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CUMBIXO THE SPINAL STAIRS.
in a W En*laiKl Pnrnon
laruiH*
v ” slip snl>i, “onr children an*
* Mini ami non'-, ami inv husband
“V, ' *..r winter Hr.- much «»«« did
r* .'i|1«. little one* canw to widen the
°? { T I ile is somethin!! like a spiral
‘.'Hreiise wc are all the time coming
& the s,,ot we starte'l irom,
,me .h-cree further up the -'airs
‘oiVst is» pretty illwtratl m.> remark-
.si herfrioml, musingly,g«Jn« ' lto 1 he
Sliwlng i-onl* which radiated a pleasant
L. t from the many windowed stove.
••You know we cannot stop toiling np
'*"Sure 1 y 1 wiM'nn11"t. and (or myself I
l.mt find fault with that necessity, pro
vide,1 the advance in life is not attended
nidi calamity or sttflering, l,,r I have
had my share of that '"\1y sy”
idv he.nlIII utterly broke iloun. ' I > ;■
em was full of malaria. My digestion
leeame llior uglily .usorder."'. and my
nerves were in A wretched >*•*•/*• 1 wa *
aiiguid. ate little and that »dho„t on-
■ wilier it and had no Strenth or amhi
tiou To perform even my 1'ght house-
,11 .m!;,., Medical treatment failed
to reach* the s.al -f the trouh.e The
dis.ase—which seemed tola- nenkness
of all the vital ogans—progressed until I
had several attacks which my P vdclans
pronounced t» !>e acute eong -sttim of
{hestoma. il. The last of these was a
desperate strvggle, ami I »» given up
to die. As the crisis lias partially pass
ed mV husband heard of the nirrits of
Parker's Tonic as nn Invigornnt in just
such eases as mine. I t««'k it and :el>
its good r fleets at once. It appeared to
is rvade my hrnlv. as tliouah the hless-
ing of new life had come to me. Taking
no oile r medicine I c. ntinuee to im
prove, and am now in liel'er health than
1 have Is'i'ii for a long tin 3.”
(Extract from interview with the wife
of Rev. I*. I’errv, pastor of liaptist
etiureti, fuldhrook. Mass.
llcnrv \'illar<! has tendered his
resignation as president of the
Northern l’acilic railroad.
DECAPITATLD BRlSrbETS.
The boss Sewing Machine and
organ man,J. B. Toomer Let all fol
low. And he must lead.
Just received, finest lot of oi g;ms
13 slop organs, 6 feet l.lgli. fully
warranted, $65. AtJ U. Tonmer's.
Sewing Machines, all maker;, at
prices lower than anv house north
THE SQUALLED
VA"-'?
ianrmi.i
Ta# Hand* at tbs Chet* factory “rtani to Work
Yeiwrdsy. .
After a great deal of talk and ex
citement the strike of operatives at
the check factory turns out nothing.
Ttic hands only held out one day,
and yesterday morning returned to
work at the reduced wages. They
were convinced that Mr. Bloom-
or south, 825 to $35. At ]. B. Tuom- field would not scale their pay were
er s - i it not absolutely necessary, and after
Married, on Tuesday last. Mr. X. ! hearing }iisexplanation were entire-
T. Sharp, of Jackson county, and ly satisfied. 1 wo hands, who turn-
M iss Ida Hudson, dawdiicr of our I ed the water of the vvhael, were
esteemed friend Mr. T. F. Hudson,
or Clarke. The bride is a lovely
and accomplished young lady,
while Mr Sharp is a' n.ihie young
gentleman. The happv couple
have our best wishes. Rev. H. F.
Hoyt officiated.
J. B. Toomer, Clavtnn street., has
the finest lot of billies, albums, and
poems ever brought to Athens, will
sell for cost or on monthly payments.
Married,
In Madison count v, on Dec. 27th,
by Rev. T. J. A. Adams. Mr. Will
Glenn, of Oglelnorpe. to Miss Key,
of the former coun tv.
Eyes Open.
Itis the man who keeps his eves
open and his hands out of his pack
ets, that succeeds in his vocation.
That is the nay S-ill', the jeweler.
does it.
i-.sry Con
A llllge 111
o- the I.oula at lit
!>«*»> •
\\ !l|
it. CM eo;ir>e,
the ignorant
is IVnuiepm!
an
iitt 1
, *.r that tin- pri*
niptly paid.
av held in San
arrangement*
|SS 7 .
il with S„
► lout
.lie .1 l.i- in
gl.-. t lr an t'
s."k(M-. li
r,-pi'll, ill siim-iI. I In- -i
f.,r that, its '•« n ph-a-n
k.11 ii".I llilhim. .1 gm
i-vi-'cnees uf ne-
,1 1 glilen- them
■ e lir. iith has a
icle snlisliiiilcs
11 ar um, .Stnilli-
s a- rcslii-'-il n>
"h
heal l>
mg Imi
-.1.
v-t.
Ill, li
nt tin-
I,| lllls
Mr. Ed. Sr.elsou
ens died at his mu
in Banks countv.
hoy and every 01
knew him liked i:
Wood is
noon. W
ol the loss
The ies
Watkmsv
ported ti
the weal!
tinguisi.e,
was done
Mr. (i
cheek f,
Another atiiens Boy.
1 ly of A ill-
Chetirmit
discharged. This is a happy ending
of the trouble, and we congratulate
the operatives upon their wise
course. A strike could not have
resulted in any benefit to them. We
trust that no further reduction in
wanes will he necessary, and that
M r? li. will soon be able to pay for
mer prices.
The other factories in
Georgia will be forced, to do like
wise, anil the employees had just as
w ell prepare for the"inevitable. All
of us will have to use extraordinary
economy this vear, for the outlook
is gloomy indeed.
A SLIGHT BLAZE.
The Business Office at the North-Eastern Burned.
.Yesterday morning, about S
o'clock, ah alatm of fire was sound
ed when it was found that The busi
ness office at the North-Eastern
depot was ablaze, being caused from
a detective stove-pipe. The fire
companies turned out promptln, but
as there was no water in this local-
itv they were useless. Finally a
’fine of hose was rim from the tank
some distance off, and the flames
w.-re kept confined to the building
I A-herc thev first appeared. There
j was a great deal of cotton piled
I around and Thomas’ compress and
! the depot were in close proximity.
I and at onetime seemed in imminent
I danger. But by keeping this prop
ertv saturated with water, and the
I office in flames being a small build-
| in-g. no lurther damage was done.
I i he air was -til . which was also an
I advantage. Had theie been a stiff
j breeze ;he damage would have been
enormous. Ah the and pa-
j pel s of the railroad vvcie saved, but
the building was reduced to ashes.
; The loss is probably ifSoo.
LOTS PICKED UP ON THE STREET.
ville.
know -.
addle-
“Hello, Billie tfrr, have you got- |
ten over Christmas vet?"
"Yes. I had very little to get over,
consequently I am entirely well ot
Anplv noth- I
Mr. »i,-h -,-l ' |,
10 llu- l-hi
Ile-a vs:
..f.ly-p.-i-sin:
able I.
lend.
H.’a.y Le
Tut: V.
M.i II.. oil
,-,l Yollie
A,,pli ;
"1 1 1
- In lily,
thi- papei
A man at Ann Aibor who has
lost the use ol hotn ai ms does regu
lar set vice a- a telegraph operator.
He holds a stick between bis teeth
and manages t-, send seventeen
words a minute.
