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ATHENS BANNER TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 26, 1892
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ROB JER CAUGHT.
A TRUSTWORTHY ESTIMATE
Another Located Where He Can Be
Had.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 20.—Chief
Or the World’* Production of Wheat ia
the Lait Decade.
New York, Jan. 20.— Clapp & Co.
DeUctive Couch, of Atlanta, with his i have issue! a revised estimate of the
men and Detective Wooiter, of the ! world’s wheat crop of 1891, which has
Southern Express Company, have par- j been praised by the department of agr.-
tiallv finished a neat piece of work.
OPPOSITION TO HARRISON
MR. BOWSER GETS THE GRIP.
RUNNING A RACE WITH TIME.
MulfraUd la a UepubliOM Mssila* la 11 »«.ables Him Op In Spite of HI* Enor
mou* Will-Power.
_ x t r Ur " x. ... ! Four or five week* ago, when Mr. Bow-
oT. Don is, Jan. 19. The Republicans per came home one evening and found Mrs.
of Jeffersonville and Clark county held Bowser iu bed, and was informed that it
a meeting at Louis’ Hall, in that city, to was a case of grip, he blurted oat:
. . . . _ - - “Grip! And you have gone to bed and
elect a chairman of the County Central had tll e doctor fora case of grip? Humph!'
cnittu-e, an l is said to be the most trust- ; committee, and perfect a permanent or- “But I am awfully sick!” she replied.
And have landed in jail a man who i worthy that has been issued. It gives j ganization. Dr. H. C.
they are sure, committed the express ) the yields iu the diff.-reut years as fol- Charlestown, called the
robbery near Rome several weeks ago.
Tbs Old Tear Baa Oat first, bat the
Girl Was on Hand.
It was the last night of the old year. The
sleek on the mantel had clicked away the
looting hours with brazen tongue and
passed its hands over its bold, painted face
until they pointed to 11.-15.
Painfully upright in his chair sat the
diffident youth whom Miss Pidfeie McGraw
That be was the principal in the train
F. Goodwin and James Tee pie as secre
taries. The selection of a chairman of
the Central committee was then pro-
1 Rodgers, of “Rita, Mrs. Bowser! You just imagine h ,7 ,
*■ ’ „.u„. i had been devoting her time and talents un-
assembly to or- ^o wwn of any Belflshl J r lu entertaining since 8:30. With
der, and L .ureut A. Douglass wasep- ^^ngth ol^fharacL has sver hri the «»at rare artistic sense that now and then
pointed temporary chairman, with Dun grip. It’s a uamby-pamby thing, which
n a T m , K. enced, she had turned down the light m
tried.
Boon
tfetives
folio win
Tiiey
other negro and clinched the evidence
The 1891 crop of this country is esti-
sevtral days ago. Davis was then ioca- - o, C r . enn nnn
ted at Birmingham, and the authorities I “ ated . b - v C,a Pl* *- at - 600,000,000
here made tho arrest. The other negro
bushels, agair.st 399,262,000 bushels in
will mobablv be anested today or to- 1890 ' and 490,560,000 bushels in 1889. ministration in enthusiastic terms, as
r. U iP r „ y “ ^ today ° r ** I The average yield per acre iu 1891 was well as Blaine’s policy as secretary of
morrow.
Davis is a notorious burglar, and is
now under sentence for several years,
from which he escaped by breaking jaiL
WATCH FOR THEM ELSEWHERE.
i average yield per
15 bushels, as against 11.1 bushels iu
1890 and 12.9 bnshels in 1889. The yield
in France is put at 200.800,000 bushels,
as agaiusr, 338,902.124 bushels iu 1890; in
India at ^50,434,667, as against 230,345,-
600; in Russia at 164,000,000, as against
During: Burglary and Safe-Blowing—The I 813,980,604; in Hungary at 124.000,000,
. , , „ , ■ as against 16o.345.0o0; in Italy at 123,-
liurglars’ Descriptions. 276,960, as against 126,610, i46; in Ger-
Oriffin, Ga., Jan. 20.—When Mr. E. I many at 75,819,372, as against 94,899,-
W. Doe, salesman for R. P. McWilliams 810; and in the United Kingdom at 72,-
<fc Son, opened np the front doors of the 900,000, as against 78,oQ6.0!6.
store, he discovered the safe door wide
upon and a quantity of plaster if paris BLAINE’S PREFERENCES
and alum scattered around. He knew W ui Not stand in tho Way, ir a Homi-
in an instant that the safe had b<en rob- nation is Tendered,
bed. He quietly closed the door'i, went Detroit, Jan. 20.—The Tribune pub-
to Mr. J. W. McWilliams and reported liahes an authorized interview wiih Gen.
