 85 j
Come to see us. Polite attention aud courteovs treatment toevrycne
FULL LINE OF BUTTERICK PAETERnS A WAYS ON HAND
g2p=Mr. J. R. BOONE makes Ins office with us
J. E, MURPHEYCO.,
Dean Building. Corner Main and*Wash ; ngton Streets,
Phone 11 GAINESVILLE, GA*
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MILLINERY.
[n Millinery we lead. Our stock is
the largest ami most up to date to be
found in Gainesville, If you desire
anything in tlie millinery line it will
be to your interest to call on in, as
here you will find everything needed
from a 25t-JSai!or to a $25 French pat
lern|llat. Special inducement to out
of town merchants m thm department
CLOTHING AND HATS.
High grade Tailor made Suits
Our fine suits are made by tha < e!e
brated Schloss ..Bros, {of Balluitove.
The most modern in designs and the
most perfect fitting clothing on the
market. Our siyles’embraee every
thing wished for in single br< e ..!
Sacks, double (breasted Sacks, Cut.i
ways aud Prince Alberts
The largest and best assorted sf
of Boys’.Clothing in town, Fru> . *
nobby little suit to a fit a tot cf tbre
years to a youth of eighteen. Larg
stock of Odd Pant for children, and
boys and men.
HATS ANT) CAPS
For any fiile head and any sixe purse.
Here you can find anything yon want
from a 15c Cap to the celebiated Jobs
B Stetson Ilat as high as $6
GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS
The large i line in Collars, Cuds,
Neack wear. Shirts Laundried and ur.
laundried, Hose, y, Cotton and Woo]
Underwear for meu and boys alwavs
to be found here at the very lowest
j prices