In-,-ns
l'-p.
1 .in,!
.1 1*.
t.neiiiosi an tin in are N.-i voii-n. s-.
Nervon» Debility, and nni.atn.al weak-
II,..H ,.f t ieiiera’ ive Organs; Allen's
Itraili Food -nee, — liillv ove-eonles these
I roil Ides it'nl r* -lines the siitlerer to liis
former viaor. $1.—At druggists.
A thtee-ycar-old ciiilil of \V. W.
Scott's, of Butler, Georgia, was
hurtled to death.
- a la.l
stale
Dr. 1.. A. Guild, of Atlanta,
11 large nursi ry and vineyard
nn his | laee win, was cured
Is.Ill ease of Seri.lula, with one single
In'll I,- oi it. R. li. w.ite to him about
the ease.
1 rank Joseph, “la Jones s|-.-ot, At-
lantu. has a sou who hud a sloughing,
scrofulous ulet-r of the neck, and had
Inst his huiraud eyesight, finding no re
lief. One bottle of It. It. It. healed the
nicer, eradicated the poison from his
IiIihsI, restored itis i-ye-igltt. and placed
him on tin- mad to health.
Hartwell ha- had a lire. The
stable ofRev.J.H. Williams was
dcstri i veil
Horsfar,r» Bread I’ropara'lon.
Strictly reliable, pure, awl quality al
ways 111:1 i 111.!i 11, d Send for The llors
company loses .
gusta fire on Uo
splendid company
great losses oi line,
stand them.
Five Papers
The Weekly I'm
appeared five tin
which is somethin
give our rca lt - :
year, and dor,.-
or any other «>c, a'i
Accident
A Miss Black,
while handling
of Mr. Willie I
ly discharged t m
ing effect in M
The wound Is
lesson should In-
The stove am!
ment of Mr.
closed Friday o .
the instance o' t •
We sympatln/.e -\
in his misfortune,
gcntlcmai..
Sale: att.
: - iff. at
Bank.
Artificial
liUlllinrd < lll'lllil'ill
o boy was killed by
Waynesboro, a few
topi C00K I! -'
Works, |*i.,vi
A little in
his brother i
day s ago.
I’ll re < 'is I-l.i ver< >il made from selected
livers, »n the sea shore, by Caswell,
Hazard ACn., New York. Illsuli-o-
ltilelv pure and sweet. Patients who
have once taken it prefer it In alt others.
I’hysieians have derided it snperir to
anv of the oilier oils in market.
Chapped line 1 '- Fare, Pimples, mid t,-\v.
rough Skin, cured t>y 11-in ; Juniper Tar I com
Soap, made bn Caswell. Hazard A Co.
Now York.
A merchan tt
deal of cotton ?,
n»ed in At he -
icst families hr,
L'i.til we tt-.’ 1 :
or a comp I,.
oui'n.
Mule
j Coo;-.-. Men
in tb.is issue V, 1
1 fine mii’e- lor ?:
!to keen them
I These hoys a-e
ill the Ilia v o i-
nothing 1 ut the
j them a , all ii v 1
mules and thev
We no
the flag t-
in Alltint.,
A merchant liv ing near Philadel
phia died a horrible death, after
many days of stiffciing, from having
swallowed the tin tag with whlth
Chicago dressed beef is pinned.
range,! v.
have him
of rock a
sergeant
comfort :
i Uie Forest.
Ruin Wrought
IIow i
out down in llu* mi 'Ht of a uohlf
f«*r« j*t. How iiadd«*ninK r *t is« mIi*o tn »«*e
that thin HjM>t in the midst of your oth
erwise abundant hair. Stop it at onee
liy the use of I’arRer’n Hair Hal pain.
For actual efficiency this famous article
stands at the head of ita clans. Elegant
for the toilet, delicious in odor, and res
tores the original color to Kray or t'adt d
hair. v -onomical, as a •*liuht, <jccasional
app’irulion keeps the hair and scalp in
iwrfect order.
Ttu*: Markham House o
The Constitution yc*
tained another :i
, ham house, of Mo* - i
m-res of | H ar tf 0 rd. C-mn. 1
deuce of vvli.-l c.n: .
This has been two or 1!
committed at tl'.i- h-iii:
be in the water, and i: 1
the suicidcrs experic.11
our troubles at the hash
-1 am hunting dots for the next
i-sue of the vvoild-teiiowncd Ban
ner-Watchman, and thought you
inio'nt give our readers some read
able facts concerning the fertilizer
trade, and ()rr& Hunter's business
in particular. Please give me a
shoit history of your fertilizer
trade?’’
‘•Well, we have been in the trade
f ra number of years. For the
first few years out sales were com-
paiatively light, but we studied the
want'and needs of the tamers of
on: section, and watched with in
terest their experiments. I sold the
...st Acid Phosphate ever sold in
Athens, ami soon found that there
would ultimately he a large demand
for it, so we bent our energies to
getting up the best goods in that
line we could possibly secure, and
our large trade demonstrates how
•veil we succeeded. After deter
mining the formula that was neetl-
! ed, we saw that in order to keep the
goods up to a high grade, it would
be necessary to establish a brand of
I mu own, so as not to be at the
, mercy of any manufacturer. We
therefore named our Acid Phos-
: p'nate “Magnolia,” and r.ow the
name is as familiar to the farmers of
Northeast Georgia as the Banner-
Watchman. In fact, it is known
; all over the state, and even in ad-
' joining slates, as we sometimes
have orders for it from other states.”
I “W hat other brands of fertilizers
j do sell?”
“We sell the well known and
popular John Merryman’s Ammuni-
ated Dissolved Bones and an am-
ir.oniated goods under under our
own brand called "()rr& Hunter’s
Matchless Cotton Grower.” Whilst
many farrmers buy altogether acid
phosphate, others prefer ammoniat-
ed ieitilizers, consequently we have
a la:ge trad for these goods, and I
11. proud to say it never fails to
.give as good results as any other
1 ammoniated goods made.
"Last year being a poor crop
year. 1 suppose you must have had
many compiaint- from your patrons,
• tui y on not?”
•X". sir, on the contrary I am
gratified to he able to say that we
beard no complaints. On the other
hand many ol our patrons volunta
rily told us that tney were highly
pleased with our goods. One far
mer stated that he used Magnolia
acid compost on 5.1 acres, and mnde
0,600 pounds seed cotton: another
■ sod Magnolia on 1 > acres and
made to bales nt cotton, and I
nr.gin mention manyothci instances
’ in which large yields were obtained
ev* n this dry vear bv the use of our
“How arc collections?”
“Generally good; and the farmers
c-serve credit lor showing such a
ciermination to meet their obliga
inns; but I have talked to you long
i nugh. There is a man up town
dm wants two tons of ‘Magnolia’
nd I 11111st be going. So good-day.”
{Athens Cay Officers EMsj for 1884.
LICENSE.
Retail liquor, 8400 per annum;
quart, $2oojper annum; gallon, 850
perannum; barrel, 825 per annum;
lager beer, 850 per annum; drug
gist, 825 per annum; auction, 85 per
day, 850 per annum; billiard and
pool tables each, 815 per- annum;
itinerant traders, 825 per week, 875
per month; ten-pin alley, 815 per
annum; shooting gallery, 85 per
month, 825 for 6 months, 850 for 1
year; ale and porter, 8400 per an
num; lottery tickets,85c perannum;
street peddlers, 810 for 1 year, 85
for 6 months; dray license, one
horse, 85 per annum; two horse, 815
per annum; four horse, 820 per an
num; omnibus, 820 peranpum; dol
lar store, 825 for 1 year,'81 for 1 day;
circus, 8100 fot each day or portion
of a day; all other shows, 810 per
day.