tho matter Instantly Mr McW '.liams who has just returned from
remembered two suspicious looki:.g men J ““““
hanging around the store Saturday, ant! Washington, in which he makes known
is eorvincod that they are the robbers. the result of his recent conference with
Me Williams had sent to the bank for g^t^y B !aine:
dope it Si.000, all the cash on hand, ex . - • „ . A ^ _ ,
cept some change. Mr. McWilliami do 1 9aw Mr ‘ Blame ’ 8md tbe Gpn " a1 ’
scribis tiiem as follows: “but he said nothing to me that would
One a large man, about * feet 10 furnish any indication as to whether he
inches, dark skin, black eyes, black will be a candidate for the presidency or
mustache, full, round face, with very not. My impression is that Mr. Blaine
prominent nose. He wore a suit of blue would be glad to be relieved from the
clothes, sack coat. The other was also responsibility of being a oandidate, but
a large man, rough face, as if marked if the Minneapolis convention shall de-
by smallpox, high cheek bones, promi mand that he accept the nomination. I
Deni, nose red mustacho, had the ap believe that he is too patriotic to refuse,
pearance of being a stock dealer, a id I “I am not authorized to speak for Mr.
claimed to be one. They spoke a brogue, Blaine in anv way, and this is simp'y
tho former that peculiar to the wester; m y personal opinion. But, as I have
yankee, tho latter a broken Irish. just s lid, I feel confident that he will
To get tne tools to do their work the* accept the nomination if it is tendered
broke open a tool chest of Mr. J. E to him with practical unanimity."
Matthews, taking therefrom a hammer.
brace and bit and a Chisel Fire in North Carolina.
Salisbury, N. C., Jan. 20.—The de-
A DASHING YOUNG WIDOW, | p Q t at Catawba station was consumed
Biding Twelve Mile. Through a 8now U>\fi r ?- A S ent Beister - keeping in the
building, narrowly escaped being burn-
storm, Weils Her Lover. » di The contents and all went up in
Memphis, Jan. 20.—R. W. Finley, a I flames. The origin of the fire is un
merchant of Jonesboro, Ark., and Mrs. I known - bllt supposed to be incendiary.
Eddie Christian, a pretty little widow of
. , ... I A Western City Burned.
the same town, were married this even
ing iu Memphis. It was an elopement, I Orleans, Neb., Jan. 20. Nearly the
and somewhat out of the usual run of en ^ ro business portion of the city has
such affairs. Although the bride was a I beeu wiped out by fiie. The blaze
widow, she is only 22 years old, and started in Frank Bristol s jewelry store
since her first husband’s death lived B00n spread to the Commercial ho-
with her parents. « and lhe postoffice, destroying both.
They objected to Mr. Finley, and 1 together with a general merchandise
.. , I store, meat market, stationery store,
wanted her to marry another man. She I ] lariiess factory, grain elevator and sev-
decided to run away with the man of e ral other stores. The intense cold made
her choice, and had her horse saddled I the work of the firemen difficult, and
and rode away from home with no es- many.of them wer, badly frozen The
J • loss is about $40,000, with nominal in
surance.
even a child three years old ought to he o«uT that the Kt his red
hav * u beforo
“If I do-if 1 am silly enough to lay ™«tion had ranged from Shakespeare to
1 Jackson !»*• with occasional stoppages
treasurer.
After the transaction of some routine
busiuess, a resolution was presented by
Mr. Douglass endorsing HarrisoVs ad-
state, the McKinley bill and reciprocity.
There was opposition to this on the park
of the anti-Harrison men, who threat
ened to blank the movement of Harri
son’s supporters, but they were outnum
bered when a vote was taken, and, of
course, the resolution was adopted, but
not until after some wrangling over the
matter bad been indulged iu. This be
came known in spite of the fact that
the deliberations, which lasted mbre
than two hoars, were held behind closed
doors.
On Jan. 21 the Republicans of the
third congressional district will meet
in Jeffersonville to elect a member of
the state central committee for the dis
trict Frank Dean will likely be named.
His election has been endorsed, and in
various counties delegates have been in
structed to vote for him.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE FUNERAL
cort save her groom, a colored boy,
There was snow on the ground and the
weather was cold and cloudy, but the
little widow put spur to her horse an
galloped twelve miles to Nettleton i
time to catch the train to Memphis.
Her lover was on the train, he having
boarded it at Jonesboro. Mrs. Chris-
Point* of Law Decided.
Madison, Wis., Jan. 20.—The test
oases brought by the state against ex-
State Treasurers McFetridge and Har-
tian’s groom was s -nt back home with I thaw, to recover interest which they re-
the horses, and she and her lover came I ceived and retained for their own use,
to Memphis. Every minister in town upon public moneys deposited in the
was in the pulpit when they arrived, banks while they held office, have been
and fearing ihat the young widow’s I decided in favor of the state upon all
father would arrive and make trouble points at issue. The amount involved
if they waited until after cuurch to get | is $350,000.
married, ti.ey secured the services of a
justice of the peace, who tied the knot
securely.
HOOSIERS ENDORSING HARRISON.
An Aged Couple Hobbod.
Philadelphia, Jan. 20.—Masked rob
bers entered the house of aged Edward
Brophy and wife at Modena, near Coates-
ville, Pa., and compelled the old couple
who were known to be prejudiced
against banks, to give up all their sav-
Many Counties Throughout Indiana Fa
vor m Second Term.
Indianapolis, Jan. 20.—Reports re-1 iugs for years. Brophy and wifs must
ceived from many counties throughout | 8° to th* alms house now.
the state, where Republican meetings
have been held to organize the county I John L. Will Write a Boob,
central committees, indicate a less rah- Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 20.—John L.
id disposition upon the part of the ad- Sullivan is writing a book. It is to be a
ministration to ride down opposition, history of his life, with some of the
w th uu inclination showing itself to I more stirring events pictured in verse,
m..*ce the State Central committee a and will contain a treatise on prize
working body for general party good fighting. The book will not be pub-
rather than a feature looking only to b^maJjy
the renomination of Harrison. things in it which, if studied by other
A leader conspicuous in the Gresham fighters, would materially assist them
movement, authorizes the statement in defeating him. It is expected that
that there will be no opposition to giv- s^JttoJYratemity.^t “ll
ing Harrison the Indiana endorsement Q f many things of interest to them.
if it ia apparent that such is tbe wish I <
of the party at large, and that as be- I To Meet m M.«t e omory,
tween Blaine and Harrison now, that I Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 20. The
Gresham is in no sense a possibility. I coming gubernatorial campaign will
The Greshamites will support Harrison n . in good earnest in a few weeks.
number of counties where a strong the meeting of the state executive com
Gresham sentiment exists, tbe resolu- antteaito meet in this city on the 26,b
tions adopted endorse Harrison without to fix the time and phn of holding the
Mini vocation next state convention. Hie meeting
equivocation. will ^ Kve ly. as a strong fight will be
Another Harrison Victory, 1 made to have the convention in Bir-
Columbus, Ind., Jan. 20. —A strong I miugham.
fight by the Blaine and Harrison fac- | snmmariiy Fired,
tions to capture the organization of the | Columbus, O., Jan. 19.—The state ex-
Of the Late Duke Being Made on All
Sides.
London, Jan. 19.—Preparations for
the funeral- of the Duke of Clarenoe and
Avondale are being made on all sides at
Sandringham, by the railway compa
nies and at Windsor Castle.
As has before been stated, the queen
is greatly affected by the death of her
favorite grand-son, and her depression
would naturally tend to make her more
liable to an attack of the prevailing epi
demic and influenza, but that she is
seriously or at all unwell is not shown
by the arrangements that have been
made for her presence at the funeral
ceremonies.
The body of tbe Duke will be taken
from King’s Fynn to London on the
Great Eastern railway. From the Liv-
erpool-street station, in London, it will
be taken to tbe station of - tbs Great
Western railway, and tksnca to Wind
sor. There will be a public and semi
military procession through London,
from one station to tbe other. The route
will be kept by soldiers. Upon tbe ar
rival of tbe train bearing the remains,
tbe coffin will be placed upon a gun car
riage and will be escorted by tbe Tenth
Hussars, of which regiment the Duke
was a major. The Prince of Wales is
colonel of the Tenth Hussars.
Th# body will be received at Windsor
with military honors, and will be guard
ed to the castle by a squadron of caval
ry. In the procession through London
the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edin
burg and the Duke of Connaught will
follow behind the gun, guarding the
body. The guards will be detailed to
line the route and keep it clear.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Two Important Committees Hold Con<
ferences with the Speaker*
Washington, Jan. 19.—The Demo
cratic members of tbe appropriations
committee and tbe speaker have had a
conference on the subject of a code of
rules for the Fifty-second, Congress.
One change in tbe rules under consid
eration has in view the checking of fili
bustering tactics and seeks the abolition
of the practice of defeating measures on
a “suspension Monday” (as tbe day on
which bills may be passed by a two-
thirds vote is known) by- introducing
long bills and calling for their readiug
in full, to consume the day with intro
duction of bills.