The election of officers for the
present year was then held. The
following were declared duly elect
ed:
City Attorney—T. W. Rucker.
Clerk of Council—W. A. Gille-
land.
Chief of Police—I). Cran Oliver.
Lieut, of Police—E. C. Arnold.
Regular Police—W. T. Moon, J.
P. Holcombe, A. F.'Fierson. W. D.
Kelley, L. D. Goodrum, Henry
HUl.
Street Commissioner—A. R.
Bradeen.
Lamplighters—1st section, Wm.
Hunt, colored; 2d section, Ed.
Johnson, colored; 3d section, Jim
Daniel, colored.
Magazine Keeper—E. H. & W.
F. Dorsey.
Secretary and Treasurer Fire Bri
gade—R. Nickerson.
Chief Engineet Fire Department
—W. A. McDowell; 1st Assistant,
Julius Cohen; 2d Assistant, H. L.
Cranford.
Assessors of Real Estate—W. C,
Orr, A. II. Hodgson, J. H. Carlton.
Clerk of Market—J. W. Brumby.
Mayor pro. tern.—ti. H. Yancey.
On motion of Alderman Yancey®
the Clerk ot Council was authorized
to issue liquor, beer and billiard li
cense to all persons who now have
them, on their compliance with the
law in regard thereto.
W. F. Hood applied for retail
liquor license, to be used at his old
stand on River street. On motion
the license was not granted.
The Mayor announced the fol
lowing standing committees. Al
derman Yancey declining to serve
on any committee:
Finance—Lucas, White, Palmer.
Public Property—Hodgson, Pal
mer, Mealor.
Street—Mealor, Taylor, Hodgson.
Market—Taylor, White, Lucas.
Police—Talmadgc, Mealor, Tay
lor.
Fire Department—Mealor, Tay
lor, Hodgson.
Health—Palmer, White, Lucas.
Ordinance—White, Taylor, Mea
lor.
Petitions and Communications—
Lucas, Hodgson, Palmer.
Railroads—Lucas, Palmer, Tal-
madge.
Printing—Palmer, Hodgson,
Mealor.
Council adjourned.
W. A. Gilltiland, Clerk.
JACKSON, OF GWINNETT.
>t !
THE COMkt in view.
tlrumr
Gen. Grant is getting better and
his injured limb is doing well.
Emory’s I-Ittli* Cathartic Is the Is-St
anil onlv reliable Liver Rill known, nev
er finis with the moat obstinate eases,
purely vegetable—15 e
a Nobis ebanty.
While partaking of‘.lie Christmas din
ner let us seek to relieve the misery of
earth’s unfortunate ones. No better
form to do this can tie found than to
support the world-famed Charity Hos
pital m New Orleans, La., and invest $5
or |1 in the lWtli Grand Monthly Distri
bution of The Dmisiana state lottery,
on the 13tli of January, 18X4, under the
sole care and supervision of Gen’ls, G.
T. Beaureguard, of Iat., anil Juba I .V
Early, of Va., when over 4:h>5,000 will be
scattered broadcast in sums of $75,000
down to $25. The full detail* ol which
can be had from M. A. Dauphin, New
Orleans, La.
John Smith shot Robt. Huckabe
at Franklin, Ga.
Tne Tcmpcrancs E
A wholesale liquor
tells us that the tom pel
seriously injuring bis i 1
he does not now visit
once his best counties. i:i the
prohibition hell the ding stoics lmy
a good deal of liquor, but :l i- of an
inferior grade. What little is sold
otherwise is smuggled in, but it is
not a drop in the bucket to former
orders and is not worth looking
after.
| The Pons-Brooks comet, which
j bus for three months occupied the
■ attention of astronomers, has now
become visible to the naked eye,
and may now be found with little,
an.I trouide any clear night. An early
I were I hour in the evening, say. al 7
o’clock, is the best time for hunting
it. Let the observer turn his face a
little north of west and look up to
wards a point a little more than half
way from the horizon to the zenith.
He will discern the milky way
coursing to the northwest horizon,
and almost directly in it “the noble
cross in Cvrrnus.” 001n iko star
Lou Fails in Physician*.
There ari innumerable instances
where cures have been effected by Sco-
vlll's Sarsaparilla, or Blood ami" liver
Syrup, for all diseases of the blood,
when the patient had hecn given up by
physicians. It i- one of the Imst reme
dies ever offered to the public, and us it
is prepared wi'h the greatest care, as a
specific for certain diseases, it is no won
der that R should lie more effectual than
hastily writien and carelessly ptepared
P rescriptions. Take Scovill’g Blood and
ilver Syrnp for all disorders arising
from Impure blood. It is endorsed by
all leading professional men.
L. A. Beal, of Atlanta, was shot
by Robert Lynn, of Montgomery,
Ala, at Chipley, Ga. The wound
ia likely to prove fatal.
Shooting in Watkinsvills.
Thursday afternoon Mr. J. G.
Hansford, who was knocked down
bv a negro named Richard Young,
Christmas day, shot said negro in
the hand, inflicting a slight wound.
It seems that the negro w:« drunk
when he renewed the difficulty and
made an attack on Mr. li., when
that gentleman fired two shots at
him, one taking effect as described.
The wounded man was a fireman at
the paper mill.
Athens and Madison.
A subscription list was yesterday
circulating in our city to build a
narrow-gauge railroad from Athens
to Madison. The paper states that
in consideration of the sum of 85..
000 per mile Mr. Philip Terrell
agrees to grade and tfross-tie a road
bed three feet six inches wide, with
usual curves and grades, Irom Mad
ison to Athens, via Chalk Level, the
shoals above Head's mill and Far
mington. As soon as 830.000 is sub
scribed work will begin. This
scheme is not practiciblc, for to
make a seaboard connection with
the Portli-Eastern a broad-gauge is
necessary.' This road must be built,
but Athens will not approve of the
above project.
cross in Cygnus,” w*ihh the star
Den’eb of the second magnitude
forming its top, and five degrees be
low it three smaller stars,
forming the breast and arms of
the cross ranged directly across
the milk way. If the observer will
look near the star which forms the
end of the southern, or (to him) left
arm of the figure, he will detect a
very faint star of about the fifth
magnitude, one degree distant. This
is the comet. The tail at first will
not be visible, but let him bring an
opera glass to bear on it and it will
come into view streaming upward,
and four or five degrees in length.
Itis growing brighter every night,
and will reach its maximum brillian
cy about the middle of January,
though it will nor, even then, present
any such impressive spectacle as the
magnificent comet which was seen
in the southeastern sky las- yea-.
Washington, Dec. 29.—The
dome of the capitol is haunted.
Strange sights have been seen
around the Goddess of Liberty that
indicate the presence of spirit*.
Blue and green lights are said to be
visible at certain hours of the night
Contrary^to all the establuhed Ira-
ditions, the spirits are not frighten
ed by daylight
A Romantic and Tragic Episode la tha Oarasr of a
Brava Georgian.
A little romance has come to light
connecting Gwinnett county with
Arkansas.
In the year iS 7 o William Jackson,
a handsome, brave man Bom the
county of Gwinnett, emigrated with
his family to Arkansas, where in a
few years he became a prosperous
stock-raiser. His cattle ranch was
situated north of Little Bock, and
last June his herds numbered six or
seven thousand. During the month
of June Jackson got involved in a
dispute with a neighboring cattle
owner relative to the branding of
certain stock. The result was »
personal rencountre in which Jack
son shot and killed his man.
The friends of the dead cattle dealer
swore vengeance, and Jackson was
forced to flee to the mountains,
where he was joined by Thomas
Jackson, a younger brother. Here
"he was followed by the sheriff of
his county and a posse of the dead
man’s friends, who hunted .him
down like a wild beast. In a few
days they ran upon him in a wild,
sequestered spot, where a fierce
battle ensued. Jackson stood his
ground, fighting like a tiger, and
when the smoke had cleared away
it was found that he had killed two
of the posse and the sheriff. The
remainder of the gang beat a hasty
retreat.
Several weeks ago several sher.
iffs organized a posse, and once
again invaded the mountain fast
nesses in quest of Jackson. He
met them again, and succeeded this
time in killing two more sheriffs,
and putting the rest of them to
an ignominious flight. *
This made six men, in all, which
Jackson, of Gwinnett, had caused
"to Hite the dust, under the flash of
his deadly rifle.
Meantime Jackson's wife, with a
brood of six children, was struggling
along on his cattle ranch. Several
weeks ago she wrote to a brother of
Jackson, who lives in Gwinnett
county, that she was unable to get
firewood and had been burning
corn for many weeks. She had no
one to aid her and saw no hope of
the return of her husband, who was
still in the mountains. Last Friday
the same brother got a telegram
stating that the woman, having
grown desperate over the state of
affairs, had blown her brains out
with a double barrel shot gun. A
short time before he received along
letter from Jackson himself, stating
that he and his brother had two
Winchester rifles and two Colt's re
volvers apiece and plenty of am
munition, and were resolved never
to be taken alive. The state of Ar
kansas has outlawed Jackson—and
his brother from Gwinnett has gone
out to look after the children and
the properfy.
POMPEII, PAST AND PRESENT.
January Manhattan.
When the Pompeiians looked
from _ their elevated Forum—as
lightly a place now and lacking but
little but the pillared portico’s that
surrounded it—they saw, on the-
near northwest, a pleasantly acces
sible mountain, cattle grazings on
its beautiful shadows—that was
level or sterile. The geographer
Strabo, who lived before and after
“Anno Domini,” said: “The sum
mit has an appearance like ashes,
and it shows ruggid rocks of sooty
consistency and color, as if they
had been formed by fire.” And, in
the style of a modern scientist, he
added: “One might conclude from
this that the mountain had once
burned and possessed fiery abysses,
and had become extinguished when
the material was spent; and just
from this cause may be its-present
fertijty.” Fifty ortixty years* af
terwards there was no doubt about
its nature. Its slopes began to
tremble, and sixteen years from that
time, in the short reign,of Titus, A.
D. 89, in the most elegant eta of
Roman civilization, when every
thing was just freshened and new
at Pompeii—the serious damage
by earthquake being repaired with
a liberal appropriation for the pur
pose by the Roman senate—just
then, with no warning, tragic na
ture spread over the whole a wide,
deep layer of fertile soil, and, in
many instances, without blurring
the frescoes or breaking the mar
ble tables, closed the gates that we
shall now enter.
Let us go at once to Forum. It
was the lively centre, and is sur
rounded by public edifices, mostly
religious—we might call them
churches, for that is what they
were. It is a sightly spot, about 1 to
feet above the sea-level; and thence
we shall see the whole grand spec
tacle, all we had been talking about
—all the approaches.
We go in the “Sea gate,” and
while we rapidly ascend—by the
best of steps, the old Pompeian
steps, we understand how the sea
came near this side of the city, be
fore the fall of a tremendous show
er of boiled land, ashes and baked
pebbles, and warm water and stew
ed mud. The first fall was the
little, clean, light punice stones;
that is why everything is so nice
and uninjured. Then came ashes,
and, sifting in, sealed everything
up air-tight, I suppose. Hot wa
ter and electrified mud were show
ering around in the air, and lava
was running on the ground, but
none of these, either early or late in
the shower, happened to blow or
flow toward Pompeii, viz: the lava
which becomes a solid rock when
it cools, and which hardens ex
ceedingly by age. It did flow over
Herculaneum—the Italians write
Ercole,” “Ercolano” and “Ercola-
nesc,” instead of Hercules, Hercu
laneum and Hcrculanean—and that
why the uncovering of “Erolano”
not pursued; being difficult, la
borious and expensive, added to
the tact of a populous town over it,
owned by persons who would be
inconvenienced by having to aban
don their homes.
Walking on, we begin to under
stand, also, that Pompeii was built
longer ago than history can tell of,
ever so long before the time of the
Roman Empire—on a shelf of lava
that was ancient when Pompeii was
young; that broke off steeply at the
shore, and also along the low bot
tom lands of the old-time Sarno,
non-existent now.
The “fotum” is the public square.
The “piazza” and the “plaza” of the
towns of modern Italy, Spain and
Spanish America are the lineal de
scendants ' of the ancient forum.
Then, as now, especially in the
smaller towns, the forum was the
civil and municipal family lounging
room, gossiping place, promenade
resort, declamation opportunity, the
“City Hall Square.” The public
edifices around it were finished ele
gantly, and were liberally embellish
ed with statuary, generally of a
mythological design, illustrating
noted occurrences of the long, sym
bolic stories. These edifices were
all constructed very openly in the
front, making the little forum of
the little city—for Pompeii was not
large—a lovely centre, an architectu
ral classical bijou. Nature aided, as
nature destroyed, or rather, did not
destroy; furiously robbed, appro
iriated and preserved for the bene
it of the nineteenth century thinker.
For after learning what here we
can of the details, the art, architcc
ture and special modes of Roman
Empire times, we have stored
away a skull bowl full of ma
terial for careful thought.
From the forum Vesuvius seems
nearer. Pompeii lies around us in
an irregular, quaint shape, neither
ellipse nor oblong. Its wall has at
least six comers; but this curious
shape we do not tealize, for scarce
half the city is yet uncovei ed. The
ane of the wall has been traced. It
inclosed an area which is more
than a mile and a half in circuit.
The wall was not carefully main
tained in the last and peaceful years
of Pompeii. On the sea and Sarno
side some of it was even built over,
when the Pompeiians had become
happily reconciled to a close union
with their real conqueror, the Ro
man state. A reason of this cheer
ful blending may have been the
fact that wealthy Romans came in
and made improvements of public
benefit.
The wall was double, literally
“the walls.” The outer was twen
NEWS FROM GEORGIA.
Emory Egttrt Action tm Un Ka-XIax Cam
CrtUclzsd—General Longttretl’s Deputies Cant
Collect Their Salaries.
courier Journal.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 30.—Five
Banks county ku-klux, convicted of
midnight outrages upon colored
men. have heen sent to Albany,
New York, to serve a sentence of
two years each. There is but little
sympathy for the prisoners, but the
unscrupulous eflorts of District At
torney Speer in giving political
color to the cases has aroused the
desire that further investigation
should be made. The crimes of
which these men have been con
victed could and would have been
punished by the superior court of
Banks county, at its next term.