Another proposed modification is tbe
adoption of the Reed rule constituting
100 *a quorum of th* committee of the
whole, but it is an open question
whether or not this change will be re
commended. There will be some defi
nition of what motions shall be consid
ered dilatory motions. The practice of
counting a quorum will, of course, find
no place in the new rules. The Demo
cratic members of the rules committee
have also had a conference with the
speaker.
Representative Scott, of Illinois, has
introduced a bill prohibiting the post-
office department from selling stamped
envelopes bearing the usual printed re
quests for returned to the owner after a
limited period. "Under the present
law,"said Mr Scott, “the government
is a direct competitor, but it gives itself
a monopoly. The government furnished
the envelopes stamps 1 and printed far
the same price as they are famished
without the return card.
new Republican central committee, has j eentive committee of the Patriotic Or-
resulted in a complete victory for the d@r of tho Q f America, have sum-
s eir r*^ Vi
secretary. A resolution was adopted Rickard, of Findlay, from bis ffl .
endorsing Harrison’s administration. I The trouble came about through his at-
Tbe OveriMr Froxen t# Death*
Tuscaloosa,Ala., Jan 19.—Mr. John
W. Hamner, overseer for Hon. S. W.
Moody, was found on the plantation
frozen to death. Last Thursday, in com
pany with a negro boy, Mr. Hamner
went out in the overflooded part of the
plantation, which is on tbe Warren riv
er, to look after some cattle. He did
not return Friday, and it was supposed
that be h&d met with some accident.
Search was instituted and his body was
found frozen stML AU search for tbe
negro has proven futile.
down with any such thing ah that—I hope
somebody will pound me to death with a
fence mill I have the grip? I call a doc
tor for such a nonsensical thing as that?
Not if my name is Bowser!"
Mrs. Bowser was in bed three or four
days, and Mr. Bowser lest ho opportunity
to talk aliout her foolishness in giving np
to sneb a trifling ailment. He likewise re
marked to the doctor that he thought it
Very foolish in the medical fraternity to
encourage the public in any such delusion.
“You’ll probably have it. and when it
comes you’ll change your opinion.” curtly
replied the doctor.
“I will, ehl There isn’t enough grip in
North America to pull down one of my
ears I I’d really like to l>e attacked, just to
show you how strength of will could throw
it off."
A week ago, at 3 o’clock one afternoon,
Mrs. Bowser heard something fall against
the front door. She called to the girl to
open it and see. whether it was a bag of po
tatoes or a cornsheller. It was neither.
It was Mr. Bowser—not the Mr. Bowser
who had goue away in the morning step
ping high and carrying his chin in the air,
but the Mr. Bowser who had come home
shaking aud shivering and all humped over
until he didn’t appear to lie four feet high.
It was a case of the grip.
“Heavens, Mr. Bowser! but what does
this mean?” demanded Mrs. Bowser as he
staggered into the hall.
“I’m—I’m a dead manl” he gasped as
she palled off his overcoat and helped him
on the lounge in the back parlor.
“Have you got a chill?”
“Y—yes! Get forty bedqnilts to cover
me up!”
“And does your back ache? 1
“Does it? Great Scott, but 1 don’t believe
1 can live half au hour longer! It’s a con
gestive chill 1 suppose.”
It’s simply the grip, Mr. Bowser. That’s
exactly the. way everybody is taken.
Hadn’t you better exercise a little will
power?”
Mr. Bowser looked at her reproachfully
and shivered ami shook.
“Curious how it took hold of a man of
your strength of character,” she continued
an she got his shoes off.
Mr. Bowser’s chin began to quiver in a
suspicious mauuer and she said no more on
the subject. He had been put to bed and
was groaning and shivering when the doc
tor came in.
Well, your ear has been pulled down, I
see,” remarked tho dester as be rubbed
his hands together in a cheerful way.
Have you tried to throw it off by strength
of will?'
“I—1 suspect it’s pneumonia,” replied
Mr. Bowser.
“Well, 1 don’t. It’s grip—just grip.
“And I’m sick enough to die!”
“Pshaw, man! you have got a mild at
tack—aliout as the babies have It. If you
had it as bad as your wife did I should feel
very anxious. Just keep quiet and take
this medicine every two'hours.”
How many weeks will I be In the
house?”
“Weeks? Why, you can go out ton
row if you feel like it. Better get np after
•upper and walk around. It’s a wonder to
me that such a slight attack brought you
home."
But Mr. Bowser’s backache grew worse,
ami wbeu the chill Anally went off he was
out of his head most of the time with the
fever. During Mis. Bowser’s sickest night
he had gone to bed to Bleep and snore and
rest undisturbed by her moans. She had
to sit up with him, of course. He want
ed vichy water, lemonade, ice water, gin
ger ale, pickles, tea, toast and a dozen
other things, and he seemed to take solid
comfort in keeping np a groaning so dole
ful that it Anally stopped the clock.
The doctor returned in the morning, to
find Mr. Bowser’s pulse jumping, his
tongue covered with fur and his throat
almost raw, but he expressed his great sur
irise that he had not gone to the office,
fit encouraged him to get up and go down
cellar aud up stairs, but Mr. Bowser stuck
right to the bed.
“Doctor, I don’t think yon realize how
serions this case is,” he groaned.
1 am sure I do. It’B a very mild case of
that namby-pamby epidemic called the
grip. 1 have five children in this neighbor
hood who have it worse than you, but all
are up aud playing with their dolls. Very
curious that a man of your stamina should
give up. Keep on with the medicine, how
ever, and I’ll send a gargle.”
For four days Mr. Bowser gargled and
dosed and doped and groaned. Mrs. Bow
ser had to attend him as if he were a baby.
He had very little to say during this in
terval He seemed to flatten all out and
lose his conceit. Once he even went so far
as to observe that if his life was spared he
would be a humble man in future. On
the fifth day, however, after getting out to
tbe gate and back, his meekness seemed to
be disappearing, and on the sixth, as he
started for the office he said:
I propose to visit two or three different
doctors today and And out what caused my
sickness. ,
Why, It was grip, of course,” replied
Mrs Bowser.
Not much! There was a combination
there and I know it, and it was a mighty
serions one too. Nothing on earth but my
determination not to give way to it pulled
me through. Plenty of men in my situa
tion would have turned , up their toes, and
plenty of others would have been in bed
for months. Gripl Humph! Mrs. Bowser,
you don’t know me yet. When I knock
under to grip I’ll have the decency to go
and drown myself! Grip and brain fever
are too widely different things, and 1 want
yon and that fool of a doctor to know it
too!”—M. Quad in New York World.
used by temporary breakdowns In the
conversational machinery.
“In fifteen minutes. Miss Pinkie,” he ob
served, looking at the clock, “the year 1891
will have gone into history.”
He made an effort to hitch his chair a
little nearer, but only succeeded in moving
It a little farther away.
I am-er—aware. Miss Pinkie,” he pro
ceeded, “that I must have—h’m—seemed
unusually dull this evening”
“Not at all, Mr. Yagson—not at all,”
softly interposed the young lady.
Mr. Yagson paused a few moments, ap
parently unable to decide whether she
meant to enter a general denial of his dull
ness or merely to controvert the-proposi
tion that he was. or could be duller than
usual, but in the light of her gracious smile
he felt emboldened to go ahead, and he
tried it again:
'The—the year 1891 will always be a
memorable one to me. Miss Pinkie. It—it
was in the year 1891 that—that I first be
came acquainted with you.”
Yes,” she replied retrospectively. . “But
all years are memorable. A year is a long
time, you know."
Again Mr. Yagson felt oppressed by a
momentary uncertainty. Had the year
1891 seemed longer to her because he had
become mixed up iu it, or—or how?
H’m—yes?” he said, “but don’t you
think some years are more—er—memorable
than others?"
“Oh, of course.”
Mr. Yagson felt himself growing more
helpless, but a-glance at the clock seemed
to nerve him to another effort.
It was 11:53.
Giving his chair one more well meant
but unsuccessful hitch he broke out again:
All this evening. Miss Pinkie, I have
been—h’m—h’m—thinking that”
Beg pardon?”
I was going to say that all this evening
I have been wondering whether”
You have been wondering whether”
'Whether it has ever—hTn—occurred to
you that I must surely have some object
In”
It was 11:57.
'Some object,” he went on huskily, “in
coming”
“1 am not sure 1 quite understood that
last remark, Mr. Yagson.
I—I am not sure I—er—quite under
stand it myself,” he gasped, looking hope
lessly around the room,
ft was UjXL
*Ht I ass toying to «ay—fc’m—to say that
I have been thinking all the evening that
it must have occurred to you that I—1
must surely have some—some—object”
You made a remark to that effect a few
minutes ago, Mr. Yagson.”
Yes. I—that is—I—tho fact Is, Mi.ss
Pinkie, that I have been thinking all the
evening”
Once more he stopped and looked with
appealing eyes around the room.
And while he looked, lo! the clock, In
slow and majestle measure, struck the
hour of 19.
Then Miss Pinkie McGraw promptly
rose up.
Swiftly crossing the room, she took the
trembling young man by the hand and
said, with a radiant smile and an unmis
takable note of triumph in her voice:
“Theodore, this is leap year! Will you
marry me?”
He hid his blushing face on her shoulder,
murmured brokenly, “Yes!” and the ago
ny was over.—Chicago Tribuna
A Pretender.