District Attorney Speer, however,
smarting under his defeat in the con
gressional race, determined to use
his new otfice to make somebody
suffer. Had it not been for this
these cases would have never reach
ed the Federal court. Judg^Tomp-
kins, formerly on the Savannah
bench, has interested himself in the
case, and is now in Washington for
the purpose of securing a hearing
before the before the U nited States
supreme court by a writ of habeas
corpus. Judge Wood assuted him
that the case would be given a hear
ing in January, and a request was
telegraphed to Marshal Longstreet
to allow the prisoners to remain in
Atlanta pending the decision of the
matter. The prospect ot mileage
and fees, however, to Albany and
back for half a dozen retainers, was
too great to be resisted, hence the
prisoners were hustled away with
out regard to expense or request.
A good deal of dissatisfaction ex
ists among the deputies of Gen.
Longstreet in regard to payments
of the accounts. Accounts are sent
to Washington for audit, when
certain claims are sometimes disal
lowed and the balance are ap
proved. The approved claims are
paid out of the funds subject to the
order of the marshal, and in some
instances run up to a high figure.
The complaint now is that the
claims of certain favored deputies
are paid first, while others have to
await official cenvenience. One of
these neglected deputies, Mr. Perk-
le, was lately appointed United
States commissioner. In making
the change, he declared he did so
because he found it impossible to
get his money. He had been for
"ve years a deputy, and had recog-
ized claims of about 83,000. “I
had to do something for a living,”
said Mr. Perkle, “and if Longstreet
does not settle with me by New
Year’s day, he’ll hear more from
it.”
THE SO-CALLED KU KLUX
What tha Goorgla Prisoner* Said About tho
Crime.
Cincinnati Special,* th alt.
Half a dozen muscular fellows in
chains were waiting to-day at the
Grand Central Passenger Station
for the train for the north. They
had been convicted of ku-klux out
rages in Georgia, and were bound
for the Auburn (N.Y.) peniten
tiary. The principal one of the
group,J. M. Yarbrough, Was ap
proached and asked it he had any
objections to talking to a newspaper
man. “Not a bit,” said he. “1 ain’t
ashamed of what I’ve done, and I
would like to tell it so you people
up here may understand the case,
You see the bill against us said ‘ku-
kluxin,’ but it was nothing of the
kind. One night my brother and
some neighbors’ boys were out on
the road going home with the girls.
They met a young mulatto named
Call Bush, who brushed against the
girl. Neil was with them, and Neil
asked what he did that for. The
nigger got sassy, said he was a tax
payer, worked on the roads, and
had a right to walk on ’em. The
boys went that night with their
hickories and dressed him up right
smart—no light dressin’, but one he
would remember—and all on ac
count of the girl, and not on ac-
count of politics, as they tried to
make out,
“After that an old nigger, a rela
tive ot Bush, said he war going to
kill me on sight, and the night of
July 24 we started out to hunt him,
and went first to the cabin of a man
named Cook, whar we knew he
hung out most of the time. We
knocked on the door, and Cook
says, ‘Who’s thar?’ I told him we
had nothin’ against him, but we
just wanted to see if so and so war
in thar, and he said,‘No.’ We said,
That’s all right, but just open the
door and let us see.” He wouldn’t
do it, so we opened up for him and
gave him nine licks. Then we
went over to Barry Sanderson’i
who refused to open the door. We
pried off the fastenin’s and Barry
rushed out with an axe. We didn’t
know it was him, and one of our
boys shot at him several times, and
finally hit him, and that’s what they
call ku-kluxin’, and that’s all we’re
here for.”
What would you have done if
you had found your man?”
“Well, I reckon we’d a thrashed
him good. We wouldn’t a killed
him. We never kill anybody, but
we do lick a nigger once in a while
unless they walk the line pretty
straight. 1 don’t think I’ll liclc an
other one if I ever get out. It’s ex
pensive. See what I’ve got for it
now.”
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Lower Georgia is happy over the
blessing of long deferred rain.
The stock law went into effect in
Warren county day before yester-
day.
A bird flew at a man in Louis
ville and put his eye out with its
bilL
Last week the Georgia match
factory, at Gainesville, turned out a
number of gross of matches.
Toombs Cullars, of Lincolnton.
made a haul of thirty-five partridges
the other day, while on his way to
Lincolnton.
A negro boy while hunting on J.
H. Napier’s farm near Macon, acci
dentally shot a little girl who was
with him, in the neck.
If Atlanta wants to do something
worth bragging on, let it haul Stone
Mountain into the city and chip a
monolith capitol out of the rock.
At Darien, on Christmas eve.
Belle De Lagal, aged ten years, acci
dentally shot herself through the
head with a pistol. The wound is
painful but not mortal.
Among the curiosities incident to
the late dairy meeting at De Kalb
was a machine for extracting the
cream from the milk immediately
after it comes from the cow, with
out settling or holding.
It will not be long before the
current of emigration will he flow
ing from Texas to Georgia as rapid-
idly as it now is from Georgia to
Texas, if they can get the money
to come back on, says the Coving
ton Star.
W. H. Harrison, of the Gover
nor’s executive staff, received a reg-
isteted letter Monday that took
exactly sixty-five days to make the
trip from Oglethorpe county. The
notice of the registry came in sixty-
two days.
Washington Gazette: There is
a man in this county upwards, of
seventy years ot age,who lives with
in a mile of where he was born, who
has never ridden on a railroad car,
has never been over ninety miles
from home in his life and was never
in a larger town than Washington
He is a man of means, worth sev
eral thousand dollars, and says he
has been as happy as if he had trav
eled over the world.
Pledger, the negro politician of
Atlanta, thinks the colored people
owe Emory Speer a debt of grati-
itude. If Speer has only done his
duiy, and been paid for it, nothing
else is due him. If he has
taken a partisan part against
his own race every good citizen,
white and black, should condemn
him. There is no doubt that Speer’s
“vaulting ambition hath o’erleaped
itself,” and Pledger’s admiration
won’t do him much good.
A PRIZE STORY.
ty-five feet high, and more, accord- Ttm Direful struct or th# ui* of a Batut’s Foot.
BEN. BUTLER’S BIBLE.
That Which Bo Lsstss BUhlad Wta f r his I
otoscr‘1 tm efSss.
Boston, Jan. 5.—At tbs begin
ning of the administration ef Gov.
Butler a friend presented lint with
a beautiful copy of the Biblt Gov.
Butler leaves this copy : n *1»: exec
utive chamber:
Janu rj I, 1884.
“When I came into ti! exit stive
chamber a year ago I c tld not find
a copy of the Holy Scriptures. I
suppose each Governor tpok his
away with him. A friertl gave me
this. I leave it as a needs d transmit-
tendum to my successor 11 office, to
be used by him and successors each
in turn.”
ing to the inequalities of the
ground; the inner wall' was thirty
or forty feet high, and had flights
of steps, affording an opportunity
for the inhabitants to ascend and de
lightfully promenade. Between
these walls the fifteen feet space
was filled up with earth, making a
most solid and thick structure.
Towers, some stories hisrh, were
built on the wall at irregular inter
vals, and nearer together near the
gates, where there was more need
of watchfulness.
The walls declare the long ex
istence of Pompeii. The different
mode and material of their construc
tion take ns into the various eras of
masonry. Lowest and oldest, the
massive blocks of volcanic rock in
horizontal courses, without cement,
tell of that unwritten historic peo
ple who built in Italy, Syria and
and elsewhere, whose “Pelasgic”
architecture is incapable of ruin, ex
cept by the shattering forces of na
ture. We know that they built
whatever they constructed in a gi
gantic way; they used ponderous
stones. Eveiything they handled
vas mighty.