During a sham fight Napoleon came un
awares upon a soldier who was lying fast
asleep in a field among the corn.
‘Is this your post?” exclaimed the em
peror, rousing him with the full intention
of making an example of him. The soldier,
thus suddenly startled out of his slumber,
rubbed his eyes, and, on recognizing the
emperor, sprang to his feet, presented arm*
and said:
“I beg your majesty’s pardon, but we
were going through a sham fight, and in
order to make.tbe illusion more complete 1
was pretending to be dead.
Napoleon could not suppress a smile, and
forgave the witty linesman.—Carlin©.
The Wrong Medicine.
Mother—Now, my dear Francois, just
drink up this camomile tea nicely, and you
will soon be better.
Little Francois—Camomile teal 1 thought
I was going to have milk punch!
Mother—No, darling; camomile tea Is the
best thing you can taka
Francois (jumping out of bed in a tem
per)—Then, mamma, you can wait a long
while before 1 have sore throat again, I can
tell youi—Figaro.
Had To.
A fat woman entered a crowded car, and,
seizing the strap, stood on a gentleman’s
toes. As soon as he could extricate him
self he arose and offered her his seat.
“You are very kind, air,” she replied.
“Not at all, madam,” he replied, “it’s
not kindess, it’s self defense.”—Comic.
They Were There.
Guest (at stately wedding banquet)—!
don’t see any blue points.
Guest No. 2 (with a shiver)—You don’t?
Look at the bridesmaids’ nosea—Chicago
Tribuna
Circumstantial Evidence Lacking.
EXPERIENCE IN THE POULTRY YARD.
Bemarks llade by a Veteran Poultry
Rainer at a Panders’ Meeting.
At a recent meeting of Pennsylvania
farmers. Dr. C. Green, a veteran poultry
raiser, read an essay, extracts from
which are here given:
The temiperature of a coop ought not
to be lower than 45 degs. in winter, and
should most of the time be np to 60
degs. If by neglect vermin has beau
permitted to infect the birds, roost and
house, get rid of the parasites 'at once.
The application of snlpbur sprinkled
upon the fowls while roosting will de
stroy the vermin, so also will two or
three drops of whale oil on the hick
of a fowl kill the lice. Coal oil ap
plied to tho roosts in small quantities
will rid the roosts of vermin. The nests
must be occasionally renewed, and straw
is better than hay for nests. The drop
pings most be frequently removed and
the floors kept clean with a covering of
loam or sand.
As hens require carbonate and phos
phate of lime for the making of egg
shells, this requirement must be met
with an unstinted supply of old plaster
ing. oyster Bhells, or, best of all, fresh
bones with some of the gristle and meat
attached. These materials should be
placed whero they can be conveniently
picked up by the fowls. Eggs can be
increased in size and richness by proper
food. Laying hens require variety of dnan me h mouth £ flUed
food and get excessively tired of any one w ith sores that I could scarcely eat, and
kind. In vrinter green food, such as ray tongue raw and filled with little
turnips, beets, cabbage leaves, etc., are knots. Various remedies were resorted
essential. Corn and wheat middlings, to without effect. I bought two bottles
corn, oats and scraps from the house I of B. B. B. and it has cured and
should all be fed off and on, changing 1 strengthened me. All sores of my mouth
the diet as often as thrice a week. are healed and my tongue entirely clew
Hens require a great deal of water I of k»”ts a„ d soreness, and I feel like a
but, as they drink only a small quantity
at a time, it must be kept in constant K r. Saulter, Athenfi, Ga., writes: I
supply, fresu and clear. A few fowls in Lave been afflicted with catarrh for
separate pers are much more profitable I many years, although all sorts of medi-
and easily kept healthy than when large I cines and several doctors did their best
numbers are confined under one roof. I to cure me. My blood was very im*
The sooner vou begin setting the hens in j (liTARRII pure, and nothing ever
the spring for the purpose of raising had any effect upon the
chickens the better. Late chickens, as d,seas ® “util I used lba ^
arule, fare badly. Pullets rarely make Jf^otwhich effected an entire cure l
good motheia Three and four-year-old re commend it to all who have catarrh-
hens are best. When clucking and not i refer t0 any merchant or banker of
needed for mothers, the quickest way to Athens, Ga., and will reply to any in-
conquer a setting hen is to confine her in | quiries.”
a box with cnly a board to tie upon.
A. F. Britton. Jackson,Tenn.,writes:
“I contracted malaria in the swamps of
Louisiana while working tor the tele
graph company, and used every kind
of medicine 1 could hear of without re
lief I at last succeeded in breaking the
RAIPUV fever, but it cost me over
fUllJUili $100 00, and then my system
was prostrated and saturated with poi
son and I became almost helpless. I
Big Pumpkin Farming.
The pumpkins shown in the cut are I
mammoth affairs, grown on the Pelham
farm, in Ulster county, N. Y. From an
acre to an acre and a half of pumpkins
are grown each year. These are planted
on sod witl plenty of stable manure
and also some fertilizer in the hill. The
hills are tw enty feet apart. They are
cultivated by horse and hand as long [
as the vines will permit. In time or'
drought water is brought in barrels and
poured around each hill. The flowers
are pincher off, so that each vine will
The Wonderful Cure For
Rheumatism,
Indigestion,
Dyspepsia.
!DF0R!1,
Certificate of M. H. BLANDFO
produce but one big fellow. The largest | IU*oclate justice of Supreme Court of 6a
pumpkins yet grown there weighed 238. [
881 and 847 ixmnds, respectively.
Mr. House, the manager of the Pel-1
ham farm, is not satisfied with these
weights and proposes to reach 460
pounds next year. The raising and I
marketing of this crop shows progress if I WOOLDRIDGE WONDERFUL CURE C0„
anything ever did, remarks the Rural FOR sale, by aElVbuggists.
New Yorker, to which thanks are due
for the cut. The lesson is that individ-
Appolntmsnt Accepted.
Chicago, Jan. 19.—Charles H. Al
drich. of t.hi» oity, will succeed William
Bank officers indicted. I order wMcn was not acceptaoie to tne j h. Taft as Solictor General of the
Nashville, Jan. 20.-The grand jury | I Hi. acceptence of the
at ClarksvSle, Tenn., has ret urned in-1 ope<1 that he was only an lionmary \ appointment has juat lyen made known
tempt to force a ritual upon the Ohio
order which was not acceptable to the
diotments against P. C. Hambaugh,
president; R. 3, Poindexter, cashier,
and George S. Irwin, one of the direct
ors of the defunct Franklin bank. Thee
are charged with grand larceny Mil
embezzlement. The failure of the
Franklin bank, a lime over a year ago,
occusro jed several big firm i to collapse,
member of the organization, and not | Hejs of the law fcrm of Aldrieh. Payne
entitled to bold office. He was fired
summarily, and W. H. Tanner, of
Zanesville, elected in his stead.
Chattanooga J«»sl»r» Assign.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 20.—E. P.
. Durando &Ca, a prominent jewelry
aud tue total liabilities were neany one firm ^ are threatened with attachment
million dollars. j h y local, banks. They have filed an as-
. . n . Horse car. signment. Liabilities, $29,000; assets,
A Locomotive a*d a H ! a h*> u t $35,000. The main creditors are
Chicago, Jan. 80.—At 1 o’clock ttla New York jewelry houses.
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago j 8afe Blown 0 p-n.
twitch engine crashed into a Seventn i- SpEINag( JalL 20. -The safe in
street horse car, completely tv,« Rnnnm club, a richly furnished
blovm open by
$8,000 in cash,
■h* Knew.
Ma'm’MU* Pesem—I haf been pansing
for you,'i
Mr. Elasel— Pausing? Posing you mean.
Pause is to wait.
Ma’m’selle Posem—Zat is eet; sat I
mean. 1 haf been pausing for ze pay, and
now I pause no longairel—New York Sun.
The Only Way to Account for It.
Bjcnkins—Have yen met Miss Wiltshire?
Bjohnson- Yes, 1 met her at a ball early
& Washburn. Mr. Aldrich’s name will _ JOUI ^ u _
be aent to the senate when Mr. T^t • | , B M)VSO n. What a lovely girl she is!
resignation it reoeaved. Mr. Tan wUJ , RjBn ir ina _no you think so? Say! it
mas the senate confirms m* mast J mve been a masquerade ball where
you two met.—Somerville Journal
I have been a great sufferer fer a number of
S ears from indigestion and Khi umatlsm.and
ave suffered from a general letting down of
the system for a long while. ) have taken a
few bottles of your medicine i Wooldridge'S
Wonderful Cure) with marvelous results, and
cheerfully recommend it to all who are suffer*
ing from these complaints.
HiT 15,1S8SI. M. H. BLANDFOBD.
KASCFACTOBED BY
T. G. HAD A W AY,
ATHENS, GA.
| Corner ayton and Jackson Sts.
A BONANZA CROP OF PUMPKINS,
uatity pays. The man who grows pump
kins bigger than his neighbors and lets
MANUFACTURERS OF
Harness, Saddles, Bridles, <fec.
ALSO, DEALER IK
Buggies, Carriages and Carts.