JACKSON COCNTY PROPERTY.
Herald.
Last Tuesday Tom McElhannon
had quite a variety to sell, but it did
not amount to much. The third in
terest in the Sain Osborn place was
bought by the Messrs. Harbor, of
Harmony Grove, for sixty-five dol
lars. Tne tan-yard In Harmony
Grove was knocked off to Mr. Ben
Power, of that place, for $130. Two
lots in Hoschton. brought 815
The secret of the universal success of
Brown’s Iron Ritters Is owing to the fact
that it is the very best iron preparation
made. -By a thorough and rapid assim
ilation with the blood ft roaches every
part of the body, giving health, strength
and endurance to every portion. Thus
beginning at the foundation it builds op _ , . „ . . ^
and restores poet health. It dose not apiece. Some lots in the Jefferson
rnntaln whisky or alcohol. It wlU not cemetery were sold at nn average oi
018 fogtb- . B does not ronsU- about five and a quarter each.’ Com
£?peps{a, “ndigS; he^burn, 5^ *££££1*3' ® U i he, ’^ der
tleepleuness diuTnea*. nerroua debili- %*•*$ per hundred, and cotton an
ty, weakness, etc. average of about ft cents.
BADLY BEWITCHED.
Chattanooga Timet.
The public should beware of a rab
bit’s foot, the left hind leg espe
cially. A sweet young lady of this
city, about seventeen years old, has
completely captivated a married
gentleman by the use a rabbit’s
foo:, supposed to be from the left,
hind leg. It is related by his wife
that he is completely under the
girl s control. Some weeks ago
the girl ordered him to get her a
gold ring which he observed
promptly. Through stratagem the
gentleman’s wife found that he had
given the sweet damsel the ring,
and ofcouise, like others of her
sex, demanded an explanation, and
he gave as an excuse that the girl
had rubbed the left hind leg of an
Alabama graveyard rabbit foot on
him and had him completely under
her control. The gentleman thinks
he is conjured. He was looking
for a faith doctor when last heard
from.
GENERAL NEWS.
There are 60,000 insane people in
France.
Sarah Bernhardt weighs nearly
75 pounds.
Is a woman brow-beaten when her
hair is banged?
The Rhode Island cotton mills
will make a reduction in wages at
once.
The piano is the most moral of
instruments, being grand, upright
and square.
During last year there were 54
murders and 204 suicides in New
York city.
Holloway, the great London pill
roller, who died recently, left a for
tune of 825,000,000.
Nothing would wreck a woman’s
happiness quicker than opium eat
ing, except onion eating.
Rhoda Howard, of Owingsville,
Kv., is 116 years of age. She has
smoked tobacco for too years.
Prohibition is gaining ground
even in Texas. Two counties have
just voted against licensing saloons.
A Philadelphia boy was beaten
to insensibility the other day for
calling a colored fellow citizen a
neg.o.
Not a nail is used in the con
struction of houses in Japan. They
are put together by a method of
mortising.
Humbolt tells us that after bath
ing among the noctiluca: in the
M orescent water of the Pacific
n was luminous for hours
after.
Barnum started out in the world
with nothing but his cheek. Now
his check could be drawn for ten
millions, and his original capital re
mains intact
The great picatorialist, Seth
Green, says the fish along the At
lantic eoast will be destroyed in a
few years unless congress provides
for reducing the scale on which they
are being caught.
A poultry dealer at Coldwater,
Michigan, last week, had an order
from Europe for twenty-five tur
keys. He filled it, and the smallest
weighed sixteen pounds and the
largest twenty-six.
A visitor in St. Louis, looking out
upon the river, remarked that it
was a fine-looking stream of good,
rich looking water, and that St Lou
is was the only place where he had
to pick his teeth after drinking.
It is not generally known there
is a gold mine in Stanley countv,
North Carolina, owned by the la:e
President James A. Garfield. The
mine is known as the Flagtown
mine, and was bought by the presi
dent shortly before he was assassi
nated.
Mr. I. A. Bacon, Savannah, Oil, says:
“I used Brown’s Iron Bitters for ner
vousness and Indigestion, and found it
excellent.”
♦ —
Montreal, January 4.—A num
ber of inmates of the convent ol
Notre Dame de Lourdes in this city
were poisoned to-day by eating
meat pie, which was served at din
ner. Medical assistance was sum
moned quickly, and the sufierers
are all recovering. How the poi
son got in the pie has not been dis
covered.
In a difficulty at Gaddistown, ia
Towns -county, between William
Head and Columbus. NeeUn and
brother, one of the Neelan’a got
his head split open.
Elbert county has conceded the
next Senator to Oglethorpe.
A set of chime, whistles has ar
rived for the cotton factory at Birm
ingham, Ala. It consists of five
whistles, sounding as many differ-
notes and making a pleasant combi
nation. The factory is nearly ready
to begin work.
George Case, living near Peo-
tone, Ill., was shot and instantly
killed by his dog, Chri itmas day.
Case was out hunting. His gun
was cocked, with the butt resting
on the ground and the muzzle point
ed at his head. He called his dog,
Lucy Strange sat wearily in her chair
at nine p. m. It was the first time
since six in the morning. Trudge,
trudge, trudge, all day long; and with a
cheerful face, she had made the hardens
of the day seem lighter to others, even
though lier own heart had sunk away
down into the bottom of her shoes.
It was the same old story. A widow
ed mother had struggled along the jour
ney of life, nobody knew how, and but
tew cared to know. At last the strain
had been too much on Mrs.'Strange, and
now she w-as laid on a bed of sickness,
Lucy bi d reason to fear, an Invalid for
life. Jack, the oldest boy, had been a;»-
prenticed out to a cabinet-maker, but
would for a year to come, receive only
his food aud "clothes. Yet this was one
mouth loss to feed, and a good many
pairs of pants and socks less to buy.
Little Richard, as they called the fath
er’s namesake, had obtained a situation
as cash-boy in a large dry goods estab
lishment. He was bright and smart,
and they knew he would work his way
up, but now his wages were only one
dollar a week. The other two were the
little twin girls, Bess and Helen, not
vet four years old. Mr. Strange had left
his family a few hundred dollars only,
which Mrs. Strange had wisely invested
in a little home just in the edge of the
village. She then set to work to sup
port the family by sewing, earnestly en
deavoring to get the boys into good situ
ations lor acquiring business habits,
and at the same time educate her oldest
daughter, that she might, ere “the ba
bies” grew up, become a teacher, and
thus help to educate them. But sickness
had come, aud Mrs. Strauge could no
longer work.
What s iouId be done? After much
cogitation, Lucy proposed renting all ol
their bouse except two rooms, in which
they could live. This was done, and
brought them a regular income of liftcen
dollars a month, which, with Richard’s
wages added, amounted to a little less
than twenty dollars per month for the
subsistence of live people. It was hard
work during the summer, hut when
winter came and they must have a lire.
Lucy spent many a sleepless hour devis
ing plans by which she could get just u
little morerout of their meagre income.
To-night she was ill despair. The Hour,
the meal, and the coal were all out, and
she had left of the month’s rent one dol
lar, while one more would come in at
the end of the week from her little
brother’s wages. .
She could stand It no longer, she must
have a good cry, she felt it coming. The
kitchen was too cold and dreary, even
to cry in; so slipping out of her chair
on to the floor, and almost under her
mother’s bedside, that she might not see
her, she lay prostrate and lay as quietly
as she could, not to wake her mother.