There is a vast difference between
the people know it will have trade. The oheap Goods, and Goods Cheap. Go
man who makes the pumpkins into first elsewhere for cheap goods, but come to
class pies and advertises them will have
to put in new tables to supply his cus
tomers. “Get individuality or get out
of the racef’ Mr. House 6ays “there is
no secret in laising big pumpkins.” Of
course not. Nature has no secrets. Her
story is like an “open book” to those
who have the will and the patience to |
learn to read it.
These big pumpkins are need by roe-1
taurants to attract a big trade in pump
kin pie. Evory day, therefore, a dozen
or more of these great fellows may be
seen in front of the restaurant. These
are the best advertisements they cun /^i/^rprp^ kt p TTvTCi
get. During a season one restaurant | JL vJ JLlx O f
alone used forty-five tons of pumpkins.
T. G. Hadaway
FOR
Goods Cheap.
Aug 18—wly
-FOR-—
ENGINES
AND
REPAIRS,
-AT-
Bottom Prices,
WRITE TO
Effect of Freezing on'Fruit.
A New York fanner writes as follows: I
“I occasionally see the statement made
that the keeping qualities of apples and
pears will not be injured by freezing,
provided the fruit remains undisturbed I
until entirely thawed oat. Without any I
question where these fruits have «cci- J ^ p T.rvmViClWI Rr Cn
dentally frozen they should not be ex- vF. XL. J-lUIUUd>IU Oo v^U.
posed to light and warmth, or they will Found _ Machine, Boiler and Gin Work and
rot almost as soon as they will thaw, if Supply House,
left to thaw slowly Md gradually by a a Tipn . _ Q-a.
natural change in the temperature and | • a - u o u »
without shaking them by moving them
about from place to place, they will |
come out sound, for they will not decay
while in their frozen state. The best
thing to do when it is found they have !
frozen is to throw straw or hay over j
them, whether they are hi bulk or in
barrels, and thus delay the thawing and ]
make it as gradual as possible. But the |
question will still remain. Has the freez
ing and thaiving injured their keeping |
qualities? t maintain that it has, and
that they will rot sooner than would the
same quantity of the same kind of ap
ples or pears that have remained sound
and unfrozen np to the same time. The
best keeping conditions are to be found
f SUCCESS 'S ASSURED [
1 BY SOWING THE
IBest Seeds.
nomination as circuit judge.
Merit Wins.
We desire to say lo our citizens, that lor
S wrs we have been selling Dr. King’s New
bcovery lor Consumption, Dr. King’s
New Life Pills, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
and Electric Billers, and have never hand
led remedies that sell as well, or that have
given such uni venal antisf action. We do
not lnaitatei to guarantee them every time
and we stand ready to refund the purchase
price if satisfactory results do Dot follow
their use. These remedies have won their
Mrs. Tuck’s Funeral —Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock* the remains of
Mrs. Robert Tuck were consigned to
mother earth at the family burial
ground, three miles from Winterville.
'The exercises were conducted by Elder
F. M. McElroy Quite a number of
relatives and sympathising friends were
present
Excited Stranger—Say! I lost a twenty where the fruit is not only kept from
dollar gold piece along here somewhere, becoming frozen, but in u uniformly
Yon haven’t seen it. have you? ' cold temperature with but slight varia-
Hungry Higgins-Do I look like Fd fell towar a either extreme."
dead lately?—Indianapolis Journal.
A Fancy Steal.—Poor old Ozro
Bradshaw was put in the lock-up yes
terday for stealing a suit of clothes
from a negro, selling them to another
negro, and then stealing them again.
How to Cure AH Skin Diseases.
Simply apply “Swathe's Oistmext.” No
interra 1 ' medicine required. Cures tetter, ec-
tou.de.tio»ca„„ot be iaid, i h,„
ly on their meriis. ' the real merit wuicn is the solid base its ercat healing and curative powers are pos-
, Wholesale and Bt« for the monumental success of Hood’s sealed by no other remedy. Ask your drug-
! Sarsaparilla. gists for Swathe’s Ointment.
BhHbsi
I The tact that we sell more
CLOVER, GRASS,
and FIELD SEEDS than any
In the Southern States. Si. mos
vinclng proof of our hi«h it
and reasonable prices. Our
GARDEN SEEDS
ate unsurpassed in quaKty,
Rerminn tins powers. Wei
POSTPAID anywhere
ounce aud packet rates, ami g
worth extra packet Seeds for
worth entered. We also 1 a
low rates oa Seeds In bulk.
OUR INSTRUCTIVE CATALOG!
giving lull lnfonnanoa nn.l directions j-
tor cultivating all Fill-Ill mid Gnrdiui K
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