She lay there until the little fire there
was in the grate was almost consumed:
then rousing herself she got up and lit
the lamp ill the hope of tindiug some
thing better to do. Picking up a paper
which hod been sent her to read to her
mother, she caught the words “$500 for
the Best Short Story.” She read it ov-.
er aud over again, listlessly at first; then
sjic began to plan what could be done
with so much money; then she thought
—what if 1 could make it? Then came
a sudden thrill of wild joy. Why could
I not write the story? She had written
many little allegories and stories for tin-
children at heme, and had more than
once gotten the first prize for composi
tion.
At least site would try. So, looking
around she found an old blank book and
a pencil, and then and there the story
began.
It was well for Lucy that her mother
slept soundly at night, for night after
night she sat closely hovering over the
dying coals in the grate, and scribbled
away at her story. It was then Novem
ber, and tlie manuscript must all he sent
ill by December 211th. In two weeks
the story was completed, written and
re-written; that is, she had written it
with a lead pencil, with large spaces be
tween the lines, so as she read it over,
she could easily erase and correct what
seemed to her erroneous.
Up to this juncture, the work had all
heen done at night, anil by scarcely any
light, as she was fearful of disturbing
her mother. But she determined oil
giving it at least one reading by day
light.
Sending the twins out into the sun
shine one afternoon, she told her mother
she would be busy in the kitchen for a
little time, and going in, shut the doors
closely and sat down to eagerly devour
her own romance. It was good, and she
felt it. She thought as she read it over,
it was almost beautiful. So, with a
lighter heart than she lmd been wont to
hear of late, she took her sewing, which
she was now taking in to feed the little
ones, and sat down by tier mother’s bed.
Her mother reached her long, thill,
white hand out and placed it 011 her
head,saying:
“Lucy, my comfort and stay, I was
just thinking if we could only’ get five
hundred dollars we might build a little
cottage on the corner of the lot, and
rent that, then we could live 011 our in
come till Jack serves out his aprentice-
ship or little Richard grows into big wa
ges.”
Lucy started; she felt almost that lier
secret had been discovered. How iiad
her mother happened to think of live
hundred dollars just at that moment,
and when she so seldom seemed to think
of money at all now ?
But she quietly answered:
“Yes, we could mother. I have
thought of that myself.”
“Still there is no prospect of it,” said
her mother, “and let’s drive it from our
minds altogether. If our Heavenly
Father knew it was best for us we would
have it.”
Now, a new difficulty arose. The sto
ry must be copied on nice paper. The
paper and postage would cost almost
more, Lucy felt, than she could spend.
However, when she took her work home
that evening late, she stopped at the
village drug store and purchased the
necessary stationery.
That night, as usual, when her moth
er was asleep, Lucy seated herself softly
at the head of her bed, where with a
lamp carefully shaded an a little table,
she begun her work.
The task was more than she had imag
ined, in fact, more than the writing of
ibc story had been; for, with that, the
interest in the story had acted as a stim
ulant, and then, too, she could, w ith lier
»;d book and pencil, crouch down on tin
hearth, out ot sight of her mother, and
write away to her heart's content. But
r. IW she must sit upright by a table, turn
over the leaves of her old book 01 man
uscript and her paper she was copying
cp. However, it was done at last, and
fi dedand carefully sealed. The night
s' 1 completed the story she kneeled
down and prayed earnestly over it; such
was her anxiety that she almost felt that
it would be a test of God’s goodness to
her, she so needed the money, and'she
would do much good with it. The next
day it was dropped into the post ollice.
Again the home routing of duties came
ail went. Her own earrings with her
r edle supplemented the scanty ward-
re be and larder. Christmas came, and
v. th it no joyous troops of merry voices.
Ti le, tlie boys came home, and each of
tl- jm brought presents for “the babies.”
Lucy remembered the time when she
iisd hung up her stocking anil received
so many beautiful things in it. But—
Audit
At last, one
March, as she *
some sewing shp? l
thought, she .wool
post office and friqttln
Tho ppstmasrar iof_
glasses. -, .“Ye?~weil-vl,
hero is alottor!” S.u-
vously, and . at once
on the envelope, of th-. pacer (
her manuscript hud been sent
certainly contained no' maun-nr™,
surely it must be just a check I She jfiL’
ed noLopen it. on the street, so she Hew
along the crispy path clutching her rre-
clous letter. As sho jntered the ilo'-r of
their home, her i:n.i,..’s gentle voice
called her to her hodside. voice
‘‘Lucy, tny darling,” sho whispered' i
“lam worse, getting worse every day! •
H °i 8W11 >ut , ri rer.ieinhraiice
of a mother s love; but let t our love to
the other children ever be that of a
mother. 1 know it will be so, my endb.
Ileavethem all to you,pm-ious U-.-..- v
precious iega.-y-my first-'
was alt that
! ngdownat
<>u the (loot,
. *.. ly nursed
ay long she
aisaudcooed
to my mos
born
“Mojlier, oh, m ’
Lucy could say, ami, l. i
her bedside, she tobh-nl a
Tho letter was droppe
and lay foig u, ..... t
the dying uurthcr. All
bathed the throbbing turn
tho parched tongue.
Late that evening when little Richard
came home, ho jiioo-u the letter .up from
tne floor. “Wby, Limy, this is to you,
whydou tyou read it?” “u yes,’’ said
Lm y, but now iii-r joy at its probable
contents was all gone; too late to belt*
bring hack color and vigor to ; hat moth
er’s checks, and w tint eared site for all
tin; wealth ot the liniw.xi if only tlui&
mother hail boon spared her. Howev
er, slio stooped down at the die, and
opening it, rerid:
“Your manuscript hns been carefully
read, but has not boon accepted.”
Shu crumbled die paper in her pocket,
rids pitiless, paltry piece of paper, on
which she had at one tune b-'en almost
ready to stake her f.kh in God’s tr<>od-
ness. hut. ,va> she ru.viy to reject Him
now? 0,no! She needed Him just then.
O! it he would but spare that precious
mother’s life, pr-.ued now us sho
had never done before, and yet there
seemed no hope; ::o hone, yoa v there
must be. There wouull • with her, tn-.
til she stood bv the Hi.•!■..•; form oi’a dead
mother. That, thought
her mind as she gazi-d n
pale and wasted, of ti:
form, widen la\ on the b
. .Dick had bit 11 sent
nic;ht the three older
watched alone, by the
side. The nj-onizud foi
>uld flit across
:o tlie four tires,
* almost hfetofia
i and :dl that
h i if Iren sat and
* mother’s bed-
seemed too
trail to bear anv lomrur tWe agony of
sufferin'?, and un!H nrdui^bt one par
oxysm of pain followed another. Tho
children asked to have a doctor sent (or,
but she quietly shook her head and
whispered:
“1 am in Urn Lord's hands, beyond
Just at twelve the
pain ceased, aud
she quietly slept;
ully thater.ee.
and ai?ani Lucy leanut
1 "Vi r the bed to
hear it' >he breathed nt
all.
The sun ro.-e cool sun
.1 clear, aud with
it came one more*rav o
t hope. Thcpa-
tient opened h»*r eyes :
iirally. m> lovingly, L*
:■ v ! she must
be better. And . i; •
Nature- had
sort hoi:
At ten
her to h
“1 may;
ing.” t
mo
good to her, be '
much nettle ! mo:
four hours L* «;
wealth. God was
knew and fnit. it.
was living ami
said she would ii\
mother w;\< tnj v
innocent, prsittlbo
hies,” so when
to their work ill
to a in
d*or'
■ iylity struggle
i now to re-ag-
i ncy hurt over
i.sj'crid words:
♦•you, mydarl-
hour that the.
. felt i f God wuh
give her thr so
\o\y in tw ntv-
well.
•:ir 4 Id ‘
hnpplcsi w
1 i 111 Ki.-.i
when lie let
up into hi*
mother uni
iug smile.
Ami as ti
and the 11,
erm-chair,
and final I v
told her ail Hi.-
suspense, oi li
trust in lier M;
did not give in
how siie was In
dreadful night
sweet joy ai d
with the sun
smile, ami 11.:
seemed
ik 1
1 oi.ee more, Lucy
: . • : li-r anxiety and
•r almost threat i ot to
ker's rare and l..ve if lie
' il." needed help, Th. 11
.iuj:t:t to see it nil by '.hut
of suspense, and how the
peace had eoinc 10 her
shine and the mother’s
.v the smile of heaven
sting on her now.
“I believe I’ll" , •; von the letter lo
read,* yourself, mother,” said Lucy,
one day: so, going to the bureau drawer,
shfe took out a little work-hox, a Ne:v
Year’s gift front her father—his last oil
earth—the box she luui kept to put away
her relics in. Unfolding tho letter, she
exclaimed: “Mother, 1 never read it all
before; It says:
“Your manuscript has been carefully
read, but lias not been accepted as a prize
story, but we find it available for our
columns, and w ill remit you check when
published.”
A quiet smile passed over the mother’s
face, as she sanl:
“Yon had better go to the post-office
again.”
Lucy took her bonnet and ran down
the street. Again the old postmaster
looked, first over his glasses at the girl,
and then through them at a pile of dlls-
ty-looking-letters. “Lucy Strange?
Yes, 1 think one lias been here a week
or two.” And again a letter bearing
the postmark of the paper was bunded
to Iter.
Lucy tripped lightly home, net caring
toevcnsecits contents till her mother
could enjoy it vv ith lier. Throwing the
letter into her moUier'siap as she enter
ed tin; room, she said:
“There it is, mother, your New Year's
gift, for the best aud gladdest year of
my life.”
Mrs. Strange opened the letter and
read:
“\Ve inclose you twenty dollars for
your story, ‘The Legend of Boggy Hol
low.’ We shall be glad to hear from
you again.”
There was n.qniet joy in that mother’s
heart as she said :
“You will build the -cottage lathe
corner of tho lyt yet, aty treasure, anil-
this shall be its foundation.”
FUKM AN’S FORMULA.
veil, it was not all sad now, because she P oun *
was cheerfully, gladly giving her time
to make others happy, and she was han
ds, though she scarcely
new why it was. She had even saved
up a little, and with it gave the children
a treat of hickory nuts and apples, the
cheapest things she could buy. Yet, it
made them happy, and in doing that
her mother had received the best gift she
could have had.
The boys sp-nt only one day at home,
and the last w ek of the old vear passed
just as other weeks had done to Lucy.
Work, work, wotfc, all day long. New
Year’s mom catr.e fresh and clear, a
, glad, bright, good morning for the. om-
which, climbing up with his fore-1 F^r to’ ST Lue.v feU it to be so.
paws on hi* master’s breast, pressed 1 Though possibly it might have been,
the . trigger with his hind foot The too, me secret joy in her heart, when she
gnn was discharged; instantly kill-1 *°°Kht of her prize story and its posd-
' and in fnrtv minor/. f!Lj Me result. Sue had mailed it the 15th
ing Case, and in forty minutes from
the time he left his house he was
carried back’s corpse.
Early this month some bears
were discovered somewhere in the
neighborhood of Prattsburg, N. Y.,
and some half a dozen of the citi
zens started in pursuit The hunt
ers followed the bears some fifteen
miles to the Wilmington side of the
Whiteface mountain range, and
they were at last found in their cave
after dark. Fastening a piece of
birch bark to the end of ti pole and
lighting it for a torch, one of the
meq reached it into the cave, so
that the bear’s eyes were plainly
visible, took aim and fired, the ball
entering the eye of the old hear,
which gave a terrific yell and soon
expired. The th ee cubs, which
would weigh over too pounds
each, were shotin a similar manner
•v.A. . 'rfjliyill ~tf
: of December, and now two w u-ks bad
passed. She began to wonder ir it was
not yet time to hear anything. But no,
that could not be! For the time :'»r send
ing in prize stories did not dost tilt De
cember 29th. It would take a . least a
month. She would wait patient y, nay,
even hopefully. She knew God would
be good to her.
The month of Januarypassed—a hard
month to Lucy. “The babies” had se
vere colds aud sore throats, and her
poor, suffering mother grew.worse and
worse.
February came—a few bright, spring
like days, but only to be followed by tv
cold, weary, rainy spell of weather.
Still no letter from the pyper to which
Lucy’s manuscript had been sent. She
thought sometimes she would write tv
letter about it, but this, she argued,
would do 110 good. Her heart heftvn to
fall her, and she was now, as the s toond married in a
month or waiting closed, almost disDlri- I.... ouanlv flon-M,,, I. -I I'-m-.I 'I'll i1
, waiting dosed, almost diapiri
tea. Her trips to the post office were
less trequent, and she hardly cared tor
hear at all.
“Take thirty bushels of well rot
ted stable manutc or well rotted or
ganic matter, as leaves, muck, etc.,
and scatter it about three'incites
thick upon a piece of ground so sit
uated that water will not standcn
it, but shed 01V in every;direction.
The thirty bushels will Weigi’ about
900 pounds. Take 200 pounds of
good acid phosphate, which cost
me 822.50 per ton,delivered, making
the 200 pound? cost • $2.25, and- too
pounds kanit, vviiich-cost me, i-j the
ton. $i.t, delivered,cr ;;o cents for
1 mix tl.e.aci t phos
phate and kaiiii; ti10rottj»’tjy* then
scatter evenly 011 the manure.. Take
next thin , bu.-hejs of green cotton
„eed, aau distribute, it evenly over
the piles, and wet them thoroughly;
take again 200 pounds acid phos
phate am ico pounds kainit, mix
and spread over tlie seed, begin
again on the manure and keep on
that way, building up your heap
layer by l.ycr until you get it us
high as cc ivt nil-tit- Then cover
with six inches of' rich earth from
fence corners, and leave at least six
weeks. \Y her ready to haul to the
field cut with a spade or pickaxe
square down at.d mix as thoroughly
as possible. Now we have thirty
bushels of 1 :aaurc weighing goo
pounds, of chemical in the second
layer, and these two layers combin
ed form the perfect compost Yon
perceive that the weight is 2,400
pounds.
Milledgeville Recorder: We saw
a man on the street last Friday who
had traveled in a wagon- from Or
angeburg, S. C., who had nothing to
sell but dogs and puppies: /dSp'iaW'
one hound and a litter .ofipjlpst to. a.
basket swung under jiis vMnHMdKe
demanded $2.50 apic't&jBMgy
hound puppies. • .' 'Mr- ■
Th new Duchctsyof Wcfholptter
o f onoof tho richostmi !! Ir. Knr.-iic, >
ing seventy five cents a yard. This cer
tainly is econon-v, anil economy it-isto
use Dr. Bull’s
remedy for uo